Lead site reliability engineer & DevOps

Job Description

Role: Sr. DevOps – Architect

Location: Bangalore

Who are we looking for?

A senior level DevOps consultant with deep DevOps related expertise. The Individual should be passionate about technology and demonstrate depth and breadth of expertise in similar roles and Enterprise Systems/Enterprise Architecture Frameworks;

Technical Skills:

• 8+ years of relevant  DevOps /Operations/Development experience working under Agile  DevOps  culture on large scale distributed systems.

• Experience in building a DevOps platform in integrating DevOps tool chain using REST/SOAP/ESB technologies.

• Required hands on programming skills on developing automation modules using one of these scripting languages Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash

• Require hands on experience with public cloud such as AWS, Azure, Openstack, Pivotal Cloud Foundry etc though Azure experience is must.

• Experience in working more than one of the configuration management tools like Chef/Puppet/Ansible and building own cookbook/manifest is required.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.

• Experience in Building CI/CD pipelines using any of the continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo etc.

• Experience with planning tools like Jira, Rally etc.

• Hands on experience on continuous integration and build tools like (Jenkins, Bamboo, CruiseControl etc.) along with version control system like (GIT, SVN, GITHUB, TFS etc.), build automation tools like Maven/Gradle/ANT and dependency management tools like Artifactory/Nexus.

• Experience with more than one deployment automation tools like IBM urban code, CA automic, XL Deploy etc.

• Experience on setting up and managing  DevOps  tools on Repository, Monitoring, Log Analysis etc. using tools like (New Relic, Splunk, App Dynamics etc.)

• Understanding of Applications, Networking and Open source tools.

• Experience on security side of DevOps i.e. DevSecOps

• Good to have understanding of Micro services architecture.

• Experience working with remote/offshore teams is a huge plus

• Experience in building a Dashboard based on latest JS technologies like NodeJS

• Experience with NoSQL database like MongoDB

• Experience in working with REST APIs

• Experience with tools like NPM, Gulp

Process Skills:

• Ability in performing rapid assessments of clients’ internal technology landscape and targeting use cases and deployment targets

• Develop and create program blueprint, case study, supporting technical documentations for DevOps to be commercialized and duplicate work across different business customers

• Compile, deliver, and evangelize roadmaps that guide the evolution of services

• Grasp and communicate big-picture enterprise-wide issues to team

• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum / SAFe environment preferred

Behavioral Skills :

• Should have directly worked on creating enterprise level operating models, architecture options

• Model as-is and to-be architectures based on business requirements

• Good communication & presentation skills

• Self-driven + Disciplined + Organized + Result Oriented + Focused & Passionate about work

• Flexible for short term travel

Primary Duties / Responsibilities:

• Build Automations and modules for DevOps platform

• Build integrations between various DevOps tools

• Interface with another teams to provide support and understand the overall vision of the transformation platform.

• Understand the customer deployment scenarios, and Continuously improve and update the platform based on agile requirements.

• Preparing HLDs and LLDs.

• Presenting status to leadership and key stakeholders at regular intervals

Qualification:

• Somebody who has at least 12+ years of work experience in software development.

• 5+ years industry experience in DevOps architecture related to Continuous Integration/Delivery solutions, Platform Automation including technology consulting experience

• Education qualification: B.Tech, BE, BCA, MCA, M. Tech or equivalent technical degree from a reputed college

Must Have -

a. Background working with Startups

b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

c. Background working in Azure

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
• DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

We’re hiring a DevOps Engineer who’s passionate about automation, reliability, and scaling infrastructure for modern cloud-native applications. If you thrive in dynamic environments and love problem-solving at scale, we’d love to meet you!

