Principal Devops

We are seeking a skilled and detail-oriented SRE Release Engineer to lead and streamline the CI/CD pipeline for our C and Python codebase. You will be responsible for coordinating, automating, and validating biweekly production releases, ensuring operational stability, high deployment velocity, and system reliability.

Requirements

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

● 3+ years in SRE, DevOps, or release engineering roles.

● Proficiency in CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab).

● Experience automating deployments for C and Python applications.

● Strong understanding of Git version control, merge/rebase strategies, tagging, and submodules (if used).

● Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and deployment orchestration (e.g.,

Kubernetes, Ansible, or Terraform).

● Solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, or similar).

● Understanding of observability, monitoring, and incident response tooling (e.g.,Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Sentry).

Preferred Skills

● Experience with release coordination in data networking environments

● Familiarity with build tools like Make, CMake, or Bazel.

● Exposure to artifact management systems (e.g., Artifactory, Nexus).

● Experience deploying to Linux production systems with service uptime guarantees.

Responsibilities

● Own the release process: Plan, coordinate, and execute biweekly software releases across multiple services.

● Automate release pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD workflows using tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

● Version control: Manage and enforce Git best practices, branching strategies (e.g., Git Flow), tagging, and release versioning.

● Integrate testing frameworks: Ensure automated test coverage (unit, integration,regression) is enforced pre-release.

● Release validation: Develop pre-release verification tools/scripts to validate build integrity and backward compatibility.

● Deployment strategy: Implement and refine blue/green, rolling, or canary deployments in staging and production environments.

● Incident readiness: Partner with SREs to ensure rollback strategies, monitoring, and alerting are release-aware.

● Collaboration: Work closely with developers, QA, and product teams to align on release timelines and feature readiness.

Success Metrics

● Achieve >95% release success rate with minimal hotfix rollbacks.

● Reduce mean release deployment time by 30% within 6 months.

● Maintain a weekly release readiness report with zero critical blockers.

● Enable full traceability of builds from commit to deployment.

Benefits

Enjoy a great environment, great people, and a great package

• Stock Appreciation Rights - Generous pre series-B stock options
• Generous Gratuity Plan - Long service compensation far exceeding Indian statutory requirements 
• Health Insurance - Premium health insurance for employee, spouse and children 
• Working Hours - Flexible working hours with sole focus on enabling a great work environment 
• Work Environment - Work with top industry experts in an environment that fosters co-operation, learning and developing skills 
• Make a Difference - We're here because we want to make an impact on the world - we hope you do too!

Why Join RtBrick

Enjoy the excitement of a start-up without the risk!

We're revolutionizing the Internet's backbone by using cutting-edge software development techniques. The internet and, more specifically, broadband networks are among the most world's most critical technologies, that billions of people rely on every day. Rtbrick is revolutionizing the way these networks are constructed, moving away from traditional monolithic routing systems to a more agile, disaggregated infrastructure and distributed edge network functions. This shift mirrors transformations seen in computing and cloud technologies, marking the most profound change in networking since the inception of IP technology. 

We're pioneering a cloud-native approach, harnessing the power of container-based software, microservices, a devops philosophy, and warehouse scale tools to drive innovation. 

And although RtBrick is a young innovative company, RtBrick stands on solid financial ground: we are already cash-flow positive, backed by major telco investors like Swisscom Ventures and T-Capital, and our solutions are actively deployed by Tier-1 telcos including Deutsche Telekom (Europe's largest carrier), Regional ISPs and City ISPs—with expanding operations across Europe, North America and Asia. 

Joining RtBrick offers you the unique thrill of a startup environment, coupled with the security that comes from working in a business with substantial market presence and significant revenue streams. 

We'd love you to come and join us so why don't you embrace the opportunity to be part of a team that's not just participating in the market but actively shaping the future of telecommunications worldwide.

