GCP Infrastructure Engineer/ Lead

Position: SDE-1 DevSecOps

Location: Pune, India

Experience Required: 0+ Years

We are looking for a DevSecOps engineer to contribute to product development, mentor team members, and devise creative solutions for customer needs. We value effective communication in person, in documentation, and in code. Ideal candidates thrive in small, collaborative teams, love making an impact, and take pride in their work with a product-focused, self-driven approach. If you're passionate about integrating security and deployment seamlessly into the development process, we want you on our team.

About FlytBase

FlytBase is a global leader in enterprise drone software automation. FlytBase platform is enabling drone-in-a-box deployments all across the globe and has the largest network of partners in 50+ countries.

The team comprises young engineers and designers from top-tier universities such as IIT-B, IIT-KGP, University of Maryland, Georgia Tech, COEP, SRM, KIIT and with deep expertise in drone technology, computer science, electronics, aerospace, and robotics.

The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, USA, and has R&D offices in Pune, India. Widely recognized as a pioneer in the commercial drone ecosystem, FlytBase continues to win awards globally - FlytBase was the Global Grand Champion at the ‘NTT Data Open Innovation Contest’ held in Tokyo, Japan, and was the recipient of ‘ TiE50 Award’ at TiE Silicon Valley.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Participate in the creation and maintenance of CI/CD solutions and pipelines.
• Leverage Linux and shell scripting for automating security and system updates, and design secure architectures using AWS services (VPC, EC2, S3, IAM, EKS/Kubernetes) to enhance application deployment and management.
• Build and maintain secure Docker containers, manage orchestration using Kubernetes, and automate configuration management with tools like Ansible and Chef, ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Implement and manage infrastructure using Terraform, aligning with security and compliance requirements, and set up Dynatrace for advanced monitoring, alerting, and visualization of security metrics. Develop Terraform scripts to automate and optimize infrastructure provisioning and management tasks.
• Utilize Git for secure source code management and integrate continuous security practices into CI/CD pipelines, applying vulnerability scanning and automated security testing tools.
• Contribute to security assessments, including vulnerability and penetration testing, NIST, CIS AWS, NIS2 etc.
• Implement and oversee compliance processes for SOC II, ISO27001, and GDPR.
• Stay updated on cybersecurity trends and best practices, including knowledge of SAST and DAST tools, OWASP Top10.
• Automate routine tasks and create tools to improve team efficiency and system robustness.
• Contribute to disaster recovery plans and ensure robust backup systems are in place.
• Develop and enforce security policies and respond effectively to security incidents.
• Manage incident response protocols, including on-call rotations and strategic planning.
• Conduct post-incident reviews to prevent recurrence and refine the system reliability framework.
• Implementing Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and maintaining Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) to ensure high standards of service delivery and reliability.

Best suited for candidates who: (Skills/Experience)

• Up to 4 years of experience in a related field, with a strong emphasis on learning and execution.
• Background in IT or computer science.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP), and programming languages like Python, JavaScript, or Ruby.
• Solid understanding of network layers and TCP/IP protocols.
• In-depth understanding of operating systems, networking, and cloud services.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a 'hacker' mindset.
• Knowledge of security principles, threat modeling, risk assessment, and vulnerability management is a plus. 
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, GWAPT, OSCP) are a plus.

Compensation: 

This role comes with an annual CTC that is market competitive and depends on the quality of your work experience, degree of professionalism, culture fit, and alignment with FlytBase’s long-term business strategy.

Perks:

• Fast-paced Startup culture
• Hacker mode environment
• Enthusiastic and approachable team
• Professional autonomy
• Company-wide sense of purpose
• Flexible work hours
• Informal dress code

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Monitor and maintain the health of the production infrastructure, including load balancers, databases, and application servers.
• Automate the software development and delivery lifecycle, including code building, testing, deployment, and release.
• Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
• Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
• Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
• Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
• ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
• Design and implement database schemas.
• Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
• Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
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• Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer (or similar role) with experience in backed development.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
• Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
• Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
• Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Have worked in a product based company.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
• Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
• Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Equal Experts is an innovative software delivery consultancy specializing in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors.
• We deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognized for our leadership in the application of Agile and Lean delivery methods to assure delivery.
• We are focused on hiring DevOps Engineers with skills in AWS, Automation tools, CI/CD tools and the likes.
• The DevOps Consultant will be working with an on-site client team and will be expected to mentor and share their skills and knowledge with the existing client developers.

• Continuous Delivery of quality software created by our project teams. Ensuring smooth build and release with continuous integration.
• Configuration Management - Design and implementation of deployment strategies for multiple projects.
• Virtualization and Infrastructure Provisioning.
• Maintenance and upgrade of our cloud environment (AWS).
• Version control and source code administration.
• Administration of Web Servers, Application Servers and Servlet Containers
• Setting up and managing the Automation efforts for multiple projects.

• Should have worked on Agile projects featuring weekly iterations and releases.
• Should have extensive hands-on experience with:
• Continuous Integration tools like Jenkins.
• Configuration Management tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Cloud computing using AWS, EC2.
• Hands-on experience on Kubernetes.
• Virtualization tools like Vagrant, Docker or VMWare
• You have an active presence in the DevOps community through your blogs, Stack Overflow and GitHub profiles.
• You are passionate about DevOps. You love to mentor people and evangelize about best practices and innovations in DevOps.