Sr. DevOps Engineer

REVIEW CRITERIA:

MANDATORY:

• Strong Hands-On AWS Cloud Engineering / DevOps Profile
• Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 12+ years of experience in AWS Cloud Engineering / Cloud Operations / Application Support
• Mandatory (Experience 2): Must have strong hands-on experience supporting AWS production environments (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Mandatory (Infrastructure as a code): Must have hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform in production environments
• Mandatory (AWS Networking): Strong understanding of AWS networking and connectivity (VPC design, routing, NAT, load balancers, hybrid connectivity basics)
• Mandatory (Cost Optimization): Exposure to cost optimization and usage tracking in AWS environments
• Mandatory (Core Skills): Experience handling monitoring, alerts, incident management, and root cause analysis
• Mandatory (Soft Skills): Strong communication skills and stakeholder coordination skills

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

We are looking for a hands-on AWS Cloud Engineer to support day-to-day cloud operations, automation, and reliability of AWS environments. This role works closely with the Cloud Operations Lead, DevOps, Security, and Application teams to ensure stable, secure, and cost-effective cloud platforms.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and support AWS production environments across multiple accounts
• Manage infrastructure using Terraform and support CI/CD pipelines
• Support Amazon EKS clusters, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Build and manage Docker images and push to Amazon ECR
• Monitor systems using CloudWatch and third-party tools; respond to incidents
• Support AWS networking (VPCs, NAT, Transit Gateway, VPN/DX)
• Assist with cost optimization, tagging, and governance standards
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Lambda, and Systems Manager

IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Strong hands-on AWS experience (EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, ALB, CloudWatch)
• Experience with Terraform and Git-based workflows
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes / EKS
• Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Scripting experience in Python or Bash
• Understanding of monitoring, incident management, and cloud security basics

NICE TO HAVE:

• AWS Associate-level certifications
• Experience with Karpenter, Prometheus, New Relic
• Exposure to FinOps and cost optimization practices

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer who can support deployment and monitor our Production, QE, and Staging environments performance. Applicants should have a strong understanding of UNIX internals and should be able to clearly articulate how it works. Knowledge of shell scripting & security aspects is a must. Any experience with infrastructure as code is a big plus. The key responsibility of the role is to manage deployments, security, and support of business solutions. Having experience in database applications like Postgres, ELK, NodeJS, NextJS & Ruby on Rails is a huge plus. At VakilSearch. Experience doesn't matter, passion to produce change matters

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infra components of VakilSearch’s product which are hosted in cloud services & on-prem facility
• Design, build tools and framework that support deploying and managing our platform & Exploring new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restore of different Env 
• Manage resources in a cost-effective, innovative manner including assisting subordinates ineffective use of resources and tools
• Resolve incidents as escalated from Monitoring tools and Business Development Team
• Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technology to protect our data
• Identify root cause for issues and develop long-term solutions to fix recurring issues and Document it
• Strong in performing production operation activities even at night times if required
• Ability to automate [Scripts] recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

I Qualification(s): 

• Experience in working with Linux Server, DevOps tools, and Orchestration tools 
• Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, CompTIA+, and any other certification are a value-add 

II Experience Required in DevOps Aspects:

• Length of Experience: Minimum 1-4 years of experience
• Nature of Experience: 
• Experience in Cloud deployments, Linux administration[ Kernel Tuning is a value add ], Linux clustering, AWS, virtualization, and networking concepts [ Azure, GCP value add ]
• Experience in deployment solutions CI/CD like Jenkins, GitHub Actions [ Release Management is a value add ]
• Hands-on experience in any of the configuration management IaC tools like Chef, Terraform, and CloudFormation [ Ansible & Puppet is a value add ]
• Administration, Configuring and utilizing Monitoring and Alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Zabbix, Datadog, etc
• Experience with Containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, and Kubernetes [ Docker swarm is a value add ]Good Scripting skills in at least one interpreted language - Shell/bash scripting or Ruby/Python/Perl
• Experience in Database applications like PostgreSQL, MongoDB & MySQL [DataOps]
• Good at Version Control & source code management systems like GitHub, GIT
• Experience in Serverless [ Lambda/GCP cloud function/Azure function ]
• Experience in Web Server Nginx, and Apache
• Knowledge in Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK, REST API [ MLOps Tools is a value add ]
• Knowledge in Puma, Unicorn, Gunicorn & Yarn
• Hands-on VMWare ESXi/Xencenter deployments is a value add
• Experience in Implementing and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancing & Web application firewalls
• Deploying, Configuring, and Maintaining Linux server systems ON premises and off-premises
• Code Quality like SonarQube is a value-add
• Test Automation like Selenium, JMeter, and JUnit is a value-add
• Experience in Heroku and OpenStack is a value-add 
• Experience in Identifying Inbound and Outbound Threats and resolving it
• Knowledge of CVE & applying the patches for OS, Ruby gems, Node, and Python packages  
• Documenting the Security fix for future use
• Establish cross-team collaboration with security built into the software development lifecycle 
• Forensics and Root Cause Analysis skills are mandatory 
• Weekly Sanity Checks of the on-prem and off-prem environment 

