Senior DevOps Engineer

Job role: Systems Engineer (L2)

Location: Remote/Bengaluru

Experience: 3-6 years

About the Role:

We are looking for a Systems Engineer (L2) to join our growing infrastructure team. You will be responsible for managing, optimizing, and scaling our cloud communication platform that handles billions of messages and voice calls annually.

Key Responsibilities:

 — Design, deploy, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure — AWS/GCP/Azure.

 — Manage and optimize networking components — routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers.

 — Handle incident response — monitor systems, identify issues, resolve production problems.

 — Implement DevOps best practices — CI/CD pipelines, automation, containerization.

 — Collaborate with backend and product teams on system architecture.

— Performance tuning — ensure high availability and reliability of platform.

— Security management — implement security protocols and compliance standards.

Required Skills:

Technical:

• Linux/Unix administration — strong fundamentals
• Networking — TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, VoIP protocols
• Cloud platforms — AWS/GCP/Azure — minimum 2 years
• DevOps tools — Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CI/CD
• Monitoring tools — Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Datadog
• Scripting — Python, Bash, Shell
• Databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis

Soft skills:

• Strong problem-solving under pressure
• Good communication — English written and verbal
• Team player — collaborative mindset

Good to Have:

• Experience in telecom/CPaaS/cloud communications industry
• Knowledge of VoIP, SIP, RTP protocols
• AI/ML operations experience
• CCNA/AWS certifications

 Company Overview:

     Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work with market-leading portfolio management and work management solutions. Planview is a recognized innovator and industry leader, our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Our solutions span every class of work, resource, and organization to address the varying needs of diverse and distributed teams, departments, and enterprises.

As a Sr CloudOps Engineer II, you will oversee teams of Engineers and be a champion for configuration management, technologies in the cloud, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with global leaders to ensure that our applications, infrastructure, and processes are scalable, secure, and supportable. By leveraging your production experience and development skills you will work hand in hand with Engineers (Dev, DevOps, DBOps) to design and implement solutions that improve delivery of value to customers, reduce costs, and eliminate toil.

     Responsibilities (What you will do):

•  Guide the professional development of Engineers and support the teams to accomplish business goals
• Work closely with leaders in the Israel to align on priorities and architect, deliver, and manage our products
• Build systems that are secure, scalable, and self-healing.
• Manage and improve deployment pipelines.
• Triage and remediate production issues.
• Participate in on-call rotations for escalations.

Qualifications (What you will bring):

•   Bachelor's degree is CS or equivalent experience in related field.
• 2+ years managing Engineering teams.
• 8+ years of experience as a site reliability or platform engineer, preferably in a fast-scaling environment
• 5+ years administering Linux and Windows environments.
• 3+ years programming / scripting experience (e.g., Python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
• Strong technical knowledge in OS’s (Linux and Windows), virtualizations, storage systems, networking, and firewall implementations
• Maintaining production environments in the On Premise (90%) and Cloud (10%) (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
• Solid understanding of networking principles and how it applies to data flow and security.
• Automating deployments of cloud based available services (e.g., AWS EC2 / RDS, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience managing CI/CD infrastructures, with a strong proficiency in platforms like bitbucket and Jenkins to streamline deployment pipelines and ensure efficient software delivery.
• Management of resources using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., CloudFormation, Terraform, Chef)
• Knowledge of observability tools such as LogicMonitor, New Relic, Prometheus, and Coralogix, as well as their implementation.
• Worked within Agile and Lean software development teams.
• Experience working in globally distributed teams.
• Ability to look on the big picture and manage risks.

• 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

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

We are hiring candidates who are looking to work in a cloud environment and ready to learn and adapt to the evolving technologies.

Linux Administrator Roles &  Responsibilities:

• 5+ or more years of professional experience with strong working expertise in Agile environments
• Deep knowledge in managing Linux servers.
• Managing Windows servers(Not Mandatory).
• Manage Web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Manage Application servers.
• Strong background & experience in any one scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Manage firewall rules.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL.
• Ready to learn and adapt to business requirements.
• Manage information security controls with best practises and processes.
• Support business requirements beyond working hours.
• Ensuring highest uptimes of the services.
• Monitoring resource usages.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• Knowledge in managing databases such as My SQL, MS SQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and cloud services like AWS, Azure is a plus. Candidates willing to learn will be preferred.
• Experience in managing web applications.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• 5+ years experience in the IT industry.

• Expertise in Infrastructure & Application design & architecture
• Expertise in AWS, OS & networking
• Having good exposure on Infra & Application security
• Expertise in Python, Shell scripting
• Proficient with Devops tools Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GIT
• Solid background in systems engineering and operations
• Strong in Devops methodologies and processes
• Strong in CI/CD pipeline & SDLC.