Kubernetes Lead

About Simbian

Simbian is at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, leveraging purpose-built AI Agents to deliver 10x security outcomes for global enterprises and MSSPs. Our platform autonomously investigates and responds to alerts, freeing security teams from repetitive tasks. Simbian combines privacy-first technology, proven integration with 70+ enterprise tools, and rapid deployment for measurable value. Role

Overview

We are seeking a collaborative, innovative DevOps Engineer passionate about enabling secure, scalable operations for cutting-edge cybersecurity products. Join our team during a period of high growth and help architect the future of agentic AI security platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Management:

o Manage and maintain production-grade Kubernetes clusters across multiple cloud providers (AWS is essential, Azure is valuable, GCP is a plus).

o Deploy, upgrade, troubleshoot, and scale stateful and stateless workloads (NGINX, Postgres, MongoDB, OpenCTI, OpenSearch, Kafka, Hadoop, Fluentd) in Kubernetes.

• Cloud Operations:

o Operate and optimize cloud environments, with strong expertise in AWS (AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent Azure cert preferred).

o Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on AWS and Azure (GCP optional). • SQL Database Management:

o Administer SQL databases, ideally Postgres, on Kubernetes clusters or cloud VMs.

o Perform routine maintenance, backups, upgrades, monitoring, and optimization.

• Infrastructure as Code:

o Build, install, upgrade, and maintain Helm charts with expertise.

o Use and understand Ansible for cloud automation (AWS/Azure), and Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.

• Monitoring, Logging, Observability:

o Implement and manage logging and metrics stacks using OpenSearch/Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos or similar open source tools.

• Programming & Scripting:

o Develop automation scripts in Bash (proficient with control structures). o Produce scripts or microservices in Node.js (preferred) or Python/Django (bonus).

• CI/CD:

o Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines preferably using GitHub Actions (Jenkins or equivalent is acceptable).

• Containerization:

o Create, manage, and troubleshoot Docker/Podman containers, images, volumes, and use Docker Compose for local development.

• Customer-Facing On-Prem Deployments (Bonus):

o Install, configure, and support Kubernetes on customer premises.

o Demonstrate ownership, initiative, and strong customer communication skills.

o Solid knowledge of Linux administration, networking, and cloud environments.

What You’ll Bring:

• 4+ years’ experience in DevOps, SRE, or Production Engineering.

• Mastery of Kubernetes, AWS, infrastructure automation, and database management.

• Strong collaborative, curious, and growth-driven mindset.

• Ability to challenge ideas, drive innovation, and embrace rapid change.

• Excellent communication for technical customer interactions.

Why Join Simbian?

• Work with pioneering agentic AI security—impact global security teams.

• Shape infrastructure for privacy-first technology in a high-growth startup.

• Enjoy a dynamic remote-first work culture with opportunities for ownership and advancement. 

Job Details

- Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

- Industry: Consumer Internet, Technology & Travel and Tourism Platform

- Function - IT

- Experience Required: 7-10 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Bengaluru

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Criteria:

• Strong Lead DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer Profiles.
• Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience working as a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer.
• Candidate’s current title must be Lead DevOps Engineer (or equivalent Lead role) in the current organization
• Must have minimum 2+ years of team management / technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, driving infrastructure decisions, or leading DevOps initiatives.
• Must have strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (container orchestration) including deployment, scaling, and cluster management.
• Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Must have strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
• Must have working experience with distributed databases or data systems such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or Puppet.
• Must have strong hands-on experience in Observability & Monitoring, CI/CD architecture, and Networking concepts in production environments.
• (Company) – Must be from B2C Product Companies only.
• (Education) – B.E/ B.Tech

Preferred

• Experience working in microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, scalability, reliability, and cost optimization practices.
• (Skills) – Understanding of programming languages such as Go, Python, or Java.
• (Environment) – Experience working in high-growth startup or large-scale production environments.

Job Description 

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs
• Codify our infrastructure
• Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%
• Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities
• Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes
• Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization
• Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

Key Responsibilities

DevOps Strategy & Leadership

• Define and execute the end-to-end DevOps strategy for high-frequency trading and fintech platforms.
• Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing DevOps team focused on automation, reliability, and performance.
• Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to ensure infrastructure strategy supports business and technical goals.

CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation

• Architect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and advanced automation toolsets.
• Establish robust release management, deployment workflows, and versioning best practices for mission‑critical environments.

Cloud & On‑Prem Infrastructure Management

• Design and manage hybrid infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and on-premise data centers ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
• Implement sophisticated networking strategies for low-latency workloads including routing optimization and performance tuning.
• Lead multi‑cloud scalability, cost optimization, and environment standardization initiatives.

Performance Monitoring & Optimization

• Oversee large-scale monitoring systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and related observability tools.
• Implement predictive alerting, automated remediation, and system‑wide health checks for zero‑downtime operations.
• Conduct root-cause analyses and performance tuning for systems processing millions of transactions per second.

Security & Compliance

• Champion DevSecOps practices and embed security across the entire development and deployment lifecycle.
• Ensure adherence to financial regulatory standards (SEBI and global frameworks) with strong audit and compliance mechanisms.
• Lead security automation efforts, vulnerability management, and advanced IAM policy implementation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10+ years of DevOps experience, with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
• Deep hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
• Strong command of AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and large-scale container orchestration.
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and overall IaC workflows.
• Strong Linux administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls), and system internals.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
• Deep understanding of security principles, encryption, IAM, and compliance frameworks.

Good to Have

• Experience with ultra-low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
• Knowledge of FIX protocol, FPGA acceleration, or network‑level optimizations.
• Familiarity with Redis, Nginx, or other high‑throughput systems.
• Exposure to micro‑second‑level performance tuning or network acceleration technologies.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a team that consistently raises the bar and delivers exceptional engineering outcomes.
• A culture where innovation, ownership, and bold thinking are valued.
• Exceptional growth opportunities—ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
• Build systems that influence markets and redefine the fintech landscape.

This isn’t just a role—it’s a challenge, a platform, and a proving ground.

Ready to step up? Apply now.

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
•     • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
•     • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
•     • Experience with IAC tools  Terraform
•     • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
•     • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
•     • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
•     • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
•     • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
•     • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
•     • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
•     • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
•     • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

• At least 5 year of experience in Cloud technologies-AWS and Azure and developing. 
• Experience in implementing DevOps practices and DevOps-tools in areas like CI/CD using Jenkins environment automation, and release automation, virtualization, infra as a code or metrics tracking.
• Hands on experience in DevOps tools configuration in different environments.
• Strong knowledge of working with DevOps design patterns, processes and best practices
• Hand-on experience in Setting up Build pipelines.
• Prior working experience in system administration or architecture in Windows or Linux.
• Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
• Hands-on experience on Jenkins pipeline scripting.
• Hands-on knowledge in one scripting language (Nant, Perl, Python, Shell or PowerShell)
• Configuration level skills in tools like SonarQube (or similar tools) and Artifactory.
• Expertise on Virtual Infrastructure (VMWare or VirtualBox or QEMU or KVM or Vagrant) and environment automation/provisioning using SaltStack/Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing Azure cloud based production systems including monitoring capacity.
• Good to have experience in migrating code repositories from one source control to another.
• Hands-on experience in Docker container and orchestration based deployments like Kubernetes, Service Fabric, Docker swarm.
• Must have good communication skills and problem solving skills

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

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

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform

Job Description

We are looking to add DevOps Engineer to the Infra team. 

Roles & Responsibilities

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun, and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.

Eligibility

B.Tech/M.Tech/B.E

Company Introduction

Established in May 2015, Indus OS is a homebred system apps company, building India’s only content and commerce platform for users to discover and consume digital content & services in the language of their choice. With a vision of digitally connecting 1 Billion Indians, Indus OS is constantly striving to adapt its existing portfolio (App Store, Minus One Screen, Keyboard, Messenger, etc) by introducing new features to enrich the user experience in their native language.
Currently, Indus OS has a user base of over 12+ Million on the back of 10+ smartphone brand partnerships with leading OEMs such as Samsung, Gionee, iTel, Micromax, Intex, Karbonn, and others. The Indus platform is available in English & 23 Indian regional languages and is intended to digitally connect the next 1 billion people in the emerging markets.