Devops Tech Lead

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineering / DevOps Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 12+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering / Cloud Operations / Application Support
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Mandatory (Infrastructure as a code): Must have hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform in production environments
• Mandatory (AWS Networking): Strong understanding of AWS networking and connectivity (VPC design, routing, NAT, load balancers, hybrid connectivity basics)
• Mandatory (Cost Optimization): Exposure to cost optimization and usage tracking in AWS environments
• Mandatory (Core Skills): Experience handling monitoring, alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Mandatory (Soft Skills): Strong communication skills and stakeholder coordination skills

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to support day-to-day cloud operations, automation, and reliability of AWS environments. This role works closely with the Cloud Operations Lead, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to ensure stable, secure, and cost-effective cloud platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and support AWS production environments across multiple accounts
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines
• Support Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Build and manage Docker images and push to Amazon ECR
• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and third-party tools; respond to incidents
• Support AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN/DX)
• Assist with cost optimization, tagging, and governance standards
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Lambda, and Systems Manager

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Experience with Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Scripting experience in Python or Bash
• Understanding of monitoring, incident management, and cloud security basics

NICE TO HAVE:

• AWS Associate-level certifications
• Experience with Karpenter, Prometheus, New Relic
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization practices

we’d love to speak with you. Skills and Qualifications:

Strong experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline tools such as Jenkins, TravisCI, or GitLab CI.

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby.

Knowledge of infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Knowledge of container orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift.

Experience with version control systems such as Git.

Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.

Understanding of networking concepts and principles.

Knowledge of database technologies such as MySQL, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL.

Good understanding of security and data protection principles.

Roles and responsibilities:

● Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure

● Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Helping to ensure information security best practices

● Provide Level 2 technical support

● Perform root cause analysis for production errors

● Investigate and resolve technical issues

Challenging opportunity to Improve and manage a complicated AWS Infrastructure built for ECG wearable, for live ecg streaming and monitoring Patients

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

1. GCP Cloud experience mandatory
2. CICD - Azure DevOps
3. IaC tools – Terraform
4. Experience with IAM / Access Management within cloud
5. Networking / Firewalls
6. Kubernetes / Helm / Istio

At Karza technologies, we take pride in building one of the most comprehensive digital onboarding & due-diligence platforms by profiling millions of entities and trillions of associations amongst them using data collated from more than 700 publicly available government sources. Primarily in the B2B Fintech Enterprise space, we are headquartered in Mumbai in Lower Parel with 100+ strong workforce. We are truly furthering the cause of Digital India by providing the entire BFSI ecosystem with tech products and services that aid onboarding customers, automating processes and mitigating risks seamlessly, in real-time and at fraction of the current cost.

A few recognitions:

• Recognized as Top25 startups in India to work with 2019 by LinkedIn
• Winner of HDFC Bank's Digital Innovation Summit 2020
• Super Winners (Won every category) at Tecnoviti 2020 by Banking Frontiers
• Winner of Amazon AI Award 2019 for Fintech
• Winner of FinTech Spot Pitches at Fintegrate Zone 2018 held at BSE
• Winner of FinShare 2018 challenge held by ShareKhan
• Only startup in Yes Bank Global Fintech Accelerator to win the account during the Cohort
• 2nd place Citi India FinTech Challenge 2018 by Citibank
• Top 3 in Viacom18's Startup Engagement Programme VStEP

What your average day would look like:

• Deploy and maintain mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems
• Manage low cost, scalable streaming data pipelines
• Provide direct and responsive support for urgent production issues
• Contribute ideas towards secure and reliable Cloud architecture
• Use open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
• Use coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve automation problems
• Collaborate with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex infrastructure, security, or deployment problem
• Identify processes and practices to streamline development & deployment to minimize downtime and maximize turnaround time

What you need to work with us:

• Proficiency in at least one of the general-purpose programming languages like Python, Java, etc.
• Experience in managing the IAAS and PAAS components on popular public Cloud Service Providers like AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
• Proficiency in Unix Operating systems and comfortable with Networking concepts
• Experience with developing/deploying a scalable system
• Experience with the Distributed Database & Message Queues (like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.)
• Experience in managing Hadoop clusters
• Understanding of containers and have managed them in production using container orchestration services.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Applied exposure to continuous delivery pipelines (CI/CD).
• Keen interest and proven track record in automation and cost optimization.

Experience:

• 1-4 years of relevant experience
• BE in Computer Science / Information Technology