
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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- Strong DevOps /Cloud Engineer Profiles
- Must have 3+ years of experience as a DevOps / Cloud Engineer
- Must have strong expertise in cloud platforms – AWS / Azure / GCP (any one or more)
- Must have strong hands-on experience in Linux administration and system management
- Must have hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Must have experience in building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
- Must have hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
- Must be proficient in scripting languages such as Python or Bash for automation
- Must have experience with monitoring and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or CloudWatch
- Top tier Product-based company (B2B Enterprise SaaS preferred)
Preferred
- Experience in multi-tenant SaaS infrastructure scaling.
- Exposure to AI/ML pipeline deployments or iPaaS / reverse ETL connectors.
Role & Responsibilities
We are seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure for our SaaS platform and AI-driven products. The role will focus on cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, monitoring, and security automation, enabling rapid and reliable software delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines to support rapid release cycles.
- Manage containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Own infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
- Set up and maintain monitoring & alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Drive cloud security automation (IAM, SSL, secrets management).
- Partner with engineering teams to embed DevOps into SDLC.
- Troubleshoot production issues and drive incident response.
- Support multi-tenant SaaS scaling strategies.
Ideal Candidate
- 3–6 years' experience as DevOps/Cloud Engineer in SaaS or enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong expertise in LINUX Administration.
- Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
- Proficient in Terraform/Ansible/CloudFormation.
- Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash).
- Experience with monitoring stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch).
- Strong grasp of cloud security best practices.
Key Responsibilities
DevOps Strategy & Leadership
- Define and execute the end-to-end DevOps strategy for high-frequency trading and fintech platforms.
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing DevOps team focused on automation, reliability, and performance.
- Partner closely with engineering and product leaders to ensure infrastructure strategy supports business and technical goals.
CI/CD & Infrastructure Automation
- Architect, implement, and optimize enterprise-grade CI/CD pipelines for ultra-low-latency trading systems.
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption using Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, and advanced automation toolsets.
- Establish robust release management, deployment workflows, and versioning best practices for mission‑critical environments.
Cloud & On‑Prem Infrastructure Management
- Design and manage hybrid infrastructures across AWS, GCP, and on-premise data centers ensuring high availability and fault tolerance.
- Implement sophisticated networking strategies for low-latency workloads including routing optimization and performance tuning.
- Lead multi‑cloud scalability, cost optimization, and environment standardization initiatives.
Performance Monitoring & Optimization
- Oversee large-scale monitoring systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and related observability tools.
- Implement predictive alerting, automated remediation, and system‑wide health checks for zero‑downtime operations.
- Conduct root-cause analyses and performance tuning for systems processing millions of transactions per second.
Security & Compliance
- Champion DevSecOps practices and embed security across the entire development and deployment lifecycle.
- Ensure adherence to financial regulatory standards (SEBI and global frameworks) with strong audit and compliance mechanisms.
- Lead security automation efforts, vulnerability management, and advanced IAM policy implementation.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 10+ years of DevOps experience, with 5+ years in a leadership capacity.
- Deep hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and ArgoCD.
- Strong command of AWS, GCP, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and large-scale container orchestration.
- Advanced proficiency in Terraform, Helm, and overall IaC workflows.
- Strong Linux administration, networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls), and system internals.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
- Excellent scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go for automation and tooling.
- Deep understanding of security principles, encryption, IAM, and compliance frameworks.
Good to Have
- Experience with ultra-low-latency or high-frequency trading systems.
- Knowledge of FIX protocol, FPGA acceleration, or network‑level optimizations.
- Familiarity with Redis, Nginx, or other high‑throughput systems.
- Exposure to micro‑second‑level performance tuning or network acceleration technologies.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a team that consistently raises the bar and delivers exceptional engineering outcomes.
- A culture where innovation, ownership, and bold thinking are valued.
- Exceptional growth opportunities—ideal for someone who thrives in fast-paced, high-impact environments.
- Build systems that influence markets and redefine the fintech landscape.
This isn’t just a role—it’s a challenge, a platform, and a proving ground.
Ready to step up? Apply now.
Role: Full-Time, Long-Term Required: Docker, GCP, CI/CD Preferred: Experience with ML pipelines
OVERVIEW
We are seeking a DevOps engineer to join as a core member of our technical team. This is a long-term position for someone who wants to own infrastructure and deployment for a production machine learning system. You will ensure our prediction pipeline runs reliably, deploys smoothly, and scales as needed.
The ideal candidate thinks about failure modes obsessively, automates everything possible, and builds systems that run without constant attention.
CORE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
Docker (Required): Deep experience with containerization. Efficient Dockerfiles, layer caching, multi-stage builds, debugging container issues. Experience with Docker Compose for local development.
Google Cloud Platform (Required): Strong GCP experience: Cloud Run for serverless containers, Compute Engine for VMs, Artifact Registry for images, Cloud Storage, IAM. You can navigate the console but prefer scripting everything.
CI/CD (Required): Build and maintain deployment pipelines. GitHub Actions required. You automate testing, building, pushing, and deploying. You understand the difference between continuous integration and continuous deployment.
Linux Administration (Required): Comfortable on the command line. SSH, diagnose problems, manage services, read logs, fix things. Bash scripting is second nature.
PostgreSQL (Required): Database administration basics—backups, monitoring, connection management, basic performance tuning. Not a DBA, but comfortable keeping a production database healthy.
Infrastructure as Code (Preferred): Terraform, Pulumi, or similar. Infrastructure should be versioned, reviewed, and reproducible—not clicked together in a console.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
Deployment Pipeline: Maintaining and improving deployment scripts and CI/CD workflows. Code moves from commit to production reliably with appropriate testing gates.
