OpenStack Engineer

Job Title : DevOps Engineer

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Mumbai

Employment Type : Full-time

Job Overview :

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build, and manage Kubernetes-based deployments for a microservices data discovery platform.

The ideal candidate has strong hands-on expertise with Helm, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud networking — and can handle complex deployments across on-prem, cloud, and air-gapped environments.

Mandatory Skills :

✅ Helm, Kubernetes, Docker

✅ Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps

✅ Cloud Networking (VPCs, bare metal vs. VMs)

✅ Storage (MinIO, Ceph, NFS, S3/EBS)

✅ Air-gapped & multi-tenant deployments

Key Responsibilities :

• Build and customize Helm charts from scratch.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitOps.
• Manage containerized deployments across on-prem/cloud setups.
• Work on air-gapped and restricted environments.
• Optimize for scalability, monitoring, and security (Prometheus, Grafana, RBAC, HPA).

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Kubernetes Administrator with strong hands-on experience in managing Red Hat OpenShift environments. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Kubernetes administration, ArgoCD, and Jenkins.

This role demands a self-motivated, quick learner who can confidently manage OpenShift-based infrastructure in production environments, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and escalate issues promptly when needed.

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration (OpenShift or Kubernetes certification a plus).
• Proven expertise in managing containerized workloads on OpenShift platforms.
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and Helm for deployment automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in high-pressure production environments.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
• Quick learner with a positive attitude toward problem-solving.

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

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.

You need to drive automation for implementing scalable and robust applications. You would indulge your dedication and passion to build server-side optimization ensuring low-latency and high-end performance for the cloud deployed within datacentre. You should have sound knowledge of Open stack and Kubernetes domain.

YOUR ‘OKR’ SUMMARY

OKR means Objective and Key Results.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will understand the overall movement of data in the entire platform, find bottlenecks,define solutions, develop key pieces, write APIs and own deployment of those. You will work with internal and external development teams to discover these opportunities and to solve hard problems. You will also guide engineers in solving the complex problems, developing your acceptance tests for those and reviewing the work and

the test results.

What you will do

• As a DevOps Engineer responsible for systems being used by customer across the globe.
• Set the goals for overall system and divide into goals for the sub-system.
• Guide/motivate/convince/mentor the architects on sub-systems and help them achieving improvements with agility and speed.

• Identify the performance bottleneck and come up with the solution to optimize time and cost taken by build/test system.

• Be a thought leader to contribute to the capacity planning for software/hardware, spanning internal and public cloud, solving the trade-off between turnaround time and utilization.

• Bring in technologies enabling massively parallel systems to improve turnaround time by an order of magnitude.

What you will need

A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. As an integral part of the development team, you will need the following skills to succeed.

• BS or BE/B.Tech or equivalent experience in EE/CS with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong background of Architecting and shipping distributed scalable software product with good understanding of system programming.

• Excellent background of Cloud technologies like: OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Ceph is must.
• Excellent understanding of hybrid, multi-cloud architecture and edge computing concepts.
• Ability to identify the bottleneck and come up with solution to optimize it.
• Programming and software development skills in Python, Shell-script along with good understanding of distributed systems and REST APIs.

• Experience in working with SQL/NoSQL database systems such as MySQL, MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with Docker containers and Virtual Machines.
• Ability to effectively work across organizational boundaries to maximize alignment and productivity between teams.

• Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multi-national, multi-time-zone corporate.

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimizehardware cost.

• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide andinfluence within a dynamic environment.

• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

What's In It for You?

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

Our Hiring Process:

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)

• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

So, if you are looking at an opportunity to really make a difference- make it with us…

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Hands on Experience with Linux administration

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

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
• A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
• An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
• Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
• Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe

About the Company

• 💰 Early-stage, ed-tech, funded, growing, growing fast
• 🎯 Mission Driven: Make Indonesia competitive on a global scale
• 🥅 Build the best educational content and technology to advance STEM education
• 🥇 Students-First approach
• 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 Teams in India and Indonesia

Skillset 🧗🏼‍♀️

• You primarily identify as a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer and are comfortable working with systems and cloud-native services on AWS
• You can design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure delivering cloud-based services
• You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux based public cloud environment
• You are familiar with cloud-native concepts - Containers, Lambdas, Orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
• You’re in love with system metrics and strive to help deliver improvements to systems all the time
• You can think in terms of Infrastructure as Code to build tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform
• You can be on-call once every few weeks to provide application support, incident management, and troubleshooting
• You’re fairly comfortable with GIT, AWS CLI, python, docker CLI, in general, all things CLI. Oh! Bash scripting too!
• You have high integrity, and you are reliable

What you can expect from us 👌🏼

☮️ Mentorship, growth, great work culture

• Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA. We have a battle-tested robust growth framework. You will have people to look up to and people looking up to you
• We are a people-first, high-trust, high-autonomy team
• We live in the TDD, Pair Programming, First Principles world

🌏 Remote done right

• Distributed does not mean working in isolation, feeling alone, being buried in Zoom calls
• Our leadership team has been WFH for 10+ years now and we know how remote teams work. This will be a place to belong
• A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work ⚖️

🖥️ Friendly, humane interview process

• 30-minute alignment check and screening call
• A short take-home coding assignment, no more than 2-3 hours. Time is precious
• Pair programming interview. Collaborate, work together. No sitting behind a desk and judging
• In-depth engineering discussion around your skills and career so far
• System design and architecture interview for seniors

What we ask from you👇🏼

• Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills
• Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other
• Be vested or interested in the company vision