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• An understanding of programming languages such as Ruby, NodeJS, ReactJS, Perl, Java, Python, and PHP
• Good written and verbal communication skills to facilitate efficient and effective interaction with peers, partners, vendors, and customers

IV Age Group: 21 – 36 Years

V Cost to the Company: As per industry standards

Are you eager to kick-start your career in DevOps and learn the latest technologies to solve complex problems? Do you enjoy hands-on problem-solving, exploring cloud technologies, and supporting innovative solutions? At Aivar, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

In this role, you will assist in the implementation and support of DevOps practices, including containerization, orchestration, and CI/CD pipelines, while learning from industry experts.

This is an exciting opportunity to grow your skills and work on transformative projects in a collaborative environment.

Requirements

Preferred Technical Qualifications

• 2 – 5 years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or software development (internship experience is acceptable).
• Familiarity with container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
• Programming experience in Python, Java, or another language used in DevOps workflows.
• Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Willingness to learn advanced Kubernetes concepts and troubleshooting techniques.Preferred Soft Skills

Collaboration Skills:

• Willingness to work in cross-functional teams and support the alignment of technical solutions with business goals.
• Eager to learn how to work effectively with customers, engineers, and architects to deliver DevOps solutions.

Effective Communication:

• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to team members and stakeholders.
• Desire to improve documentation and presentation skills to share ideas effectively.

Problem-Solving Mindset:

• Curiosity to explore and learn solutions for infrastructure challenges in DevOps environments.
• Interest in learning how to diagnose and resolve issues in containerized and
•  distributed systems.

Adaptability and Continuous Learning:

• Strong desire to learn emerging DevOps tools and practices in a dynamic environment.
• Commitment to staying updated with trends in cloud computing, DevOps, and

Team-Oriented Approach:

• Enthusiastic about contributing to a collaborative team environment and supporting
• overall project goals.
• Open to feedback and actively sharing knowledge to help the team grow.

Certifications (Optional but Preferred)

• Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) or equivalent Linux Foundation
• certification
• Any beginner-level certifications in DevOps or cloud services are a plus. 
• Any AWS Certification

Why Join Aivar?

At Aivar, we are re-imagining analytics consulting by integrating AI and machine learning to create repeatable solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes. With a culture centered on innovation, collaboration, and growth, we provide opportunities to work on transformative projects across industries.

About Diversity and Inclusion

We believe diversity drives innovation and growth. Our inclusive environment encourages individuals of all backgrounds to contribute their unique perspectives to shape the future and analytics.

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

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 or Build & Deploy..

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 Summary

In this role, you will lead the DevOps function at the organisation and work through all

facets of software development: design, prototype, implementation, testing and

documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, implement, test and troubleshoot deployment strategies
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent. MS or higher degree
• preferred.
• Design continuous integration and delivery pipelines using latest tools and platformsv
• Demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience in Kubernetes, K8s-Ingress,
• Docker, AWS EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB, RDS, MongoDB, Helm, Rancher, Jenkins,
• VPN, GKE.
• Create high level deployment design (HLSD) documents and outline software solutions
• Strong DevOps Management experience with focus on server-side development and
• database design
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Strong understanding of web technologies, web services, communication protocols,
• (REST, SOAP API’s) and a proven track record in developing communication between
• desktop applications and web services
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Qualification

• Experience with working on code enhancements within a large, complex software
• system
• Create server side deployment primarily in the Cloud, Collaboration space
• 10+ years of relevant experience in developing and managing web/app products.
• Experience with a few of these languages: Shell, Ruby/ JRuby, Python, PowerShell, Java,
• Go
• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing highly scalable cloud applications
• using AWS,Google Cloud
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Basic understanding of cloud security and hands on experience in building secure
• systems.
• Prepare accurate implementation task lists / time estimates and deliver assignments as
• per functional specifications, quality standards and project schedulesvvvv

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.