Engineering Manager - Infrastructure

Job Title : SDE 3 – Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Experience : 5.5 to 8.5 Years

Number of Positions : 2

Employment Type : C2H (Contract to Hire)

Work Mode : Remote during contractual period → 5 Days WFO after conversion

Contract Duration : 3 Months

Post-Conversion Location : Pune

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners / Serving Notice Period / Up to 15 Days preferred

(Candidates officially serving a 30-day notice period may also be considered if they are on the bench and have a negotiable joining date)

Role Overview :

We are looking for an experienced SDE 3 – Infrastructure Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud infrastructure and internal platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience in Cloud Infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, automation, observability, networking, and distributed systems.

Mandatory Skills : AWS / Azure / GCP, Terraform / CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, Platform / Infrastructure Engineering, Python / Go / Java / Ruby, Networking, Cloud Security, Distributed Systems, Scalability & Reliability, Strong Coding & Automation.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure on AWS / GCP / Azure.
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and operations.
• Manage and optimize Docker and Kubernetes workloads.
• Build internal platform tools to improve developer productivity and engineering efficiency.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions.
• Participate in incident response, RCA, postmortems, and reliability improvements.
• Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Contribute to system design, architecture discussions, scalability, security, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with application, data, and product engineering teams.

Required Skills :

• 5.5 to 8.5 years of experience in Infrastructure / Platform Engineering or similar roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Strong expertise in Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of:
• Python, Go, Java, or Ruby.
• Good understanding of networking, cloud security, distributed systems, scalability, and reliability.
• Experience working with production infrastructure and highly available systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Nice to Have :

• Experience with SRE practices and production on-call ownership.
• Experience in fintech, payments, banking, or transaction-heavy systems.
• Knowledge of cloud security, compliance, or FinOps/cost optimization.
• Experience building internal developer platforms or productivity tools.
• Previous product company experience.

Interview Process :

Round 1 : Take-Home Coding Assignment – Submit within 48 hours

Round 2 : Coding Assignment Discussion – 1 Hour

Round 3 : Technical Managerial Round – 30 Minutes

Note : The take-home coding assignment is mandatory. Candidates should be comfortable completing and submitting the assignment within 48 hours before proceeding.

Ideal Candidate :

Strong Platform / Infrastructure Engineer with hands-on experience in :

Cloud + Terraform / CloudFormation + Kubernetes + CI/CD + Programming + SRE / Production Operations

Pure DevOps profiles without strong coding and platform engineering experience are not preferred.

Key Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.

• Experience migrating data and systems between AWS IaaS and PaaS.

• Experience operating and supporting applications using AWS VPC, EKS, and related services for multi-account operations.

• Experience developing fast and reliable Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) workflows used by hundreds of application teams.

• Experience administering and troubleshooting Operating Systems such as Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

• Professional Certifications in AWS Networks, CNCF Technologies, or Kubernetes.

• Experience using and configuring observability tools such as ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, AWS CloudWatch, and Jaeger.

• Experience of applied GitOps principles using ArgoCD or Flux.

• Public examples of code you've worked on with other people using any of these technologies:

o Configuration management/Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools, such as AWS CDK, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.

o Systems solutions in one or more programming languages, such as Golang, Python, Java.

o Build, Release, Deploy or Ops Workflows using Bamboo, Argo Project, or GitHub Actions.

Job Summary :

We are looking for a proactive and skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team and play a key role in building, managing, and scaling infrastructure for high-performance systems. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Python scripting, cloud platforms, and DevOps practices around CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response.

Key Responsibilities :

- Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS.

- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar.

- Manage Kubernetes clusters, configure namespaces, services, deployments, and auto scaling. CI/CD & Release Management

- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment of services.

- Collaborate with developers to ensure smooth and frequent deployments to production.

- Manage versioning and rollback strategies for critical deployments.

- Containerization & Orchestration using Kubernetes.

- Containerize applications using Docker, and manage them using Kubernetes.

- Write automation scripts using Python or Shell for infrastructure tasks, monitoring, and deployment flows.

- Develop utilities and tools to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.

- Monitoring & Incident Management

- Analyze system performance and implement infrastructure scaling strategies based on load and usage trends.

- Optimize application and system performance through proactive monitoring and configuration tuning.

Desired Skills and Experience :

- Experience Required - 6+ yrs.

- Hands-on experience on cloud services like AWS, EKS etc.

- Ability to design a good cloud solution.

- Strong Linux troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins Skills.

- Design and implement the CI/CD pipeline following the best industry practices using open-source tools.

- Use knowledge and research to constantly modernize our applications and infrastructure stacks.

- Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.

- Having good communication skills.

