Lead DevOps Engineer

Acko; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Acko is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to manage our cloud infrastructure, including areas such as configuration management and CI/CD. You will be integral to our projects, ensuring software operability while mentoring junior engineers and driving team deliverables.

The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience in DevOps, especially with AWS, and is proficient in technologies like Terraform and Kubernetes.

Strong leadership and communication skills are essential for cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of DevOps experience in managing large-scale systems/infrastructure.
• Hands-on with minimal guidance and can mentor junior team members.
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-As-Code and various technology domains.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to project planning and design phases, working closely with stakeholders.
• Ensure software operability including availability, scalability, and security.
• Innovate and establish long-term technical best practices.

Skills

DevOps experience (8+ years)

AWS Cloud proficiency

Infrastructure-As-Code

Configuration Management (Terraform/ Ansible)

CI/CD (Jenkins)

Container Orchestration (Kubernetes)

Network and Application Security in AWS

SQL/NoSQL databases

Communication skills

Leadership skills

Education

B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Kubernetes

Job description

About The Role

The Lead DevOps Engineer in our team will be a key member who will be managing various aspects of our cloud infrastructure that includes Infrastructure & Configuration management, Cost optimization, Release management and CI/CD, Monitoring & Alerting, Database management, and Infrastructure security.

Skills & Experiences

• 8+ years of DevOps experience in managing all aspects of large-scale systems/ infrastructure and proficiency at working in AWS Cloud.
• Should be a hands-on person who can work independently or with minimal guidance and can drive the team’s deliverables by mentoring and guiding junior team members.
• Solid understanding and experience in various technology domains like Infrastructure-As-Code and Configuration Management (Terraform/ Ansible), CI/CD (Jenkins), Observability tools (Prometheus, Statsd/Graphite, ELK Stack), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes), Network and Application Security in AWS, SQL/NoSQL databases (Postgres/ Elasticsearch, etc).
• Should be comfortable in working with other stakeholders to ensure the timely completion of cross-functional projects.
• Should have sound knowledge of general technology best practices and should know how to use them together in an efficient way to improve the quality of results.
• Should be always open to embracing new technologies or solutions.
• Should have good communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills.
• B.E./B.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college.

Responsibilities

• You will be a core hands-on contributor to the team’s projects and will actively participate in the Planning and design phase across projects, and work closely with all stakeholders toward their execution.
• Ensure that Availability, Scalability, Security, and other aspects of Software Operability are improved and maintained across the stacks.
• Think out of the box and come up with innovative ideas that help the business run more efficiently.
• Take initiative and work on evaluating new tools/technologies which will be helpful in the long run.
• Establish technical best practices to be followed by the teams and help others to adopt them.
• Come up with long-term solutions to frequent problems and work with the team to achieve those goals.