DevOps Engineer

About us:

We are B2B Travel Tech startup that is reshaping the way travel agents sell and deliver exceptional travel experiences worldwide. We enable travel agents to book flights, hotels & holidays conveniently and we provide comprehensive end-to-end on-ground travel services.We do over INR 1000 crore+ GMV (sales) and are growing rapidly.

Our strong business model and focus on delivering excellent customer experience has facilitated our sustainable growth funded by internal cashflows.To fuel innovation and growth, we have raised USD 5.5mn+ funds from marquee global investors!

Profile Overview:

Responsible for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) as well as the security posture of our cloud infrastructure, this role requires extensive knowledge of automation, infrastructure, and security tools such as Terraform, Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Prometheus/Grafana, and IAM/secrets management platforms. The DevOps Engineer is tasked with addressing the organization's toughest technical and security challenges and driving technical excellence at all levels. Collaborating with senior management, the DevOps Engineer supports the execution of the organization's vision while ensuring smooth, secure operations for applications.

The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of technology at both the server and development levels, proactively identify and fill operational and security gaps, and prevent application emergencies and security incidents before they occur.

Growth Prospects:

• Annual CTC -₹ 14- 25 LPA
• Aggressive Hikes - In May'21 & Jan'22, Average Hike was 35% & 30% respectively

Growth Path

GM/Director 35-50LPA

Head 18-35 LPA

Manager. 10-18 LPA

Associate 5-10 LPA

Whats on Offer:

• Work on Best Tech Stack- AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitLab, Terraform, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Ansible, EKS, GKE, MySQL, and MongoDB.
• Learn from Best Mentorswith Cumulative 50+ years of experience in Tech who previously worked in 4 unicorns
• Fast Career Growthwith fast appraisals and fast salary increase
• Superpassionate teamwith deep conviction which has stayed together during covid.
• Buildworld class tech productsand leverage technology to drive growth globally!
• Veryhigh ownership role in a fast-paced environment
• Great Culture -> No hierarchy / politics nonsense guaranteed!

Our founding team:

The founding & engineering team has worked in senior leadership roles at successful internet startups in India and Overseas

• Arun - Cofounder, leads Product & Growth Ex Cars24, TravelTriangle, TripFactory, IIM Bangalore
• Chirag - Cofounder, leads Business Operations Ex Oyo, TravelTriangle, IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Roorkee
• Ashish - Cofounder, leads Technology Ex CTO Cars24, CTO FabFurnish, Gaadi, Ex-Entrepreneur
• Shrawan: Tech Leader, 17+ yrs Tech exp, Ex CTO Millenium Entertainment, One Kosmos
• Akshat: Tech Owner, 14+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Cars24, Worked in USA, Singapore
• Rajesh:Tech Owner, 11+ yrs Tech exp, Ex Hike, Foodpanda

Company Profile:

• You read the detailed company profile here.
• To know more about us, have a look at afew videos on Youtube!

Key Responsibilities:

DevOps / Infrastructure

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, highly available infrastructure on cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).

• Own CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar) to enable fast, safe, and repeatable deployments.

• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

• Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/self-managed).

• Set up and maintain observability: logging, monitoring, and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/EFK, Datadog, New Relic, or similar).

• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling initiatives.

• Own incident response for infrastructure/production issues, participate in on-call rotations, conduct RCAs and blameless postmortems.

• Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce manual toil.

SecOps / Security

• Own the security posture of cloud infrastructure, including IAM policies, network security, VPC/firewall configurations, and secrets management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, etc.).

• Implement and monitor security controls across CI/CD (SAST/DAST, dependency & container vulnerability scanning).

• Set up and manage SIEM/logging for security monitoring, threat detection, and alerting.

• Conduct regular vulnerability assessments, penetration test coordination, and remediation tracking.

• Define and enforce security best practices: least-privilege access, encryption at rest/in transit, key rotation policies.

• Drive compliance initiatives (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS, GDPR as applicable) and support audits.

• Build and maintain security runbooks, playbooks, and internal documentation.

• Respond to security incidents, including triage, containment, root cause analysis, and post-incident hardening.

What we are looking for:

Must have technical skills -

• Proficiency in cloud services (AWS or Google Cloud Platform) and containerization tools like Kubernetes and Docker.
• Linux OS
• Scripting (Shell/Bash/Python)
• Database management (MySQL, MongoDB).
• Expertise with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Maven/Nexus, EKS, GKE) and configuration management tools like Ansible and Terraform.
• Deploy and maintain infrastructure using Redis, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ for scalable and high-performance applications.
• Working understanding of core security concepts: IAM, network segmentation, encryption, vulnerability management, and threat modeling.
• Experience with monitoring/observability and log management tools.

Check if you fit in the role-

You Must-

• Have 2-5 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Security Operations (or a combined role).

• Be experienced with building, deploying, and operating tech infrastructure and applications.

• Be skilled in making software updates and fixing issues in deployments.

• Have strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS preferred; GCP/Azure acceptable).

• Have solid experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

• Have strong incident management and on-call experience.
  

You Can-

• Collaborate with different teams to improve and streamline DevOps and security processes.

• Bring strong troubleshooting skills for infrastructure, deployment, and security issues.

• Coordinate vulnerability assessments and penetration tests, and track remediation.

• Bring familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS) as a strong plus.

• Bring prior experience in a fintech, travel-tech, or high-transaction-volume product company as a plus.

• Communicate excellently and work cross-functionally with engineering, product, and leadership.

You Want to-

• Drive technical excellence, automation, and a strong security posture.

• Grow in a fast-paced environment.

This role is not ideal for someone who is-

• Is not comfortable being available during odd hours / at night for support and incident response.

• Has not worked on multiple backend applications independently.

• Is not self-motivated to keep up with the rapidly evolving DevOps and security ecosystem.

• Is not comfortable with long working hours.

• Is not comfortable working 5 days a week from the office in Delhi.

The Recruitment Process:

1. 1. Aptitude Test:The first step of the recruitment process is a 30-minute basic aptitude test.
   
   Technical Assessment Task: This one-hour role specific assessment will be an evaluation of the ‘must have technical skills’ mentioned above.
   
   3. Personal Interviews: 2-3 video interviews. Detailed discussions about the job profile, company & candidature are discussed in these rounds.
   
   4. Extending an offer: On successfully clearing the interview rounds, the job offer is extended to the candidate. This includes financial benefits, ESOPs and many other benefits.

Important Points:

• Office Location- Connaught Place, Delhi
• Work Timings -You are considering joining a startup. Building anything of value takes time.

Looking forward to having you on board with us!