Founding devops Engineer

Opportunity Overview

Experience: 2+ years

Salary: Confidential (based on experience)

Shift: Asia/Kolkata (IST) (GMT+05:30)

Opportunity Type: Hybrid

Placement Type: Full-time Permanent Position

(Note: This role is a requirement for Uplers' client, Monk CI)

About Monk CI

Monk CI is at the forefront of building the world's fastest CI runners, specifically optimized for the AI era. As AI-driven development escalates code generation and build volumes, traditional CI infrastructure faces challenges with speed, cost, and operational efficiency. Monk CI offers a next-generation CI platform delivering high-performance, VM-level isolated runners on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Features include intelligent scaling, deep observability, and AI-native optimizations.

Monk CI's Development Focus:

• Multi-tenant, high-isolation CI infrastructure
• Ephemeral VM-based runners (MIG-backed)
• Kubernetes-based control plane
• Comprehensive observability (metrics, logs, traces)
• Enterprise-grade compliance and security standards
• AI-era performance optimizations

The Founding DevOps Engineer Role

We are seeking a highly skilled, GCP-native DevOps engineer to take end-to-end ownership of our infrastructure. This is a foundational architecture role, not a maintenance position. You will be instrumental in designing, implementing, securing, and operating the complete Monk CI infrastructure stack, from GitHub branch strategies to production-grade multi-tenant cloud systems. You will collaborate directly with the founders, shaping key areas:

• Infrastructure architecture
• Security posture
• CI/CD standards
• Observability stack
• Compliance foundations
• Production reliability practices

This is a full-time founding DevOps role offering deep ownership and impact.

Key Responsibilities (End-to-End Ownership)

CI/CD & GitHub Strategy

• Define and enforce Git branching strategies.
• Design scalable GitHub Actions pipelines.
• Implement Workload Identity Federation (OIDC) with GCP.
• Manage artifact versioning and tagging strategies.
• Automate image builds and secure image promotion workflows.

GCP Infrastructure (Core Focus)

Deep comfort and expertise in GCP are essential.

• GKE cluster design (node pools, autoscaling, taints, workload isolation).
• Cloud SQL (Postgres) production hardening.
• Pub/Sub-based event pipelines.
• VPC design (private clusters, NAT, firewall rules).
• Artifact Registry management.
• Service Account design and IAM policy architecture.
• Workload Identity and least privilege enforcement.
• Secret Manager integration.
• Multi-project architecture design.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform mandatory).

Kubernetes & Runtime Architecture

• Helm chart design and versioning.
• ArgoCD / GitOps deployment workflows.
• Pod security policies / workload identity binding.
• Horizontal Pod Autoscaling.
• Zero-downtime rollouts.
• Canary and blue-green deployments.
• Node pool optimization (cost and performance).

Security & Compliance

• IAM hardening (avoiding broad roles).
• Service account scoping and rotation.
• Cloud Armor / firewall configuration.
• Container image vulnerability scanning.
• Network segmentation.
• Secrets management best practices.
• Audit logging and monitoring.
• Basic cloud pentesting understanding.
• SOC-2 oriented infrastructure design principles.

Observability & Reliability

• OpenTelemetry instrumentation strategy.
• Prometheus metric design.
• Grafana dashboards (infrastructure and application-level).
• Loki / centralized logging implementation.
• Distributed tracing (Tempo / OTEL).
• Alerting setup (Alertmanager / Slack / PagerDuty).
• SLO/SLI design.
• Incident response workflow definition.
• Cost monitoring and optimization strategies.

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