Principal Engineer - DevOps/DBA

LogiNext; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in India is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer to design and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure. The role involves automating development operations, managing cloud services, and optimizing database performance. Candidates should have 8-10 years of experience and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Strong skills in Linux/Unix and cloud platforms like AWS, along with excellent communication abilities, are essential. Competitive salary and growth opportunities offered.

Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure.
• Extensive experience working with cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for web, mobile, and big data applications.
• Automate the deployment and configuration of the virtualized infrastructure.
• Support several Linux servers running SaaS platform stack on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud.

Skills

Linux/Unix Administration

Python/Shell Scripting

Database Management

AWS

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Puppet

Chef

GitLab

Zabbix

Cloud Watch Monitoring

Nagios

MongoDB

Apache Tomcat

Nginx

Apache Kafka

Job description

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and passionate Principal DevOps Engineer or Senior Database Administrator to cater to the development and operations efforts in product. You will choose and deploy tools and technologies to build and support a robust infrastructure.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable infrastructure. You have experience to automate and streamline the development operations and processes. You are a master in troubleshooting and resolving issues in dev, staging and production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for delivering and running web, mobile and big data applications on cloud
• Scale and optimise a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases (especially MongoDB), web servers, application frameworks, caches, and distributed messaging systems
li>Automate the deployment and configuration of the virtualized infrastructure and the entire software stack
• Plan, implement and maintain robust backup and restoration policies ensuring low RTO and RPO
• Support several Linux servers running our SaaS platform stack on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud
• Define and build processes to identify performance bottlenecks and scaling pitfalls
• Manage robust monitoring and alerting infrastructure
• Explore new tools to improve development operations to automate daily tasks
• Ensure High Availability and Auto-failover with minimum or no manual interventions

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
• 8-10 years of experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro‑services architecture on cloud infrastructure
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting
• Extensive experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto‑scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure
• Experience in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios
• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms
• Experience in query analysis, performance tuning, database redesigning
• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always‑up, always‑available service
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision‑making skills