About This Role

Zenskar is building the operational backbone for how B2B companies run their business. As a DevOps Engineer, you will own the infrastructure that everything else runs on - and at a scaling SaaS company, that matters a lot. When infra is broken, nothing ships. When it's well-built, the rest of the team barely thinks about it. That's the bar.

This is not a ticket-queue role. You will not be a service desk for developers. You will design, build, and evolve the platform that keeps Zenskar's systems reliable, fast, and secure - and you'll do it with a software engineer's mindset, not an IT admin's.

Design and own cloud infrastructure end-to-end - from architecture decisions to production operations
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that make shipping safe, fast, and boring (boring is good)
Own the observability stack - make sure we know when something breaks before a customer does
Drive infrastructure cost optimisation without compromising reliability or developer experience
Work closely with backend engineers to make deployments, rollbacks, and incident response feel effortless
Identify, document, and eliminate toil - if you're doing something manually more than twice, automate it
Embed security and compliance thinking into infrastructure by default - not as a retrofit
Be the person who asks "what happens when this fails?" before anyone else does

The Impact You'll Make

Your infrastructure decisions will determine how reliably Zenskar's enterprise clients can run their business on our platform - downtime or data issues at this layer have direct consequences
You will build the foundation that lets the engineering team ship faster without breaking things
Your automation and tooling will compound over time - good work here multiplies everyone else's output
You will be the person who turns "the infra is always on fire" into "infra just works" - and that shift has a real, visible impact on the company's velocity

Key Qualifications

Must have :

- 3- 5 years of hands-on DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering experience at a - product company-

Strong Kubernetes experience in production - if you've debugged a CrashLoopBackOff at 2am and lived to tell the tale, you're in the right place
Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform - not just familiarity, but the ability to write, review, and refactor production-grade Terraform without hand-holding
Deep AWS experience : ECS/EKS, Lambda, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, and enough Cost Explorer to know where money goes when bills spike
CI/CD ownership : you've built pipelines, not just used them; GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalent at real scale
Can describe the hard infra problems you've solved, why they were hard, and what changed as a result - not just a list of tools on a resume
Hands-on AWS ECS experience in production task definitions, service scaling, capacity providers, deployment strategies, and circuit breakers; not just EC2 or generic container orchestration
Lambda operations at scale function lifecycle management, event source mapping, cold start tuning, and migrating Lambda-based workloads to more appropriate compute patterns as systems mature
End-to-end observability ownership - alerting pipelines, custom metrics, structured log ingestion, and actually diagnosing production issues with the stack; not just setting up dashboards
Secrets and credentials management in AWS - rotation policies, least-privilege access patterns, and the security hygiene that keeps them clean over time

Good To Have

Scripting ability in Python or Go for automation and internal tooling - the kind of thing that saves a team hours every week
Observability stack hands-on - Prometheus, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, or Datadog in production; comfortable diagnosing issues across services, not just building dashboards
Kustomize experience alongside Terraform for Kubernetes configuration management
Apache Airflow or similar data pipeline infrastructure
Security and compliance awareness understands what SOC 2 means at the infra layer, not just on paper
Cost optimisation wins you can point to concrete numbers, concrete impact
Experience building or maintaining an Internal Developer Portal (Backstage or similar)
B2B SaaS or fintech background multi-tenant systems, external integrations, enterprise reliability expectations
Early-stage startup experience comfortable when the runbook doesn't exist yet because you're writing it
Self-hosted identity infrastructure (Keycloak, Okta, Auth0, or equivalent) - operational experience, not just integration
Metrics-based autoscaling for worker fleets - scaling on queue depth or custom application metrics, not just CPU/memory
Not taking yourself too seriously

What Drives You

You treat infrastructure like software - version controlled, tested, reviewable, improvable
You automate the thing that annoyed you last week - without being asked
You own problems end-to-end: an incident isn't closed when the alert clears, it's closed when the postmortem is done and the fix is in
You have opinions on the right way to build infra, but you're not precious about them - you change your mind when the tradeoffs change
You thrive in What Drives You : environments where the answer to "what's the runbook for this?" is sometimes "write one"

Location :

Hybrid : 2 days per week in office

Office Location : Indiranagar, Bengaluru

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