Senior Dev OPS

Job Description: Lead - Cloud Engineering (AWS / Azure)

Role Title: Lead - Cloud Engineering

Experience Level: 10+ Years

Domain Focus: Healthcare AI & Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Remote

Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead - Cloud Engineering with over 10 years of IT experience to lead our cloud strategy, architecture, and infrastructure teams. In this role, you will oversee end-to-end cloud deployment, multi-cloud migration, and scalable architecture designed to support cutting-edge Generative AI applications in the healthcare technology domain.

The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in both AWS and Azure, strong hands-on capability in cloud infrastructure, and proven leadership experience driving security, compliance, and team growth.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Architecture & Migration

• Lead the architecture, design, and execution of cloud migrations, deployments, and modernizations across AWS and Azure environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Bicep to ensure scalable, automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Build high-availability, low-latency architectures optimized for data-intensive Generative AI and Machine Learning workloads.

Security & Healthcare Compliance

• Enforce healthcare security standards including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and data governance best practices across all cloud assets.
• Implement Zero-Trust security, Identity Access Management (IAM), data encryption key management, and continuous vulnerability monitoring.

Leadership & Team Management

• Manage, mentor, and scale a high-performing team of DevOps, Cloud, and SRE Engineers.
• Drive Agile workflows, sprint planning, incident response frameworks, and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, AI/ML, and Software Product teams to align infrastructure with business roadmaps.

Operations & FinOps

• Establish cloud cost optimization strategies (FinOps) to manage computing costs associated with AI models and large-scale data processing.
• Manage monitoring, alerting, and telemetry frameworks (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch) to ensure 99.99% uptime.

Key Requirements

• Experience: 10+ years of overall IT experience with at least 5+ years in a cloud leadership or lead architect role.
• Cloud Platforms: Advanced hands-on expertise with both AWS (e.g., EC2, S3, EKS, Bedrock, SageMaker) and Azure (e.g., AKS, Azure OpenAI, Blob, Virtual Machines).
• DevOps & IaC: Strong background in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins).
• Domain Knowledge: Prior experience building or managing cloud environments within Healthcare, Life Sciences, or HealthTech is strongly preferred.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Experience supporting cloud infrastructure for machine learning pipelines, LLM deployments, or GPU compute management.
• Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).

Cloud Expertise(Azure):

• Strong understanding of cloud services and resources like AI services, webapp, database, including monitoring tools like Azure Monitor and Log Analytics.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Arm template / Bicep/Terraform.

• Deep understanding of Networking concepts(DNS, DHCP , Hub and Spoke).

• Understanding on policies and security aspects of cloud.

Kubernetes & Helm:

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes concepts such as pods, services, ingress, config maps, and secrets.

• Understand of Kubernetes templates and its deployment.

• Proficiency with Helm/ Kustomize or equivalent for Kubernetes package management and deployment automation.

• Implement Kubernetes best practices, including security, networking, and scaling.

• Concepts of Docker and Containers

CI/CD & Programming:

• Hands-on experience with YAML-based CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).

• Familiarity with scripting and automation tools such as PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Bash.

• Proven skill in python programming and concepts.

Monitoring and Observability:

Expertise in creating and managing Grafana dashboards for visualizing metrics and logs.

• Knowledge of Log Analytics & Azure Application Insights for performance monitoring and tracing.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced AWS Cloud Engineer with strong expertise in AWS infrastructure, deployment, migration, and cloud operations. The candidate should have hands-on experience managing AWS services such as EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, and FSx, along with infrastructure provisioning, migration, troubleshooting, and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, configure, and manage AWS infrastructure environments.
• Perform application and infrastructure migration to AWS.
• Provision and manage EC2 instances, including configuration, scaling, patching, and troubleshooting.
• Manage EBS volumes, snapshots, backups, and storage performance.
• Configure and administer S3 buckets, storage policies, lifecycle management, and access controls.
• Manage EFS for scalable shared file storage.
• Implement and manage Amazon FSx file systems based on application requirements.
• Monitor AWS infrastructure performance, availability, and capacity.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, storage, and deployment-related issues.
• Implement security best practices including IAM, security groups, encryption, and access controls.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, high availability, and business continuity requirements.
• Optimize AWS resources for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.

