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Amura’s Vision 

We believe that the most under-appreciated route to releasing untapped human potential is to build a healthier body, and through which a better brain. This allows us to do more of everything that is important to each one of us.

Billions of healthier brains, sitting in healthier bodies, can take up more complex problems that defy solutions today, including many existential threats, and solve them in just a few decades.

Billions of healthier brains will make the world richer beyond what we can imagine today. The surplus wealth, combined with better human capabilities, will lead us to a new renaissance, giving us a richer and more beautiful culture.

These healthier brains will be equipped with deeper intellect, be less acrimonious, more magnanimous, and have a kinder outlook on the world, resulting in a world that is better than any previous time.

We find this vision of the future exhilarating. Our hopes and dreams are to create this future as quickly as possible and ensure that it is widely distributed and optimized to maximize all forms of human excellence. 

Role Overview 

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer (AI-Native Infrastructure & Platform Engineering) with deep expertise in AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, AI infrastructure operations, and modern DevOps/SRE practices.

This role goes beyond traditional DevOps and requires a seasoned specialist capable of building and operating AI-ready infrastructure platforms that support high-throughput APIs, LLM/AI workloads, GPU-based compute, data-intensive systems, real-time inference pipelines, and scalable ML platforms.

You will be responsible for architecting, automating, securing, and optimizing highly scalable and cost-efficient cloud environments that enable high-velocity engineering and AI teams. This is an ideal position for someone who combines technical ownership, an automation-first mindset, and a passion for developer productivity and platform reliability. 

Key Responsibilities 

Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering (AWS) 

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly scalable and secure infrastructure on AWS. Design cloud platforms supporting AI/ML workloads, data pipelines, real-time APIs, and high-concurrency backend systems.
• Hands-on expertise with key AWS services including EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, CloudFront, IAM, CloudWatch, and GPU-enabled instances.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or AWS CDK.
• Design multi-AZ and multi-region architectures for high availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR).
• Build reusable platform templates and shared infrastructure modules. 

AI/ML Infrastructure & MLOps 

• Build and maintain infrastructure for LLM applications, AI inference workloads, model serving platforms, vector databases, and feature stores.
• Support GPU-based workloads and optimize compute/storage usage.
• Enable scalable deployment patterns for AI applications using Kubernetes/EKS. Collaborate with Data Science and ML Engineering teams on model deployment, training/tuning of models, CI/CD for ML systems, experiment environments, and reproducibility.
• Support orchestration and deployment of AI workflows and inference services while implementing observability and reliability for AI pipelines. 

CI/CD, Automation & Developer Productivity 

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Automate deployments, environment provisioning, and release workflows.
• Build self-service developer platforms, preview environments, and reusable deployment workflows to improve developer productivity.
• Implement automated patching, scaling, backups, cleanup workflows, and drift detection. 

Containers, Kubernetes & Platform Reliability

• Manage Docker-based environments, containerized applications, and optimize workloads using Kubernetes (EKS) or ECS/Fargate.
• Manage autoscaling, cluster health, node pools, ingress, service mesh, and workload isolation.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, resilience, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement progressive deployment strategies including blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments. 

Observability, Incident Response & SRE Practices

• Implement observability stacks using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or New Relic.
• Build actionable dashboards and intelligent alerting systems while defining and tracking SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless postmortems to reduce operational toil and improve MTTR.

FinOps, Cost Governance & Security

• Continuously monitor and optimize cloud costs (compute utilization, storage lifecycle, GPU usage, and data transfer) using AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets, Trusted Advisor, CloudHealth, or Kubecost.
• Implement AWS security best practices for IAM, VPCs, security groups, NACLs, encryption, and manage secrets using KMS, SSM Parameter Store, or Vault.
• Build secure CI/CD pipelines with automated security checks, least-privilege access, audit logging, and ensure compliance readiness for ISO 27001, SOC2, and GDPR.

Collaboration, Leadership & Platform Culture

• Work closely with engineering, AI/ML, QA, product, and operations teams to drive a DevOps, SRE, GitOps, and automation-first culture.
• Mentor junior DevOps and Platform Engineers while creating and maintaining detailed runbooks, architecture diagrams, and platform documentation.

Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have:

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud architecture, services, and deep understanding of Kubernetes (EKS), containers, and cloud-native systems.
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code expertise using Terraform, CloudFormation, or CDK. Strong Linux administration, networking, DNS, routing, and load balancing knowledge. Strong scripting/programming experience in Python, Bash, or Go (preferred). Experience with CI/CD automation, GitOps workflows, and observability platforms supporting scalable production systems.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Preferred / Nice-to-Have:

• Experience with AI/ML infrastructure, MLOps, model serving, vector databases, GPU orchestration, and inference optimization.
• Familiarity with Kafka, Redis, SQS, and event-driven systems.
• Exposure to platform engineering, internal developer platforms, and tools like ArgoCD, Flux, Helm, and OpenTelemetry.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, or SysOps Administrator. Knowledge of distributed systems and large-scale platform operations. 

Here are answers to some questions you may have

Where is your office?

Chennai (Velachery)

Work Model

Work from Office – because great stories are built in person!

Do you have an online presence?

https://amura.ai (we are @AmuraHealth on all social media)

Role Proficiency:

Leverage expertise in a technology area (e.g. Java Microsoft technologies or Mainframe/legacy) to design system architecture.

Knowledge Examples:

• Domain/ Industry Knowledge: Basic knowledge of standard business processes within the relevant industry vertical and customer business domain

1. Technology Knowledge: Demonstrates working knowledge of more than one technology area related to own area of work (e.g. Java/JEE 5+ Microsoft technologies or Mainframe/legacy) customer technology landscape multiple frameworks (Struts JSF Hibernate etc.) within one technology area and their applicability. Consider low level details such as data structures algorithms APIs and libraries and best practices for one technology stack configuration parameters for successful deployment and configuration parameters for high performance within one technology stack
2. Technology Trends: Demonstrates working knowledge of technology trends related to one technology stack and awareness of technology trends related to least two technologies
3. Architecture Concepts and Principles: Demonstrates working knowledge of standard architectural principles models patterns (e.g. SOA N-Tier EDA etc.) and perspective (e.g. TOGAF Zachman etc.) integration architecture including input and output components existing integration methodologies and topologies source and external system non functional requirements data architecture deployment architecture architecture governance
4. Design Patterns Tools and Principles: Applies specialized knowledge of design patterns design principles practices and design tools. Knowledge of documentation of design using tolls like EA
5. Software Development Process Tools & Techniques: Demonstrates thorough knowledge of end-to-end SDLC process (Agile and Traditional) SDLC methodology programming principles tools best practices (refactoring code code package etc.)
6. Project Management Tools and Techniques: Demonstrates working knowledge of project management process (such as project scoping requirements management change management risk management quality assurance disaster management etc.) tools (MS Excel MPP client specific time sheets capacity planning tools etc.)
7. Project Management: Demonstrates working knowledge of project governance framework RACI matrix and basic knowledge of project metrics like utilization onsite to offshore ratio span of control fresher ratio SLAs and quality metrics
8. Estimation and Resource Planning: Working knowledge of estimation and resource planning techniques (e.g. TCP estimation model) company specific estimation templates
9. Working knowledge of industry knowledge management tools (such as portals wiki) company and customer knowledge management tools techniques (such as workshops classroom training self-study application walkthrough and reverse KT)
10. Technical Standards Documentation & Templates: Demonstrates working knowledge of various document templates and standards (such as business blueprint design documents and test specifications)
11. Requirement Gathering and Analysis: Demonstrates working knowledge of requirements gathering for ( non functional) requirements analysis for functional and non functional requirement analysis tools (such as functional flow diagrams activity diagrams blueprint storyboard) techniques (business analysis process mapping etc.) and requirements management tools (e.g.MS Excel) and basic knowledge of functional requirements gathering. Specifically identify Architectural concerns and to document them as part of IT requirements including NFRs
12. Solution Structuring: Demonstrates working knowledge of service offering and products

Additional Comments:

Looking for a Senior Java Architect with 12+ years of experience. Key responsibilities include:

• Excellent technical background and end to end architecture to design and implement scalable maintainable and high performing systems integrating front end technologies with back-end services.

