Devops Manager

About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India. 

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).

Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience

3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).

Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).

Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).

Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).

Basic programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to Have

Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in managing our cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring high availability across our global server network. You’ll work closely with our technical team to optimize performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

✅ Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily Azure)

✅ Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)

✅ Monitor and optimize server performance & uptime (100% uptime goal)

✅ Work with cPanel-based hosting environments and ensure seamless operation

✅ Implement security best practices & compliance measures

✅ Troubleshoot system issues, scale infrastructure, and enhance reliability

Requirements

🔹 3-7 years of DevOps experience in cloud environments (Azure preferred)

🔹 Hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)

🔹 Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

🔹 Strong knowledge of Linux system administration & networking

🔹 Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

🔹 Security-first mindset & automation-driven approach

Why Join Us?

🚀 Work at a fast-growing startup backed by Microsoft

💡 Lead high-impact DevOps projects in a cloud-native environment

🌍 Hybrid work model with flexibility in Bangalore, Delhi, or Mumbai

💰 Competitive salary ₹12-30 LPA based on experience

How to Apply?

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Job Description:

Responsibilities

·       Having E2E responsibility for Azure landscape of our customers

·       Managing to code release and operational tasks within a global team with a focus on automation, maintainability, security and customer satisfaction

·       Make usage of CI/CD framework to rapidly support lifecycle management of the platform

·       Acting as L2-L3 support for incidents, problems and service request

·       Work with various Atos and 3rd party teams to resolve incidents and implement changes

·       Implement and drive automation and self-healing solutions to reduce toil

·       Enhance error budgets and hands on design and development of solutions to address reliability issues and/or risks

·       Support ITSM processes and collaborate with service management representatives

Job Requirements

·       Azure Associate certification or equivalent knowledge level

·       5+ years of professional experience

·       Experience with Terraform and/or native Azure automation

·       Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and toolset (i.e. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git)

·       Must be adaptable to work in a varied, fast paced exciting, ever changing environment

·       Good analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve technical issues

·       Understanding of Agile development and SCRUM concepts a plus

·       Experience with Kubernetes architecture and tools a plus

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

About the company:

Tathastu, the next-generation innovation labs is Future Group’s initiative to provide a new-age retail experience - combining the physical with digital and enhancing it with data. We are creating next-generation consumer interactions by combining AI/ML, Data Science, and emerging technologies with consumer platforms.

The E-Commerce vertical under Tathastu has developed online consumer platforms for Future Group’s portfolio of retail brands -Easy day, Big Bazaar, Central, Brand factory, aLL, Clarks, Coverstory. Backed by our network of offline stores we have built a new retail platform that merges our Online & Offline retail streams. We use data to power all our decisions across our products and build internal tools to help us scale our impact with a small closely-knit team.

Our widespread store network, robust logistics, and technology capabilities have made it possible to launch a ‘2-Hour Delivery Promise’ on every product across fashion, food, FMCG, and home products for orders placed online through the Big Bazaar mobile app and portal. This makes Big Bazaar the first retailer in the country to offer instant home delivery on almost every consumer product ordered online.

Job Responsibilities:

• You’ll streamline and automate the software development and infrastructure management processes and play a crucial role in executing high-impact initiatives and continuously improving processes to increase the effectiveness of our platforms.
• You’ll translate complex use cases into discrete technical solutions in platform architecture, design and coding, functionality, usability, and optimization.
• You will drive automation in repetitive tasks, configuration management, and deliver comprehensive automated tests to debug/troubleshoot Cloud AWS-based systems and BigData applications.
• You’ll continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize the development and operational efficiency of the platforms.
• You’ll determine the metrics that will define technical and operational success and constantly track such metrics to fine-tune the technology stack of the organization.

Experience: 4 to 8 Yrs

Qualification: B.Tech / MCA

Required Skills:

• Experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and container orchestration, Web servers (Nginx, Apache), Application Servers(Tomcat,Node.js,..), document stores and relational databases (AWS RDS-MySQL).
• Site Reliability Engineering patterns and visibility /performance/availability monitoring (Cloudwatch, Prometheus)
• Background in and happy to work hands-on with technical troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Supportive and collaborative personality - ability to influence and drive progress with your peers

Our Technology Stack:

• Docker/Kubernetes
• Cloud (AWS)
• Python/GoLang Programming
• Microservices
• Automation Tools

• Job Title:- Backend/DevOps Engineer
• Job Location:- Opp. Sola over bridge, Ahmedabad
• Education:- B.E./ B. Tech./ M.E./ M. Tech/ MCA
• Number of Vacancy:- 03
• 5 Days working
• Notice Period:- Can join less than a month
• Job Timing:- 10am to 7:30pm.

About the Role

Are you a server-side developer with a keen interest in reliable solutions?

Is Python your language?

Do you want a challenging role that goes beyond backend development and includes infrastructure and operations problems?

If you answered yes to all of the above, you should join our fast growing team!

We are looking for 3 experienced Backend/DevOps Engineers who will focus on backend development in Python and will be working on reliability, efficiency and scalability of our systems. As a member of our small team you will have a lot of independence and responsibilities. 

As Backend/DevOps Engineer you will...:-

• Design and maintain systems that are robust, flexible and preformat
• Be responsible for building complex and take high- scale systems
• Prototype new gameplay ideas and concepts
• Develop server tools for game features and live operations
• Be one of three backend engineers on our small and fast moving team
• Work alongside our C++, Android, and iOS developers
• Contribute to ideas and design for new features

To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to…:-

• Have 3+ years of experience in Python development
• Be familiar with common database access patterns
• Have experience with designing systems and monitoring metrics, looking at graphs.
• Have knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Be able to work well in a remote development environment.
• Be able to communicate in English at a native speaking and writing level.
• Be responsible to your fellow remote team members.
• Be highly communicative and go out of your way to contribute to the team and help others