Amura’s Vision 

We believe that the most under-appreciated route to releasing untapped human potential is to build a healthier body, and through which a better brain. This allows us to do more of everything that is important to each one of us.

Billions of healthier brains, sitting in healthier bodies, can take up more complex problems that defy solutions today, including many existential threats, and solve them in just a few decades.

Billions of healthier brains will make the world richer beyond what we can imagine today. The surplus wealth, combined with better human capabilities, will lead us to a new renaissance, giving us a richer and more beautiful culture.

These healthier brains will be equipped with deeper intellect, be less acrimonious, more magnanimous, and have a kinder outlook on the world, resulting in a world that is better than any previous time.

We find this vision of the future exhilarating. Our hopes and dreams are to create this future as quickly as possible and ensure that it is widely distributed and optimized to maximize all forms of human excellence. 

Role Overview 

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (AI-Native Infrastructure & Platform Engineering) with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, AI infrastructure operations, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.

This role goes beyond traditional DevOps and requires a seasoned specialist capable of building and operating AI-ready infrastructure platforms that support high-throughput APIs, LLM/AI workloads, GPU-based compute, data-intensive systems, real-time inference pipelines, and scalable ML platforms.

You will be responsible for architecting, automating, securing, and optimizing highly scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments that enable high-velocity engineering and AI teams. This is an ideal position for someone who combines technical ownership, an automation-first mindset, and a passion for developer productivity and platform reliability. 

Key Responsibilities 

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering (AWS) 

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS. Design cloud platforms supporting AI/ML workloads, data pipelines, real-time APIs, and high-concurrency backend systems.
• Hands-on expertise with key AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch, and GPU-enabled instances.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures for high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR).
• Build reusable platform templates and shared infrastructure modules. 

AI/ML Infrastructure & MLOps 

• Build and maintain infrastructure for LLM applications, AI inference workloads, model serving platforms, vector databases, and feature stores.
• Support GPU-based workloads and optimize compute/storage usage.
• Enable scalable deployment patterns for AI applications using Kubernetes/EKS. Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering teams on model deployment, training/tuning of models, CI/CD for ML systems, experiment environments, and reproducibility.
• Support orchestration and deployment of AI workflows and inference services while implementing observability and reliability for AI pipelines. 

CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity 

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.
• Build self-service developer platforms, preview environments, and reusable deployment workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Implement automated patching, scaling, backups, cleanup workflows, and drift detection. 

Containers, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability

• Manage Docker-based environments, containerized applications, and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.
• Manage autoscaling, cluster health, node pools, ingress, service mesh, and workload isolation.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement progressive deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments. 

Observability, Incident Response & SRE Practices

• Implement observability stacks using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or New Relic.
• Build actionable dashboards and intelligent alerting systems while defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems to reduce operational toil and improve MTTR.

FinOps, Cost Governance & Security

• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud costs (compute utilization, storage lifecycle, GPU usage, and data transfer) using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth, or Kubecost.
• Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPCs, security groups, NACLs, encryption, and manage secrets using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks, least-privilege access, audit logging, and ensure compliance readiness for ISO 27001, SOC2, and GDPR.

Collaboration, Leadership & Platform Culture

• Work closely with engineering, AI/ML, QA, product, and operations teams to drive a DevOps, SRE, GitOps, and automation-first culture.
• Mentor junior DevOps and Platform Engineers while creating and maintaining detailed runbooks, architecture diagrams, and platform documentation.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture, services, and deep understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), containers, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK. Strong Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, and load balancing knowledge. Strong scripting/programming experience in Python, Bash, or Go (preferred). Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and observability platforms supporting scalable production systems.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Velachery)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

Job Title: AWS Cloud Engineer (Terraform & Monitoring Tools)

Experience: 8–10 Years

Location: Bangalore / Hyderabad

Joining: Immediate Joiners Preferred - 20 day serving

Job Description:

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and monitoring. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in AWS, Terraform, and at least one monitoring/observability tool such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or Grafana.

Required Skills:

• 8–10 years of IT experience with strong AWS cloud expertise
• Hands-on experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Experience with Splunk, AppDynamics, or Grafana (any one mandatory)
• Knowledge of cloud monitoring, logging, and performance optimization
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills

We're hiring a Cloud Architect (Contract) to work with our Equity Partners who builds profitable growth by acquiring and operating enterprise software companies. Refining a proprietary operating model across 40+ acquisitions and two decades of hands-on experience, now supercharged by our patented agentic AI platform . In this role, you'll take full architectural control of our CI/CD, observability, and event streaming infrastructure, build the standards every new acquisition plugs into, and use AI-assisted automation to keep 20+ products reliable without proportionally scaling headcount.

