Overview

JD for DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities

• We are looking for a DevOps Engineer / Infrastructure Engineerwho will take end-to-end ownership of our infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• You will manage our DigitalOcean and Hetzner cloud environments, ensure high availability of our platform and APIs, and enable fast, reliable, and secure code delivery from GitHub to production.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines (preferably GitHub Actions) for automated build, test, and deployments across staging and production.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on DigitalOcean (Droplets, networking, managed services) and Hetzner dedicated servers, including provisioning, scaling, and backup strategies.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting for all servers and services (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, or similar) to ensure uptime, performance, and early issue detection.
• Own server OS and middleware lifecycle: regular patching, security updates, hardening, SSL/TLS management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Manage deployments of backend services, web apps, and APIs, ensuring zero/minimal downtime and proper rollback strategies.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform/Ansible (or similar) to standardize server and network provisioning across DigitalOcean and Hetzner.
• Set up and maintain centralized logging for application and server logs to support troubleshooting and incident response.
• Collaborate with development teams working on GitHub to define branching strategies, release processes, and environment promotion workflows.
• Ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of the platform and B2B/B2C APIs through capacity planning, load balancing, and redundancy.
• Establish and manage incident response processes, on-call routines, and root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Maintain documentation for infrastructure, deployment workflows, runbooks, and standard operating procedures.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer in a product or SaaS environment.
• Strong experience with Linux server administration (Ubuntu or similar) including networking, firewalls, system, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience managing infrastructure on at least one cloud or hosting provider; experience with DigitalOcean and/or Hetzner is a strong plus.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and practical experience with Git-based workflows and tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or similar) for repeatable environment provisioning.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, Zabbix, or similar) and setting up alerts.
• Good understanding of security best practices: SSH hardening, firewalls, secrets management, backups, and secure configuration.
• Familiarity with high-availability architectures (load balancers, horizontal scaling, failover, database replication).
• Knowledge of performance testing, chaos engineering, or SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
• Familiarity with security standards and compliance for handling user and payment data.
• Location: Kolkata, India
• Engagement: Full-time
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• If selected, with in how many days you can join us?
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