Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Job Description: We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support our Laravel, JavaScript (Node.js, React, Next.js), and Python development teams. The role involves building and maintaining scalable CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing cloud infrastructure to ensure seamless delivery across multiple environments.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Laravel, Node.js, and Python projects.

Automate application deployment and environment provisioning using AWS and containerization tools.

Manage and optimize AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Lambda).

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation. Manage configuration automation using Ansible.

Build and manage containerized environments using Docker (Kubernetes is a plus).

Monitor infrastructure and application performance using CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Grafana.

Ensure system security, data integrity, and high availability across environments.

Collaborate with development teams to streamline builds, testing, and deployments.

Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment-related issues.

Required Skills:

AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, Lambda)

CI/CD Tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform or AWS CloudFormation Configuration Management: Ansible

Containers: Docker (Kubernetes preferred)

Scripting: Bash, Python

Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab

Web Servers: Apache, Nginx (preferred)

Databases: MySQL, MongoDB (preferred)

Qualifications:

3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer in a production environment.

Proven experience supporting Laravel, Node.js, and Python-based applications.

Strong understanding of CI/CD, containerization, and automation practices.

Experience with infrastructure monitoring, logging, and performance optimization.

Familiarity with agile and collaborative development processes.

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).

Job Title: DevOps - 3

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop deep understanding of the end-to-end configurations, dependencies, customer requirements, and overall characteristics of the production services as the accountable owner for overall service operations
• Implementing best practices, challenging the status quo, and tab on industry and technical trends, changes, and developments to ensure the team is always striving for best-in-class work
• Lead incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to resolve issues quickly and minimize downtime. Implement effective incident management processes and post-incident reviews
• Participate in on-call rotation responsibilities, ensuring timely identification and resolution of infrastructure issues
• Possess expertise in designing and implementing capacity plans, accurately estimating costs and efforts for infrastructure needs.
• Systems and Infrastructure maintenance and ownership for production environments, with a continued focus on improving efficiencies, availability, and supportability through automation and well defined runbooks
• Provide mentorship and guidance to a team of DevOps engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing work environment. Mentor team members in best practices, technologies, and methodologies.
• Design for Reliability - Architect & implement solutions that keeps Infrastructure running with Always On availability and ensures high uptime SLA for the Infrastructure
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables related to your technical expertise and assigned domains
• Collaborate with Product & Information Security teams to ensure the integrity and security of Infrastructure and applications. Implement security best practices and compliance standards.

Must Haves

• 5-8 years of experience as Devops / SRE / Platform Engineer.
• Strong expertise in automating Infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Ansible, Packer, Terraform, Docker, Helm Charts etc.
• Strong skills in network services such as DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP, etc
• Expertise in managing large-scale cloud infrastructure (preferably AWS and Oracle)
• Expertise in managing production grade Kubernetes clusters
• Experience in scripting using programming languages like Bash, Python, etc.
• Expertise in skill sets for centralized logging systems, metrics, and tooling frameworks such as ELK, Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, and Grafana etc.
• Experience in Managing and building High scale API Gateway, Service Mesh, etc
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive
• Have a working knowledge of a backend programming language
• Deep knowledge & experience with Unix / Linux operating systems internals (Eg. filesystems, user management, etc)
• A working knowledge and deep understanding of cloud security concepts
• Proven track record of driving results and delivering high-quality solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical project stakeholders, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment. 

5 to 10 years of software development & coding experience

Experience with Infrastructure as Code development (Automation, CICD) AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy are a must have. 

Experience troubleshooting AWS policy or permissions related errors during resource deployments \

Programming experience; preferred Python, PowerShell, bash development experience \

Have Experience with application build automation tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins, Concourse, and Git supporting continuous integration / continuous deployment capabilities (CI/CD) à GitHub and GitHub actions for deployments are must-have skills (Maven, Jenkins, etc. are nice to have)

Have configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)

Worked in a Development Shop or have SDLC hands on Experience

Familiar with how to write software, test plans, automate and release using modern development methods

AWS certified at an appropriate level

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
• Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
• Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
• Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
• Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
• Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
• Knowledge in Microservice architecture.

• 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

• Experience working in advanced iterative methodologies such as Agile and Safe.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working in complex and demanding environments with high degree of change.
• Ability to view system perspective and to perform thorough investigations.
• Experience in frequent delivery to production.
• Microservice-based architecture (Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD, ELK)
• Experience with modern software components (Mongo, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Expertise in software development methodologies.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SSH, SAML, etc.
• Possession of a deep knowledge of development workflows with Git.
• Experience with MySQL or another relational database Environment.
• Automation testing (component, integration and end2end)