Lead DevOps Engineer

• Experience using AWS (that’s just common sense)
• Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• Experience using https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/devops-tutorial/devops-tools" target="_blank">DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/what-is-docker-container" target="_blank">Docker, GitHub, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/jenkins-tutorial/what-is-jenkins" target="_blank">Jenkins, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/kubernetes-tutorial/what-is-kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus
• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
• The ability to be a team player
• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

As a special aside, an AWS engineer who works in DevOps should also have experience with:

• The theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• An understanding of automation

Role Overview:

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer to join our team. You will be responsible for managing and automating the deployment, monitoring, and scaling of our applications, ensuring high availability, security, and performance. The ideal candidate is passionate about automation, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for development, testing, and production environments.
• Manage cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, or others) and ensure scalability, reliability, and security.
• Automate deployment, configuration management, and infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or Chef.
• Monitor application performance and infrastructure health using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Datadog.
• Collaborate with development and QA teams to streamline workflows and resolve deployment issues.
• Implement security best practices in pipelines, infrastructure, and cloud environments.
• Maintain version control and manage release cycles.
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues efficiently.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• Proven experience in DevOps, system administration, or cloud engineering.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Scripting skills (Python, Bash, or PowerShell).
• Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with microservices architecture.
• Knowledge of networking, load balancing, and firewalls.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours and remote options.
• Learning and development opportunities.
• Collaborative and inclusive work environment.

Who we are :

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programmes - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are :

• India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000+ beds under management across 25+ cities
• Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners
• Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn
• LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

Objectives of this role :

- Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company

- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance

- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to developer teams to build their cloud competencies

- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design

- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines

Job Description :

- Excellent understanding of Cloud Platform (AWS)

- Strong knowledge on AWS Services, design, configuration on enterprise systems

- Good knowledge on Kubernetes configuration, Dockers

- Understanding the needs of the business for defining AWS system specifications

- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective support activities

- Evaluation and choosing suitable AWS Service or and suggesting methods for integration

- Overseeing assigned programs and guiding the team members

- Providing assistance when technical problems arise

- Making sure the agreed infrastructure and architecture are implemented

- Addressing the technical concerns, suggestions, and ideas

- Configure Monitoring systems to make sure they meet business goals as well as user requirements

- Excellent knowledge of AWS IaaS Layer

- Ability to lead & implement PS workloads or POCs

- Ensure continual knowledge management

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities

• A technology Professional who understands software development and can solve IT Operational and deployment challenges using software engineering tools and processes. This position requires an understanding of both Software development (Dev) and deployment

Operations (Ops)

• Identity manual processes and automate them using various DevOps automation tools

• Maintain the organization’s growing cloud infrastructure

• Monitor and maintain DevOps environment stability

• Collaborate with distributed Agile teams to define technical requirements and resolve technical design issues

• Orchestrating builds and test setups using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Participate in designing and building Kubernetes, Cloud, and on-prem environments for maximum performance, reliability and scalability

• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approaches for different audiences

Requirements

• Candidates working for this position should possess at least 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• Candidate should have experience in ELK stack, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Solid experience in the AWS environment.

• Should have experience in monitoring tools like DataDog or Newrelic.

• Minimum of 5 years experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment & management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, Git, Sonar, and Selenium.

• Candidates must possess ample knowledge and experience in system automation, deployment, and implementation.

• Candidates must possess experience in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in configuring and automating the monitoring tools.

• The candidates should also possess experience in the software development process and tools and languages like SaaS, Python, Java, MongoDB, Shell scripting, Python, PostgreSQL, and Git.

• Candidates should demonstrate knowledge in handling distributed data systems.

Examples: Elastisearch, Cassandra, Hadoop, and others.

• Should have experience in GitLab- CIRoles and Responsibilities

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Patch production systems to fix security/performance issues
• Actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers or the support team
• Mentor other Infrastructure engineers, review their work and continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Participate in infrastructure security audits

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS fundamentals.
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts using any scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Bash etc.,
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – if you have experience with Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Mongo systems in production.

KaiOS is a mobile operating system for smart feature phones that stormed the scene to become the 3rd largest mobile OS globally (2nd in India ahead of iOS). We are on 100M+ devices in 100+ countries. We recently closed a Series B round with Cathay Innovation, Google and TCL.

What we are looking for:

• BE/B-Tech in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of overall commercial DevOps / infrastructure experience, cross-functional delivery-focused agile environment; previous experience as a software engineer and ability to see into and reason about the internals of an application a major plus
• Extensive experience designing, delivering and operating highly scalable resilient mission-critical backend services serving millions of users; experience operating and evolving multi-regional services a major plus
• Strong engineering skills; proficiency in programming languages
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-code tools, for example Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven ability to execute on a technical and product roadmap
• Extensive experience with iterative development and delivery
• Extensive experience with observability for operating robust distributed systems – instrumentation, log shipping, alerting, etc.
• Extensive experience with test and deployment automation, CI / CD
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and tooling, such as Terraform
• Extensive experience with AWS, including services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Elasticsearch, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, etc.
• Strong knowledge of backend and web technology; infrastructure experience with at-scale modern data technology a major plus
• Deep expertise in server-side security concerns and best practices
• Fluency with at least one programming language. We mainly use Golang, Python and JavaScript so far
• Outstanding analytical thinking, problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements

Designation: DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore OR Hongkong

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Notice period: 30 days or Less