Software Engineer II - DevOps

Keywords Studios; Maharashtra; Hybrid; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid setup

Worker’s insurance

Paid Time Offs

Job summary

Keywords Studios is looking for a DevOps Engineer II based in Pune (Hybrid). You will design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines, own production services, and collaborate with teams to integrate security practices. Ideal candidates have 5+ years of experience with UNIX-like systems, networking protocols, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). The role offers a hybrid setup, worker’s insurance, and paid time off, along with various employee benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Strong knowledge of networking protocols and security architectures.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms like AWS and GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Own Helpshift production services and ensure monitoring coverage.
• Develop and maintain IaC templates.

Skills

UNIX-like operating systems

Networking protocols

Containerisation technologies

Automation mindset

Scripting languages

Monitoring tools

Tools

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Job Title: DevOps Engineer II

Location: Pune (Hybrid)

About the Team

DevOps team is at the core of Helpshift engineering. We have a centralised DevOps team in Helpshift, and that essentially means we have our technical depth both horizontally and vertically. We're responsible for creating, maintaining, scaling, and securing infrastructure used by many teams for critical workloads.

Team Focus Areas

• Production & Development Infrastructure Provisioning and Maintenance
• Database Infrastructure
• Automations
• Core Infrastructure (Scalability, Performance, & Optimisation)
• Security & Compliance
• Engineering Processes

You'll be in a team that maintains, builds, and scales infrastructure that will host the production workload as well as support internal engineering teams. You'll make decisions with a significant impact on Helpshift.

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) and move us to a region with no downtime. Build a cloud infrastructure that will 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.

Requirements

• Relevant experience of 5+ years and above.
• In‑depth knowledge of running and 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 with various FOSS tools for monitoring, graphing, capacity planning, and logging.
• Experience with IaC tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform.
• Experience with cloud computing platforms like Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Heroku.
• Experience managing NoSQL and RDBMS.
• Experience with queuing systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and big‑data platforms (Hadoop).
• Good programming skills with a 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 the ability to reason and work with complex systems.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• Quick learner and good mentor for junior team members.

Benefits

• Hybrid setup.
• Worker’s insurance.
• Paid Time Offs.
• Other employee benefits to be discussed by our Talent Acquisition team in India.

Helpshift embraces diversity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and do not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, citizenship, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.