Cloud Run Services: Managing deployments for model fitting, data cleansing, and signal discovery services. Monitor health, optimize cold starts, handle scaling.
VM Infrastructure: PostgreSQL and Streamlit on GCP VMs. Instance management, updates, backups, security.
Container Registry: Managing images in GitHub Container Registry and Google Artifact Registry. Cleanup policies, versioning, access control.
Monitoring and Alerting: Building observability. Logging, metrics, health checks, alerting. Know when things break before users tell us.
Environment Management: Configuration across local and production. Secrets management. Environment parity where it matters.
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
Deployments are boring—no drama, no surprises. Systems recover automatically from transient failures. Engineers deploy with confidence. Infrastructure changes are versioned and reproducible. Costs are reasonable and resources scale appropriately.
ENGINEERING STANDARDS
Automation First: If you do something twice, automate it. Manual processes are bugs waiting to happen.
Documentation: Runbooks, architecture diagrams, deployment guides. The next person can understand and operate the system.
Security Mindset: Secrets never in code. Least-privilege access. You think about attack surfaces.
Reliability Focus: Design for failure. Backups are tested. Recovery procedures exist and work.
CURRENT ENVIRONMENT
GCP (Cloud Run, Compute Engine, Artifact Registry, Cloud Storage), Docker, Docker Compose, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL 16, Bash deployment scripts with Python wrapper.
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Ownership Mentality: You see a problem, you fix it. You do not wait for assignment.
Calm Under Pressure: When production breaks, you diagnose methodically.
Communication: You explain infrastructure decisions to non-infrastructure people. You document what you build.
Long-Term Thinking: You build systems maintained for years, not quick fixes creating tech debt.
EDUCATION
University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred. Equivalent demonstrated expertise also considered.
TO APPLY
Include: (1) CV/resume, (2) Brief description of infrastructure you built or maintained, (3) Links to relevant work if available, (4) Availability and timezone.
Type, Location
Full Time @ Anywhere in India
Desired Experience
2+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.
● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.
● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.
● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.
● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process
● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services
● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure
● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work
● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix
● Use a Version Control System, preferably git
● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)
● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.
● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation
● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI
● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA
What you bring to the table
● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.
● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.
● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems
● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet
Bonus if you have…
● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage
● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP
● Basic understanding of Cloud computing
● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS
● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo
● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)
● Great problem solving skills
● Good in communication
● Adaptive to learning
| CI/CD tools Jenkins/Bamboo/Teamcity/CircleCI, DevSecOps Pipeline, Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/GCP), Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Cloud formation template, Webserver deployment & config, Databases(SQL/NoSQL) deployment & config, Git, Artifactory, Monitoring tools (Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus etc), Application logs (ELK/EFK, Splunk etc.), API Gateways, Security tools, Vault. |
- Work towards improving the following 4 verticals - scalability, availability, security, and cost, for company's workflows and products.
- Help in provisioning, managing, optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS (IAM, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, ELK etc.)
- Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture for both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 products.
- Drive technical initiatives and architectural service improvements.
- Be able to predict problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
- Mentor/manage a team of engineers.
- Design solutions with failure scenarios in mind to ensure reliability.
- Document rigorously to keep track of all changes/upgrades to the infrastructure and as well share knowledge with the rest of the team
- Identify vulnerabilities during development with actionable information to empower developers to remediate vulnerabilities
- Automate the build and testing processes to consistently integrate code
- Manage changes to documents, software, images, large web sites, and other collections of code, configuration, and metadata among disparate teams
Mandatory:
● A minimum of 1 year of development, system design or engineering experience ●
Excellent social, communication, and technical skills
● In-depth knowledge of Linux systems
● Development experience in at least two of the following languages: Php, Go, Python,
JavaScript, C/C++, Bash
● In depth knowledge of web servers (Apache, NgNix preferred)
● Strong in using DevOps tools - Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, ELK
● Knowledge to use APM tools, NewRelic is preferred
● Ability to learn quickly, master our existing systems and identify areas of improvement
● Self-starter that enjoys and takes pride in the engineering work of their team ● Tried
and Tested Real-world Cloud Computing experience - AWS/ GCP/ Azure ● Strong
Understanding of Resilient Systems design
● Experience in Network Design and Management
The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.
ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS
Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing
- ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
- SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
- Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
- Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
- Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).
Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration
What you will get:
- To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
- A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
- Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
- High Growth Work Environment ⚙️
What we are looking for:
- An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
- Ability to take Ownership of your work
- Past experience in leading a team
- 5+ years hands-on experience with designing, deploying and managing core AWS services and infrastructure
- Proficiency in scripting using Bash, Python, Ruby, Groovy, or similar languages
- Experience in source control management, specifically with Git
- Hands-on experience in Unix/Linux and bash scripting
- Experience building, managing Helm-based build and release CI-CD pipelines for Kubernetes platforms (EKS, Openshift, GKE)
- Strong experience with orchestration and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Cloudformation
- Ability to debug, analyze issues leveraging tools like App Dynamics, New Relic and Sumologic
- Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and principles
- Good writing and documentation skills
- Strong collaborator with the ability to work well with core teammates and our colleagues across STS
- Mandatory: Docker, AWS, Linux, Kubernete or ECS
- Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters / Kubernetes
- Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
- Experience supporting a managed cloud services infrastructure
- Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers
- Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch etc.)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
- Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
- In-depth knowledge on Linux Environment.
- Prior experience leading technical teams through the design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects.
- Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
- Experience in handling large production deployments and infrastructure.
- DevOps based infrastructure and application deployments experience.
- Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
- Hands-on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
- He/she should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
- Good working knowledge of AWS services such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
- Proven written and verbal communication skills.
- Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements.
- Previous NOC experience.
- Client Facing Experience with excellent Customer Communication and Documentation Skills