• Collaborate with front-end teams to architect React -based user interfaces that are robust, responsive and aligned with overall technical architecture.

• Expertise in cloud-based applications on Azure, leveraging key Azure services.

• Lead the adoption of DevOps practices, including CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring and logging to ensure reliable and efficient deployment cycles.

• Provide technical leadership to development teams, guiding them in building solutions that adhere to best practices, industry standards and customer requirements.

• Conduct code reviews to maintain high quality code and collaborate with team to ensure code is optimized for performance, scalability and security.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to defined requirements and deliver technical solutions aligned with business goals.

• Excellent communication skills

• Mentor team members providing guidance on technical challenges and helping them grow their skill set.

• Good to have experience in GCP and retail domain.

Skills: Devops, Azure, Java

Must-Haves

Java (12+ years), React, Azure, DevOps, Cloud Architecture

Strong Java architecture and design experience.

Expertise in Azure cloud services.

Hands-on experience with React and front-end integration.

Proven track record in DevOps practices (CI/CD, automation).

Notice period - 0 to 15days only

Location: Hyderabad, Chennai, Kochi, Bangalore, Trivandrum

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Role: Account Manager

Location- Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Chennai, Hyderabad

Role Overview:

• Establish relationships with new customers and secure contracts that achieve assigned sales

quotas and targets

• Drive the entire sales cycle from initial customer engagement to closed sales

• Prospect for potential customers using various direct methods such as calling and face to face

meetings, and indirect methods such as networking

• Qualify prospects against company criteria for ideal customers and sales

• Consult with prospect about business challenges and requirements, as well as the range of options

and cost benefits of each

• Maintain a high level of relevant domain knowledge in order to have meaningful conversations

with prospects

• Work with technical staff and product specialists where required to address customer

requirements

• Develop and maintain territory plans which outline how sales targets will be met on an ongoing

basis

• Keep detailed notes on prospect and customer interactions

• Maintains regular contact via phone/on-site visits with customers to ensure satisfaction

• Provide forecasts on best case and most likely sales volumes over relevant time periods

• Work with marketing to plan and execute lead generation campaigns

• Provide feedback to sales management on ways to decrease the sales cycle, enhance sales, and

improve company brand and reputation

• Provide feedback to company management on market trends, competitive threats, unmet needs,

and opportunities to deliver greater value to customers by extending company offerings

• Identify sales support requirements and work with marketing to develop improve sales tools

• Conduct all sales activities with the highest degree of professionalism and integrity

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in an engineering or any allied domain with experience in software sales

• Having CAD/CAM/CAE/PLM or allied solution sales/ technical experience would be an added

advantage

• Good knowledge of local market

• Ability to develop new business opportunities

• Excellent communication and organizational skills and the ability to work independently

• Ability to travel upto 70%

The Benefits

• Challenging job within a young and dynamic team

Profile: AWS Data Engineer

Mode- Hybrid

Experience- 5+7 years

Locations - Bengaluru, Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and maintain ETL pipelines using AWS Glue and Python/PySpark
• Optimize SQL queries for Redshift and Athena
• Develop Lambda functions for serverless data processing
• Configure AWS DMS for database migration and replication
• Implement infrastructure as code with CloudFormation
• Build optimized data models for performance
• Manage RDS databases and AWS service integrations
• Troubleshoot and improve data processing efficiency
• Gather requirements from business stakeholders
• Implement data quality checks and validation
• Document data pipelines and architecture
• Monitor workflows and implement alerting
• Keep current with AWS services and best practices

Required Technical Expertise:

• Python/PySpark for data processing
• AWS Glue for ETL operations
• Redshift and Athena for data querying
• AWS Lambda and serverless architecture
• AWS DMS and RDS management
• CloudFormation for infrastructure
• SQL optimization and performance tuning

Company: A cyber security company, helping leaders continuously improve their security posture.

