Senior DevOps Engineer

Branch Overview

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in the United States, Nigeria, Kenya, and India, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility. 

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the founder and former CEO of Kiva.org. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. In 2019, Branch announced its Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Trinity Capital, Foundation Capital, Visa, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive. 

Job Overview

Branch is seeking a seasoned DevOps Engineer to own parts of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps operations. In this role, you will lead by example, and design, deploy, and optimize our AWS-based infrastructure, ensuring seamless orchestration of workloads across Kubernetes and serverless environments like AWS Lambda.

You will play a pivotal role in automating processes, enhancing system reliability, and driving the adoption of DevOps best practices. Collaborating closely with our Engineering, Product, and Data teams, you’ll contribute to scaling our infrastructure and supporting our rapid growth. This position offers a unique opportunity to refine your technical expertise in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the architecture, design, and scaling of various parts of our cloud infrastructure on AWS, ensuring security, resilience, and cost efficiency
• Optimize Kubernetes clusters, including advanced scheduling, networking, and security enhancements to support mission-critical workloads
• Architect and improve CI/CD pipelines, incorporating automation, canary deployments, and rollback strategies for seamless releases
• Design and implement monitoring, logging, and observability solutions to ensure proactive issue detection and system performance tuning at scale
• Establish and enforce security best practices, including IAM governance, secret management, and compliance frameworks
• Be the go-to expert for multiple infrastructure components, providing technical leadership and driving improvements across interconnected systems
• Lead large-scale projects spanning multiple quarters, defining roadmaps, tracking progress, and ensuring timely execution with minimal supervision
• Drive collaboration with cross-functional teams, including ML, Data, and Product, to align infrastructure solutions with business and engineering goals
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning, technical excellence, and best practices
• Set and refine DevOps standards, driving automation, scalability, and system reliability across the organization

Qualifications

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or a similar role, with expertise in designing and managing large-scale cloud infrastructure
• Experience working on software product development, with proficiency in a mainstream stack.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, ECS, EKS, and VPC networking
• Advanced proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure as code, including best practices for scaling and managing cloud resources
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster provisioning, networking, security hardening, and performance optimization
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using Python, Bash, or Go, with experience integrating APIs and optimizing workflows
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or ArgoCD
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, and AWS CloudWatch
• Deep understanding of cloud security, IAM governance, role-based access control (RBAC), and compliance frameworks like SOC2 or ISO 27001
• Proven ability to lead and mentor junior engineers while fostering a collaborative and high-performance team culture
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across cultures, functions, and time zones in a globally distributed team

Benefits of Joining

• Be part of a mission-driven, fast-paced, and entrepreneurial environment that fosters innovation and impact
• Receive a competitive salary and equity package, reflecting your value and contributions
• Thrive in a collaborative and flat company culture that encourages open communication and idea-sharing
• Enjoy the flexibility of a remote-first work setup, with opportunities for occasional in-person collaboration
• Benefit from fully-paid Health Insurance to support your well-being
• Work-life balance is not a myth. Take advantage of paid time off, including personal leave, bereavement leave, and sick leave
• Access fully paid parental leave, with 6 months of maternity leave and 3 months of paternity leave
• Leverage annual professional development budget to upskill and advance your career
• Participate in discretionary trips to our offices around the globe, supported by global travel medical insurance
• Enjoy team meals and social events, both virtual and in-person, to connect and bond with colleagues

Bito is a startup that is using AI (ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc) to create game-changing productivity experiences for software developers in their IDE and CLI. Already, over 100,000 developers are using Bito to increase their productivity by 31% and performing more than 1 million AI requests per week.

Our founders have previously started, built, and taken a company public (NASDAQ: PUBM), worth well over $1B. We are looking to take our learnings, learn a lot along with you, and do something more exciting this time. This journey will be incredibly rewarding, and is incredibly difficult!

We are building this company with a fully remote approach, with our main teams for time zone management in the US and in India. The founders happen to be in Silicon Valley and India.

