IT Manager

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.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are hiring a Senior DevSecOps / Security Engineer with 8+ years of experience securing AWS cloud, on-prem infrastructure, DevOps platforms, MLOps environments, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and data/ML platforms. This role is responsible for creating and maintaining a unified security posture across all systems used by DevOps and MLOps teams — including AWS, Kubernetes, EMR, MWAA, Spark, Docker, GitOps, observability tools, and network infrastructure.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.     Cloud Security (AWS)-

• Secure all AWS resources consumed by DevOps/MLOps/Data Science: EC2, EKS, ECS, EMR, MWAA, S3, RDS, Redshift, Lambda, CloudFront, Glue, Athena, Kinesis, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering.
• Implement IAM least privilege, SCPs, KMS, Secrets Manager, SSO & identity governance.
• Configure AWS-native security: WAF, Shield, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, CloudTrail, Config, Security Hub.
• Harden VPC architecture, subnets, routing, SG/NACLs, multi-account environments.
• Ensure encryption of data at rest/in transit across all cloud services.

2.     DevOps Security (IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, Linux)-

Infrastructure as Code & Automation Security:

• Secure Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible with policy-as-code (OPA, Checkov, tfsec).
• Enforce misconfiguration scanning and automated remediation.

CI/CD Security:

• Secure Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab pipelines with SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, image scanning.
• Implement secure build, artifact signing, and deployment workflows.

Containers & Kubernetes:

• Harden Docker images, private registries, runtime policies.
• Enforce EKS security: RBAC, IRSA, PSP/PSS, network policies, runtime monitoring.
• Apply CIS Benchmarks for Kubernetes and Linux.

Monitoring & Reliability:

• Secure observability stack: Grafana, CloudWatch, logging, alerting, anomaly detection.
• Ensure audit logging across cloud/platform layers.

3.     MLOps Security (Airflow, EMR, Spark, Data Platforms, ML Pipelines)-

Pipeline & Workflow Security:

• Secure Airflow/MWAA connections, secrets, DAGs, execution environments.
• Harden EMR, Spark jobs, Glue jobs, IAM roles, S3 buckets, encryption, and access policies.

ML Platform Security:

• Secure Jupyter/JupyterHub environments, containerized ML workspaces, and experiment tracking systems.
• Control model access, artifact protection, model registry security, and ML metadata integrity.

Data Security:

• Secure ETL/ML data flows across S3, Redshift, RDS, Glue, Kinesis.
• Enforce data versioning security, lineage tracking, PII protection, and access governance.

ML Observability:

• Implement drift detection (data drift/model drift), feature monitoring, audit logging.
• Integrate ML monitoring with Grafana/Prometheus/CloudWatch.

4.     Network & Endpoint Security-

• Manage firewall policies, VPN, IDS/IPS, endpoint protection, secure LAN/WAN, Zero Trust principles.
• Conduct vulnerability assessments, penetration test coordination, and network segmentation.
• Secure remote workforce connectivity and internal office networks.

5.     Threat Detection, Incident Response & Compliance-

• Centralize log management (CloudWatch, OpenSearch/ELK, SIEM).
• Build security alerts, automated threat detection, and incident workflows.
• Lead incident containment, forensics, RCA, and remediation.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA (as applicable).
• Maintain security policies, procedures, RRPs (Runbooks), and audits.

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• 8+ years in DevSecOps, Cloud Security, Platform Security, or equivalent.
• Proven ability securing AWS cloud ecosystems (IAM, EKS, EMR, MWAA, VPC, WAF, GuardDuty, KMS, Inspector, Macie).
• Strong hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), CI/CD tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Experience securing ML platforms, data pipelines, and MLOps systems (Airflow/MWAA, Spark/EMR).
• Strong Linux security (CIS hardening, auditing, intrusion detection).
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, and automation/scripting.
• Excellent knowledge of SIEM, observability, threat detection, monitoring systems.
• Understanding of microservices, API security, serverless security.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability management, penetration testing practices, and remediation plans.

EDUCATION:

• Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Relevant certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, CEH, CKA/CKS) are a plus.

PERKS, BENEFITS AND WORK CULTURE:

• Competitive Salary Package
• Generous Leave Policy
• Flexible Working Hours
• Performance-Based Bonuses
• Health Care Benefits

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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Requirements

• 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
• Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
• Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
• Understanding of common security issues

Roles / Responsibilities:

• Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
• Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
• Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
• Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.

• Recommend a migration and consolidation strategy for DevOps tools
• Design and implement an Agile work management approach
• Make a quality strategy
• Design a secure development process
• Create a tool integration strategy

• Good experience in AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), IAM, RDS, API Gateway, Cognito, etc.
• Using GIT, SonarQube, Ansible, Nexus, Nagios, etc.
• Strong experience in creating, importing and launching volumes with security groups, auto-scaling, Load Balancers, Fault-tolerant
• Experience in configuring Jenkins job with related Plugins for     Building, Testing, and Continuous Deployment to accomplish the complete CI/CD.

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

• Install, configuration management, performance tuning and monitoring of Web, App and Database servers.
• Install, setup and management of Java, PHP and NodeJS stack with software load balancers.
• Install, setup and administer MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL DBs.
• Install, set up and maintenance monitoring solutions for like Nagios, Zabbix.
• Design and implement DevOps processes for new projects following the department's objectives of automation.
• Collaborate on projects with development teams to provide recommendations, support and guidance.
• Work towards full automation, monitoring, virtualization and containerization.
• Create and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Automation of processes in a scalable and easy to understand way that can be detailed and understood through documentation.
• Develop and deploy software that will help drive improvements towards the availability, performance, efficiency, and security of services.
• Maintain 24/7 availability for responsible systems and be open to on-call rotation.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.