Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title : DevOps Engineer – Linux, AWS & Infrastructure

Experience : 3+ Years

Location : Sector 48, Gurgaon

Work Mode : 6 Days WFO – Monday to Saturday

Week Off : 01st & 03rd Saturday Off

Employment Type : Full-Time

Job Summary :

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with strong hands-on experience in Linux, Networking, Server Administration, AWS, CI/CD, Containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure Automation. The ideal candidate should have strong troubleshooting skills, production ownership, and the ability to manage and automate infrastructure reliably.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage and troubleshoot Linux servers, bare-metal infrastructure, and server environments.
• Perform system administration, networking, performance monitoring, and production troubleshooting.
• Design, maintain, and optimize Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes environments.
• Work with AWS Cloud services, infrastructure, security, and deployment environments.
• Monitor system health, application performance, logs, and infrastructure using appropriate monitoring and logging tools.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using Python, Bash, Shell scripting, or similar technologies.
• Implement infrastructure and application security, access controls, patching, and hardening.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis (RCA), and drive issues to resolution.
• Take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure reliability, availability, and operational issues.
• Collaborate with development and other engineering teams to improve deployment, scalability, and system reliability.

Mandatory Skills :

Linux & Networking | Bare Metal / Server Administration | Jenkins / CI-CD | Docker / Containers | AWS Cloud | Kubernetes | Git | Monitoring & Logging | Security | Infrastructure as Code (IaC) | Automation / Scripting | Production Troubleshooting & Ownership

Preferred Skills :

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, load balancing, and networking fundamentals.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK, CloudWatch, or similar monitoring / logging tools.
• Good understanding of Linux performance troubleshooting, processes, memory, disk, networking, and file systems.
• Experience handling production incidents, RCA, deployments, and system reliability.
• Exposure to cloud security, IAM, secrets management, and server hardening.

What We’re Looking For :

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong practical knowledge rather than certification-based/theoretical understanding.
• Good troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for production systems.
• Comfortable working in a 6-day work-from-office environment.

Role & Responsibilities

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure at Scale
• Design and evolve our cloud-native infrastructure (AWS/Kubernetes), ensuring availability, performance, and cost efficiency across regions and products.
• Platform & Developer Experience
• Build internal tools and platforms that help engineers deploy, monitor, and scale their services independently — with minimal friction and maximum confidence.
• CI/CD & Release Automation
• Architect secure, fast, and scalable CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments using tools like GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
• Reliability Engineering
• Champion observability, SLOs, and incident response practices. Drive a culture of proactive performance monitoring and resilient system design.
• Security & Governance
• Integrate DevSecOps practices — from policy-as-code and automated audits to secure secrets management and vulnerability scanning.
• Mentorship & Thought Leadership
• Guide and mentor DevOps and SRE engineers. Partner closely with platform developers on infrastructure strategy, deployment patterns, and production readiness.

Ideal Candidate

• Strong Principal DevOps Engineer Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 10+ years in DevOps / SRE / Infrastructure roles with hands-on experience (clear scale signals like traffic, uptime, latency, infra size should be mentioned) in B2B SAAS companies
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have worked in Principal / Staff / Lead DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer role and demonstrated org-level ownership - setting infra roadmap, defining DevOps charter, or structuring the platform function not just domain-level technical ownership
• Mandatory (Experience 3): Must show evidence of strategic authorship, defined multi-year infra/platform strategy, drove company-wide architectural shifts as an initiator (not implementer), or directly interfaced with VP Eng / CTO / product leadership on infra direction
• Mandatory (Experience 4): Must have B2B SaaS company experience with multi-tenant architecture OR multiple production stacks (multi-env / multi-client systems)
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 1 - Cloud & Infra): AWS (VPC, EKS, EC2, RDS, networking), Kubernetes (EKS) at scale, Designing high availability, multi-region systems
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 2 - Automation & IaC): Terraform (must-have), Helm / GitOps, Strong scripting (Python / Go / Bash)
• Mandatory (Tech Skills 4 - Reliability & Observability): SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets), Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog), Alerting, on-call, incident management
• Mandatory (Leadership): Must demonstrate leadership experience in an individual contributor capacity having mentored senior engineers, driven cross-team technical alignment, or anchored org-wide initiatives without having moved into a people management or engineering manager role
• Mandatory (Company): Strong B2B SaaS product companies only
• Preferred (Education): B.Tech in Computer Science or related fields

The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience in the domain. The responsibilities include:

● Deploying system on Linux-based environment using Docker

● Manage & maintain the production environment

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Provide Level 1 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

● Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure

● Excellent understanding of MERN Stack, Docker & Nginx (Good to have Node Js)

● Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo

● Excellent troubleshooting

● Experience of working with AWS/Azure/GCP

● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

● Experience of CI/CD Pipeline

This company is 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.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. 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.

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.

Job Dsecription:

○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture

○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards

○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution

○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity

Required Experience and Expertise

○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.

○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.

○ Hands-on experience of GCP  and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.

○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals

NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days

BENEFITS: -

 Competitive salary and stock options -

 Premium medical benefits 

LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test 

• Health Memberships 
• Sports Subscriptions 
• Entertainment Subscriptions 
• Key Conferences and Event Passes
• Learning Stipend 
• Team Lunches and Parties 
• Travel Reimbursements 
• ESOPs