Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure / Kubernetes

Job Description

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer

Grade: Senior Level

Experience: 6-10 Years

Location: Hyderabad

Employment Type: Full-time

Open Positions:1

🚀 Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced Lead DevOps Engineer with deep expertise in Kubernetes infrastructure design and implementation. This role requires an individual who can architect, build, and manage enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters from the ground up. The position offers an exciting opportunity to lead infrastructure modernization initiatives and work with cutting-edge cloud-native technologies.

Initial Setup Phase:

🎯 Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure Design & Implementation

Design and architect enterprise-grade Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Build production-ready Kubernetes infrastructure with high availability, scalability, and security best practices

Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Helm charts, and GitOps methodologies

Set up monitoring, logging, and observability solutions for Kubernetes workloads

Design disaster recovery and backup strategies for containerized applications

Leadership & Team Management

Lead a team of 3-4 DevOps engineers and provide technical mentorship

Drive best practices for containerization, orchestration, and cloud-native development

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application deployment strategies

Conduct technical reviews and ensure code quality standards across infrastructure components

Facilitate knowledge transfer and create comprehensive documentation

Operational Excellence

Manage CI/CD pipelines integrated with Kubernetes deployments

Implement security policies including RBAC, network policies, and container security scanning

Optimize cluster performance and resource utilization

Automate routine...

Skills

PYTHON, TERRAFORM, CI/CD, kubernetes, CLOUD SERVICES, DOCKER, GIT, JENKINS

Your Responsibilities

1. Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure on Azure, ensuring

scalability, reliability, and security.

2. Setup and manage Kubernetes clusters for container orchestration, including

deployment, scaling, and monitoring.

3. Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions or

similar CI/CD tools.

4. Utilize configuration management tools like Helm, Kubernetes, and Ansible for

infrastructure as code (IaC) and automated provisioning.

5. Collaborate closely with development teams to streamline workflows and

improve release processes.

6. Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and implement solutions to

ensure optimal uptime and performance.

7. Stay up-to-date with industry best practices, emerging technologies, and trends in

DevOps and cloud computing.

The Skills you’ll need

In order to be successful in this role, you must have the following skills & experience:

1. 4-5 years of professional experience in DevOps or related roles.

2. Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

3. Proficiency in setting up and managing Kubernetes clusters.

4. Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker.

5. Demonstrated expertise in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub

Actions or similar tools.

6. Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles, with experience

using tools like Helm, Kubernetes, and Ansible.

7. Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with

cross-functional teams.

8. Proven problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic

environment.

Good to have skills

1. Self-starter and highly motivated individual who is prepared to use his/her own

initiative in understanding and following up issues.

2. Takes ownership and responsibility of problems through to resolution.

3. Keen to learn business processes and technical skills.

4. Ability to work under pressure and multi-task when necessary.

5. Hands on experience using tools like Trello, Gitlab, Zoom

Sr.DevOps Engineer (5 to 8 yrs. Exp.)

Location: Ahmedabad

• Strong Experience in Infrastructure provisioning in cloud using Terraform & AWS CloudFormation Templates.
• Strong Experience in Serverless Containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Strong Experience in Jenkins & AWS Native CI/CD implementation using code
• Strong Experience in Cloud operational automation using Python, Shell script, AWS CLI, AWS Systems Manager, AWS Lamnda, etc.
• Day to Day AWS Cloud administration tasks
• Strong Experience in Configuration management using Ansible and PowerShell.
• Strong Experience in Linux and any scripting language must required.
• Knowledge of Monitoring tool will be added advantage.
• Understanding of DevOps practices which involves Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment.
• Hands on with application deployment process

Key Skills: AWS, terraform, Serverless, Jenkins,Devops,CI/CD,Python,CLI,Linux,Git,Kubernetes

Role: Software Developer

Industry Type: IT-Software, Software Services

FunctionalArea:ITSoftware- Application Programming, Maintenance

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Education: Any computer graduate.

Skills We Require:- Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

SUMMARY:-

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Have good hands on experience on Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

Have knowledge on EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Centos, Server Hardening

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

About us

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.

Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

What will you do?

· Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

· Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

· Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

· Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

· Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

· Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

You should apply, if you

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

Being Part of the Clan

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps including automated system configuration, application deployment, and infrastructure-as-code. 
• Advanced Linux system administration abilities. 
• Real-world experience managing large-scale AWS or GCP environments. Multi-account management a plus. 
• Experience with managing production environments on AWS or GCP. 
• Solid understanding CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, CircleCI/Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory/Nexus. 
• Experience on any configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef is a must. 
• Experience in any one of the scripting languages: Shell, Python, etc. 
• Experience in containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes/EKS/GKE is a must. 
• Solid understanding of SSL and DNS. 
• Experience on deploying and running any open-source monitoring/graphing solution like Prometheus, Grafana, etc. 
• Basic understanding of networking concepts.
• Always adhere to security best practices.
• Knowledge on Bigdata (Hadoop/Druid) systems administration will be a plus.  
• Knowledge on managing and running DBs (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres) will be an added advantage. 

What you get to do 

• Work with development teams to build and maintain cloud environments to specifications developed closely with multiple teams. Support and automate the deployment of applications into those environments 
• Diagnose and resolve occurring, latent and systemic reliability issues across entire stack: hardware, software, application and network. Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve application and service issues 
• Continuously improve Conviva SaaS services and infrastructure for availability, performance and security 
• Implement security best practices – primarily patching of operating systems and applications 
• Automate everything. Build proactive monitoring and alerting tools. Provide standards, documentation, and coaching to developers.
• Participate in 12x7 on-call rotations 
• Work with third party service/support providers for installations, support related calls, problem resolutions etc. 

Company Introduction :

My Next Developer is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand.

We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Job Responsibilities

- Ensure security in the development activities.

- Implement risk management techniques and threat modeling.

- Implement infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerts as part of ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications.

- Collaborate with internal teams to produce the best security solutions

Minimum requirements :

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or equivalent degree.

- 3+ years of experience as a DevSecOps engineer.

- Proficiency in back-end technologies such as NodeJs or Python.

- Expertise in using DevOps tools like GitHub, dependency management, and CI/CD.

- Profound knowledge of AWS cloud, DevOps culture and automation tools.

- Fluent in both spoken and written English communication.

- Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 2-3 hour overlap with European time zone.

- Stay up-to-date on cybersecurity threats and follow the best practices.

- Previous project experience related to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications.

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

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 or Build & Deploy..

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.