Location: HSR Layout, Bengaluru
Work Mode: 5 days, Work From Office
About WorkIndia:
WorkIndia is a Bengaluru-based job platform founded in 2016, focused on connecting India's blue-collar and entry-level workforce with meaningful employment opportunities.
We operate as a technology-driven matchmaking platform where candidates discover relevant jobs and connect directly with employers through calls and chats. Employers use our platform to find the right talent, supported by intelligent matching and data-driven recommendations.
With 4+ crore registered candidates and 20 crore interview interactions every year, we are building technology that creates meaningful livelihood opportunities at scale.
We are a profitable business backed by a ₹97 crore Series B funding round raised in December 2025, led by Aavishkaar Capital with BEENEXT Capital.
Our mission is to impact 23.7 crore workers across India.
The Role
We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Engineer III / DevOps Manager to own and strengthen our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, monitoring systems, and security practices.
You will play a critical role in building scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure that supports our growing platform. We are looking for someone who can combine strong technical expertise with end-to-end ownership, proactively identify infrastructure bottlenecks, and drive continuous improvements in engineering efficiency.
Depending on the level, you will either lead critical infrastructure initiatives independently or take broader ownership of infrastructure strategy, execution, and team development.
What You'll Do
- Cloud Infrastructure: Design, manage, and optimise AWS infrastructure using Terraform and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, availability, and reliability.
- Cost Optimisation: Identify infrastructure inefficiencies, optimise cloud resource utilisation, and implement cost-control mechanisms without compromising performance.
- CI/CD & Deployment Automation: Build and improve automated deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD to enable reliable, repeatable, and efficient releases.
- Monitoring & Observability: Establish effective monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting using Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic APM, and Sentry.
- Security & Reliability: Implement infrastructure security best practices using AWS WAF, AWS Shield, and other relevant security controls.
- Incident Management: Proactively identify system bottlenecks, troubleshoot production incidents, and drive root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues.
- Infrastructure Automation: Reduce manual intervention through automation, standardisation, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Engineering Collaboration: Partner with engineering and product teams to improve deployment velocity, system reliability, and developer productivity.
- Technical Leadership (Manager Level): Define infrastructure strategy, establish engineering standards, mentor team members, and drive long-term platform reliability and scalability.
What We're Looking For
- Strong hands-on experience managing production infrastructure on AWS.
- Proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Elastic APM, and Sentry.
- Understanding of cloud security practices, including AWS WAF, AWS Shield, access controls, and infrastructure hardening.
- Demonstrated experience in cloud cost optimisation, resource right-sizing, and infrastructure efficiency.
- Strong troubleshooting, incident management, and root-cause analysis skills.
- Ability to take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure challenges and drive measurable improvements.
- Experience leading infrastructure initiatives and mentoring DevOps/SRE engineers.
- Ability to define infrastructure roadmaps, operational standards, and reliability practices.
- Experience balancing infrastructure scalability, security, engineering productivity, and cloud expenditure.
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to drive cross-functional initiatives.
Why Join WorkIndia?
- Meaningful Impact: Build technology that helps millions of job seekers access employment opportunities.
- Scale & Complexity: Solve real-world infrastructure challenges for a high-traffic consumer platform.
- Ownership: Drive critical infrastructure decisions and make a measurable impact on reliability, performance, and cost.
- Business Stability: Be part of a profitable business with a clear growth ambition.
- Opportunity to Build: Help strengthen the infrastructure foundation as the business scales.
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