
About Kiru:
Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.
Position Overview:
We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
- Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
- Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
- Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
- Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
- Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
- Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.
About Kiru:
At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.
We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.
Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.
Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:
Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

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DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure
Experience must include a combination of:
o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)
o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
o Practical knowledge of shell scripting
o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux
o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers
o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments
o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana
o Git, Jenkins, Jira
We are looking for an experienced Sr.Devops Consultant Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should have at least 5+ years of experience.
We are retained by a promising startup located in Silicon valley backed by Fortune 50 firm with veterans from firms as Zscaler, Salesforce & Oracle. Founding team has been part of three unicorns and two successful IPO’s in the past and well funded by Dell Technologies and Westwave Capital. The company has been widely recognized as an industry innovator in the Data Privacy, Security space and being built by proven Cybersecurity executives who have successfully built and scaled high growth Security companies and built Privacy programs as executives.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible
- Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters on EKS and EC2 instances
- Implement and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for microservices
- Optimize AWS costs by identifying cost-saving opportunities and implementing cost-effective solutions
- Implement best security practices for microservices, including vulnerability assessments, SOC2 compliance, and network security
- Monitor the performance and availability of our cloud infrastructure using observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Elasticsearch
- Implement backup and disaster recovery solutions for our microservices and databases
- Stay up to date with the latest AWS services and technologies and provide recommendations for improving our cloud infrastructure
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including developers, and product managers, to ensure the smooth operation of our cloud infrastructure
- Experience with large scale system design and scaling services is highly desirable
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- At least 5 years of experience in AWS DevOps and infrastructure engineering
- Expertise in Kubernetes management, Docker, EKS, EC2, Queues, Python Threads, Celery Optimization, Load balancers, AWS cost optimizations, Elasticsearch, Container management, and observability best practices
- Experience with SOC2 compliance and vulnerability assessment best practices for microservices
- Familiarity with AWS services such as S3, RDS, Lambda, and CloudFront
- Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, Bash, and Go
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative team environment
- Experience with agile development methodologies and DevOps practices
- AWS certification (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) is a plus.
Notice period : Can join within a month
- Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
- Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
- Strong Scripting skills
- Experience in AWS
- Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
- Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
- Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
- Experience in Google cloud platform
- Experience/ Knowledge in Python will be an added advantage
- Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Terraform etc
Looking for an experienced candidate with strong development and programming experience, knowledge preferred-
- Cloud computing (i.e. Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
- Coming from a strong development background and has programming experience with Java and/or NodeJS (other programming languages such as Groovy/python are a big bonus)
- Proficient with Unix systems and bash
- Proficient with git/GitHub/GitLab/bitbucket
Desired skills-
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- Experience in any scripting language (Phyton, Shell Scripting, Java Script)
- NGINX / Load Balancer
- Splunk / ETL tools
As a DevOps Engineer with experience in Kubernetes, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of DevOps engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure. You will work closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure that the organization's systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Leading the team in the development and implementation of automation and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Managing the organization's infrastructure using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications.
- Ensuring that the organization's systems are secure and compliant with industry standards.
- Collaborating with software developers to design and implement infrastructure as code.
- Providing mentorship and technical guidance to team members.
- Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in collaboration with other IT professionals.
- Participating in the development and maintenance of the organization's disaster recovery and incident response plans.
To be successful in this role, you should have strong leadership skills and experience with a variety of DevOps and infrastructure tools and technologies. You should also have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
About RaRa Delivery
Not just a delivery company…
RaRa Delivery is revolutionising instant delivery for e-commerce in Indonesia through data driven logistics.
RaRa Delivery is making instant and same-day deliveries scalable and cost-effective by leveraging a differentiated operating model and real-time optimisation technology. RaRa makes it possible for anyone, anywhere to get same day delivery in Indonesia. While others are focusing on ‘one-to-one’ deliveries, the company has developed proprietary, real-time batching tech to do ‘many-to-many’ deliveries within a few hours.. RaRa is already in partnership with some of the top eCommerce players in Indonesia like Blibli, Sayurbox, Kopi Kenangan and many more.
We are a distributed team with the company headquartered in Singapore 🇸🇬 , core operations in Indonesia 🇮🇩 and technology team based out of India 🇮🇳
Future of eCommerce Logistics.
- Datadriven logistics company that is bringing in same day delivery revolution in Indonesia 🇮🇩
- Revolutionising delivery as an experience
- Empowering D2C Sellers with logistics as the core technology
About the Role
- Build and maintain CI/CD tools and pipelines.
- Designing and managing highly scalable, reliable, and fault-tolerant infrastructure & networking that forms the backbone of distributed systems at RaRa Delivery.
- Continuously improve code quality, product execution, and customer delight.
- Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment.
- Operate to strengthen teams across their product with their knowledge base
- Contribute to improving team relatedness, and help build a culture of camaraderie.
- Continuously refactor applications to ensure high-quality design
- Pair with team members on functional and non-functional requirements and spread design philosophy and goals across the team
- Excellent bash, and scripting fundamentals and hands-on with scripting in programming languages such as Python, Ruby, Golang, etc.
- Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed infrastructure
- Working knowledge of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing, and load balancing
- Basic understanding of cluster orchestrators and schedulers (Kubernetes)
- Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment, container technologies. e.g. Docker, Infrastructure As Code such as Terraform, K8s administration at large scale.
- Have worked on production distributed systems and have an understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful services, CI/CD.
Roles and Responsibilities
- Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
- Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development. Includes:
- Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
- Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
- Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
- A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
- Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
- Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
- Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
- Security and monitoring
- Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
- Using APM and logging tools:
- Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
- Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
- Alert upon exception events
- Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
- Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
- Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
- Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
- Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
- Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
- Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
- Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
- Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
- Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
- Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
- Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.
Skills Required:
- Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
- Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
- Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
- Experience with CI/CD and Release management
- Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
- Demonstrable expertise in Java
- Familiarity with REST APIs
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
- Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
- AWS Certifications is added advantage
This person MUST have:
- B.E Computer Science or equivalent
- 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
- 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
- Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
- Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
- Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).
Experience:
- Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.
Location:
- Remotely, anywhere in India
Timings:
- The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.
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.
- Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
- Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
- Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
- Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
- Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
- Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
- Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
- Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
- Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
- Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.
- Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
- Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
- Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
- Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
- Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
- SCM systems - Git
- Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
- Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
- High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
- SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
- Decisive and ability to work under pressure
- Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
- Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
- Atlassian Datacenter products
- Project management skills
Qualifications
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
- Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field

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.

