DevOps Engineer

SarvaGram; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SarvaGram is seeking a DevOps Engineer to own and scale our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production reliability. You will collaborate with engineering, QA, and security to build automated, observable, and secure systems that enable fast and safe software delivery.

You will design and manage AWS environments, implement IaC, containers, CI/CD, and monitoring, contribute to incident response, and help reduce toil through tooling and best practices, empowering rural India with

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) – EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code – Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or ArgoCD.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Working knowledge of Git and modern branching strategies.
• Experience with monitoring and logging stacks – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals – DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, load balancing, and proxies.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience running databases in production – backups, replication, and basic performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) using IaC.
• Own environment management across development, staging, UAT, and production.
• Optimize cloud cost, right-size resources, and drive utilization.
• Manage networking components – VPCs, subnets, load balancers, DNS, VPN, firewall rules.
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across services.
• Automate build, test, artifact management, and deployment workflows.
• Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot workloads on Kubernetes (EKS or self-managed).
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs; drive MTTR down; on-call incident response.
• Implement secrets management, IAM, and security scanning in pipelines.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

DevOps experience

AWS cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Terraform / IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Linux administration

Python / Bash / Go

Git

Monitoring stacks

Networking basics

Ansible

Production DBs

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Pulumi

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK/EFK

Ansible

Job description

SarvaGram is building India’s first household centric, data led ‘high-tech high-touch’ FinTech platform to meet the growing aspirations of rural India, with a bouquet of financial and productivity enhancing offerings.

We achieve this by offering a suite of customized financial and capacity-building products designed to meet the unique requirements of rural households. From loans and insurance solutions to innovative services like Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS), we equip rural communities with the tools they need to prosper.

Job Description

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with 4–6 years of hands‑on experience to own and scale our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production reliability. You will work closely with engineering, QA, and security teams to build automated, observable, and secure systems that allow our developers to ship quickly and safely.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Cloud

• Design, provision, and manage cloud infrastructure (AWS) using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Own environment management across development, staging, UAT, and production.
• Optimize cloud cost, right‑size resources, and drive utilization improvements.
• Manage networking components – VPCs, subnets, load balancers, DNS, VPN, and firewall rules.

CI/CD & Automation

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across multiple services and repositories.
• Automate build, test, artifact management, and deployment workflows.
• Implement deployment strategies such as blue‑green, canary, and rolling releases.
• Reduce manual toil through scripting and internal tooling.

Containers & Orchestration

• Containerize applications and maintain image build standards and registries.
• Deploy, scale, and troubleshoot workloads on Kubernetes (EKS or self‑managed).
• Manage Helm charts, autoscaling, resource quotas, and cluster upgrades.

Monitoring, Reliability & Incident Response

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and distributed tracing across services.
• Define and track SLIs/SLOs; drive down MTTR and reduce alert noise.
• Participate in an on‑call rotation, lead incident response, and write postmortems.
• Plan and execute backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies.

Security & Compliance

• Implement secrets management, access controls, and least‑privilege IAM policies.
• Integrate security scanning (SAST/DAST, image and dependency scanning) into pipelines.
• Support audit and compliance requirements, including patching and vulnerability remediation.
• Partner with developers to improve build times, deployment frequency, and developer experience.
• Document architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Requirements

Required Skills & Experience

• 4–6 years of professional experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform, or Cloud Infrastructure roles.
• Strong hands‑on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred) – EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, ECS/EKS, CloudWatch, or equivalents.
• Production experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code – Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or ArgoCD.
• Solid Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Working knowledge of Git and modern branching strategies.
• Experience with monitoring and logging stacks – Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals – DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/S, TLS, load balancing, and proxies.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience running databases in production – backups, replication, and basic performance tuning.

Good to haves

• Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer, CKA, or CKAD.
• Experience with service mesh (Istio, Linkerd) or API gateways.
• Exposure to GitOps workflows (ArgoCD, Flux).
• Experience with message queues and streaming platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS).
• Prior experience in a regulated environment – BFSI, fintech, or healthcare.
• Familiarity with cost optimization tooling and FinOps practices.
• Exposure to chaos engineering or performance and load testing.

SarvaGram is on a mission to revolutionise financial services for millions in rural India. We're building the nation's first data‑driven platform that combines cutting‑edge technology with a human touch to unlock financial possibilities for underserved households.

This is your chance to be at the forefront of innovation. Join us and:

• Shape the future of FinTech: We're not just building a product, we're creating a new category. Be a part of defining the future of financial inclusion for rural India.
• Embrace a high‑growth, high‑impact environment: This is a non‑linear growth opportunity. Build a platform used by millions and witness the network effect drive massive scale.
• Tackle real‑world challenges: Apply your skills to solve critical problems and directly empower rural communities.
• Craft solutions that touch lives: Develop innovative products used by diverse household members, each with unique needs.