Technology Engineer – DevOps PaaS

Job Role : DevOps Engineer (Python + DevOps)

Experience : 4 to 10 Years

Location : Hyderabad

Work Mode : Hybrid

Mandatory Skills : Python, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job Description :

We are looking for a skilled DevOps Engineer with expertise in Python, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience automating deployments, managing containerized applications, and ensuring infrastructure reliability.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and manage containerization and orchestration using Docker & Kubernetes.
• Automate deployments and infrastructure tasks using Ansible & Python.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for streamlined software delivery.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate DevOps best practices.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize system performance.
• Enforce security best practices in containerized environments.
• Provide operational support and contribute to continuous improvements.

Required Qualifications :

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/IT or related field.
• 4+ years of DevOps experience.
• Proficiency in Python and Ansible.
• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines.
• Experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Preferred Qualifications :

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools like Terraform.
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum practices.

• 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!

Job Description

Role Overview:

We're looking for a passionate DevOps engineer with a minimum of 10 years’ experience across all levels, who will work closely with the development teams in Agile setup to continuously improve, support, secure, and operate our production and test environments. We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way.

Our Toolchain

• Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, Fastlane, New Relic, Datadog, SonarQube, IaC
• Apache, Nginx, Linux, Ubuntu, Microservices, Python, Shell, Bash, Helm
• Selenium, Jmeter, Slack, Jira, SAST, OSSEC, OWASP
• Node.JS, PHP, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, Elastic search,
• VPC, API Gateway, Cognito, DocumentDB, ECS, Lambda, Route53, ACM, S3, EC2, IAM

You'll need:

• Production experience with distributed/scalable systems consisting of multiple microservices and/or high-traffic web applications
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosis to solution for Dev team issues
• Knowledge of how the web works and HTTP fundamentals
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience in agile development and delivery process.
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language. TecStub uses e.g. Nodes, PHP
• Experience in containerizing applications and deployment to production (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in building modern Terraform infrastructures in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc...)
• Experience in analysis of application and database performance monitoring tools (Newrelic, datalog, cluster control, etc..)
• Experience with SQL databases like MySQL, NoSQL, Realtime database stores like Redis, or anything in between.
• Experience being part of the engineering team that built the platform.
• Knowledge of good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software, and compliance.
• Familiarity with automated build pipeline / continuous integration using Gitlab and Jenkins and Kubernetes/Docker with this setup, we're deploying to production 2 times per day!

Interview Process:

The entire interview process would take approximately 10 Days.

1. HR Screening Call (15 minutes)
2. Technical Interview Round Level 1 (30 Minutes)
3. Technical Interview Round Level 2 (60 minutes)
4. Final Interview Round (60 minutes)
5. Offer

About Tecstub:

Tecstub is a renowned global provider of comprehensive digital commerce solutions for some of the world's largest enterprises. With offices in North America and Asia-Pacific, our team offers end-to-end solutions such as strategic Solution Consulting, eCommerce website and application development, and support & maintenance services that are tailored to meet our clients' unique business goals. We are dedicated to delivering excellence by working as an extended partner, providing next-generation solutions that are sustainable, scalable, and future-proof. Our passionate and driven team of professionals has over a decade of experience in the industry and is committed to helping our clients stay ahead of the competition.

We value our employees and strive to create a positive work environment that promotes work-life balance and personal growth. As part of our commitment to our team, we offer a range of benefits to ensure our employees are supported and motivated.

• A 5-day work week that promotes work-life balance and allows our employees to take care of personal responsibilities while excelling in their professional roles.
• 30 annual paid leaves that can be utilized for various personal reasons, such as regional holidays, sick leaves, or any other personal needs. We believe that taking time off is essential for overall well-being and productivity.
• Additional special leaves for birthdays, maternity and paternity events to ensure that our employees can prioritize their personal milestones without any added stress.
• Health insurance coverage of 3 lakhs sum insured for our employees, spouse, and children, to provide peace of mind and security for their health needs.
• Vouchers and gifts for important life events such as birthdays and anniversaries, to celebrate our employees' milestones and show appreciation for their contributions to the company.
• A dedicated learning and growth budget for courses and certifications, to support our employees' career aspirations and encourage professional development.
• Company outings to celebrate our successes together and promote a sense of camaraderie among our team members. We believe that celebrating achievements is an important part of building a positive work culture.

Skills

AWS, Terraform, KUBERNETES, GITHUB, APACHE, BASH, DOCKER, ANSIBLE, GIT, Microservices, UBUNTU, GITLAB, CI/CD, APACHE SERVER, NGINX, NODEJS

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.

Requirement
- 2 years experience as Team Lead.
- Good Command on kubernetes.
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

• Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
• Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
• Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
• Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
• Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
• Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
• Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
• Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
• Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.

• Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
• Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
• Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
• Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
• Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
• SCM systems - Git
• Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
• Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
• High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
• SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
• Decisive and ability to work under pressure
• Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
• Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
• Atlassian Datacenter products
• Project management skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
• Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field