DevOps Engineer
Job Details
Location: Bangalore
About ColorTokens
At ColorTokens, we empower businesses to stay operational and resilient in an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape. Breaches happen—but with our cutting-edge ColorTokens Xshield™ platform, companies can minimize the impact of breaches by preventing the lateral spread of ransomware and advanced malware. We enable organizations to continue operating while breaches are contained, ensuring critical assets remain protected.
Our innovative platform provides unparalleled visibility into traffic patterns between workloads, OT/IoT/IoMT devices, and users, allowing businesses to enforce granular micro-perimeters, swiftly isolate key assets, and respond to breaches with agility. Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Microsegmentation Solutions (Q3 2024), ColorTokens safeguards global enterprises and delivers significant savings by preventing costly disruptions.
Join us in transforming cybersecurity. Learn more at www.colortokens.com.
Our culture
We foster an environment that values customer focus, innovation, collaboration, mutual respect, and informed decision-making. We believe in alignment and empowerment so you can own and drive initiatives autonomously.
Self-starters and high-motivated individuals will enjoy the rewarding experience of solving complex challenges that protect some of world’s impactful organizations - be it a children’s hospital, or a city, or the defense department of an entire country.
Skills & Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience deploying, scaling, and operating production Kubernetes clusters, including upgrades, autoscaling, networking, storage, and troubleshooting.
- Deep understanding of containerization (Docker/containerd) and Kubernetes internals (CNI, CSI, ingress, scheduling).
- Solid Linux system administration skills with experience in performance tuning and debugging using standard Linux tools.
- Strong fundamentals in Linux networking (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, subnetting, firewalls, proxies, load balancing).
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management using Ansible.
- Experience building and operating monitoring, logging, and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/EFK.
- Experience managing PostgreSQL and MongoDB in production, including availability, backups, upgrades, and performance tuning.
- Working knowledge of web servers and reverse proxies such as Nginx, HAProxy, or Apache.
- Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, etc.) to automate operational tasks.
- Working knowledge of Golang and Kubernetes/Linux certifications are a plus.
Years Of Experience
- 3 to 7 years professional experience
- Must have worked in an organization where they have full hands-on experience in Kubernetes & Linux and at least one public cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP etc)
What Success Looks Like (First 6-9 Months)
- You take full ownership of Kubernetes and Linux environments, confidently handling deployments, upgrades, incidents, and performance issues.
- CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure become more reliable, automated, and predictable under your ownership.
- Monitoring dashboards and alerts provide clear visibility into system health and risks, reducing blind spots and mean time to resolution.
- You proactively identify and eliminate operational bottlenecks, improving platform stability and developer productivity.
- You collaborate closely with engineering and security teams to ship features faster without compromising reliability or security.
