DevOps Engineer

Travclan; New Delhi; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Travclan is a Delhi-based B2B travel tech startup hiring for a DevOps/SRE/SecOps role. You will design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure, own CI/CD pipelines, and implement IaC. The role requires 2-5 years of relevant experience and strong expertise in containers, cloud platforms, and security practices.

The position offers exposure to a modern tech stack (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD) and opportunities for rapid career growth in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Security Operations (or a combined role).
• Experience building, deploying, and operating cloud infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Solid experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable).

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/self-managed).
• Set up and maintain observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic, or similar).
• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling initiatives.
• Own incident response for infrastructure/production issues, participate in on-call rotations, conduct RCAs and blameless postmortems.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual toil.

Skills

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

SRE/DevOps

Security operations

Scripting

On-call experience

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Terraform

Ansible

Chef/Puppet

Maven/Nexus

EKS

GKE

Docker

Kubernetes

Redis

Elasticsearch

RabbitMQ

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Job description

We are B2B Travel Tech startup that is reshaping the way travel agents sell and deliver exceptional travel experiences worldwide. We enable travel agents to book flights, hotels & holidays conveniently and we provide comprehensive end-to-end on-ground travel services. We do over INR 1000 crore+ GMV (sales) and are growing rapidly.

Our strong business model and focus on delivering excellent customer experience has facilitated our sustainable growth funded by internal cashflows. To fuel innovation and growth, we have raised USD 5.5mn+ funds from marquee global investors!

What is on offer:

• Best combination of Salary: INR 14 to 25 LPA
• Work on Best Tech Stack - AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Ansible, EKS, GKE, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Learn from Best Mentors with Cumulative 50+ years of experience in Tech who previously worked in 4 unicorns
• Work with a young & passionate team to excel and make an impact
• Work closely with the founders
• Build world class tech products and leverage technology to drive growth globally!
• Fast Career Growth with fast appraisals and fast salary increase
• Super passionate team with deep conviction which has stayed together during covid.
• Very high ownership role in a fast-paced environment
• Great Culture -> No hierarchy/politics nonsense guaranteed!

Growth Path:

• VP/Director - 40-50 LPA
• Manager/ Tech Lead - 25-40 LPA
• APM/SDE 2 - 14-25 LPA
• Analyst/SDE 1 - 7-14 LPA

About us

The founding team has aced their respective leadership roles at successful internet startups in India, which are as follows:

• Ashish: Cofounder, leads technology, Ex CTO Cars24, CTO FabFurnish, Gaadi.
• Chirag: Cofounder, leads business, Ex Oyo, TravelTriangle, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Roorkee.
• Shrawan: VP Engineering, 20+ yrs Tech exp, Ex CTO Millenium Entertainment, One Kosmos
• Rajesh:Director Engineering, 15+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Hike, Foodpanda

Key Responsibilities:

DevOps / Infrastructure

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/self-managed).
• Set up and maintain observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic, or similar).
• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling initiatives.
• Own incident response for infrastructure/production issues, participate in on-call rotations, conduct RCAs and blameless postmortems.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual toil.

SecOps / Security

• Own the security posture of cloud infrastructure, including IAM policies, network security, VPC/firewall configurations, and secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.).
• Implement and monitor security controls across CI/CD (SAST/DAST, dependency & container vulnerability scanning).
• Set up and manage SIEM/logging for security monitoring, threat detection, and alerting.
• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, penetration test coordination, and remediation tracking.
• Define and enforce security best practices: least-privilege access, encryption at rest/in transit, key rotation policies.
• Drive compliance initiatives (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR as applicable) and support audits.
• Build and maintain security runbooks, playbooks, and internal documentation.
• Respond to security incidents, including triage, containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident hardening.

Must have technical skills

• Proficiency in cloud services (AWS or Google Cloud Platform) and containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Hands-on experience with:

- Scripting (Shell/Bash/Python)

• Expertise with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Maven/Nexus, EKS, GKE) and configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Redis, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ for scalable and high-performance applications.
• Working understanding of core security concepts: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
• Experience with monitoring/observability and log management tools.

Check if you fit in the role

You Must

• Have 2-5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Security Operations (or a combined role).
• Be experienced with building, deploying, and operating tech infrastructure and applications.
• Be skilled in making software updates and fixing issues in deployments.
• Have strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable).
• Have solid experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Have strong incident management and on-call experience.
• Collaborate with different teams to improve and streamline DevOps and security processes.
• Bring strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure, deployment, and security issues.
• Coordinate vulnerability assessments and penetration tests, and track remediation.
• Bring familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) as a strong plus.
• Bring prior experience in a fintech, travel-tech, or high-transaction-volume product company as a plus.
• Communicate excellently and work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership.

You Want to

• Drive technical excellence, automation, and a strong security posture.
• Grow in a fast-paced environment.

This role is not ideal for someone who is

• Is not comfortable being available during odd hours / at night for support and incident response.
• Has not worked on multiple backend applications independently.
• Is not self-motivated to keep up with the rapidly evolving DevOps and security ecosystem.
• Is not comfortable with long working hours.
• Is not comfortable working 5 days a week from the office in Delhi.
• Office Location- Connaught Place, Delhi
• Work Timings - You are considering joining a startup. Building anything of value takes time.