Staff Software Engineer - DevOps

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a key role in managing our cloud infrastructure, automating deployments, and ensuring high availability across our global server network. You’ll work closely with our technical team to optimize performance and scalability.

Responsibilities

✅ Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure (primarily Azure)

✅ Automate deployments using CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent)

✅ Monitor and optimize server performance & uptime (100% uptime goal)

✅ Work with cPanel-based hosting environments and ensure seamless operation

✅ Implement security best practices & compliance measures

✅ Troubleshoot system issues, scale infrastructure, and enhance reliability

Requirements

🔹 3-7 years of DevOps experience in cloud environments (Azure preferred)

🔹 Hands-on expertise in CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)

🔹 Proficiency in Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes

🔹 Strong knowledge of Linux system administration & networking

🔹 Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)

🔹 Security-first mindset & automation-driven approach

Why Join Us?

🚀 Work at a fast-growing startup backed by Microsoft

💡 Lead high-impact DevOps projects in a cloud-native environment

🌍 Hybrid work model with flexibility in Bangalore, Delhi, or Mumbai

💰 Competitive salary ₹12-30 LPA based on experience

How to Apply?

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About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Monitor and maintain the health of the production infrastructure, including load balancers, databases, and application servers.
• Automate the software development and delivery lifecycle, including code building, testing, deployment, and release.
• Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
• Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
• Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
• Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
• ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
• Design and implement database schemas.
• Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
• Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
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• Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer (or similar role) with experience in backed development.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
• Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
• Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
• Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Have worked in a product based company.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
• Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
• Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects

Job Description: DevOps Engineer 

About Hyno:

Hyno Technologies is a unique blend of top-notch designers and world-class developers for new-age product development. Within the last 2 years we have collaborated with 32 young startups from India, US and EU to to find the optimum solution to their complex business problems. We have helped them to address the issues of scalability and optimisation through the use of technology and minimal cost. To us any new challenge is an opportunity.

As part of Hyno’s expansion plans,Hyno, in partnership with Sparity, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our software development processes, optimising system infrastructure, and ensuring the seamless deployment of applications. If you are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability in software development, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Position: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 5-7 years

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
• Develop and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of resources.
• Constantly evaluate continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions as the industry evolves, and develop standardised best practices.
• Work closely with development teams to provide support and guidance in building applications with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Perform regular security assessments and implement best practices for securing the entire development and deployment pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and application performance in a timely manner.
• Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies in the DevOps and cloud space, and proactively suggest improvements to current processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, system administration, or related roles.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services like ECS, S3, RDS, and more.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell..
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with container (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, or Splunk.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team.

Nice to Have:

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), etc.
• Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Join us in shaping the future of DevOps at Hyno in collaboration with Sparity. If you are a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer, eager to make an impact in a remote setting, we'd love to hear from you.

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

As a DevOps Engineer with experience in Kubernetes, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of DevOps engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure. You will work closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure that the organization's systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable. 

Specific responsibilities will include: 

• Leading the team in the development and implementation of automation and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible. 
• Managing the organization's infrastructure using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications. 

• Ensuring that the organization's systems are secure and compliant with industry standards. 
• Collaborating with software developers to design and implement infrastructure as code. 
• Providing mentorship and technical guidance to team members. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in collaboration with other IT professionals. 
• Participating in the development and maintenance of the organization's disaster recovery and incident response plans. 

To be successful in this role, you should have strong leadership skills and experience with a variety of DevOps and infrastructure tools and technologies. You should also have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 

• Experience working in advanced iterative methodologies such as Agile and Safe.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working in complex and demanding environments with high degree of change.
• Ability to view system perspective and to perform thorough investigations.
• Experience in frequent delivery to production.
• Microservice-based architecture (Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD, ELK)
• Experience with modern software components (Mongo, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Expertise in software development methodologies.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SSH, SAML, etc.
• Possession of a deep knowledge of development workflows with Git.
• Experience with MySQL or another relational database Environment.
• Automation testing (component, integration and end2end)

We are a team of SysOps/DevOps engineers

with one goal in mind -to keep your online business up and running 24/7.Solving problems is

our thing, but we believe that dealing with the same issues over and over again is

unnecessary and counterproductive. Our objective is to find the ultimate solution for each

and every problem! Though, each one of us is different, we have the same goal: to make

our customer's life easier and enjoy it at the same time.

Scope & Responsibilities

As a Department Leader, you will be responsible for managing and mentoring the team of

Linux systems administrators on a daily basis. You will help build and grow the sys admins

team and lead them to success. As Systems Management Department Leader, you will work

both as a People Manager and a Senior Systems Administrator.

As Manager you will recruit and retain a high motivated and professional team of

administrators. Together with our CTO and HR team, youre going to define recruitment

needs in your team and participate in the recruitment process. You will also work on

improving the onboarding process for new employees.

More tech part of the job contains designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure

to match our customers needs and provide them with outstanding, safe and reliable

solutions.

This position requires you to be able to devise proactive solutions to project-related issues

and inspire trust in teammates. Are you a team player who is ready to work with our team to

find solutions and are AWS Certified ? We await your CV

Skills & Certifications

- Proven team building and management background (2+ years)

- Strong project, process and people management skills

- Excellent communication skills in English

- Strong background in Linux administration (4+ years experience)

- Amazon AWS certification preferred (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, IAM, KMS)

- Automation (we use Ansible)

- Infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)

- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and best practices

- Comfort with collaboration across multiple projects

- Ability to lead and coordinate team of professionals on daily basis

This position also requires you to be able to participate in on-call

schedules.Roles and Responsibilities