Mandatory Skills

• Strong hands-on experience in AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Expertise in EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, and FSx.
• Experience in AWS deployment and migration projects.
• Strong knowledge of AWS networking concepts such as VPC, Subnets, Route Tables, Security Groups, and Load Balancers.
• Experience with IAM and AWS security best practices.
• Good knowledge of AWS monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure automation using Terraform or CloudFormation is preferred.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Good understanding of backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts

AWS / Kubernetes / OpenShift / Linux –

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 7–10 Years

Mandatory Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience in Kubernetes & OpenShift
• Strong knowledge of Linux administration
• Experience with Docker & containerization
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Troubleshooting, monitoring, and deployment experience

Role: Cloud/DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes & OpenShift

Amura’s Vision 

We believe that the most under-appreciated route to releasing untapped human potential is to build a healthier body, and through which a better brain. This allows us to do more of everything that is important to each one of us.

Billions of healthier brains, sitting in healthier bodies, can take up more complex problems that defy solutions today, including many existential threats, and solve them in just a few decades.

Billions of healthier brains will make the world richer beyond what we can imagine today. The surplus wealth, combined with better human capabilities, will lead us to a new renaissance, giving us a richer and more beautiful culture.

These healthier brains will be equipped with deeper intellect, be less acrimonious, more magnanimous, and have a kinder outlook on the world, resulting in a world that is better than any previous time.

We find this vision of the future exhilarating. Our hopes and dreams are to create this future as quickly as possible and ensure that it is widely distributed and optimized to maximize all forms of human excellence. 

Role Overview 

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (AI-Native Infrastructure & Platform Engineering) with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, AI infrastructure operations, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.

This role goes beyond traditional DevOps and requires a seasoned specialist capable of building and operating AI-ready infrastructure platforms that support high-throughput APIs, LLM/AI workloads, GPU-based compute, data-intensive systems, real-time inference pipelines, and scalable ML platforms.

You will be responsible for architecting, automating, securing, and optimizing highly scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments that enable high-velocity engineering and AI teams. This is an ideal position for someone who combines technical ownership, an automation-first mindset, and a passion for developer productivity and platform reliability. 

Key Responsibilities 

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering (AWS) 

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS. Design cloud platforms supporting AI/ML workloads, data pipelines, real-time APIs, and high-concurrency backend systems.
• Hands-on expertise with key AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch, and GPU-enabled instances.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures for high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR).
• Build reusable platform templates and shared infrastructure modules. 

AI/ML Infrastructure & MLOps 

• Build and maintain infrastructure for LLM applications, AI inference workloads, model serving platforms, vector databases, and feature stores.
• Support GPU-based workloads and optimize compute/storage usage.
• Enable scalable deployment patterns for AI applications using Kubernetes/EKS. Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering teams on model deployment, training/tuning of models, CI/CD for ML systems, experiment environments, and reproducibility.
• Support orchestration and deployment of AI workflows and inference services while implementing observability and reliability for AI pipelines. 

CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity 

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.
• Build self-service developer platforms, preview environments, and reusable deployment workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Implement automated patching, scaling, backups, cleanup workflows, and drift detection. 

Containers, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability

• Manage Docker-based environments, containerized applications, and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.
• Manage autoscaling, cluster health, node pools, ingress, service mesh, and workload isolation.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement progressive deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments. 

Observability, Incident Response & SRE Practices

• Implement observability stacks using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or New Relic.
• Build actionable dashboards and intelligent alerting systems while defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems to reduce operational toil and improve MTTR.

FinOps, Cost Governance & Security

• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud costs (compute utilization, storage lifecycle, GPU usage, and data transfer) using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth, or Kubecost.
• Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPCs, security groups, NACLs, encryption, and manage secrets using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks, least-privilege access, audit logging, and ensure compliance readiness for ISO 27001, SOC2, and GDPR.

Collaboration, Leadership & Platform Culture

• Work closely with engineering, AI/ML, QA, product, and operations teams to drive a DevOps, SRE, GitOps, and automation-first culture.
• Mentor junior DevOps and Platform Engineers while creating and maintaining detailed runbooks, architecture diagrams, and platform documentation.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture, services, and deep understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), containers, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK. Strong Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, and load balancing knowledge. Strong scripting/programming experience in Python, Bash, or Go (preferred). Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and observability platforms supporting scalable production systems.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Velachery)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

Location: Bangalore preferred / Hybrid as applicable

Experience: 3+ years

Education: B.E/B.Tech in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Salary: Above market standards, flexible for the right candidate

Career growth: Long-term opportunity with potential to lead DevOps architecture and cloud platform operations

About FrontM

FrontM builds software platforms for frontline workforces operating in remote and low-connectivity environments, with a strong focus on the maritime industry. The platform supports communication, collaboration, healthcare, learning, welfare and operational workflows across mobile, web, kiosk and connected device environments.