Role & Responsiblities

• DevOps Engineer will be working with implementation and management of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Create and support advanced pipelines using Gitlab.
• Create and support advanced container and serverless environments.
• Deploy Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and cloud formation templates.
• Implement deployments to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon ECS and EKS
• Troubleshoot containerized builds and deployments
• Implement processes and automations for migrating between OpenShift, AKS and EKS
• Implement CI/CD automations.
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Required Skillsets

• 3-5 years of cloud-based architecture software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and its architecture.
• Mastery of cloud security engineering tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with AWS services such as Amazon S3, EKS, ECS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
• Experience with designing and supporting infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS, via CDK, CloudFormation Templates, Terraform or other toolset.
• Experienced with tools like Jenkins, Github, Puppet or other similar toolset.
• Experienced with monitoring functions like cloudwatch, newrelic, graphana, splunk, etc,
• Excellence in verbal and written communication, and in working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues and clients in a remote development environment.
• Proven track record in cloud computing systems and enterprise architecture and security

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.

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

This person MUST have:

• Min of 3-5 prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline maintenance and enhancement specifically Jenkins based pipelines.
• Working experience with engineering tools like git, git work flow, bitbucket, JIRA etc
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure
• Hands on experience of Linux administration.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration
• Works closely with engineering team for day to day activities
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On Prem or  AWS) for engineering team (Build servers/Jenkin nodes etc.)
• Works with engineering team for new config required for infra like replicating the setups, adding new resources etc.
• Works closely with engineering team for improving existing pipelines for build .
• Troubleshoots problems across infrastructure/services

Experience:

• Min 5-7  year experience

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week (11 AM to 7 PM).

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Job Location: Jaipur

Experience Required: Minimum 3 years

About the role:

As a DevOps Engineer for Punchh, you will be working with our developers, SRE, and DevOps teams implementing our next generation infrastructure. We are looking for a self-motivated, responsible, team player who love designing systems that scale. Punchh provides a rich engineering environment where you can be creative, learn new technologies, solve engineering problems, all while delivering business objectives. The DevOps culture here is one with immense trust and responsibility. You will be given the opportunity to make an impact as there are no silos here. 

Responsibilities:

• Deliver SLA and business objectives through whole lifecycle design of services through inception to implementation.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems
• Scale our systems and services through continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and gradual refactoring in an agile environment. 
• Maintain services once a project is live by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system and application health.
• Write and maintain software that runs the infrastructure that powers the Loyalty and Data platform for some of the world’s largest brands.
• 24x7 in shifts on call for Level 2 and higher escalations
• Respond to incidents and write blameless RCA’s/postmortems
• Implement and practice proper security controls and processes
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on platform.

Must have:  

• Minimum 3 Years of Experience in DevOps.  
• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong inter-personal skills.
• Must have experience in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Must have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or  Mesos
• Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language fromthis list: python, ruby, golang, groovy
• Proficient in shell scripting, and most importantly, know when to stop scripting and start developing.
• Experience in creation of highly automated infrastructures with any Configuration Management tools like: Terraform, Cloudformation or Ansible.  
• In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system and administration. 
• Production experience with a major cloud provider such Amazon AWS.
• Knowledge of web server technologies such as Nginx or Apache. 
• Knowledge of Redis, Memcache, or one of the many in-memory data stores.
• Experience with various load balancing technologies such as Amazon ALB/ELB, HA Proxy, F5. 
• Comfortable with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems.

Good to have:  

• Understanding of Web Standards (REST, SOAP APIs, OWASP, HTTP, TLS)
• Production experience with Hashicorp products such as Vault or Consul
• Expertise in designing, analyzing troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in an PCI environment
• Experience with Big Data distributions from Cloudera, MapR, or Hortonworks
• Experience maintaining and scaling database applications
• Knowledge of fundamental systems engineering principles such as CAP Theorem, Concurrency Control, etc. 
• Understanding of the network fundamentals: OSI, TCI/IP, topologies, etc.
• Understanding of Auditing of Infrastructure and help org. to control Infrastructure costs. 
• Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ or any messaging bus.