Kubernetes Expert

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.

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)

About BootLabs:

BootLabs is a boutique tech consulting and digital engineering company that partners with leading enterprises to build and support scalable, cloud-native, and data-driven platforms. We specialise in delivering high-impact solutions across cloud, AI/GenAI, platform engineering, and enterprise application support. Our teams work closely with global clients across highly regulated industries, including BFSI, Healthcare, E-commerce, and other domains, ensuring reliability, security, and operational excellence for mission-critical systems.

JD:

Extensive experience in deploying, and supporting enterprise workloads across Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.

Experience managing enterprise Landing Zones & Azure Policies.

Exposure to Azure Data Lake and Azure Databricks (basic to intermediate).

Knowledge of Terraform and any DevOps CI/CD pipelines.

Hybrid connectivity experience (VPN Gateway / ExpressRoute).

Strong networking fundamentals (NSG, UDR, Peering).

OS-level troubleshooting (Windows & Linux).

Experience with enterprise security tools such as Prisma / Cortex or similar vulnerability & endpoint security tools

Experience in production support, governance, and security guardrails.

Experience handling production incidents, RCA preparation, and performance tuning. Change management & CAB coordination.

Hands-on experience with native Azure security services like Azure Firewall, Azure Application Gateway with WAF etc

Cost optimization ,Monitoring & alerting implementation

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in pre-sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
• Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg.  Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tenders

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

You would be adding a great experience of working with a leading open source solutions company in South East Asia region to your career. You would get to learn from the leaders and grow in the industry. This would be a great opportunity for you to grow in your career through continuous learning, adding depth and breadth of technologies. Since we work with leading open source technologies and engage with large enterprises, it creates enormous possibilities for career growth for our team. Not to mention that our people find the journey with Ashnik to be exciting and a fulfilling experience.

• Responsible for the entire infrastructure including Production (both bare metal and AWS).
• Manage and maintain the production systems and operations including SysAdmin, DB activities.
• Improve tools and processes, automate manual efforts, and maintain the health of the system.
• Champion best practices, CI-CD, Metrics Driven Development
• Optimise the company's computing architecture
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Maintain security of the system
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

• 7+ years of experience into DevOps/Technical Operations
• Extensive experience in operating scripting language like shell, python, etc
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands on experience in using configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VMs, Containers utilizing tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Hands on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS, Azure,GCP, etc
• Knowledge of Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Knowledge of security/ethical hacking

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash
• Have experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark
• Have experience with Mongo, Hive

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.Requirement
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

Rules & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
• Should be able to work on 24 X 7 shifts for support of infrastructure.
• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability and security
• Manage the production deployment and deployment automation
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation
• Institute infrastructure as code, security automation and automation or routine maintenance tasks
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like docker, Kubernetes
• Build, Deploy and Manage Kubernetes clusters thru automation
• Create and deliver knowledge sharing presentations and documentation for support teams
• Learning on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision
• Work effectively with onsite/offshore teams

Qualifications:

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of experience in IT
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining all AWS infrastructure and services
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security
• Hands-on technical expertise in Security Architecture, automation, integration, and deployment
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and AWS(IAM, Route53, SSM, S3, EFS, EBS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM Roles and Policies
• Solid Linux experience with a focus on web (Apache Tomcat/Nginx)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Terraform\Chef\Ansible or similar.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like Microservices, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, LDAP, JDBC, SQL, HTML
• Experience in managing and working with the offshore teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, etc.)
• AWS, Kubernetes Certification is preferred
• Ability to work with and influence Engineering teams

Total Experience: 6 – 12 Years

Required Skills and Experience 

• 3+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 3+ 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.