Junior - Software Engineer - DevOps

About GradRight

Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all. Our mission is to drive transparency and accountability in the global higher education sector and create significant impact using the power of technology, data science and collaboration.

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions in an integrated manner. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner.

In the last three years, we have enabled students to get the best deals on a $ 2.8+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 350+ Million in loans. GradRight won the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India & was among the top 7 global finalists in The PIEoneer awards, UK.

GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, BITS Pilani, IIT Roorkee, ISB Hyderabad and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is a Delaware, USA registered company with a wholly owned subsidiary in India. 

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI/CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or GitHub Actions.

Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).

Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK stack.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience

3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).

Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).

Proficiency in CI/CD pipeline design and automation.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).

Solid understanding of Linux/Unix systems and shell scripting.

Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).

Basic programming/scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to Have

Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio/Linkerd).

Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).

Overview

adesso India specialises in optimization of core business processes for organizations. Our focus is on providing state-of-the-art solutions that streamline operations and elevate productivity to new heights.

Comprised of a team of industry experts and experienced technology professionals, we ensure that our software development and implementations are reliable, robust, and seamlessly integrated with the latest technologies. By leveraging our extensive knowledge and skills, we empower businesses to achieve their objectives efficiently and effectively.

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Technical Team Lead to guide a local IT Services Management Team and also acting as a software developer. In this role, you will be responsible for the application management of a B2C application to meet the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and fulfil customer expectations. 

Your Team will act as a on-call-duty team in the time between 6 pm to 8 am, 365 days a year. You will work together with the responsible Senior Project Manager in Germany. 

We are seeking a hands-on leader who thrives in both team management and operational development. Whether you have experience in DevOps and Backend or Frontend, your expertise in both leadership and technical skills will be key to success in this position.

Responsibilities:

Problem Management & Incident Management activities: Identifying and resolving technical issues and errors that arise during application usage. 

Release and Update Coordination: Planning and executing software updates, new versions, or system upgrades to keep applications up to date.

Change Management: Responsible for implementing and coordinating changes to the application, considering the impact on ongoing operations.

Requirements:

Education und Experience: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, with a minimum of 5 years of professional experience or equivalent work experience.

Skills & Expertise:

Proficient in ITIL service management frameworks.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Experienced in project management methodologies (Agile, Kanban).

Leadership: Very good leadership skills with a customer orientated, proactive and results driven approach. 

Communication: Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and collaborate with stakeholders.

Language: English on a C2 Level.

Skills & Requirements

kubeAPI high Kustomize high docker/container high Debug Tools openSSL high Curl high Azure Devops, Pipeline, Repository, Deployment, ArgoCD, Certificates: Certificate Management / SSL, LetsEncrypt, Linux Shell, Keycloak.

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Profile: DevOps Engineer
Experience: 5-8 Yrs
Notice Period: Immediate to 30 Days

Job Descrtiption:

Technical Experience (Must Have):
Cloud: Azure
DevOps Tool: Terraform, Ansible, Github, CI-CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes
Network: Cloud Networking
Scripting Language: Any/All - Shell Script, PowerShell, Python
OS: Linux (Ubuntu, RHEL etc)
Database: MongoDB

Professional Attributes: Excellent communication, written, presentation,
and problem-solving skills.

Experience: Minimum of 5-8 years of experience in Cloud Automation and
Application

Additional Information (Good to have):
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
Terraform Associate
Docker
Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Role:
Building and maintaining tools to automate application and
infrastructure deployment, and to monitor operations.
Design and implement cloud solutions which are secure, scalable,
resilient, monitored, auditable and cost optimized.
Implementing transformation from an as is state, to the future.
Coordinating with other members of the DevOps team, Development, Test,
and other teams to enhance and optimize existing processes.
Provide systems support,  implement monitoring and logging alerting
solutions that enable the production systems to be monitored.
Writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Industry standard tools and
services.
Writing application deployment automation using industry standard
deployment and configuration tools.
Design and implement continuous delivery pipelines that serve the
purpose of provisioning and operating client test as well as production
environments.
Implement and stay abreast of Cloud and DevOps industry best practices
and tooling.

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

• Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
• Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
• Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
• Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
• Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
• Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
• Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
• Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
• Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
• Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
• Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
• Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
• Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
• AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
• Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
• Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
• Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
• Monthly SLA Performance reports

As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need…. 

• 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
• 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
• 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
• 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
• Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
• Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
• Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
• Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
• Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
• Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
• Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).