Senior SAP PPDS Consultant

Contract Job: DevOps / Azure DevOps

Contract Term: Max 3-6 months

Looking For Immediate joiners only

Remote Opportunity

• CI/CD, deployment, environment management, and release support
• This can be a shared capability/position as well

Job Summary:

We are seeking a highly skilled and proactive DevOps Engineer with 4+ years of experience to join our dynamic team. This role requires strong technical expertise across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and infrastructure as code (IaC). The ideal candidate should also have direct client-facing experience and a proactive approach to managing both internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and external clients to understand infrastructure requirements and implement DevOps best practices.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.).
• Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Manage and orchestrate containers using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Write robust automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting.
• Monitor system performance and availability, and ensure high uptime and reliability.
• Execute and optimize SQLqueries for MSSQL and PostgresQL databases.
• Maintain clear documentation and provide technical support to stakeholders and clients.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 4+ years of experience in a DevOps or related role.
• Proven experience in client-facing engagements and communication.
• Strong knowledge of AWS services – EC2, S3, RDS, ECS, etc.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Strong experience in setting up and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitHub.
• Solid understanding of SQL and working experience with MSSQL and PostgreSQL.
• Proficient in Python and Shell scripting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer) are a plus.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

You will be responsible for:

• Managing all DevOps and infrastructure for Sizzle
• We have both cloud and on-premise servers
• Work closely with all AI and backend engineers on processing requirements and managing both development and production requirements
• Optimize the pipeline to ensure ultra fast processing
• Work closely with management team on infrastructure upgrades

You should have the following qualities:

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, and CI/CD
• Deep experience in: Gitlab, Gitops, Ansible, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus
• Strong background in Linux system administration
• Deep expertise with AI/ML pipeline processing, especially with GPU processing. This doesn’t need to include model training, data gathering, etc. We’re looking more for experience on model deployment, and inferencing tasks at scale
• Deep expertise in Python including multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
• Performance profiling including memory, CPU, GPU profiling
• Error handling and building robust scripts that will be expected to run for weeks to months at a time
• Deploying to production servers and monitoring and maintaining the scripts
• DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
• Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including - creating & maintaining custom Docker images, deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services, monitoring of production Docker images with robust error handling
• Expertise in AWS infrastructure, networking, availability

Optional but beneficial to have:

• Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks
• Experience with image processing in python (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
• Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB (Or SQL familiarity)
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Skills:

DevOps, Ansible, CI/CD, GitLab, GitOps, Docker, Python, AWS, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, python, sqlalchemy, Linux / Ubuntu system administration

Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer

Salary: Will be commensurate with experience. 

Who Should Apply:

If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.

Work Experience: 3 years to 6 years

Devops Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for ensuring that our products can be seamlessly deployed on infrastructure, whether it is on-prem or on public clouds.

• Create, Manage and Improve CI / CD pipelines to ensure our Platform and Applications can be deployed seamlessly
• Evaluate, Debug, and Integrate our products with various Enterprise systems & applications
• Build metrics, monitoring, logging, configurations, analytics and alerting for performance and security across all endpoints and applications
• Build and manage infrastructure-as-code deployment tooling, solutions, microservices and support services on multiple cloud providers and on-premises
• Ensure reliability, availability and security of our infrastructure and products
• Update our processes and design new processes as needed to optimize performance
• Automate our processes in compliance with our security requirements
• Manage code deployments, fixes, updates, and related processes
• Manage environment where we deploy our product to multiple clouds that we control as well as to client-managed environments
• Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN. DevOps Engineer

Skills/Requirements:

• 2+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE or equivalent positions
• Experience working with Infrastructure as Code / Automation tools
• Experience in deploying, analysing, and debugging on multiple environments (AWS, Azure, Private Clouds, Data Centres, etc), Linux/Unix administration, Databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, DynamoDB, Cosmos DB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis (both managed instances as well as self-installed).
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell and / or Bash.
• Hands-on experience with the following is a must: Docker, Kubernetes, ELK Stack
• Hands-on experience with at least three of the following- Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Jenkins, Wazuh SIEM, Ansible, Ansible Tower ,Puppet ,Chef
• Good troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues.
• Strong communication skills and documentation skills.
• Experience with deployments with Fortune 500 or other large Global Enterprise clients is a big plus
• Experience with participating in an ISO27001 certification / renewal cycle is a plus.
• Understanding of Information Security fundamentals and compliance requirements

Work From Home

Start Up Background is preferred

Company Location: Noida

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

• Works independently without any supervision
• Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning. Someone with a knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Experience in deploying highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems.
• Stay abreast with new innovations and the latest technology trends and explore ways of leveraging these for improving the product in alignment with the business.
• As a component owner, where the component impacts across multiple platforms (5-10-member team), work with customers to obtain their requirements and deliver the end-to-end project.

Required Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer. Experience with the Golang cycle is a plus
• At least one End to End CI/CD Implementation experience
• Excellent Problem Solving and Debugging skills in DevOps area· Good understanding of Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Hands-on Build/Package tool experience· Experience with AWS services Glue, Athena, Lambda, EC2, RDS, EKS/ECS, ALB, VPC, SSM, Route 53
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipeline for Glue jobs, Athena, Lambda functions
• Experience architecting interaction with services and application deployments on AWS
• Experience with Groovy and writing Jenkinsfile
• Experience with repository management, code scanning/linting, secure scanning tools
• Experience with deployments and application configuration on Kubernetes
• Experience with microservice orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift, HashiCorp Nomad)
• Experience with time-series and document databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Prometheus)
• Experience with message buses (e.g. Apache Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with key-value stores and service discovery mechanisms (e.g. Redis, HashiCorp Consul, etc)
  
  

KaiOS is a mobile operating system for smart feature phones that stormed the scene to become the 3rd largest mobile OS globally (2nd in India ahead of iOS). We are on 100M+ devices in 100+ countries. We recently closed a Series B round with Cathay Innovation, Google and TCL.

What we are looking for:

• BE/B-Tech in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of overall commercial DevOps / infrastructure experience, cross-functional delivery-focused agile environment; previous experience as a software engineer and ability to see into and reason about the internals of an application a major plus
• Extensive experience designing, delivering and operating highly scalable resilient mission-critical backend services serving millions of users; experience operating and evolving multi-regional services a major plus
• Strong engineering skills; proficiency in programming languages
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-code tools, for example Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven ability to execute on a technical and product roadmap
• Extensive experience with iterative development and delivery
• Extensive experience with observability for operating robust distributed systems – instrumentation, log shipping, alerting, etc.
• Extensive experience with test and deployment automation, CI / CD
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and tooling, such as Terraform
• Extensive experience with AWS, including services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Elasticsearch, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, etc.
• Strong knowledge of backend and web technology; infrastructure experience with at-scale modern data technology a major plus
• Deep expertise in server-side security concerns and best practices
• Fluency with at least one programming language. We mainly use Golang, Python and JavaScript so far
• Outstanding analytical thinking, problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements

Designation: DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore OR Hongkong

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Notice period: 30 days or Less