Jr DevOps Engineer

Tech9 is shaking up a 20-year-old industry, and we're not slowing down. Recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of the nation's fastest-growing companies. We're also proud to be ranked as the 23rd fastest growing company in Utah and a recipient of the prestigious award for Forbes' Top 500 Startup Companies to Work For (second year in a row!).

We invite you to interview with us, show us what you can do, and find out how Tech9 can provide you the DevOps opportunity  you're looking for!

Benefits:

• Full health insurance for you and your immediate family
• 22 days of paid leave with 8 paid holidays
• 100% remote work (Candidate can opt to work 100% remote, hybrid, or in-person at our Pune office)
• Flexible Work Timings 
• Excellent Work-Life Balance
• Laptop reimbursement program

If you are looking for a change this is what we can promise you:

• You will have challenging problems to solve
• You will have flexibility and autonomy to solve problems and deliver solutions
• We will provide a highly collaborative environment with skilled and super friendly teammates
• We will fully support you in developing software the right way
• We won't burden you with useless policies and procedures
• We will provide you the tools you need to do your job right
• 100% Remote Work, Forever! 

If that sounds attractive please apply! We'd love to talk to you.

Main Responsibilities: 

• Work with the team to maintain our current architecture environment and AWS cloud infrastructure
• Manage CI/CD process for deployment
• Create and manage development staging, UAT, production environments for full SDLC requirements
• Identify opportunities to deploy cloud-native solutions that benefit our engineering team by measure of development speed, enabling team growth, and democratizing the codebases
• Champion and lead implementation toward cloud-native technologies to enable growth of product and team while maintaining high velocity
• Collaborate with the team to foster a growth environment for our product, technology, ideas, and people
• Design and architect cloud-native implementations for eligible services
• Improve code quality through code reviews, unit and feature testing, and software design
• Share insights and discuss tradeoffs of different approaches to solve difficult problems,
• ensuring that effective long-lasting solutions are implemented

Minimum Qualifications: 

• Candidate must be located in India
• Candidate must have a notice period of 45 days or less OR can join in less than 45 days.
• 1-2 years of experience in managing AWS cloud infrastructure in Agile environments.
• 2+ years of experience managing and operating Kubernetes clusters, preferably on Amazon EKS.
• Proven experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Strong understanding of AWS services such as EC2, EKS, ECS, VPC, RDS, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, WAF, CloudWatch, SQS, KMS, Step Functions.
• Solid understanding of stateful/stateless application deployments, microservices, and workflow orchestration.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud management & best practices
• Practical knowledge of cloud security best practices and implementation.
• Cost optimization experience on AWS (rightsizing, budgeting, tagging, etc.).
• Experience managing database migrations and versioning.
• Experience with Third-party integrations.
• Experience in setting up and managing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (e.g., CloudWatch, Prometheus, ELK, Sentry, or Datadog).
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins.
• Familiarity with web server configuration tools like Nginx or Apache.
• Good understanding of SDLC and DevOps lifecycle best practices.
• Good experience with Redis, queues & caching technologies
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Interview Process Overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our DevOps Positions. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

1. 30-minute on-demand HireVue screening, where you'll respond to situational and behavioral questions to help us understand your ownership mindset, adaptability, and approach to collaboration.
2. 10-minute virtual Q&A session with our recruiter to clarify the role and answer any questions you may have. This is not an interview, just a conversation to ensure alignment.
3. 60-minute live technical interview with one our Senior Data Engineers. 
4. 15-30 minute chat with the hiring manger
5. 1-hour Take Home assignment from the client
6. 30-60-minute session with the client