Dev Ops Engineer

House of EdTech is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our team in Kolkata. This hybrid role offers flexible working hours and a 6-day work week with Sunday off. You will play a crucial role in building, automating, and scaling the cloud infrastructure that powers our educational platforms, used by millions of learners.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will work with modern cloud-native systems including containers, serverless architecture, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and production environments. You will contribute to the backbone of high-growth digital education platforms in India and beyond.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and manage scalable infrastructure on AWS and GCP, ensuring secure, highly available, and fault-tolerant environments. Optimize for speed, reliability, and cost-efficiency. Configure networking components like VPCs, Load Balancers, and DNS.
• CI/CD & Automation: Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for seamless code deployments with rollback strategies. Automate operational workflows to improve release cycles and developer productivity.
• Containers & Orchestration: Manage containerized workloads using Docker, deploy services using Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate, maintain container registries like Amazon ECR, and ensure high-performance container operations.
• Serverless & Event Systems: Build and maintain AWS Lambda-based services, implement event-driven architectures, and integrate serverless systems with existing backend infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Monitor applications, infrastructure, logs, and alerts. Build dashboards using tools like CloudWatch and Prometheus. Identify performance bottlenecks, improve uptime, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Infrastructure as Code: Provision and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation, standardize environments, and maintain version-controlled infrastructure systems.
• Databases & Performance: Support cloud databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB), improve backup and scaling strategies, and assist engineering teams with infrastructure tuning.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Backend, Frontend, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure smooth releases and production readiness.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience: 0-2 years of experience in DevOps / Cloud Engineering.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering preferred.
• Core Technical Skills: Basic understanding of AWS (preferred), exposure to GCP is a plus. Hands-on experience with Docker, familiarity with ECS, Fargate, ECR. Experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.).
• Scripting & Automation: Basic scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Node.js. Ability to automate repetitive tasks.
• Monitoring & Networking: Basic understanding of monitoring/logging tools. Understanding of VPCs, DNS, SSL, Load Balancers.
• Soft Skills: Problem-solving mindset, ownership-driven attitude, good communication and team collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):

• Experience with Kubernetes
• Exposure to Microservices Architecture
• Understanding of IAM roles & cloud security
• Experience with Redis / caching systems
• Familiarity with Message Queues
• Cost optimization knowledge
• Disaster recovery / backup strategies

Note: Having a personal laptop is mandatory for this role. Alternatively, candidates may choose to rent one.