Engineering Leader- Cloud Infrastructure

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Experience Required: 8+ years in DevOps or related fields

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. This role will focus on driving the design, implementation, and optimization of our CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and operational processes. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers to achieve operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management: Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

CI/CD Pipelines: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, to improve development velocity and deployment quality.

Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and workflows, such as provisioning cloud resources, configuring servers, managing deployments, and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Monitoring & Logging: Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for enterprise and cloud-native environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, NewRelic or Datadog.

Security: Ensure the infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including vulnerability assessments and incident response processes.

Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to align DevOps strategies with project goals.

Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and train a team of DevOps engineers to foster growth and technical expertise.

Incident Management: Oversee production system reliability, including root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

Strong proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Advanced knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions or CircleCI.

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Proven ability to manage and lead a team effectively.

Experience:

8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

3+ years in a leadership or team lead role, with proven experience managing distributed teams, mentoring team members, and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures.

Nice to Have:

Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar.

Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

Knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Perks & Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.

Professional development opportunities and certifications, including sponsored certifications and access to training programs to help you grow your skills and expertise.

Flexible working hours and remote work options.

Collaborative and inclusive work culture.

Join us to build and scale world-class systems that empower innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences.

• Bachelor of Computer Science or Equivalent Education
• At least 5 years of experience in a relevant technical position.
• Azure and/or AWS experience
• Strong in CI/CD concepts and technologies like GitOps (Argo CD)
• Hands-on experience with DevOps Tools (Jenkins, GitHub, SonarQube, Checkmarx)
• Experience with Helm Charts for package management
• Strong in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Container Network Interface (CNI)
• Experience with programming and scripting languages (Spring Boot, NodeJS, Python)
• Strong container image management experience using Docker and distroless concepts
• Familiarity with Shared Libraries for code reuse and modularity
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)

Note: Looking for immediate joiners only.

As part of the Cloud Platform / Devops team at Upswing, you will get to work on building state-of-the-art infrastructure for the future. You will also be –

• Building Infrastructure on AWS driven through terraform and building automation tools for deployment, infrastructure management, and observability stack 
• Building and Scaling on Kubernetes
• Ensuring the Security of Upswing Cloud Infra
• Building Security Checks and automation to improve overall security posture 
• Building automation stack for components like JVM-based applications, Apache Pulsar, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Reporting Infra, etc.
• Mentoring people across the teams to enable best practices 
• Mentoring and guiding team members to upskill and helm them develop work class Fintech Infrastructure

What will you do if you join us?

• Write a lot of code
• Engage in a lot of cross-team collaboration to independently drive forward infrastructure initiatives and Devops practices across the org 
• Taking Ownership of existing, ongoing, and future initiatives 
• Plan Architecture- for upcoming infrastructure
• Build for Scale, Resiliency & Security 
• Introduce best practices wrt Devops & Cloud in the team
• Mentor new/junior team members and eventually build your own team

You should have

• Curiosity for on-the-job learning and experimenting with new technologies and ideas
• A strong background in Linux environment
• Must have Programming skills and Experience
• Strong experience in Cloud technologies, Security and Networking concepts, Multi-cloud environments, etc.
• Experience with at least one scripting language (GoLang/Python/Ruby/Groovy)
• Experience in Terraform is highly desirable but not mandatory
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker is required 
• Understanding of the Java Technologies and Stack
• Any other Devops related experience will be considered

Please find the JD below: 

• Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform. 
• The devops engineer needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests. 
• Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure. 

• To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms. 
• VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed. 
• Good hands-on experience of Networking on Cloud is required. 
• Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services. 
• Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking (load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential. 

• Requirement is to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue green/canary deployment models etc). 
• The experience in AWS is desirable. 
• Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory. 
• Know-how on the use of GitHub 
• Administration of Azure Kubernetes services 

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

DevOps 

Engineers : Min 3 to 5 Years 
Tech Leads : Min 6 to 10 Years 

• Implementing & supporting CI/CD/CT pipelines at scale.  
• Knowledge and experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible automation to deploy and be able to manage Linux systems in production and CI environments.  
• Extensive experience with Shell scripts (bash).  
• Knowledge and practical experience of Jenkins for CI.  
• Experienced in build & release management.  
• Experience of deploying JVM based applications.  
• Enterprise AWS deployment with sound knowledge on AWS & AWS security.  
• Knowledge of encryption technologies: IPSec, SSL, SSH. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (CentOS/Red Hat) ideally supporting a highly-available, 24x7 production environments. 
• DNS providing and maintenance.  
• Helpful skills: Knowledge of applications relying on Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot.  
• Knowledge of app and server monitoring tools such as ELK/AppEngine. 
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills. 

• 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

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company.
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry events.
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening.
• Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Requirements:

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements.
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
• Experience managing complex systems at scale.
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers.
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage.
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.

Good to have:

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka, Elasticsearch.

Key Responsibilities :

Look through the various DevOps Tools/Technologies and identify the strengths and provide direction to the DevOps automation team

Out-of-box thought process on the DevOps Automation Platform implementation

Expose various tools and technologies and do POC on integration of the these tools

Evaluate Backend API's for various DevOps tools

Perform code reviews keep in context of RASUI

Mentor the team on the various E2E integrations

Be Liaison in evangelizing the automation solution currently implemented

Bring in various DevOps best Practices/Principles and participate in adoption with various app teams

Must have:

Should possess Bachelors/Masters in computer science with minimum of 8+ years of experience

Should possess minimum 3 years of strong experience in DevOps

Should possess expertise in using various DevOps tools libraries and API's (Jenkins/JIRA/AWX/Nexus/GitHub/BitBucket/SonarQube)

Should possess expertise in optimizing the DevOps stack ( Containers/Kubernetes/Monitoring )

2+ Experience in creating solutions and translate to the development team

Should have strong understanding of OOPs, SDLC (Agile Safe standards)

Proficient in Python , with a good knowledge of its ecosystems (IDEs and Frameworks)

Proficient in various cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/Google cloud platform)

Proficient in various DevOps offerings (Pivotal/OpenStack/Azure DevOps

• Mandatory: Docker, AWS, Linux, Kubernete or ECS
• Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters / Kubernetes
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
• Experience supporting a managed cloud services infrastructure
• Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers
• Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge on Linux Environment.
• Prior experience leading technical teams through the design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
• Experience in handling large production deployments and infrastructure.
• DevOps based infrastructure and application deployments experience.
• Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Hands-on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• He/she should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
• Good working knowledge of AWS services such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills.
• Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements.
• Previous NOC experience.
• Client Facing Experience with excellent Customer Communication and Documentation Skills