Senior DevOps Engineer

Times Internet; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital products company in India is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance the scalability, reliability, and performance of their systems. Ideal candidates should have over 8 years of experience, with expertise in managing Apache Kafka, distributed data systems, and observability tools. The role requires strong automation skills and a proactive approach to problem-solving, within a full-time, mid-senior level position.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in a related field of work.
• Strong experience in managing and tuning Apache Kafka clusters.
• Hands-on expertise with observability tools like ELK and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize core components of the platform.
• Lead initiatives around cost optimization and automation.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for efficient deployment.

Skills

Apache Kafka management

Observability tools expertise (ELK, Grafana)

CI/CD pipeline optimization

Distributed data systems knowledge

Cost optimization strategies

Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go)

Problem-solving skills

Networking concepts

Monitoring and response

Education

M.Tech or MCA from a premier institute

Tools

Jenkins

Akamai

Kubernetes

Docker

HDFS

Redis

Cassandra

Apache Spark

Job description

Notice Period: Immediate / Serving only

About Times Internet (across TIL)

At Times Internet, we create premium digital products that simplify and enhance the lives of millions. As India’s largest digital products company, we have a significant presence across a wide range of categories, including News, Sports, Fintech, and Enterprise solutions.

Our portfolio features market-leading and iconic brands such as TOI, ET, NBT, Cricbuzz, Times Prime, Times Card, Indiatimes, Whatshot, Abound, Willow TV, Techgig and Times Mobile among many more. Each of these products is crafted to enrich your experiences and bring you closer to your interests and aspirations.

As an equal opportunity employer, Times Internet strongly promotes inclusivity and diversity. We are proud to have achieved overall gender pay parity in 2018, verified by an independent audit conducted by Aon Hewitt.

We are driven by the excitement of new possibilities and are committed to bringing innovative products, ideas, and technologies to help people make the most of every day. Join us and take us to the next level!

About the Role

We are looking for a highly skilled and proactive Senior DevOps Engineer to join our infrastructure team and play a critical role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and performance of our systems. In this role, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing our platform’s core components, including Apache Kafka, distributed data systems, and observability tooling. You will lead initiatives around cost optimization, automation, and CI/CD to ensure seamless and efficient operations across environments.

Work Responsibilities

• Proven expertise in managing and tuning Apache Kafka clusters, with a strong focus on cost optimization, resource efficiency, and high throughput performance.
• Deep expertise in observability tools including ELK, Loki, Promtail, and Grafana.
• Ability to design and implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Signoz.
• Strong hands-on experience with distributed data systems and caching technologies, including HDFS, Redis, Apache Spark, Mysql and Cassandra.
• Strong understanding of cost optimization strategies for virtual machines (VMs), including rightsizing, instance scheduling, reserved instances, and autoscaling best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Akamai for content delivery, caching, and web performance optimization.
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go, etc.).
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines for rapid, reliable deployment (Jenkins).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and application deployment.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills.
• Solid understanding of networking, DNS, load balancing, firewalls, and VPCs.
• Monitor systems and respond to incidents, outages, and performance degradation.
• Hands on experience on coding as well.

Nice to have

• Deep understanding of container orchestration (Kubernetes and Docker)
• Expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Background in software engineering or Coding practices

Skills, Experience & Expertise

• Knowledge of Apache Kafka, ELK, Hadoop, HDFS, Redis, Cassandra, Spark and monitoring tools
• Basic Knowledge of coding
• Grip on debugging and troubleshooting on Linux environments
• Good communication and data analytical skills
• Past experience of working on Multi distributed system
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in a related field of work
• M.tech or MCA from a premier institute
• Software engineer(Coding) background will serve as a major advantage

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet, Technology, Information and Media, and Financial Services

Gautam Buddha Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

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