The platform runs across cloud infrastructure, constrained networks and specialised customer environments, requiring reliable DevOps practices, strong observability, secure architecture and careful operational discipline.

Role Summary

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will take ownership of FrontM’s AWS cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, platform reliability and technical operations. You will work closely with the VP of Delivery, CTO and CEO to maintain secure, scalable and high-availability infrastructure for FrontM’s production systems.

This role requires strong hands-on DevOps experience, broad AWS knowledge, Kubernetes experience and the ability to troubleshoot complex networking and production issues across multi-domain SaaS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Architecture (≈45%)

· Own, maintain and improve AWS cloud infrastructure for FrontM platforms

· Create and maintain Terraform scripts for infrastructure deployment and management

· Manage Kubernetes workloads deployed within AWS EKS

· Support multi-zone AWS infrastructure design for availability, resilience and scale

· Maintain AWS services including Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Contribute to DevOps architecture planning in line with FrontM’s platform roadmap

CI/CD, Operations & Platform Reliability (≈35%)

· Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines for backend and platform services

· Oversee technical operations with hands-on administration, monitoring and release support

· Ensure continuous server uptime, stability, performance and maintainability

· Debug, respond to and restore system outages in production and staging environments

· Improve observability across infrastructure and applications, including migration from Elastic stack to logz.io

· Support backend stability, scale and performance across Node.js, Java and related services

Security, Networking & Production Support (≈20%)

· Maintain AWS security configurations, access controls and monitoring practices

· Support complex networking requirements across multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Troubleshoot network, infrastructure and access issues with internal teams and customer-side users

· Work with backend teams to support API integrations and infrastructure abstractions for complex requirements

· Document operational procedures, incident findings and technical support steps clearly

Required Technical Skills

Cloud Infrastructure & AWS

· Strong hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and cloud operations

· Experience with Route 53, EC2, API Gateway, VPC, VPN, AWS Cognito, ElastiCache, DynamoDB and Lambda

· Experience with AWS security setup, monitoring and multi-zone infrastructure

· Ability to manage infrastructure using Terraform

Kubernetes, CI/CD & Observability

· Strong experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS

· Extensive CI/CD and DevOps experience

· Experience with infrastructure observability and application monitoring tools

· Ability to diagnose production bottlenecks, server failures and performance issues

Backend, Networking & SaaS Operations

· Experience supporting Node.js, Java and backend system procedures for stability and scale

· Good understanding of APIs, integrations and backend service dependencies

· Experience with complex networking and multi-domain SaaS implementations

· Ability to troubleshoot technical issues with non-technical end users

Nice to Have

· Experience with MongoDB clusters in MongoDB Atlas

Personal Attributes

· Strong ownership mindset for uptime, reliability and production stability

· Practical problem-solving approach with the ability to act quickly during incidents

· Clear written and spoken communication in English

· Ability to work independently and coordinate with senior management when required

· Comfortable working in fast-moving engineering teams

· Attention to detail in security, monitoring, documentation and operational processes

Why join FrontM?

Long-Term Career Growth

Opportunity to work on cloud infrastructure used by global maritime and remote workforce customers, with scope to grow into DevOps architecture and platform leadership roles.

Engineering Challenges That Matter

Work on infrastructure that supports applications used in remote, low-bandwidth and operationally demanding environments.

Broad Technical Ownership

Take responsibility across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, networking, security and production reliability.

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Platform Engineer

Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

Employment Type: Full-time

Experience: 2-4 years

About Compnay

This is driving the electric mobility revolution through cutting-edge software, infrastructure, and professional services. Our technology empowers utilities, cities, fleets, transit agencies, and automakers to deploy EV charging infrastructure at scale safely, efficiently, and sustainably. With a global footprint spanning three continents and operations in 13 countries, we are passionate about shaping the future of sustainable transport.

Operating over 70,000 charge points globally, this is driving the transition toward cleaner, smarter, and more efficient mobility. The India team serves as a critical operational hub, supporting global platforms focused on decarbonization, digitalization, and scalable infrastructure growth.

