Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer

Location : Remote

Experience Level : 5+ Years

Role Overview :

We are a funded AI startup seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a secure, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. In this role, you will focus on automating operations, optimizing deployment processes, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality products seamlessly.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Scalability & Reliability :

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure for high availability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement container orchestration using Kubernetes or Docker Compose.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Pulumi or Terraform to manage and configure infrastructure.

Deployment Automation :

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Implement deployment strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments, and create rollback mechanisms to ensure seamless updates.

Monitoring & Observability :

• Leverage tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Datadog to monitor system health and performance.
• Establish centralized logging systems and create real-time dashboards for actionable insights.

Security & Compliance :

• Securely manage secrets using tools like HashiCorp Vault or Doppler.
• Conduct static code analysis with tools such as SonarQube or Snyk to ensure compliance with security standards.

Collaboration & Team Enablement :

• Mentor and guide team members on DevOps best practices and workflows.
• Document infrastructure setups, incident runbooks, and troubleshooting workflows to enhance team efficiency.

Required Skills :

• Expertise in managing cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Advanced scripting capabilities in Python or Bash.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging production systems and optimizing performance.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience in scaling AI or ML-based applications.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices.
• Certifications in AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes.

What We Offer :

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced AI startup environment.
• Flexible remote work culture.
• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Professional growth through challenging projects and learning opportunities.

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics

2 - 5 Years of Experience in any Programming any language (Polyglot Preferred ) & System Operations • Awareness of Devops & Agile Methodologies • Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment . • Experience in working in an agile and fast paced environment . • Hands on knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS / GCP / Azure). • Cloud networking knowledge: should understand VPC, NATs, and routers. • Contributions to open source is a plus. • Good written communication skills are a must. Contributions to technical blogs / whitepapers will be an added advantage.

Experience of Linux

Experience using Python or Shell scripting (for Automation) 

Hands-on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes 

Experience working  with one cloud platforms (AWS or Azure or Google) 

Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible & Chef 

Experience working with   Containerization tool Docker.

Experience working with Container Orchestration tool Kubernetes.

Experience in source Control Management including SVN and/or Bitbucket

& GitHub

Experience with setup & management of monitoring tools like Nagios, Sensu & Prometheus or any other popular tools 

Hands-on experience in Linux, Scripting Language & AWS is mandatory

Troubleshoot and Triage development, Production issues

Why you should join us

- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives

- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)

- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment

What you will do

- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.

- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring operational excellence

- You will setup infrastructure on AWS that will be represented as code

- You will work on several automation projects that provide great developer experience

- You will setup secure, fault tolerant, reliable and performant systems

- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards for your team that are well documented

- You will set up systems in a way that are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience

- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums

- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)

You should apply if

- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals

- You have been working on cloud infrastructure setup, especially on AWS since 8+ years

- You have set up and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale

- You have experience in hardening and securing cloud infrastructures

- You have a solid understanding of computer networking, network security and CDNs

- Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and optionally Terraform

- Experience in building automation tools for code build and deployment (preferably in JS)

- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity

- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment

- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance

- You work well in a team to enhance your impact

• 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
• Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
• Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
• Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.

• Health Memberships 
• Sports Subscriptions 
• Entertainment Subscriptions 
• Key Conferences and Event Passes
• Learning Stipend 
• Team Lunches and Parties 
• Travel Reimbursements 
• ESOPs