SQL Database Administrator

Required Skills: Advanced AWS Infrastructure Expertise, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management, Security, Networking & Risk Management, Infrastructure as Code & Scripting

Criteria:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Route53)
• Proven experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic
• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)
• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production, including performance tuning, indexing & replication
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python) for automation
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups)
• Strong experience in incident management, root cause analysis & production firefighting

Description

Role Overview

Company is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security frameworks, and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale, ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

 Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure — AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ELB/ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc.
• Optimize cloud cost, resource utilization, and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security, Compliance & Risk Highlighting

• Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:

  o Cloud architecture

  o Access policies (IAM)

  o Secrets & key management

  o Data flows & network exposure

• Implement security best practices including VPC isolation, WAF rules, firewall policies, and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends, new releases, peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
•   o Microservices
•   o Caching layers
•   o CDN distribution (CloudFront)
•   o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup, recovery, and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT, routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification, root cause analysis, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT, video streaming, media, or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN, caching, and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency—DevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.

Why Join company?

• Build and operate infrastructure powering millions of monthly users.

• Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and cloud architecture from the ground up.

• High-impact role in a fast-scaling Indian OTT product.

What you need to have:

About Us:

Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.

Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members.

 https://www.varivas.community/

Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.

Your Responsibilities:

• Write scalable backend code and audit existing backend code for sanity, performance and security
• Design and implementation of on-demand scalable, and performant applications.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools for various test automation frameworks
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Achieve repeatability, fast recovery, best practices, and delegate proper ownership permissions to teams
• Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion for better cost and efficiency
• Collaborate with and assist QA in performing load tests and assessing performance optimization
• writing and maintaining the DevOps processes in tools such as confluence

We are looking for someone who is:

• Ready to take complete ownership of the whole infra at Varivas
• Has previous experience in building and maintaining live production app
• You have an eye for detail.
• You’re a problem solver and a perpetual learner.
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Good Problem-solving skills and troubleshooting
• Build high-performing web and native applications that are robust and easy to maintain

Our Current DevOps stack:

• Github/bitbucket
• Azure cloud storage
• MongoDB Atlas
• JIRA
• Selenium, cypress test automation
• Heroku/digital ocean
• GoDaddy
• Google Analytics/search console
• SendGrid
• sentry.io
• hotjar

What we can offer:

• Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
• Remote work from anywhere
• part time or full time engagement
• Complete flexibility of working hours
• Complete freedom and ownership of your work
• No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)

• Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Talend, BODS, Jenkins
• Microsoft Office (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge on Databases, Azure Synapse, data management, SQL
• Knowledge on any cloud platforms (Azure, AWS etc.,)

• Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Bricks, Talend, BODS, Jenkins
• Microsoft Office (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge on Databases, Azure Synapse, data management, SQL
• Knowledge on any cloud platforms (Azure, AWS etc.,)

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.

• Proficiency in Integration of various Azure resources (IaaS and PaaS - SQL DB , App Service , Application Insights , databricks , Storage accounts etc) to deliver an end to end automation.
• Thorough understanding of Continuous integration and continuous delivery using Azure DevOps/VSTS.
• Performing cost analysis of the Azure platform to identify where cost efficiencies could be had.
• Proficiency and thorough understanding of Azure RBAC model.
• Sound understanding of Azure Active directory and conditional access policies.
• Good grasp of Azure governance principles and hands-on experience in rolling out compliance and governance polices.
• Proficiency in developing infrastructure automation scripts in the form of ARM templates and Azure Power Shell scripts which can then be provided to application teams as consumables.
• Effective communication skills, both written and verbal for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Good working and hands on knowledge of Azure IaaS , Vnet , Subnets , Firewalls and NSG. Sound understanding of networking knowledge on DNA and Firewall security like Palo Alto.
• Experience working with Confluence, JIRA, Bitbucket, git, Jenkins, Sonar for collaboration and continuous integration.
• Experience with agile methods, along with having found their limitations and ways to overcome them.