DevOps Engineer - II

Keywords Studios Plc.; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech services company is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design secure CI/CD pipelines, manage production services, and mentor junior team members. Candidates should have over 5 years of experience, strong knowledge of UNIX systems, and proficiency in containerization and cloud technologies. This role is pivotal to ensuring the reliability and security of our infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of UNIX-like operating systems (Ubuntu).
• In-depth understanding of networking and security principles.
• Experience in building scalable solutions.
• Proficiency with IaC tools like Ansible, Terraform.
• Good scripting skills (Python, Shell).
• Strong communication and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Own Helpshift production services and monitor coverage.
• Collaborate with teams to integrate security practices.
• Conduct regular security assessments and penetration testing.
• Develop IaC templates for provisioning cloud resources.
• Monitor and respond to production incidents.
• Mentor Junior Team members.

Skills

DevSecOps

UNIX-like operating systems (Ubuntu)

Networking protocols

Security architectures

Identity and access management (IAM)

Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Cloud Computing (AWS, GCP)

NoSQL and RDBMS management

Queuing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Scripting (Python, Shell, Perl)

Automation mindset

Mentoring

Analytical skills

Documentation skills

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Puppet

Terraform

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Heroku

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Hadoop

Job description

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines for automating deployment, configuration, and testing processes.
• Own Helpshift production services and ensure complete monitoring coverage, troubleshoot and fix production issues.
• Build a seamless zero-downtime process to upgrade our core infrastructure (ScyllaDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis)Move us to a region with no downtime. Build a cloud infrastructure that’ll be easy to move to a different cloud service provider.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to integrate security practices into the software development lifecycle.
• Conduct regular security assessments, vulnerability scans, and penetration testing to identify and mitigate security risks.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) templates for provisioning and configuring cloud resources securely.
• Monitor and respond to production incidents, including investigation, containment, and remediation activities.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices, and make recommendations for continuous improvement.
• You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the security, scalability, and reliability of our infrastructure and applications.
• You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to implement security best practices throughout the development lifecycle, automate security processes, and enhance our overall DevSecOps capabilities.
• Mentor Junior Team members

Qualifications

• Relevant experience of 5+ years and above.
• In-depth knowledge of running/managing UNIX-like operating systems (we use Ubuntu).
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols, security architectures, and identity and access management (IAM) principles.
• Experience with containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and securing containerised environments.
• Experience in Designing and building solutions that are highly scalable, fault tolerant and cost-effective
• Experience of various FOSS tools for monitoring, graphing, capacity planning, and logging.
• Experience with IaaC tools like Ansible, Puppet, Terraform.
• Experience with Cloud Computing platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Heroku.
• Experience with managing NoSQL and RDBMS
• Experience with queuing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and Big data platforms (Hadoop)
• Good programming skills with focus on scripting (Python, Shell, Perl).
• Ability to analyse bottlenecks in architecture and quickly debug to reach resolution for issues
• Have an automation mindset and ability to reason and work with complex systems.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Quick learner and good mentor for junior team members