Manager - DevOps

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Experience Required: 8+ years in DevOps or related fields

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. This role will focus on driving the design, implementation, and optimization of our CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and operational processes. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers to achieve operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management: Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

CI/CD Pipelines: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, to improve development velocity and deployment quality.

Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and workflows, such as provisioning cloud resources, configuring servers, managing deployments, and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Monitoring & Logging: Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for enterprise and cloud-native environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, NewRelic or Datadog.

Security: Ensure the infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including vulnerability assessments and incident response processes.

Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to align DevOps strategies with project goals.

Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and train a team of DevOps engineers to foster growth and technical expertise.

Incident Management: Oversee production system reliability, including root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

Strong proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Advanced knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions or CircleCI.

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Proven ability to manage and lead a team effectively.

Experience:

8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

3+ years in a leadership or team lead role, with proven experience managing distributed teams, mentoring team members, and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures.

Nice to Have:

Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar.

Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

Knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Perks & Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.

Professional development opportunities and certifications, including sponsored certifications and access to training programs to help you grow your skills and expertise.

Flexible working hours and remote work options.

Collaborative and inclusive work culture.

Join us to build and scale world-class systems that empower innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences.

About the role:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, and Kubernetes to architect and maintain secure, scalable infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. This role emphasizes security-first DevOps practices, on-premises Kubernetes operations, and integration with data engineering workflows.

🛠 Required Skills & Experience

Technical Expertise

• Jenkins (Expert): Advanced pipeline development, DSL scripting, security integration, troubleshooting
• Docker (Expert): Secure multi-stage builds, vulnerability management, optimisation for Java/Scala/Python
• Ansible (Expert): Complex playbook development, configuration management, automation at scale
• Kubernetes (Expert - Primary Focus): On-premises cluster operations, security hardening, networking, storage management
• SonarQube/Code Quality (Strong): Integration, quality gate enforcement, threshold management
• DevSecOps (Strong): Security scanning, compliance automation, vulnerability remediation, workload governance
• Spark ETL/ETA (Moderate): Understanding of distributed data processing, job configuration, runtime behavior

Core Competencies

• Deep understanding of DevSecOps principles and security-first automation
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities across complex distributed systems
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps methodologies
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks and security standards
• Ability to mentor teams and drive best practice adoption

🎓Qualifications

• 6 - 10 Years years of hands-on DevOps
• Proven track record with Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Ansible in production environments
• Experience managing on-premises Kubernetes clusters (bare-metal preferred)
• Strong background in security hardening and compliance automation
• Familiarity with data engineering platforms and big data technologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

🚀 Key Responsibilities

1.CI/CD Pipeline Architecture & Security

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins with embedded security controls:
• Build greenfield pipelines and enhance/stabilize existing pipeline infrastructure
• Diagnose and resolve build, test, and deployment failures across multi-service environments
• Integrate security gates, compliance checks, and automated quality controls at every pipeline stage
• Manage and optimize SonarQube and static code analysis tooling:
• Enforce code quality and security scanning standards across all services
• Maintain organizational coding standards, vulnerability thresholds, and remediation workflows
• Automate quality gates as integral components of CI/CD processes
• Engineer optimized Docker images for Java, Scala, and Python applications:
• Implement multi-stage builds, layer optimization, and minimal base images
• Conduct image vulnerability scanning and enforce compliance policies
• Apply containerization best practices for security and performance
• Develop comprehensive Ansible automation:
• Create modular, reusable, and secure playbooks for configuration management
• Automate environment provisioning and application lifecycle operations
• Maintain infrastructure-as-code standards and version control