Job title: Cloud/Platform Architect (SRE)

Type: Global Remote | Contract

What You Bring

• 8–12 years in platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with growing ownership over time
• Deep Terraform experience across multi-account, multi-env setups
• Real production experience with event streaming at scale
• Hands-on Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and strong AWS depth (ECS, EKS, IAM, VPC, RDS)
• SRE fundamentals: SLOs, error budgets, on-call design, post-mortems
• Bonus: acquisition or greenfield platform-building experience

Roles and Responsibilities

• Own everything outside core AWS infra: CI/CD, observability, event streaming, deployment, incidents
• Define the standards every future acquisition will plug into
• Keep 20+ enterprise products running at serious scale (millions–billions of requests)
• Build self-service tooling so product teams never wait on you
• Use AI/automation to kill toil — not to replace engineering judgement

Ready to build the platform that scales an entire portfolio? — let's connect.

Platform Engineering Lead (For client company)

Location: Pune, India

Experience: 7+ years 

What Success Looks Like

• Engineering teams ship faster with confidence and built-in guardrails.
• Cloud cost, security, and reliability are predictable, measurable, and well-managed.
• CI/CD pipelines are trusted, standardized, and production-ready.
• Platform decisions reduce cognitive load instead of introducing unnecessary process. 

Scope & Expectations

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture and implementation.

You will:

• Build, not just review.
• Own the platform roadmap—not just infrastructure tickets.
• Act as a force multiplier for product engineering teams rather than becoming a bottleneck.
• Drive platform strategy while remaining deeply involved in execution.

Key Responsibilities

Platform & Cloud Architecture

• Own Zoop's platform and cloud architecture across GCP and AWS.
• Design reusable, opinionated platform patterns instead of one-off infrastructure.
• Build and evolve Zoop's Internal Developer Platform (IDP), including:
• Self-service environments
• Golden paths (paved roads)
• Standardized templates
• Built-in engineering guardrails
• Lead Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption at scale.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Pulumi, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools.

CI/CD, Reliability & Developer Experience

• Establish robust CI/CD practices with quality gates and production readiness.
• Improve deployment safety through automation and testing.
• Define and monitor:
• Golden Signals
• SLIs
• SLOs
• Incident response processes
• Reduce operational toil and improve developer productivity.
• Make observability a first-class capability using cost-efficient monitoring systems.
• Build an observability platform that multiple engineering teams can easily integrate into their applications.

Security, Privacy & Compliance

• Build security-by-default into infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Lead implementation and continuous compliance for:
• DPDP Act (India)
• ISO 27001:2022
• SOC 2 Type II
• Implement:
• Zero Trust architecture
• Least-privilege access
• Secure data isolation

FinOps & Cloud Optimization

• Make cloud costs transparent and accountable across engineering teams.
• Establish FinOps practices including:
• Budgets
• Cost alerts
• Optimization routines
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions using clear ROI analysis.

AI, Data & MLOps Foundations

• Build secure and scalable foundations for AI and MLOps workloads.
• Define guardrails for AI systems and sensitive data handling.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Partner closely with engineering teams to align infrastructure strategy with product goals.
• Mentor engineers and guide teams through technical change.
• Balance long-term platform initiatives with practical execution.

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 7+ years of experience building and operating production infrastructure.
• Experience scaling engineering platforms in high-growth or regulated companies.
• Strong hands-on expertise in:
• Kubernetes and the cloud-native ecosystem
• Service Mesh technologies
• Policy Engines
• GCP, AWS (Azure exposure is a plus)
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Engineering & Operations

• Strong understanding of SDLC and modern CI/CD systems (Jenkins, GitOps, etc.).
• Experience with observability tools such as:
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• New Relic
• Comfortable reading and contributing to production systems written in:
• Go
• Python
• Node.js

Security & Compliance

• Practical experience implementing ISO 27001 and SOC 2 controls.
• Strong understanding of:
• Data protection
• Privacy
• Identity and access management
• Security best practices

Mindset

We're looking for someone who is:

• Action-oriented with sound engineering judgment.
• Analytical, cost-conscious, and reliability-focused.
• Collaborative, calm under pressure, and open to feedback.
• Comfortable challenging decisions and explaining trade-offs when necessary.

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, identity, or other regulated industries.
• Built Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) or shared infrastructure tooling.
• Contributions to open-source projects.

Location: Bangalore preferred / Hybrid as applicable

Experience: 3+ years

Education: B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Salary: Above market standards, flexible for the right candidate

Career growth: Long-term opportunity with potential to lead DevOps architecture and cloud platform operations

About FrontM

FrontM builds software platforms for frontline workforces operating in remote and low-connectivity environments, with a strong focus on the maritime industry. The platform supports communication, collaboration, healthcare, learning, welfare and operational workflows across mobile, web, kiosk and connected device environments.

The platform runs across cloud infrastructure, constrained networks and specialised customer environments, requiring reliable DevOps practices, strong observability, secure architecture and careful operational discipline.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of FrontM’s AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, platform reliability and technical operations. You will work closely with the VP of Delivery, CTO and CEO to maintain secure, scalable and high-availability infrastructure for FrontM’s production systems.

This role requires strong hands-on DevOps experience, broad AWS knowledge, Kubernetes experience and the ability to troubleshoot complex networking and production issues across multi-domain SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Architecture (≈45%)

· Own, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for FrontM platforms

· Create and maintain Terraform scripts for infrastructure deployment and management

· Manage Kubernetes workloads deployed within AWS EKS

· Support multi-zone AWS infrastructure design for availability, resilience and scale

· Maintain AWS services including Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Contribute to DevOps architecture planning in line with FrontM’s platform roadmap

CI/CD, Operations & Platform Reliability (≈35%)

· Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services

· Oversee technical operations with hands-on administration, monitoring and release support

· Ensure continuous server uptime, stability, performance and maintainability

· Debug, respond to and restore system outages in production and staging environments

· Improve observability across infrastructure and applications, including migration from Elastic stack to logz.io

· Support backend stability, scale and performance across Node.js, Java and related services

Security, Networking & Production Support (≈20%)

· Maintain AWS security configurations, access controls and monitoring practices

· Support complex networking requirements across multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Troubleshoot network, infrastructure and access issues with internal teams and customer-side users

· Work with backend teams to support API integrations and infrastructure abstractions for complex requirements

· Document operational procedures, incident findings and technical support steps clearly

Required Technical Skills

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

· Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud operations

· Experience with Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Experience with AWS security setup, monitoring and multi-zone infrastructure

· Ability to manage infrastructure using Terraform

Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

· Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS

· Extensive CI/CD and DevOps experience

· Experience with infrastructure observability and application monitoring tools

· Ability to diagnose production bottlenecks, server failures and performance issues

Backend, Networking & SaaS Operations

· Experience supporting Node.js, Java and backend system procedures for stability and scale

· Good understanding of APIs, integrations and backend service dependencies

· Experience with complex networking and multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Ability to troubleshoot technical issues with non-technical end users

Nice to Have

· Experience with MongoDB clusters in MongoDB Atlas

Personal Attributes

· Strong ownership mindset for uptime, reliability and production stability

· Practical problem-solving approach with the ability to act quickly during incidents

· Clear written and spoken communication in English

· Ability to work independently and coordinate with senior management when required

· Comfortable working in fast-moving engineering teams

· Attention to detail in security, monitoring, documentation and operational processes

Why join FrontM?

Long-Term Career Growth

Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure used by global maritime and remote workforce customers, with scope to grow into DevOps architecture and platform leadership roles.

Engineering Challenges That Matter

Work on infrastructure that supports applications used in remote, low-bandwidth and operationally demanding environments.

Broad Technical Ownership

Take responsibility across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, networking, security and production reliability.

Apply now

Join a team focused on building reliable software infrastructure for real-world use cases and contribute to systems used across the global maritime workforce.

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to take ownership of production infrastructure, cloud environments, Kubernetes platforms, and infrastructure automation. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving complex infrastructure challenges and is comfortable being responsible for systems in production.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and operate production infrastructure, including participating in an on-call rotation and responding to production incidents.
• Design, operate, and continuously improve Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Manage and automate infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily with Terraform.
• Build, maintain, and optimise cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Work extensively with Linux, including system administration, networking, troubleshooting, and system-level configuration.
• Manage production deployment and GitOps workflows using ArgoCD.
• Improve infrastructure reliability, scalability, security, monitoring, and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues and drive problems through to resolution.
• Develop automation and processes that reduce manual operational work.
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Essential Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience operating production infrastructure, with personal ownership and responsibility for live systems, including on-call experience.
• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience — you must have operated and managed Kubernetes clusters, rather than simply deploying applications onto clusters managed by another team.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform strongly preferred. Experience with Pulumi or CloudFormation is also considered.
• Strong experience with at least one major cloud platform, ideally AWS. Strong GCP or Azure experience is also welcome, provided you are willing to work with AWS.
• Strong Linux skills and confidence working from the command line, including networking, troubleshooting, system configuration, and performance issues.
• Production experience with ArgoCD and GitOps-based deployment workflows.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to take ownership of production incidents and infrastructure issues.

Nice to Have

Experience with email infrastructure would be a strong advantage, particularly:

• Exim
• IMAP / SMTP
• Postfix
• Dovecot
• General mail server administration and maintenance