Role Overview

What you’ll do:

• Ensure system reliability, uptime, and performance of global platform.
• Conduct real-time surveillance of our EV charging systems to proactively identify and mitigate performance issues and anomalies near 24/7 basis. As such, you collaborate with IDT and FMC players to ensure incident detection also happens outside office hours (monitoring shifts among team members subject to duty schedule).
• Deliver on change & releases like firmware changes and drive insights & intelligence back into testing processes and tech discussions with the wider organization.
• Successfully deliver and project manage first time right commissioning activities alongside our Engineering Procurement Contract Management (EPCM) partners to successfully bring charge points onto our Charge Point Management System (CPMS).
• Provide technical guidance and support to DC specialists during the commissioning of EV charging solutions.
• Work closely with Shell, Engineering, and IT colleagues to ensure projects are completed on time and to specification.
• Act as a liaison with the Engineering Procurement Contract Management (EPCM) partner to manage projects from start to finish, ensuring charge points are successfully onboarded on the Charge Point Management System (CPMS).
• Collaborate with development, operations and support teams to build scalable and resilient systems.
• Contribute to incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews, driving continuous improvement.
• Participate in capacity planning, performance tuning, and resource optimization.
• Integrate security and compliance best practices into all infrastructure operations.
• Stay current with emerging SRE tools, frameworks, and cloud technologies to continuously improve reliability practices.
• Participate in and lead on-call rotations and incident response, conducting detailed postmortems and RCA reports.
• Flexible to resolve blocking issues during off hours or weekends if required.

What We’re Looking For:

Basic Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Electrical, ECE, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 2–4 years of overall experience with at least 1+ years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Technical Project Coordinator.
• Proven experience of DevOps, SRE or Technical Project Coordination with IoT or connected devices-based platforms.
• Experience with incident management and on-call best practices. Provide support to on-call engineers.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a proactive mindset.
• Expertise with monitoring and observability tools (Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, etc.).
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS) and AWS native services (EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda).
• Proactively monitor the network, triage performance outliers, and coordinate correction actions to ensure optimal system functionality.
• Fluency in English (spoken and written).
• Successfully recommission or decommission chargers following changes in our network.
• Responsible for the go-live of the chargers on Shell’s public network following commissioning attempts.

Additional Information

• This role involves managing infrastructure for a global platform operating in over ten countries, requiring effective communication and collaboration across regions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, along with availability and flexibility to resolve blocking issues, are essential to support on-call engineers.
• This role may involve EU or US time-zone shifts based on business requirements.
• Shift timing: 2 PM IST to 11 PM IST.

What is required to be successful in this role:

• Global platform experience (B2C or B2B).
• AWS native service experience.
• Firmware deployment and cloud cost optimization experience.
• Strong exposure to monitoring and alerts.
• Experience with firmware rollout, IoT devices onboarding and offboarding will be an added advantage.
• Experience as an SRE or DevOps Engineer with some exposure to Project Management or Technical Project Management in IoT-based projects will be helpful.  

What We Offer

• Work with some of the brightest minds in the emerging EV industry.
• Make a tangible impact in reducing carbon emissions and enabling sustainable energy.
• Freedom to suggest, implement, and innovate on systems, processes, and technologies.
• Daily ownership in a high-growth, challenging environment.
• Flexible work environment with hybrid schedules and virtualization options.
• Competitive pay and benefits including health coverage, innovative PTO program, and performance bonuses.

Senior Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) – Azure

About Searce:

Searce is an AI-native, engineering-led modern technology consultancy that empowers

clients to futurify their businesses by delivering real, intelligent business outcomes. As a

trusted partner for over 3,000 clients globally, Searce specializes in cloud modernization,

data engineering, applied AI, and robust cloud platform security. Driven by a "HAPPIER"

cultural mindset and our proprietary evlos problem-solving framework, we eliminate

bureaucratic fluff to build working prototypes fast and scale enterprise production

environments intelligently. We don't just fix systems; we leverage multi-cloud technologies

to transform client operations into distinct competitive advantages.

Position Overview:

We are looking for a high-caliber Senior or Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer (CSRE) to

architect, secure, and stabilize next-generation hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Operating at the intersection of infrastructure design, security compliance, and production

operations, you will serve as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) across GCP, Azure,

and AWS.