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the development team to design, develop, and implement Java-based applications
• Perform analysis and provide recommendations for Cloud deployments and identify opportunities for efficiency and cost reduction
• Build and maintain clusters for various technologies such as Aerospike, Elasticsearch, RDS, Hadoop, etc
• Develop and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) frameworks
• Provide architectural design and practical guidance to software development teams to improve resilience, efficiency, performance, and costs
• Evaluate and define/modify configuration management strategies and processes using Ansible
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to coordinate work efforts and enhance team efficiency
• Take on leadership responsibilities to influence the direction, schedule, and prioritization of the automation effort

Requirements:

• Minimum 4+ years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role
• At least 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing infrastructure as code within the AWS/GCP/Azure ecosystem
• Expert knowledge of any cloud core services, big data managed services, Ansible, Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Amazon ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Nginx
• Expert proficiency in at least two scripting/programming languages such as Bash, Perl, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.
• Mastery in configuration automation tool sets such as Ansible, Chef, etc
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Git toolset
• Experience with automation tools for monitoring and alerts such as Nagios, Grafana, Graphite, Cloudwatch, New Relic, etc
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple diverse projects simultaneously

What do we offer: 

At Bito, we strive to create a supportive and rewarding work environment that enables our employees to thrive. Join a dynamic team at the forefront of generative AI technology. 

·               Work from anywhere 

·               Flexible work timings 

·               Competitive compensation, including stock options 

·               A chance to work in the exciting generative AI space 

·               Quarterly team offsite events

1. Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
2. About 5 years of professional experience supporting AWS cloud environments
3. Certified Amazon Architect Associate or Architect
4. Experience serving as lead (shift management, reporting) will be a plus
5. AWS Architect Certified Solution Architect Professional (Must have)
6. Minimum 4yrs experience, maximum 8 years’ experience.

1. 100% work from office in Hyderabad
2. Very fluent in English

• Strong Systems Experience- Linux, networking, cloud, APIs
• Scripting language Programming - Shell, Python
• Strong Debugging Capability
• AWS Platform -IAM, Network,EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch
• Knowledge on Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins
• Observability - Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace,
• Grafana, Splunk • DevSecOps-CI/CD - Jenkins
• Microservices
• Security & Access Management
• Container Orchestration a plus - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Big Data Platforms knowledge EMR, Databricks. Cloudera a plus

About Us

At Digilytics™, we build and deliver easy to use AI products to the secured lending and consumer industry sectors. In an ever-crowded world of clever technology solutions looking for a problem to solve, our solutions start with a keen understanding of what creates and what destroys value in our clients’ business.

Founded by Arindom Basu (Founding member of Infosys Consulting), the leadership of Digilytics™ is deeply rooted in leveraging disruptive technology to drive profitable business growth. With over 50 years of combined experience in technology-enabled change, the Digilytics™ leadership is focused on building a values-first firm that will stand the test of time.

We are currently focused on developing a product, Revel FS, to revolutionise loan origination for mortgages and secured lending. We are also developing a second product, Revel CI, focused on improving trade (secondary) sales to consumer industry clients like auto and FMCG players.

The leadership strongly believes in the ethos of enabling intelligence across the organization. Digiliytics AI is headquartered in London, with a presence across India.

Website: http://www.digilytics.ai">www.digilytics.ai

• Know about our product
  • https://www.digilytics.ai/RevEL/Digilytics">Digilytics RelEL
  • https://www.digilytics.ai/RevUP/">Digilytics RelUP
• What's it like working at Digilytics https://www.digilytics.ai/about-us.html">https://www.digilytics.ai/about-us.html
• Digilytics featured in Forbes: https://bit.ly/3zDQc4z">https://bit.ly/3zDQc4z

 Responsibilities

• Experience with Azure services (Virtual machines, Containers, Databases, Security/Firewall, Function Apps etc)
• Hands-on experience on Kubernetes/Docker/helm.
• Deployment of java Builds & administration/configuration of Nginx/Reverse Proxy, Load balancer, Ms-SQL, Github, Disaster Recovery,
• Linux – Must have basic knowledge- User creation/deletion, ACL, LVM etc.
• CI/CD - Azure DevOps or any other automation tool like Terraform, Jenkins etc.
• Experience with SharePoint and O365 administration
• Azure/Kubernetes certification will be preferred.
• Microsoft Partnership experience is good to have. 
• Excellent understanding of required technologies
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate ideas clearly at all levels
• Ability to work in unfamiliar business areas and to use your skills to create solutions
• Ability to both work in and lead a team and to deliver and accept peer review
• Flexible approach to working environment and hours to meet the needs of the business and clients

Must Haves:

• Hands-on experience on Kubernetes/Docker/helm.
• Experience on Azure/Aws or any other cloud provider.
• Linux & CI/CD tools knowledge.

Experience & Education:

• A start up mindset with proven experience working in both smaller and larger organizations having multicultural exposure
• Between 4-9 years of experience working closely with the relevant technologies, and developing world-class software and solutions
• Domain and industry experience by serving customers in one or more of these industries - Financial Services, Professional Services, other Retail Consumer Services
• A bachelor's degree, or equivalent, in Software Engineering and Computer Science

Job Brief:

We are looking for candidates that have experience in development and have performed CI/CD based projects. Should have a good hands-on Jenkins Master-Slave architecture, used AWS native services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. Should have experience in setting up cross platform CI/CD pipelines which can be across different cloud platforms or on-premise and cloud platform.

Job Location:

Pune.

Job Description:

• Hands on with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with DevOps services and CloudFormation.
• Experience interacting with customer.
• Excellent communication.
• Hands-on in creating and managing Jenkins job, Groovy scripting.
• Experience in setting up Cloud Agnostic and Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience in Maven.
• Experience in scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, Python.
• Experience in automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Docker and Kuberneties with creating docker files.
• Hands on with version control systems like GitHub, Gitlab, TFS, BitBucket, etc.

• 7-10 years experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes within CI/CD pipeline.
• At least 4 yrs. experience designing, and securing Data Lake & Web applications deployed to AWS, Azure, Scripting/Automation skills on Python, Shell, YAML, JSON
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with software development lifecycle, Agile project management (e.g. Jira, Confluence), source code management (e.g. Git), build automation (e.g. Jenkins), code linting and code quality (e.g. SonarQube), test automation (e.g. Selenium)
• Hand-on & Solid understanding of Amazon Web Services & Azure-based Infra & applications
• Experience writing cloud formation templates, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application architecture and deployment.
• Strong know-how on VA/PT integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in handling financial solutions & customer-facing applications

Roles

• Accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies
• Manage & deliver diverse cloud [AWS, Azure, GCP] DevSecOps journeys
• Identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging software engineering methodologies and tools
• Maximize automation and enhance DevSecOps pipelines and other tasks
• Define and promote enterprise software engineering and DevSecOps standards, practices, and behaviors
• Operate and support a suite of enterprise DevSecOps services
• Implement security automation to decrease the loop between the development and deployment processes.
• Support project teams to adopt & integrate the DevSecOps environment
• Managing application vulnerabilities, Data security, encryption, tokenization, access management, Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST
• Coordinate with development and operations teams for practical automation solutions and custom flows.
• Own DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Act as Release gatekeeper with an understanding of OWASP top 10 lists of vulnerabilities, NIST SP-800-xx, NVD, CVSS scoring, etc concepts
• Build workflows to ensure a successful DevSecOps journey for various enterprise applications. 
• Understand the strategic direction to reach business goals across multiple projects & teams
• Collaborate with development teams to understand project deliverables and promote DevSecOps culture
• Formulate & deploy cloud automation strategies and tools

Skills

• Knowledge of the DevSecOps culture and principles.
• An understanding of cloud technologies & components
• A flair for programming languages such as Shell, Python, Java Scripts,
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment techniques.
• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software.
• An understanding of programs such as Puppet, Chef, ThreatModeler, Checkmarx, Immunio, and Aqua.
• Strong know-how of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure-based deployments
• On the job learning for new programming languages, automation tools, deployment architectures

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

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
• Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field