Team Size: 200 +

Responsibilities

• Analyze, plan, and develop requirements (and standards) for scheduled projects.
• Assign and oversee the daily tasks of technical personnel while ensuring the team is working toward established milestones.
• Hold regular team meetings to determine the progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects.
• Determine and define clear deliverables, roles, and responsibilities for security engineers required for specific projects or initiatives.
• Research and evaluate different trends and technology in the cyber space and articulate the same to the team.
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability management tools and strong technical understanding and experience assessing vulnerabilities and identifying weaknesses in multiple operating system platforms, database, and application servers.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate through all parts of the business.
• High performance skillset which not only understands the threat spaces as it relates to risks, but also is able to meet the technical challenge of communicating this out to our teams/customers.
• Leadership skills which bring out the best in the team. This includes both direct leadership but also cross-functional capabilities.
• 5+ years in a vulnerability management program. Knowing not only how to assess vulnerabilities, but prioritize and drive remediation of the same.
• Ability to communicate at the executive leadership levels. Understanding how to translate technical gaps to business risk is critical for communication in this role.
• Reporting gaps in a meaningful way that addresses a business risk as well as providing technical solutions to the operations teams in remediation is key.
• Experience in interacting with auditors and regulators.
• Travel to client location (within India and abroad) as and when required.
• Conduct exit briefing and presentation to clients and relevant stakeholders.
• Work with pre-sales on technical proposals and RFP responses.
• Certification in Project Management or related technical field will be an added advantage.
• Experience in working in a high-level collaborative environment and promoting teamwork
• Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.

Education : Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience

Experience : 12 -16 years

Location : Chennai (Hybrid)

Compensation: Best in Industry

Why should we talk?

We are a bunch of passionate cybersecurity professionals who are building a culture of security. Today, cybersecurity is no more a luxury but a necessity with a global market value of $150 Billion. Our vision is to make cybersecurity available for all, not just the Fortune 500 companies.

We live by a people-first approach. We firmly believe that our employees should enjoy what they do. For our employees, we provide a hybrid work environment with a competitive best in industry pay, while providing them with an environment to learn, thrive, and grow. Our hybrid working environment allows employees to work from the comfort of their homes or the office if they choose to. For the right candidate, this will feel like your second home.

If you are passionate about cybersecurity just as we are, we would love to pick your brains.

Job Title : Analyst / Sr. Analyst – Data Science Developer - Python

Exp : 2 to 5 yrs

Loc : B’lore / Hyd / Chennai

NP: Candidate should join us in 2 months (Max) / Immediate Joiners Pref.

Responsibilities and qualifications

• 5+ years of Android development experience
• Will own several parts of our tech stack, but primarily our Android app
• Build new functionality to the Android app and regularly re-architect it to keep up with latest technologies (e.g., Kotlin)
• Work on new tech that we are already a leading user of (e.g., Google Firebase)
• Work closely with the backend team to construct creative solutions
• Optimize, improve efficiency, scalability, stability of application
• MUST BE reliable, and be able to communicate clearly
• MUST BE able to own and deliver their own work within deadlines, professionally
• Should be passionate about building a strong engineering culture

Bonus Points for experience building high-scale applications, SDKs and other web technologies (like JavaScript).

Who we are

• Fast growing Chennai-based startup (with venture funding)
• Led by strong engineers with significant experience at top tier firms like McKinsey, Oracle, Morgan Stanley, and authors of multiple Java Standards
• Building an awesome product already used by Swigg etc.
• Raised investment, so this role will not vanish in a few months
• Mentors include the Vice Chairman of HCL, Chairman of Singapore Airlines, Senior leaders from LinkedIn etc.

Other background information

• Looking for strong, passionate developers who want to join our team and grow
• We move fast, and will make you an offer in a few days for the right person
• The job location will be in Chennai (it is the SaaS capital of India)
• Please only apply if you are open to moving to Chennai (or are already here)
• This won't be a 10 - 6 job, but you will be given amazing responsibilities
• You will learn a ton, have a lot of flexibility, and have fun while doing it!

Job Perks

• Daily breakfast
• Friday team lunches
• Macbook 
• Office near beach (for when people return after COVID)
• Potential for stock options (in lakhs)
• Stipend to attend conferences
• Potential travel to Singapore and other client locations