Senior Software Engineer - DevOps

Job Title : Azure DevOps Engineer

Experience Required : 7+ Years

Work Mode : Remote / Hybrid

Location : Remote

Notice Period : Immediate Joiners / Serving Candidates (within 20 days only)

Interview Mode : Face-to-Face or Virtual

Open Positions : 2

Job Description :

We are seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer with 7+ years of relevant experience in DevOps practices, especially around Azure infrastructure, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipeline management. The ideal candidate should have hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, GitHub, YAML, and Azure services, along with solid communication and coordination capabilities.

Mandatory Skills : Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, YAML, Bicep, Azure services (App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts), Unix scripting, and Azure Fundamentals certification.

Key Responsibilities :

• Manage deployments for Dynamics 365 and proxy applications
• Run and maintain ADO pipelines and GitHub Actions
• Ensure proper status updates on ADO Boards and deployed work items
• Coordinate with QA teams to execute smoke testing post-deployment
• Communicate deployment progress across team channels effectively
• Monitor deployment cycles, approval gates, logs, and alerts
• Ensure smooth integration of infrastructure and DevOps practices

Mandatory Skills :

• Minimum 7+ years in DevOps, with strong experience in Azure DevOps (ADO).
• Proven expertise in building pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub.
• Proficiency in Bicep, YAML scripting, and Azure Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).
• Hands-on with Azure services like :
• App Gateway, WAF, NSG, CosmosDB, Storage Accounts.
• vNet, Managed Identity, KeyVault, AppConfig, App Insights.
• Basic Azure Fundamentals Certification (AZ-900).
• Excellent communication skills in English.

Nice to Have :

• Experience in managing large enterprise-scale deployments.
• Familiarity with branching strategies and monitoring tools.
• Exposure to Approval Gates and Deployment Governance.

Job Title : Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience : 5+ Years

Location : Gurgaon, Sector 39

About the Role :

We are seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to lead our DevOps practices, manage a small team, and build functional, scalable systems that enhance customer experience. You will be responsible for deployments, automation, troubleshooting, integrations, monitoring, and team mentoring while ensuring secure and efficient operations.

Mandatory Skills :

Linux Administration, Shell Scripting, CI/CD (Jenkins), Git/GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible, Database Administration (MariaDB/MySQL/MongoDB), Apache httpd/Tomcat, HAProxy, Nagios, Keepalived, Monitoring/Logging/Alerting, and On-premise Server Management.

Key Responsibilities :

• Implement and manage integrations as per business and customer needs.
• Deploy product updates, fixes, and enhancements.
• Provide Level 2 technical support and resolve production issues.
• Build tools to reduce errors and improve system performance.
• Develop scripts and automation for CI/CD, monitoring, and visualization.
• Perform root cause analysis of incidents and implement long-term fixes.
• Ensure robust monitoring, logging, and alerting systems are in place.
• Manage on-premise servers and ensure smooth deployments.
• Collaborate with development teams for system integration.
• Mentor and guide a team of 3 to 4 engineers.

Required Qualifications & Experience :

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps engineering with team management exposure.
• Strong expertise in:
• Linux Administration & Shell Scripting
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or similar)
• Git/GitHub, branching, and code repository standards
• Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Ansible
• Database administration (MariaDB, MySQL, MongoDB)
• Web servers (Apache httpd, Apache Tomcat)
• Networking & Load Balancing tools (HAProxy, Keepalived)
• Monitoring & alerting tools (Nagios, logging frameworks)
• On-premise server management
• Strong debugging, automation, and system troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of security best practices including data encryption.

Personal Attributes :

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on reliability and performance.
• Ability to mentor juniors and collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Keen interest in emerging DevOps and cloud trends.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Sr Enterprise Software Architect with Cloud skills and preferably having either a GCP Associate or Professional Certification.

The requirement is to understand existing Enterprise Applications and help design a solution to enable Load balancing & Auto Scaling the application to meet certain KPIs.

Should be well versed with

1. Designing and Deploying Large enterprise software in Cloud
2. Understands Cloud fundamentals
3. DevOps & Kubernetes
4. Experience deploying cloud applications and monitoring operations
5. Preferably Google Cloud
6. Associate or Professional Certification.

About BootLabs

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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

We are seeking a passionate DevOps Engineer to help create the next big thing in data analysis and search solutions.

You will join our Cloud infrastructure team supporting our developers . As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be automating our environment setup and developing infrastructure as code to create a scalable, observable, fault-tolerant and secure environment. You’ll incorporate open source tools, automation, and Cloud Native solutions and will empower our developers with this knowledge. 

We will pair you up with world-class talent in cloud and software engineering and provide a position and environment for continuous learning.

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

• Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
• Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
• Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
• Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?

Your bucket of undertakings:

• This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in AWS
• Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation • Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. • • Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality. Highly organised and efficient. Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

• To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
• 6 - 10 years of experience with at least 5 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing
• (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
• Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as AWS and lean development methodologies.