DevOps Engineer (with Apache Kafka)

CodeClouds; Kolkata District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

CodeClouds is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Kolkata to join our fast-moving, agile teams. You will work across cloud platforms to build and maintain scalable infrastructure and microservices, with a focus on automation, security, and continuous delivery.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of DevOps experience, strong Kubernetes/Docker skills, and hands-on Kafka, Terraform, and cloud tooling expertise. This role offers growth and exposure to modern cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
• 3–5 years in DevOps and cloud computing.
• Strong Kubernetes/Docker experience; GKE or EKS.
• Experience with IaC: Terraform or Ansible.
• Proficient with CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Bamboo.
• Cloud experience: GCP and/or AWS.
• Must have Apache Kafka experience.
• Experience with microservices at scale.
• Knowledge of security tooling and compliance basics.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud platforms and supporting apps.
• Advance continuous delivery and DevOps maturity.
• Develop and implement integrated DevSecOps capabilities.
• IaC development and maintenance using Terraform/Ansible.
• Participate in requirements analysis, design and execution.
• Improve applications and drive innovation.
• Collaborate effectively with team members.
• Ensure security and regulatory compliance.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud computing

Apache Kafka

Microservices

Release Engineering

Security & compliance

Networking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE

EKS

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Travis CI

Bamboo

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic Stack

SonarQube

HashiCorp Vault

Harbor

Job description

We have an opening for a DevOps Engineer job in Kolkata! The position will require working in both agile and dynamic project environments. The preferred candidate should have a Bachelor’s degree and possess at least 3 years of prior experience with DevOps, cloud computing, and Apache Kafka experience.

Role And Responsibilities

• Build and maintain our cloud platforms and support applications, demonstrating agile and dynamic software support capabilities.
• Contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.
• Developing and implementing integrated and automated for our DevSecOps capability for our applications.
• Responsible for development and maintenance of infrastructure configuration as a code (IaC) using configuration systems such as Terraform, Ansible.
• Participate in requirements / user story analysis, design, and execution.
• Continually focus on improving the applications and innovation.
• Work effectively in collaboration with other team members.
• Be responsible for security and compliance.
• Troubleshoot incidents and perform root cause analysis.

Required Professional and Technical Expertise

• 3-5 years of work experience primarily in DevOps and cloud computing.
• Strong experience in Container Management systems like Docker and Docker Swarm or Vanilla Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Amazon EKS.
• Solid understanding of Linux internals along with Release Engineering (Branching, versioning, tagging, etc,.).
• Act as support SPOC for Devops and System Administration and components.
• Strong experience in any of the following DevOps tools: Jenkins (prefer), Gitlab CI/CD, Github Actions, Travis CI, atlassian bamboo.
• Experience with Ansible or Terraform a plus.
• Provide direct technical support as needed in the planning, coordination, installation, implementation and testing of releases, upgrades, or changes to unix/ Linux operating system, network, and component software.
• Experience in cloud platforms Google Cloud Platform (GCP) / AWS.
• Experience in delivering micro services at scale; designing micro services solutions.
• Hands-on networking / network configuration experience a plus.
• Experience in Application performance monitoring, Container performance and security.
• Familiarity with the Kubernetes eco-system projects such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic stack, etc.
• Experience in Application support: Gitlab, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB.
• Experience in Enterprise applications is a plus.
• Good to have hands-on security tools is an advantage: SonarQube, HashiCorp Vault, Harbor.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Must have experience with Apache Kafka.
• Must have experience with Kubernetes or GKE or EKS.
• Good to have knowledge of MongoDB environment configurations.
• Work in a Kubernetes based micro services environment to support our cutting-edge cloud platform. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline namely Jenkins, Gitlab).
• Any knowledge in programming language is a plus (like NodeJs, Python, C, Shell).
• Experience in Google Cloud is a plus.