2.Kubernetes Platform Operations & Security

• Lead complete lifecycle management of on-premises/bare-metal Kubernetes clusters:
• Cluster provisioning, version upgrades, node maintenance, and capacity planning
• Configure and manage networking (CNI), persistent storage solutions, and ingress controllers
• Troubleshoot workload performance, resource constraints, and reliability issues
• Implement and enforce Kubernetes security best practices:
• Design and manage RBAC policies, service account isolation, and least-privilege access models
• Apply Pod Security Standards, network policies, secrets encryption, and certificate lifecycle management
• Conduct cluster hardening, security audits, monitoring, and policy governance
• Provide technical leadership to development teams:
• Guide secure deployment patterns and containerized application best practices
• Establish workload governance frameworks for distributed systems
• Drive adoption of security-first mindsets across engineering teams

3.Data Engineering Support

• Collaborate with data engineering teams on Spark-based workloads:
• Support deployment and operational tuning of Spark ETL/ETA jobs
• Understand cluster integration, job orchestration, and performance optimization
• Debug and troubleshoot Spark workflow issues in production environments

Kutumb is the first and largest communities platform for Bharat. We are growing at an exponential trajectory. More than 1 Crore users use Kutumb to connect with their community. We are backed by world-class VCs and angel investors. We are growing and looking for exceptional Infrastructure Engineers to join our Engineering team.

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We’re excited if you have:

• Recent experience designing and building unified observability platforms that enable companies to use the sometimes-overwhelming amount of available data (metrics, logs, and traces) to determine quickly if their application or service is operating as desired
• Expertise in deploying and using open-source observability tools in large-scale environments, including Prometheus, Grafana, ELK (ElasticSearch + Logstash + Kibana), Jaeger, Kiali, and/or Loki
• Familiarity with open standards like OpenTelemetry, OpenTracing, and OpenMetrics
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Istio as the architecture on which the observability platform runs, and how they integrate and scale. Additionally, the ability to contribute improvements back to the joint platform for the benefit of all teams
• Demonstrated customer engagement and collaboration skills to curate custom dashboards and views, and identify and deploy new tools, to meet their requirements
• The drive and self-motivation to understand the intricate details of a complex infrastructure environment 
• Using CICD tools to automatically perform canary analysis and roll out changes after passing automated gates (think Argo & keptn)
• Hands-on experience working with AWS 
• Bonus points for knowledge of ETL pipelines and Big data architecture
• Great problem-solving skills & takes pride in your work
• Enjoys building scalable and resilient systems, with a focus on systems that are robust by design and suitably monitored
• Abstracting all of the above into as simple of an interface as possible (like Knative) so developers don't need to know about it unless they choose to open the escape hatch

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and build automation around the chosen tools to make onboarding new services easy for developers (dashboards, alerts, traces, etc)
• Demonstrate great communication skills in working with technical and non-technical audiences
• Contribute new open-source tools and/or improvements to existing open-source tools back to the CNCF ecosystem

Tools we use:

Kops, Argo, Prometheus/ Loki/ Grafana, Kubernetes, AWS, MySQL/ PostgreSQL, Apache Druid, Cassandra, Fluentd, Redis, OpenVPN, MongoDB, ELK

What we offer:

• High pace of learning
• Opportunity to build the product from scratch
• High autonomy and ownership
• A great and ambitious team to work with
• Opportunity to work on something that really matters
• Top of the class market salary and meaningful ESOP ownership

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

Below is the Job Description for the position of DevOps Azure Engineer in Xceedance co.

Qualifications BE/ B.Tech/ MCA in computer science

Key Requirement for the Position Develop Azure application design and connectivity patterns, Azure networking topologies, and Azure storage facilities.
• Run code conformance tools as part of releases.
• Design Azure app service web app by using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and other tools.
• Implement containerized solution using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Automating the build and deployment process through Azure DevOps approach and tools from development to production
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Script and update build and deployments.
• Coordinate environment usage and alignment.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated deployments code for development, test, staging and production environments.
• Configure the application and container platform with proactive monitoring tools and trigger alerts through communication channels
• Develop infrastructure and platform code
• Effectively contribute to building the overall knowledge and expertise of the technical team
• Provide Level 2/3 technical support
Location Noida or Gurgaon

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline