Senior DevOps Engineer

Required Skills: Advanced AWS Infrastructure Expertise, CI/CD Pipeline Automation, Monitoring, Observability & Incident Management, Security, Networking & Risk Management, Infrastructure as Code & Scripting

Criteria:

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies (B2C scale preferred)
• Strong hands-on AWS expertise across core and advanced services (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, VPC, IAM, ELB/ALB, Route53)
• Proven experience designing high-availability, fault-tolerant cloud architectures for large-scale traffic
• Strong experience building & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins mandatory; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI a plus)
• Prior experience running production-grade microservices deployments and automated rollout strategies (Blue/Green, Canary)
• Hands-on experience with monitoring & observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.)
• Solid hands-on experience with MongoDB in production, including performance tuning, indexing & replication
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Shell, Python) for automation
• Hands-on experience with IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible)
• Deep understanding of networking fundamentals (VPC, subnets, routing, NAT, security groups)
• Strong experience in incident management, root cause analysis & production firefighting

Description

Role Overview

Company is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS, automate CI/CD pipelines, implement monitoring and security frameworks, and proactively identify scalability challenges. This role requires someone who has hands-on experience running infrastructure at B2C product scale, ideally in media/OTT or high-traffic applications.

 Key Responsibilities

1. Cloud Infrastructure — AWS (Primary Focus)

• Architect, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure using AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront, RDS, ELB/ALB, VPC, IAM, Route53, etc.
• Optimize cloud cost, resource utilization, and performance across environments.
• Design high-availability, fault-tolerant systems for streaming workloads.

2. CI/CD Automation

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Automate deployments for microservices, mobile apps, and backend APIs.
• Implement blue/green and canary deployments for seamless production rollouts.

3. Observability & Monitoring

• Implement logging, metrics, and alerting using tools like Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, New Relic, etc.
• Perform proactive performance analysis to minimize downtime and bottlenecks.
• Set up dashboards for real-time visibility into system health and user traffic spikes.

4. Security, Compliance & Risk Highlighting

• Conduct frequent risk assessments and identify vulnerabilities in:

  o Cloud architecture

  o Access policies (IAM)

  o Secrets & key management

  o Data flows & network exposure

• Implement security best practices including VPC isolation, WAF rules, firewall policies, and SSL/TLS management.

5. Scalability & Reliability Engineering

• Analyze traffic patterns for OTT-specific load variations (weekends, new releases, peak hours).
• Identify scalability gaps and propose solutions across:
•   o Microservices
•   o Caching layers
•   o CDN distribution (CloudFront)
•   o Database workloads
• Perform capacity planning and load testing to ensure readiness for 10x traffic growth.

6. Database & Storage Support

• Administer and optimize MongoDB for high-read/low-latency use cases.
• Design backup, recovery, and data replication strategies.
• Work closely with backend teams to tune query performance and indexing.

7. Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Implement IaC using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.
• Automate repetitive infrastructure tasks to ensure consistency across environments.

Required Skills & Experience

Technical Must-Haves

• 5+ years of DevOps/SRE experience in cloud-native, product-based companies.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS (core and advanced services).
• Expertise in Jenkins CI/CD pipelines.
• Solid background working with MongoDB in production environments.
• Good understanding of networking: VPCs, subnets, security groups, NAT, routing.
• Strong scripting experience (Bash, Python, Shell).
• Experience handling risk identification, root cause analysis, and incident management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OTT, video streaming, media, or any content-heavy product environments.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS), and service mesh.
• Understanding of CDN, caching, and streaming pipelines.

Personality & Mindset

• Strong sense of ownership and urgency—DevOps is mission critical at OTT scale.
• Proactive problem solver with ability to think about long-term scalability.
• Comfortable working with cross-functional engineering teams.

Why Join company?

• Build and operate infrastructure powering millions of monthly users.

• Opportunity to shape DevOps culture and cloud architecture from the ground up.

• High-impact role in a fast-scaling Indian OTT product.

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’ s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

JD:

Lead the pre-sales (25%) to post-sales (75%) efforts building Public/Hybrid Cloud solutions working collaboratively with Intuitive and client technical and business stakeholders

Be a customer advocate with obsession for excellence delivering measurable success for Intuitive’s customers with secure, scalable, highly available cloud architecture that leverage AWS Cloud services

Experience in analyzing customer's business and technical requirements, assessing existing environment for Cloud enablement, advising on Cloud models, technologies, and risk management strategies

Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies

Extensive experience building Well Architected solutions in-line with AWS cloud adoption framework (DevOps/DevSecOps, Database/Data Warehouse/Data Lake, App Modernization/Containers, Security, Governance, Risk, Compliance, Cost Management and Operational Excellence)

Experience with application discovery prefera bly with tools like Cloudscape, to discover application configurations , databases, filesystems, and application dependencies

Experience with Well Architected Review, Cloud Readiness Assessments and defining migration patterns (MRA/MRP) for application migration e.g. Re-host, Re-platform, Re-architect etc

Experience in architecting and deploying AWS Landing Zone architecture with CI/CD pipeline

Experience on architecture, design of AWS cloud services to address scalability, performance, HA, security, availability, compliance, backup and DR, automation, alerting and monitoring and cost

Hands-on experience in migrating applications to AWS leveraging proven tools and processes including migration, implementation, cutover and rollback plans and execution

Hands-on experience in deploying various AWS services e.g. EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Security Groups etc. using either manual or IaC, IaC is preferred

Hands-on Experience in writing cloud automation scripts/code such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation Template (AWS CFT) etc.

Hands-on Experience with application build/release processes CI/CD pipelines

Deep understanding of Agile processes (planning/stand-ups/retros etc), and interact with cross-functional teams i.e. Development, Infrastructure, Security, Performance Engineering, and QA

Additional Requirements:

Work with Technology leadership to grow the Cloud & DevOps practice. Create cloud practice collateral

Work directly with sales teams to improve and help them drive the sales for Cloud & DevOps practice

Assist Sales and Marketing team in creating sales and marketing collateral

Write whitepapers and technology blogs to be published on social media and Intuitive website

Create case studies for projects successfully executed by Intuitive delivery team

Conduct sales enablement sessions to coach sales team on new offerings

Flexibility with work hours supporting customer’s requirement and collaboration with global delivery teams

Flexibility with Travel as required for Pre-sales/Post-sales, Design workshops, War-room Migration events and customer meetings

Strong passion for modern technology exploration and development

Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills

Experience with Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP, OCI) is a big plus

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation as well as Advanced Windows and Linux Engineering is a big plus

Experience with On-prem Data Engineering (Database, Data Warehouse, Data Lake) is a big plus

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

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.

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

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