MLOps Lead Engineer

Springer Capital is a cross-border asset management firm focused on real estate investment banking in China and the USA. We are offering a remote internship for individuals passionate about automation, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines. Start and end dates are flexible, and applicants may be asked to complete a short technical quiz or assignment as part of the application process. 

Responsibilities: 

▪ Assist in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to automate development workflows 

▪ Monitor and improve system performance, reliability, and scalability 

▪ Manage cloud-based infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP) 

▪ Support containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes 

▪ Implement infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation 

▪ Collaborate with software engineering and data teams to streamline deployments 

▪ Troubleshoot system and deployment issues across development and production environments 

SRE - Pune

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India

Experience - 3 - 5 years

We are looking for technically strong engineers with solid hands-on experience in Kubernetes, Cloud Infrastructure, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate should have experience working on production-grade cloud-native environments, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure reliability.

Primary Skills & Responsibilities -

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience working with managed Kubernetes platforms such as:
• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service).
• EKS (AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Understanding and exposure to multi-region cluster management and disaster recovery concepts.
• Strong understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
• Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using:
• Terraform OR other programmable infrastructure provisioning tools.
• Experience with Ansible automation.
• Good understanding of monitoring, logging, and observability infrastructure such as Prometheus.
• Scripting or programming capability in any language (Python, Bash, Go, etc.).
• Understanding of high availability, scalability, and resilient systems.
• Familiarity with:
• IAM concepts.
• Basic cloud operations.
• Billing / cost analysis awareness.
• DevOps operational practices.

Good-to-Have Skills -

• Service Mesh technologies.
• Distributed tracing concepts.
• Understanding of 12-factor application methodology.
• Exposure to open-source tooling or contributions.
• Customer-facing or consulting experience.
• Awareness of:
• SecOps concepts (policy enforcement, threat modelling).
• FinOps and cloud cost optimization practices.
• Cloud infrastructure components such as compute, storage, and managed Kubernetes services.

AI & ML (45 Days – Live Hands‑On)

Program Fee: ₹25,000

Duration: 45 Days

Mode: Hybrid (Online Sessions + Live Lab Access)

Eligibility: Freshers, Final‑Year Students, and Career Switchers

About the Internship

This intensive 45‑day internship program is designed for freshers who want to build strong, industry‑relevant skills in Cloud Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, and AI/ML model development. The program offers live production hands‑on training, allowing interns to work on real-world architectures, security workflows, and AI/ML deployments.

Participants will receive end‑to‑end exposure to modern cloud platforms, DevOps practices, security operations, and machine learning deployment, making them job‑ready for roles like:

• Cloud/Infra Engineer
• DevOps Engineer
• Security Analyst
• AI/ML Engineer
• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Key Highlights

• 45 days of practical, mentor-led training
• Live production-style projects and deployments
• Hands‑on experience with:
• AWS / Azure Cloud
• Terraform, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes
• Security Hardening & IAM
• Python ML pipelines & model deployment
• Architect & deploy real systems using best practices
• Build portfolio-ready projects
• Receive an industry-recognized Internship Certificate

What You Will Learn

1️⃣ Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps

• Cloud fundamentals (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Linux administration & scripting
• VPC, Subnets, Routing, NAT, Firewalls
• EC2 provisioning & autoscaling
• Load balancing & High Availability
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins / GitHub Actions
• Docker containerization & Kubernetes basics

2️⃣ Cybersecurity & Cloud Security

• IAM roles, policies, access control
• Server security & hardening
• SSL/TLS, encryption, key management
• Secure VPC & subnet design
• Threat detection & logging
• Secrets management
• Network segmentation & firewall best practices

3️⃣ AI & Machine Learning

• Python for ML
• Supervised and unsupervised algorithms
• Data preprocessing & model training
• Model evaluation & optimization
• Build ML inference APIs using FastAPI/Flask
• Containerize and deploy ML models to cloud
• Integrate monitoring for ML workflows

✅ Live Hands‑On Projects

Interns will work on real-world, production-grade projects such as:

• Deploy a secure 3‑tier web application on cloud
• Automate infra provisioning using Terraform
• Build CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments
• Harden servers & configure security groups, IAM
• Develop and deploy an ML model as a cloud API
• Create monitoring dashboards with Prometheus/Grafana
• End-to-end system deployment with logging and alerting

Each intern will complete a Capstone Project and present it during the final evaluation.

✅ Internship Deliverables

1. Internship Completion Certificate
2. 3+ Production‑level projects
3. GitHub portfolio with all code and deployments
4. Cloud & ML documentation
5. Resume enhancement and guidance
6. Career mentoring + interview preparation

✅ Who Should Apply

This internship is ideal for:

• Fresh graduates
• Final‑year engineering or IT students
• BSc, BCA, MCA, B.Tech learners
• Professionals switching careers to Cloud/DevOps/AI
• Anyone seeking hands‑on, real‑time industry experience

✅ Program Fee

₹25,000/- (includes training, labs, live‑project access, certificate, and mentorship)

✅ Certificate Provided

All participants will receive a verified Internship Certificate, including:

• Candidate Name
• Internship Duration & Dates
• Skills Covered
• Project Evaluation Score
• Authorized Signatory & Company Seal

About the Role:

We are seeking a talented and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable and secure infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of DevOps best practices and a proven track record in automating and optimizing complex workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Management:

• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and security of cloud resources.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Develop and manage containerized applications using Docker.
• Deploy, scale, and manage Kubernetes clusters.

CI/CD Pipelines:

• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure pipeline efficiency.

Version Control & Collaboration:

• Manage code repositories and workflows using Git.
• Collaborate with development teams to optimize branching strategies and code reviews.

Automation & Scripting:

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Write scripts to optimize and maintain workflows.

Monitoring & Logging:

• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions to ensure system health and performance.
• Analyze logs and metrics to troubleshoot and resolve issues.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Proficiency in containerization tools like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficient in using Git for version control.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication and teamwork skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Google Professional DevOps Engineer.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack.
• Familiarity with serverless architectures and microservices.

As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.

• Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.

• Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.

• Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.

• Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.

• Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.

• Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.

• Work in a globally distributed team.

What achievements should you have so far?

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).

• Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.

• Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.

• Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).

• Good Networking skills and experience.

• Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.

• Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.

• Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.

• Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
• Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
• Logging, metrics and alerting management.
• Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
• Performing root cause analysis for production errors.

• 2 years experience as Team Lead.
• Good Command on kubernetes.
• Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
• Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins.
• Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloud formation etc.
• Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache.
• Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
• Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s