About Tasket

Tasket (http://tasket.com) goes beyond conventional task management. Our platform is engineered to:

• Keep tasks moving: Eliminate idle time and bottlenecks.
• Keep progress visible: Ensure transparency in all workstreams.
• Keep context complete: Reduce tool-hopping and maintain focus.
• Keep the system clean: Prevent entropy and streamline operations.

About the Senior DevOps Engineer Role in Bengaluru

We are actively seeking a highly technical Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team in Bengaluru. This crucial role involves the design and development of software infrastructure across our entire product suite. You will be instrumental in building, scaling, and operating our globally distributed infrastructure platforms, focusing on high reliability, optimal performance, and accelerating developer velocity. The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in cloud-native infrastructure, advanced CI/CD, GitOps workflows, systems programming, and complex production troubleshooting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Architect, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows to enable fast, reliable, and auditable deployments.
• Build and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or Crossplane.
• Improve system observability through comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
• Optimize infrastructure for performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability.
• Implement and enforce robust security best practices with a DevSecOps mindset.
• Provide expert support for containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Collaborate closely with engineering teams to enhance developer experience and streamline release cycles.
• Develop automation and internal platform tooling using Python, Go, or Bash to significantly reduce operational toil.
• Lead incident response, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to establishing DevOps best practices across the organization.

Required Skills and Expertise

Systems & Infrastructure Engineering

• Strong foundation in Linux/Unix systems, kernel fundamentals, networking, and operating systems.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture patterns.
• Hands-on experience with public and private cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenShift, or self-managed environments).

CI/CD, GitOps & Deployment Expertise

• Extensive experience with modern CI/CD practices, GitOps delivery models, and advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, rolling).
• Proven ability to build and operate scalable, resilient, fully automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong hands-on expertise in designing and optimizing automated build, test, and release workflows using pipeline-as-code.
• Experienced in declarative deployments, Git-based environment promotion, drift detection, and continuous reconciliation using tools such as Argo CD or Flux.

Containers & Cloud-Native Stack

• Strong hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience managing ingress/API gateways such as Kong and NGINX.
• Working knowledge of service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of container orchestration, cluster networking, and scaling patterns.

Infrastructure as Code

• Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Crossplane, CloudFormation, or similar tools.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible.

Observability & Reliability

• Experience implementing observability best practices across monitoring, logging, metrics, alerts, and tracing systems.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning capabilities in complex distributed systems.
• Familiarity with reliability engineering principles and SRE methodologies.

Security & DevSecOps

• Practical experience implementing cloud security best practices.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps frameworks and secure SDLC implementation.
• Experience with access control, secrets management, and compliance standards is a plus.

Programming & Automation

• Develop robust automation using Python, Go, or Bash.
• Build internal tooling, operators, and platform services.
• Write production-quality code following software engineering best practices.
• Create reusable libraries and infrastructure modules.
• Automate manual operational workflows end-to-end.
• Contribute to platform engineering initiatives.
• Implement testable, maintainable infrastructure code.

Experience and Qualifications

• A minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related roles.
• Ideal for software engineers with an operations bent or vice versa.
• Solid fundamentals in Linux/OS internals, networking, and system performance.
• Hands-on experience with public or private cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, or similar).
• Good understanding of distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Proven experience with modern CI/CD practices, GitOps workflows, and deployment strategies.
• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, Envoy, and API gateways such as Kong and NGINX.
• Familiarity with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or Consul) is a plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
• Practical experience implementing observability practices (metrics, monitoring, logging, alerting, and tracing).
• Programming proficiency in Python, Go, or Ruby.
• Experience implementing cloud security and DevSecOps best practices.
• A continuous learner with a strong ownership mindset and effective engineering practices.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Tasket is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities to apply, as we believe that a diverse workforce is key to our success in Bengaluru and globally.