🔧 Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support production systems with on-call rotations
• Deploy and maintain scalable infrastructure on AWS (ECS, EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda)
• Build infrastructure using Terraform
• Manage and monitor Kubernetes clusters and Docker containers
• Automate deployment and configuration using Ansible or similar tools
• Ensure systems reliability using robust monitoring and alerting tools
• Work with Linux OS, and network protocols like HTTP, DNS, SMTP, LDAP
• Manage services like Nginx, HAProxy, MySQL, SSH
• Collaborate with development, QA, and product teams
• Document systems and infrastructure best practices

✅ Required Skills

• 4+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Systems Administration
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker
• Proficient with Terraform, Ansible, and Linux systems
• Strong understanding of networking, system logs, and debugging
• Excellent communication and documentation skills

We are looking to fill the role of AWS devops engineer . To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer solutions using AWS services (Cloud Formation, EC2, Lambda, Route 53, ECS, EFS )
• Balance hardware, network, and software layers to arrive at a scalable and maintainable solution that meets requirements for uptime, performance, and functionality
• Monitor server applications and use tools and log files to troubleshoot and resolve problems
• Maintain 99.99% availability of the web and integration services
• Anticipate, identify, mitigate, and resolve issues relating to client facing infrastructure
• Monitor, analyse, and predict trends for system performance, capacity, efficiency, and reliability and recommend enhancements in order to better meet client SLAs and standards
• Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration and DevOps tasks
• Deploy and decommission client environments for multi and single tenant hosted applications following and updating as needed established processes and procedures
• Follow and develop CPA change control processes for modifications to systems and associated components

Practice configuration management, including maintenance of component inventory and related documentation per company policies and procedures.

Qualifications :

• Git/GitHub version control tools
• Linux and/or Windows Virtualisation (VMWare, Xen, KVM, Virtual Box )
• Cloud computing (AWS, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud)
• Application Servers, servlet containers and web servers (WebSphere, Tomcat)
• Bachelors / Masters Degree - 2+ years experience in software development
• Must have experience with AWS VPC networking and security

DevOps Systems Engineer with experience in Docker Containers, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Ansible, Jenkins and other tools. As part of this role she/he must work with the container best practices in design, development and implementation.

At Least 4 Years of experience in DevOps with knowledge of:

• Docker
• Docker Cloud / Containerization
• DevOps Best Practices
• Distributed Applications
• Deployment Architecture
• Atleast AWS Experience
• Exposure to Kubernetes / Serverless Architecture

Skills:

• 3-7+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering
• Strong experience with Docker Containers, Implementing Docker Containers, Container Clustering
• Experience with Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Engine
• Experience with Provisioning and managing VM's - Virtual Machines
• Experience / strong knowledge with Network Topologies, Network Research,
• Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira
• Ansible or other Automation Configuration Management System tools
• Scripting & Programming using languages such as BASH, Perl, Python, AWK, SED, PHP, Shell
• Linux Systems Administration -: Redhat

Additional Preference:

Security, SSL configuration, Best Practices

• 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!

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the development team to plan, execute and monitor deployments
• Capacity planning for product deployments
• Adopt best practices for deployment and monitoring systems
• Ensure the SLAs for performance, up time are met
• Constantly monitor systems, suggest changes to improve performance and decrease costs.
• Ensure the highest standards of security

Key Competencies (Functional):

• Proficiency in coding in atleast one scripting language - bash, Python, etc
• Has personally managed a fleet of servers (> 15)
• Understand different environments production, deployment and staging
• Worked in micro service / Service oriented architecture systems
• Has worked with automated deployment systems – Ansible / Chef / Puppet.
• Can write MySQL queries

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure Cloud Infra & Application deployments)   

Location:

Hyderabad  

Hiring a Senior

DevOps engineer having 2 to 5 years of experience.  

Primary Responsibilities   

Strong Programming experience in PowerShell and batch

scripts. 

Strong expertise in Azure DevOps, GitLab, CI/CD, Jenkins and

Git Actions, Azure Infrastructure. 

Strong

experience in configuring infrastructure and Deployments application in

Kubernetes, docker & Helm charts, App Services, Server less, SQL database, Cloud

services and Container deployment. 

Continues

Integration, deployment, and version control (Git/ADO).  

Strong experience in managing and configuring RBAC, managed identity and

security best practices for cloud environments. 

Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

Experience with agile development process. 

· 

Good analytical skills  

Additional Responsibility.  

Familiar with

various design and architecture patterns. 

Work with modern frameworks and design patterns. 

Experience with cloud applications Azure/AWS.  Should have experience in developing solutions and plugins and should have used XRM Toolbox/ToolKit.

Exp in Customer Portal and Fetchxml and Power Apps and Power Automate is good to have.