DevOps Engineer

Sense; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

Professional Development allowance

Wellness Days

Job summary

Sense is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Bengaluru, India, to manage and own cloud infrastructure and backend services. The role requires 2+ years of hands-on experience with technologies like Kafka, Redis, and AWS, focusing on automation and performance.

The candidate will automate cloud operations and ensure monitoring coverage, addressing critical issues effectively. Additional perks include equity and medical insurance.

Qualifications

• 2+ years hands-on experience in Infrastructure and Backend Services in a cloud environment.
• Experience with networking and system fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of load balancers and web servers.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage infrastructure that supports Sense Application.
• Automate Cloud Operations and ensure monitoring coverage.
• Address critical issues and implement long-term remediation.

Skills

Infrastructure management

Cloud Operations automation

Scripting

Linux systems administration

Distributed systems understanding

Tools

AWS

Ansible

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Redis

Mysql

Postgres

Job description

• As part of the SRE team you will be owning and managing the infrastructure (Compute, Data Stores, Cloud Services, etc) that power Sense Application and Services.
• Devise solutions that address performance, scale and architectural issues, that arise as the Business and Engineering complexity grows.
• Heavy focus on automating all aspects of Cloud Operations, such as Infrastructure (InfraAsCode), Configuration Management, Monitoring & Alerting, Performance Insights, Infra Costs, and so on.
• Ensure monitoring coverage of all Production services, and be part of On call rotation to monitor and address critical issues, with a focus on actions that result in long-term remediation.

Role and Responsibilities

• 2+ years hands‑on experience building and maintaining modern Infrastructure and Backend Services like Kafka, Elasticsearch, Redis, Mysql, Postgres, etc in a cloud based environment, such as AWS.
• Experience administrating and maintaining Linux systems serving Production traffic and workloads, with strong focus on networking and system fundamentals. Container technologies is a plus.
• Strong scripting and high‑level programming knowledge and experience specifically to systems and related tooling.
• Strong understanding of major infrastructure components, such as Load balancers, Web Servers, Databases, Queueing systems, etc.
• Good understanding of modern distributed systems, their architecture, trade offs and operability concerns and solutions.
• Capable of multi‑tasking and be willing to adapt to changes quickly in a startup environment.
• Being able to own a project end‑to‑end while being proactive about updates/blockers, with getting things done (GTD) attitude.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficient with AWS IaaS products (EC2, VPC, S3, etc).
• Proficient and has hands‑on experience working with Ansible.
• Proficient with container technologies beyond Docker, such as Podman, and Container Orchestration systems such as ECS, or Nomad.

Additional Information

• Equity
• Medical insurance for employees and dependents
• Quarterly Professional Development allowance
• Company Wellness Days (On months without holidays, you are still given a 3‑day weekend)

Sense is an equal‑opportunity employer.

We believe that diversity, inclusion, and belonging are integral to our success and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, age, or any other basis protected by law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.