devops engineer

Very strong infra engineer to administer Linux based VMs (and few Windows VMs as well).

Must have strong knowledge and hands-on on docker, Kubernetes

Must be good at monitoring (AppDynamics, Prometheus, Grafana) and logging (Splunk)

Develop automation scripts using Shell and Python. Must have good knowledge in Ansible.

Should be good at optimize/finetune server configurations.

 Should be good in troubleshoot issues and fix them.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: India, Remote

Type: Contract

Department: Engineering

About Us

OpenAssets is building open standards for the next generation of capital markets, providing the trusted foundation for real-world asset tokenization and digital currencies.

We specialize in alternative asset digitization, offering regulatory-conscious tools to design, issue, and manage digital assets in complex financial environments. We also develop loyalty solutions that turn customer engagement into programmable digital assets, helping brands create personalized experiences that drive growth.

OpenAssets operates at the intersection of finance, technology, and regulation focused on building secure, scalable, and open infrastructure for the future of digital markets. Join OpenAssets and be part of shaping the future of digital finance!

Overview

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and deployment ecosystems.

This role acts as the foundation of our engineering reliability, bridging the gap between high-performance blockchain development and robust, secure cloud operations. You will be responsible for architecting scalable AWS environments, automating mission-critical CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring the absolute integrity of our security and observability frameworks.

What You’ll Do

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• Design, provision, and maintain OpenAssets’ AWS infrastructure: including EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, SQS, ElastiCache, and CloudWatch.
• Architect for high availability, fault tolerance, and cost efficiency across production and non-production environments.
• Manage networking, security groups, subnets, load balancers, and access controls to ensure a secure and well-segmented cloud environment.
• Scale infrastructure dynamically to handle platform growth, partner onboarding, and peak load events.
• Deploy, configure, and manage blockchain node infrastructure supporting on-chain integrations and smart contract interactions.

CI/CD & Automation

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and/or AWS CodeBuild for frontend, backend, and smart contract deployments.
• Manage infrastructure as code using Terraform (or OpenTofu) and/or CloudFormation to ensure reproducible, auditable environments.
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes to minimize manual effort and reduce release risk.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python and Bash for operational and provisioning workflows.
• Administer and scale Kubernetes clusters (EKS) for deploying services and blockchain node infrastructure.

Security & Compliance

• Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure: TLS, VPNs, IAM roles, private key management, secrets management, and patch management.
• Work with the CISO to conduct infrastructure security audits and maintain compliance with data handling, uptime, and audit logging requirements.
• Manage secrets and environment configuration securely using AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
• Ensure encryption at rest and in transit across all critical data stores and communication channels.
• Apply knowledge of blockchain security, including consensus mechanisms, smart contract interactions, and Layer 2 infrastructure, to harden on-chain components.

Observability & Incident Response

• Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for key platform metrics using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
• Establish structured logging and distributed tracing practices (OpenTelemetry or similar) across services.
• Lead incident response for production issues, triaging, communicating, resolving, and writing blameless postmortems.
• Design, implement, and regularly test backup and disaster recovery strategies to minimize data loss and downtime.

Collaboration & Enablement

• Support engineering teams in troubleshooting environment-specific issues across development, staging, and production.
• Document infrastructure architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures — keeping them current and actionable.
• Train developers on deployment tooling, CI/CD workflows, and on-call processes.
• Evaluate and introduce new tooling and practices to improve DevOps maturity across the organization.

Qualifications & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Deep hands-on expertise with AWS: EC2, ECS/Fargate, Lambda, RDS, S3, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, SQS, CloudFront, and ElastiCache.
• Strong experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, OpenTofu, and/or CloudFormation.
• Proficiency with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes / EKS).
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Solid Linux systems administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python).
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and security: TLS, VPCs, security groups, IAM, private key management, secrets management.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or equivalent.
• Familiarity with distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, or similar).
• Working knowledge of blockchain technologies: consensus mechanisms, smart contract infrastructure, or Layer 2 scaling solutions.
• Calm, systematic problem-solving approach to production incidents and outages.
• Strong communication skills, able to explain infrastructure concerns clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Fluid in English

Nice to Have

• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer Professional, or equivalent).
• Experience deploying and operating blockchain node infrastructure (Ethereum, Polygon, or similar).
• Background in fintech, capital markets, payments, or regulated infrastructure environments.
• Experience with security frameworks and compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure experience.
• Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, SQS, BullMQ).
• Cost optimization practices: reserved instances, Savings Plans, right-sizing.
• Infrastructure as code with Pulumi or CDK.
• Open-source contributions or technical writing.

We are committed to providing equal opportunity for qualified applicants to contract positions, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. This is a contract opportunity, not a direct employment role.

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

DevOps Engineer (Automation) 

ABOUT US

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

LOCATION:  Mumbai

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate Technical consultant to be part of the training team and work with customers on DevOps Solution. You will be responsible for implementation and consultations related work for customers across SEA and India. We are looking for personnel with personal qualities like -

• Passion for working for different customers and different environments.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills
• Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
• Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

                     First 2 months:

• Get an in-depth understanding of Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC.
• Get hands-on experience with various technologies of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, Vault, Sysdig

After 2 months: The ideal candidate can will ensure the following outcomes from every client deployment:

• Utilize various open source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions.
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Will be involved in automation using CI/CD/DevOps concepts.
• Be able to document procedures for building and deploying.
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Work on a cloud-based infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Work with pre-sales and sales team to help customers during their evaluation of Terraform, Vault and other open source technologies.
• Conduct workshops for customers as needed for technical hand-holding and technical handover.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate/Post Graduate in any technology.
• Hands on experience in Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Jira etc
• Hands on experience at least in one scripting language like Perl/Python/Groovy/Bash
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages.
• Experience in Jenkins maintenance and scalability, designing and implementing advanced automation pipelines with Jenkins.
• Experience with a repository manager like JFrog Artifactory
• Strong background in git, Github/Bitbucket, and code branching/merging strategies
• Ability to understand and make trade-offs among different DevOps tools.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud and/or Azure is a strong plus
• Some experience with secrets/key management preferably with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience using monitoring solutions, i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, NewRelic, Nagios etc

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them

• Expertise in Infrastructure & Application design & architecture
• Expertise in AWS, OS & networking
• Having good exposure on Infra & Application security
• Expertise in Python, Shell scripting
• Proficient with Devops tools Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GIT
• Solid background in systems engineering and operations
• Strong in Devops methodologies and processes
• Strong in CI/CD pipeline & SDLC.