Proposal Engineer

Location: Remote (India only)

About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.

Role Overview

Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
• Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
• Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
• Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
• Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
• Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.

What You Bring

1. Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
2. Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
3. AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
4. IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
5. CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
6. GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
7. Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
8. Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
9. Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
10. Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
11. Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
12. Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
13. Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.

Why Join Us

• Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
• Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
• Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
• Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
• Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
• Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Senior Designer impacts projects across medium as the visual thinker with well-rounded background

in digital, print, packaging, video and typography. The Senior Designer is able to create a range of work

spanning ideation through delivery while working closely with Creative Director, and Strategy

counterparts to fulfill and exceed client needs. The design capability sets the tone and guidelines for how

work should look and feel.

• Works with a cross-functional teams, business leaders, and designers to solve problems big and

small, through thorough elegant illustrations and masterful designs.

• Helps drive the larger brand vision while executing down to the micro-interactions to build brand(s)

in the marketplace that meets the business objectives.

• Embodies the style and design philosophy of the agency, and own the brand aesthetic, style, and

path forward.

• Leads the design for large projects – like website, social presence, and advertising initiatives – while

placing a strong emphasis on innovation and best in class design work.

• Pushes the boundaries of the design craft through relentless ideation and prototyping.

• Leads and helps Marketing team by exploring/optimizing new workflows, tools, and techniques, and

working with the design team to implement what works best.

• Represent the design meetings by speaking to the process and capabilities.

• Advocates for design community through workshops, education, writing and speaking.

About Company

Our Client is a well known group that achieves a turn over of 3000 Cr per annum. The group is setting a construction & architecture oriented omni channel B2B & B2C platform.

Roles and Responsibilities

1. HR Strategies: Create, develop, and implement strategies aligned with business strategy for the organisation.
2. Policies, Processes, Initiatives & Schemes: Translate the HR Strategies into policies, processes, initiatives & schemes with a view to promote a culture of enthusiasm, productivity and profitability.
3. Offer, Joining, On-Boarding, Induction & Deployment: Ensure a culture of engaged & welcoming approach in this sphere ensuring minimal or nil dropouts after offer. A Wow experience for a selected talent to be ensured at all times.
4. Organisation Development / Talent Management: Ensure constant research within the organisation, in the industry and the market of evolving trends thereby reengineering the strategy, philosophy, policies & processes accordingly.
5. Talent Engagement: Conduct periodic surveys to get the pulse of the people in the organisation; town halls, group meeting, one-on-one sessions to assimilate the concerns as well as suggestions from people and take actions in accordance to the same ensuring a culture of enthusiasm, productivity and profitability.
6. Performance Management:Adopt a futuristic & objective performance management process to identify, recognize and reward accordingly.
7. Training & Development:Training & Development Strategy to focus upon functional proficiency enrichment, competencies & behavioral development, enhancing effectiveness and succession planning.
8. Industrial Relations:Maintain a proactive IR climate in the organisation key for it being relationship management and expeditious resolutions.
9. HRMS: Setting up & stream lining HRMS.

Desired Candidate Profile

1. Degree in Human Resources from an institution of repute.
2. 10+ years of proven working experience as HR Manager.
3. People oriented and results driven.
4. Demonstrable experience with human resources metrices.
5. Knowledge of HR systems and databases.
6. Ability to architect strategy along with leadership skills.
7. Excellent active listening, negotiation and presentation skills.
8. Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the organization.
9. Develop best practices in HR.

• Minimum of 1-2  years of experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Security, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Experience with  React.js, Node.js, Next.js, and JS libraries.
• Must have an understanding of web3 and blockchain fundamentals.
• An exceptional understanding of secure and scalable application development, including the full lifecycle of API microservices services, including authentication, API gateways, and versioning.
• Excellent analytical and time management skills.
• Ability to wear many hats and learn new technologies quickly.
• Solid knowledge of web architecture and design patterns.
• Good knowledge and understanding of Backend and Frontend technologies
• Hands-on experience in building REST API using NodeJs
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail.

Digital and Technology Architecture

• Head the digital transformation and innovation projects from idea generation to new ventures in close collaboration with business stakeholders and external partners
• Present the vision & value of proposed architectures and solutions to a wide range of audiences in alignment with business priorities and objectives
• Plans tasks and estimates for the required research and volume of activities to complete work
• Own and assess non-functional requirements and propose solutions for Availability, Backup, Capacity, Performance, Redundancy, Reliability, Scalability, Supportability, Risks and Costs models
• Provide strategic guidance to teams on managing third-party service providers in terms of service levels, costing, etc.
• Drive the team to ensure appropriate documentation is developed in support of value realization
• Lead the technical team and head collaboration between Business Users and software providers to build digital solutions

Enterprise Architecture

• Ownership of overall Enterprise Architecture including compliances and standards
• Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap for  applications aligning with Enterprise Architecture
• Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Enterprise needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

Data Architecture

• Ownership of overall Data Architecture including compliances and standards
• Head the overall Architecture blueprint and roadmap applications aligning with Data Architecture
• Identify important potential technologies and approaches to address current and future Data needs, evaluating their applicability and fit, as well as leading the definition of standards and best practice for their use

• 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

• Determining the structure and design of web pages.
•  Building reusable and efficient code for future use.
•  Ensuring web design is optimized for smartphones.
•  Use markup languages like HTML to create user-friendly web pages.
•  Maintain and improve the website.
•  Optimize applications for maximum speed.
•  Collaborate with back-end developers and web designers to improve usability.
• Stay up-to-date on emerging technologies.

