DevOps Engineer - 2

GoKiwi; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

GoKiwi is hiring a DevOps/SRE professional to architect and operate scalable CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure in a fintech environment.

You will drive automation, build resilient, secure systems on AWS, and partner with backend teams to deploy microservices using IaC. Strong scripting and observability are essential, with a focus on cost, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• 2 to 4 years of hands‑on experience in DevOps/SRE or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS: EC2 VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, RDS, S3 CloudWatch, Route53 etc.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (preferably EKS), and containerized workloads.
• Solid skills in Terraform or similar IaC tools: you code, not click.
• Hands‑on with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.
• Comfortable with scripting (Bash, Python, Go).
• Prior experience with high‑availability, distributed systems is a plus.
• Keen eye for cost optimization, security best practices, and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Be the architect of automation, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that empower rapid and reliable releases.
• Scale cloud infrastructure across AWS services with performance, cost, and reliability in mind.
• Design resilient systems to ensure our fintech stack is always-on, always-secure, and always-fast.
• Drive observability by implementing real-time monitoring, alerting, and logging (Grafana, Prometheus, ELK).
• Work closely with backend and platform teams to roll out containerized workloads, microservices, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Own cloud security, infrastructure compliance, and audits as we scale towards millions of users.
• Solve real-world problems, infra bottlenecks, deployment issues, rollbacks, failovers, and more.

Skills

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

SRE practices

Cost optimization

Security best practices

Distributed systems

Scripting

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Jenkins

Job description

Responsibilities:

• Be the architect of automation, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that empower rapid and reliable releases.
• Scale cloud infrastructure across AWS services with performance, cost, and reliability in mind.
• Design resilient systems to ensure our fintech stack is always-on, always-secure, and always-fast.
• Drive observability by implementing real-time monitoring, alerting, and logging (think Grafana, Prometheus, ELK, etc. ).
• Work closely with backend and platform teams to roll out containerized workloads, microservices, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Own cloud security, infrastructure compliance, and audits as we scale towards millions of users.
• Solve real-world problems, infra bottlenecks, deployment issues, rollbacks, failovers, and more before they even happen.

Requirements:

• 2 to 4 years of hands‑on experience in DevOps/SRE or cloud infrastructure roles.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS: EC2 VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, RDS, S3 CloudWatch, Route53 etc.
• Experience working with Docker, Kubernetes (preferably EKS), and containerized workloads.
• Solid skills in Terraform or similar IaC tools: you don't click; you code.
• Hands‑on with CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, etc.
• Comfortable with scripting (Bash, Python, Go, whatever gets the job done).
• Prior experience working in high‑availability, distributed systems is a big plus.
• A keen eye for cost optimization, security best practices, and performance tuning.
• Bonus: Experience in fintech or building infrastructure for real-time payment systems.