Devops Lead Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing our cloud infrastructure on AWS, while utilizing Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform and Argo CD for containerization and deployment. You will collaborate closely with development teams to ensure smooth software releases, scalability, and reliability of our systems. Also, you will be working on Airflow and Spark configurations for Data pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and Lambda.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Implement and manage infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and configuration of AWS resources.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability of the system.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure smooth and efficient software releases, including version control, branching strategies, and release management.
• Implement and maintain robust security practices, including access control, network security, and data encryption.
• Automate manual tasks and processes using scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) and configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, provide technical guidance, and implement best practices for infrastructure and deployment processes.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps tools, technologies, and best practices, and identify opportunities for improvement and optimization in our infrastructure and processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, with a focus on AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Argo CD.
• Strong experience in designing, implementing, and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, including services like EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, and Lambda.
• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies, specifically Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline setup and management using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and experience with tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer or AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and logging tools like CloudWatch, ELK stack, or Prometheus/Grafana.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and experience with AWS Lambda.
• Familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
• Understanding of security best practices and experience implementing security measures in cloud infrastructure.

Job Location: Bangalore/Mumbai

Exp: 3-10+ Yrs

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

About TradeLab:

TradeLab is a leading fintech technology provider, delivering cutting-edge solutions to brokers, banks, and fintech platforms. Our portfolio includes high-performance Order & Risk Management Systems (ORMS), seamless MetaTrader integrations, AI-driven customer engagement platforms such as PULSE LLaVA, and compliance-grade risk management solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• DevOps Strategy & Leadership
• Contribute to defining and executing the DevOps strategy for high-frequency trading and fintech platforms. Mentor junior engineers and collaborate with cross-functional teams to foster a culture of automation, scalability, and performance.
• Work closely with engineering and product teams to align infrastructure initiatives with business objectives.
• CI/CD and Infrastructure Automation Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and automation frameworks.
• Establish best practices for release management and deployment in mission-critical environments.
• Cloud & On-Prem Infrastructure Management Manage hybrid infrastructure across AWS, GCP, and on-prem data centers ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implement networking strategies for low-latency trading, including routing and performance tuning.
• Drive cost optimization and scalability initiatives across multi-cloud environments.
• Performance Monitoring & Optimization Set up and maintain system performance monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack. Implement alerting and automated remediation strategies for zero-downtime operations.
• Conduct root-cause analysis and performance tuning for systems handling millions of transactions per second.
• Security & Compliance Apply DevSecOps principles across all environments.
• Ensure compliance with financial regulations (SEBI and global standards) and maintain audit trails.
• Drive security automation, vulnerability management, and IAM policies.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 3–8 years of experience in DevOps, with exposure to leadership or team mentoring.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD). Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP) and hybrid infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration. Solid experience with Terraform, Helm, and IaC principles.
• Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls). Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go) for automation. Understanding of security best practices, IAM, and compliance frameworks.

Good to Have

• Exposure to ultra-low-latency trading infrastructure or high-frequency trading systems.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, FPGA acceleration, or network optimization techniques.
• Familiarity with Redis, Nginx, or other real-time data handling technologies.
• Experience in advanced performance tuning for microsecond-level execution.

Why Join Us?

Work with a team that expects and delivers excellence. A culture where innovation and speed are rewarded. Limitless opportunities for growth—if you can handle the pace. Build systems that move markets and redefine fintech

Objectives :

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

• Deploy updates and fixes
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Skills and Qualifications :

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Proficient with git and git workflows
• Good logical skills and knowledge of programming concepts(OOPS,Data Structures)
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Strong hands-on knowledge of setting up production, staging, and dev environments on AWS/GCP/Azure
• Strong hands-on knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of continuous testing environments such as Travis-CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, etc.
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
• Excellent troubleshooting
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

Must Have Skills

• AWS Solutions Architect and/or DevOps certification, Professional preferred
• BS level technical degree or equivalent experience; Computer Science or Engineering background preferred
• Hands-on technical expertise on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to include but not limited to EC2, VPC, IAM, Security groups, ELB/NLB/ALB, Internet gateway, S3, EBS and EFS.
• Experience in migration-deployment of applications to Cloud, re-engineering of application for cloud, setting up OS and app environments in virtualized cloud
• DevOps automation, CI/CD, infrastructure/services provisioning, application deployment and configuration
• DevOps toolsets to include Ansible, Jenkins and XLdeploy, XLrelease
• Deploy and configuration of Java/Wildfly, Springboot, JavaScript/Node.js and Ruby applications and middleware
• Scripting in Shell (bash) and Extensive Python
• Agile software development
• Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills
• Linux (RHEL) administration/engineering

Experience:

• Deploying, configuring, and supporting large scale monolithic and microservices based SaaS applications
• Working as both an infrastructure and application migration specialist
• Identifying and documenting application requirements for network, F5, IAM, and security groups
• Implementing DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment 
• Work with Technology leadership to understand business goals and requirements
• Experience with continuous integration tools
• Experience with configuration management platforms
• Writing and diagnosing issues with complex shell scripts
• Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems