Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer

Location : Remote

Experience Level : 5+ Years

Role Overview :

We are a funded AI startup seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, implement, and maintain a secure, scalable, and efficient infrastructure. In this role, you will focus on automating operations, optimizing deployment processes, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality products seamlessly.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Scalability & Reliability :

• Architect and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, or Azure for high availability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement container orchestration using Kubernetes or Docker Compose.
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Pulumi or Terraform to manage and configure infrastructure.

Deployment Automation :

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools.
• Implement deployment strategies such as canary or blue-green deployments, and create rollback mechanisms to ensure seamless updates.

Monitoring & Observability :

• Leverage tools like OpenTelemetry, Grafana, and Datadog to monitor system health and performance.
• Establish centralized logging systems and create real-time dashboards for actionable insights.

Security & Compliance :

• Securely manage secrets using tools like HashiCorp Vault or Doppler.
• Conduct static code analysis with tools such as SonarQube or Snyk to ensure compliance with security standards.

Collaboration & Team Enablement :

• Mentor and guide team members on DevOps best practices and workflows.
• Document infrastructure setups, incident runbooks, and troubleshooting workflows to enhance team efficiency.

Required Skills :

• Expertise in managing cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Advanced scripting capabilities in Python or Bash.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Experience with observability tools like Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog.
• Strong troubleshooting skills for debugging production systems and optimizing performance.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience in scaling AI or ML-based applications.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Understanding of agile methodologies and DevSecOps practices.
• Certifications in AWS, Azure, or Kubernetes.

What We Offer :

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced AI startup environment.
• Flexible remote work culture.
• Competitive salary and equity options.
• Professional growth through challenging projects and learning opportunities.

About the Job

This is a full-time role for a Lead DevOps Engineer at Spark Eighteen. We are seeking an experienced DevOps professional to lead our infrastructure strategy, design resilient systems, and drive continuous improvement in our deployment processes. In this role, you will architect scalable solutions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure the highest standards of reliability and security across our cloud infrastructure. The job location is flexible with preference for the Delhi NCR region.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor the DevOps/SRE team
• Define and drive DevOps strategy and roadmaps
• Oversee infrastructure automation and CI/CD at scale
• Collaborate with architects, developers, and QA teams to integrate DevOps practices
• Ensure security, compliance, and high availability of platforms
• Own incident response, postmortems, and root cause analysis
• Budgeting, team hiring, and performance evaluation

Requirements

Technical Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7+ years of professional DevOps experience with demonstrated progression.
• Strong architecture and leadership background
• Deep hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and cloud
• Proven experience with monitoring, security, and governance
• Effective stakeholder and project management
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Vault, ELK, etc.
• Strong understanding of business continuity and disaster recovery

Soft Skills

• Cross-functional communication excellence with ability to lead technical discussions.
• Strong mentorship capabilities for junior and mid-level team members.
• Advanced strategic thinking and ability to propose innovative solutions.
• Excellent knowledge transfer skills through documentation and training.
• Ability to understand and align technical solutions with broader business strategy.
• Proactive problem-solving approach with focus on continuous improvement.
• Strong leadership skills in guiding team performance and technical direction.
• Effective collaboration across development, QA, and business teams.
• Ability to make complex technical decisions with minimal supervision.
• Strategic approach to risk management and mitigation.

What We Offer

• Professional Growth: Continuous learning opportunities through diverse projects and mentorship from experienced leaders
• Global Exposure: Work with clients from 20+ countries, gaining insights into different markets and business cultures
• Impactful Work: Contribute to projects that make a real difference, with solutions generating over $1B in revenue
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible arrangements that respect personal wellbeing while fostering productivity
• Career Advancement: Clear progression pathways as you develop skills within our growing organization
• Competitive Compensation: Attractive salary packages that recognize your contributions and expertise

Our Culture

At Spark Eighteen, our culture centers on innovation, excellence, and growth. We believe in:

• Quality-First: Delivering excellence rather than just quick solutions
• True Partnership: Building relationships based on trust and mutual respect
• Communication: Prioritizing clear, effective communication across teams
• Innovation: Encouraging curiosity and creative approaches to problem-solving
• Continuous Learning: Supporting professional development at all levels
• Collaboration: Combining diverse perspectives to achieve shared goals
• Impact: Measuring success by the value we create for clients and users

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We are looking to fill the role of AWS devops engineer . To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.

Responsibilities:

• Engineer solutions using AWS services (Cloud Formation, EC2, Lambda, Route 53, ECS, EFS )
• Balance hardware, network, and software layers to arrive at a scalable and maintainable solution that meets requirements for uptime, performance, and functionality
• Monitor server applications and use tools and log files to troubleshoot and resolve problems
• Maintain 99.99% availability of the web and integration services
• Anticipate, identify, mitigate, and resolve issues relating to client facing infrastructure
• Monitor, analyse, and predict trends for system performance, capacity, efficiency, and reliability and recommend enhancements in order to better meet client SLAs and standards
• Research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration and DevOps tasks
• Deploy and decommission client environments for multi and single tenant hosted applications following and updating as needed established processes and procedures
• Follow and develop CPA change control processes for modifications to systems and associated components

Practice configuration management, including maintenance of component inventory and related documentation per company policies and procedures.

Qualifications :

• Git/GitHub version control tools
• Linux and/or Windows Virtualisation (VMWare, Xen, KVM, Virtual Box )
• Cloud computing (AWS, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud)
• Application Servers, servlet containers and web servers (WebSphere, Tomcat)
• Bachelors / Masters Degree - 2+ years experience in software development
• Must have experience with AWS VPC networking and security

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

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-We are a Boutique Tech Consulting partner, specializing in Cloud Native Solutions. 
-We are obsessed with anything “CLOUD”. Our goal is to seamlessly automate the development lifecycle, and modernize infrastructure and its associated applications.
-With a product mindset, we enable start-ups and enterprises on the cloud
transformation, cloud migration, end-to-end automation and managed cloud services. 
-We are eager to research, discover, automate, adapt, empower and deliver quality solutions on time.
-We are passionate about customer success. With the right blend of experience and exuberant youth in our in-house team, we have significantly impacted customers.

• AWS 

•  Azure

• GCP

Engineering Leader, Cloud Infrastructure.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Do you thrive on solving complex technical problems? Do you want to be at the cutting edge of technology? If so,we’re interested in speaking with you!

Your Impact:

We’re looking for a seasoned engineering leader in the Cloud team that is responsible for building, operating, and maintaining a customer-facing DBaaS service in multiple public clouds (AWS, GCP, and Azure). The service supports unified multiverse management of YugabyteDB, including fault-domain aware provisioning, rolling upgrades, security,

networking, monitoring, and day-2 operations (backups, scaling, billing etc). If you’re a strong leader who exemplifies collaboration, who is driven and thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, and who has a strong desire to build an internet-scale, extensible cloud based service with strong emphasis on simplicity and user experience, this job is for

you.

You Will:

Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful

Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent

Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales and Customer Success tomaintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration

Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership and balance between short-term impact andlong term architectural vision.

Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teamswith release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keepyour technical acumen sharp.

You'll need:

BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams

Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development

Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management

Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure

Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud

Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization,orchestration, elastic scalability)

A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast,build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them

Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team.

Roles and Responsibilities

• 5 - 8 years of experience in Infrastructure setup on Cloud, Build/Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Configuration/Change Management.
• Good experience with Linux/Unix administration and moderate to significant experience administering relational databases such as PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience with Docker and related tools (Cassandra, Rancher, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience of working in Config management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies like Azure
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (TICK, ELK, Nagios, PagerDuty)
• Experience with distributed systems and related technologies (NSQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with scaling data store technologies is a plus (PostgreSQL, Scylla, Redis) is a plus
• Experience with SSH Certificate Authorities and Identity Management (Netflix BLESS) is a plus
• Experience with multi-domain SSL certs and provisioning a plus (Let's Encrypt) is a plus
• Experience with chaos or similar methodologies is a plus

We are a team of SysOps/DevOps engineers

with one goal in mind -to keep your online business up and running 24/7.Solving problems is

our thing, but we believe that dealing with the same issues over and over again is

unnecessary and counterproductive. Our objective is to find the ultimate solution for each

and every problem! Though, each one of us is different, we have the same goal: to make

our customer's life easier and enjoy it at the same time.

Scope & Responsibilities

As a Department Leader, you will be responsible for managing and mentoring the team of

Linux systems administrators on a daily basis. You will help build and grow the sys admins

team and lead them to success. As Systems Management Department Leader, you will work

both as a People Manager and a Senior Systems Administrator.

As Manager you will recruit and retain a high motivated and professional team of

administrators. Together with our CTO and HR team, youre going to define recruitment

needs in your team and participate in the recruitment process. You will also work on

improving the onboarding process for new employees.

More tech part of the job contains designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure

to match our customers needs and provide them with outstanding, safe and reliable

solutions.

This position requires you to be able to devise proactive solutions to project-related issues

and inspire trust in teammates. Are you a team player who is ready to work with our team to

find solutions and are AWS Certified ? We await your CV

Skills & Certifications

- Proven team building and management background (2+ years)

- Strong project, process and people management skills

- Excellent communication skills in English

- Strong background in Linux administration (4+ years experience)

- Amazon AWS certification preferred (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, IAM, KMS)

- Automation (we use Ansible)

- Infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)

- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and best practices

- Comfort with collaboration across multiple projects

- Ability to lead and coordinate team of professionals on daily basis

This position also requires you to be able to participate in on-call

schedules.Roles and Responsibilities