Whether optimizing a microservice mesh on GKE, tuning autoscaling on AKS, or driving a

massive disaster recovery drill across AWS regions, your focus will be absolute reliability. For

the Lead path, you will couple this deep engineering toolkit with stakeholder management

and mentorship to drive an elite operational culture.

Experience & Level Expectation:

Years of Experience: 3 to 10 years of intensive, hands-on production operations

experience in a dedicated DevOps, Cloud Platform Engineering, or SRE role.

Associate level (3-5 Years): Expected to show flawless execution of IaC, advanced

triaging of infrastructure failures, and ownership of the CI/CD and deployment

lifecycles.

Intermediate level (5-10 Years): Expected to take architectural ownership, serve as

primary Incident Commander for complex outages, design cross-cloud governance

frameworks, and act as a reliable bridge between technical teams and client

leadership.

Key Responsibilities & Role Expectations:

Multi-Cloud Platforms & Orchestration: Design, configure, and maintain

production-grade Kubernetes clusters across major platforms (AKS).

Manage advanced network routing, service meshes (e.g., Istio), and multi-tenant

isolation.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) & GitOps: Build declarative, enterprise-grade, reusable

infrastructure components using Terraform or Crossplane. Standardize automated

environment provisioning to eliminate configuration drift across multi-branch

environments.

Incident Management & Reliability (SRE): Own and optimize the production on-call

rotation. Lead rapid mitigation strategies for Sev-1/Sev-2 system outages, reducing

Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) through centralized log and metric correlation.

Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Facilitate rigorous, blameless post-incident reviews to

identify core architectural vulnerabilities and establish long-term fixes preventing

recurrence.

Lifecycle, Patching & Upgrades: Plan and execute zero-downtime cluster upgrades,

operating system patching strategies (Linux/Windows), database lifecycle updates,

and multi-region Disaster Recovery (DR) failover drills.

Core Core Operations & Legacy Integration: Manage enterprise-level hybrid

networking architecture (VPCs, Firewalls, Load Balancers, DNS routing, and DHCP

configurations) while effectively connecting cloud native services to legacy

infrastructures like Active Directory.

Security & Governance: Embed Zero Trust policies, secure secrets management

(Secrets Manager/Key Vault), and continuous vulnerability patching into the

automated SDLC pipeline.

Required Technical Skills:

- Microsoft Azure: Azure Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, Azure Update Management.

- Containers & Orchestration

• Production-level management of GKE, AKS, and EKS.
• Advanced mastery of Docker, Helm, Kubernetes StatefulSets, Pod Disruption

We’re seeking a highly skilled, execution-focused Senior Backend Engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience to join our team. This role demands hands-on expertise in building and scaling distributed systems, strong proficiency in Java, and deep knowledge of cloud-native infrastructure. You will be expected to design robust backend services, optimize performance across storage and caching layers, and enable seamless integrations using modern messaging and CI/CD pipelines.

You’ll be working in a high-scale, high-impact environment where reliability, speed, and efficiency are paramount. If you enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and have a passion for distributed systems, this is the right role for you.

Responsibilities—

• Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
• Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
• Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
• Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
• Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
• Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
• Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
• Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews. 

Requirements—

• 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
• Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
• Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
• Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
• Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
• Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.

Benefits—

• Best in class salary: We hire only the best, and we pay accordingly.
• Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
• Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.

About us—

Proximity is the trusted technology, design, and consulting partner for some of the biggest Sports, Media, and Entertainment companies in the world. We’re headquartered in San Francisco and have offices in Palo Alto, Dubai, Mumbai, and Bangalore.

Since 2019, Proximity has built high-impact, scalable products used by millions of users every day. Today, we are a global team of engineers, designers, product managers, and experts solving complex problems and building cutting-edge technology at scale.

Build production-grade cloud infrastructure that powers enterprise applications with cutting-edge DevOps practices.

What you'll do:

• Design CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Containerize apps with Docker, deploy on Kubernetes clusters
• Manage infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Set up monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack)
• Cloud migrations (AWS EC2, EKS, RDS → GCP equivalent)
• Optimize costs and performance for live production systems

What we need:

• Basic Python/Bash scripting
• Docker basics, Git workflows
• Cloud exposure (AWS/GCP/Azure free tier projects)
• Problem-solving mindset, eagerness to learn

Real impact:

• Deploy apps used by 1000+ daily users
• Work with senior DevOps engineers on client deliverables
• Build portfolio for FAANG-level interviews