• Java/J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, JSON, Micro Services, 12 Factor Apps, Apache.
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture
• Ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms.
• Demonstrated knowledge of OAuth token-based authentication protocol.
• Demonstrated knowledge of PCI and Security Coding Standards.
• Performs hands on coding using Java/J2EE & unit testing.
• Contribute to the Design and develop high quality software for large scale Java/Spring Batch/Micro-service Applications.
• Proficiency in the following general areas: Java (Java 1. 7/Java 1. 8), Spring Framework, Jenkins, Gradle, and GitHub.
• Experience with RESTful services, Rabbit MQ, JSON, Unix Scripting, and Hadoop is a plus.
• Core development experience in large scale enterprise Java applications using Spring Framework.
• Experience in SQL (DB2 & SQL databases)
• Strong knowledge and experience on Nginx as APIM tool Solid experience in coding and creating APIs.
•  Expertise in WSDL, XML, XSLT, JSON, XPATH and Gateway scripts
• Provide front line support for Nginx related problems by being involved in troubleshooting, root cause analysis and appropriate secure integration recommendations.
• Installation of Nginx API Gateway as per need.
• Experience in Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good linux and administration skills
• Experience on API Orchestration/Mediation/Protocol Bindings and transformation knowledge on disparate message structures
• Design, develop and implement API proxies using OpenAPI specification Analysing logs and trace for errors and exceptions Manage and publish content in Developer portal Security implementation using OAUTH, SAML, CORS 
• Must Have Knowledge of API development and its technologies.

Location: Remote Working

** Preference will be given to immediate joinee

Are you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking? At FIS you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun. 

About the team 

Commercial Lending provides a key ingredient in determining a Bank’s / FI’s profitability. The business is quite dynamic and posed with many challenges around Automation, Decisioning, Workflows and disconnected Processes to name a few. Solving these real-world problems with best of the breed technology stack, the team is quite dynamic, versatile and self-equipped with a variety of skills. The Job might be the right fit for you if:

You enjoy solving problems and create solutions

If you don’t know the answer, you will dig until you find it

You love learning about processes and ideating them

What you will be doing 

• Configure, test and implement workflows supporting configuration and business features in FIS Loan Origination System.
• Coordinate with business experts (Business Analysts, Product Owners, Product Managers) to gather functional specifications and accordingly get them designed and build in product using native workflow tool and by harvesting CMMN and BPMN
• Formulate and define system scope and objectives through research and fact-finding combined with an understanding of applicable business systems and industry requirements.
• Build the executable processes with limited requirement to showcase business.
• Work with architects and team leads to design & implement appropriate technical solutions.
• Collaborate with testers to analyze defects, verify behavior, and resolve issues.
• Identify, re-engineer and document business processes and metrics and identify improvement opportunities where existing processes / workflows may be streamlined or improved to deliver greater effectiveness and efficiency.
• Develop, maintain and distribute business process workflows documentation to stakeholders.
• Assess and project the impact of system changes on users and internal and external clients or stakeholders.
• Be a SPOC for managing and maintenance of these Processes, Workflows while building and contributing to these within Product in an Agile manner. Attend all the relevant scrum ceremonies.
• Tailors user screens for each process activity to enable end users to interact with Application.
• Work as an independent team member, capable of applying judgment to plan and execute your tasks.
• Isolate and resolve complex configuration issues.
• Train internal employees or external clients on processes, BPMN and CMMN principles or practices. Conduct one-on-one or classroom training depending upon the size or desire of the audience.

What you bring: 

Skills

• Good database skills with excellent query writing skills.
• Deep Understanding of case life cycle management, business process management (BPM).
• Exposure to form design including Java, HTML, CCS, XML, JSON and Angular.
• Knowledge of APIs (REST & SOAP).
• Excellent analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, and time management skills.
• First-rate verbal and written communication skills to technical and non-technical audiences of various levels in the organization (e.g. executive, management, individual contributors).
• Ability to meet deadlines and communicate status appropriately and timely.
• Ability to travel.
• Desirable to have exposure towards to prominent workflow tools like

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent

Competencies

• Fluent in English
• Excellent communicator – ability to discuss technical and commercial solutions to internal and external parties and adapt depending on the technical or business focus of the discussion

• Able to create clear technical specifications from business requirements

• Organized approach – manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements

• Excellent co-ordination and management skills
• Enthusiastic, highly motivated and detailed oriented with "can do" attitude

• Innovative Contributor – able to identify & suggest & drive improvements with team (locally & globally)
• Must be able to perform under pressure
• Willing to work in Flexible schedule, as the role is part of a global team

What we offer you 

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities – FIS is your final career step!
• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS™ is the world's largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions.  We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe.  FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor’s 500® Index.