DevOps Engineer

Kodo; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Kodo in Mumbai is seeking a DevOps Engineer to build and maintain a secure, scalable fintech platform. You will work with the engineering team to implement security best practices across the software development lifecycle.

You will manage Linux servers, Azure-based deployments, containerized workloads with Docker/Kubernetes, and observability stacks, while driving automation, reliability, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 2+ years Linux server administration with patching, RPM packaging, performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years Azure cloud experience implementing highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healing systems.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and CI/CD.
• Experience implementing Azure security best practices.
• Proficiency with Bash and at least one high-level scripting language.
• Familiarity with observability stacks like ELK/Prometheus/Grafana/Signoz.
• Infrastructure as Code and testing with Pulumi or Terraform.
• Hands-on with VM and container management using Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills to articulate technical problems to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Ensure applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performant.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and provide robust solutions.
• Develop deployment policies, new procedures, and patch planning for capacity upgrades.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to keep engineers informed of issues.
• Establish runbooks to minimize outages and automate recovery in production.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual work in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks, including peak times and security threats.
• Troubleshoot issues across software, applications, and network.
• Manage project priorities and deliverables within a self-organizing team.
• Share knowledge through code reviews and retrospectives.

Skills

Linux administration

CI/CD

Networking in cloud

Scripting (Bash)

Security best practices

Observability basics

Tools

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Pulumi

Terraform

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Signoz

Job description

Summary

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain a secure and scalable fintech platform. The ideal candidate will have experience with cloud computing, security, and automation. You will be responsible for working with the engineering team to implement security best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Location: Mumbai

Reports To: Principal Engineer, DevOps

What You’ll Be Doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management, and planning of patches and capacity upgrades.
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times, DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

You Must Have

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration including patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healing on Azure cloud platform.
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure.
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Signoz etc.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

Skills: kubernetes,azure,infrastructure