We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with development skills who can manage our servers, cloud infrastructure, deployments, security, monitoring, and CI/CD.
This is primarily a DevOps role, but the candidate should also be comfortable reading code, troubleshooting applications, working with APIs, and making small changes in Python/backend applications.
The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with AWS, Hostinger VPS, Cloudflare, Cloudflare R2, Docker, Linux, NGINX, Git/GitHub, and CI/CD.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage production and development servers and infrastructure.
- Manage AWS services and Hostinger VPS.
- Manage Cloudflare and Cloudflare R2.
- Deploy and maintain Python/FastAPI, Node.js, React, and other applications.
- Configure Linux, NGINX, DNS, SSL/TLS, reverse proxy, and networking.
- Monitor server performance, uptime, logs, CPU, RAM, and disk usage.
- Troubleshoot production and deployment issues.
- Maintain backups and recovery processes.
- Manage server access, SSH keys, credentials, and security.
- Improve infrastructure reliability and performance.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
- Automate application deployments and repetitive tasks.
- Manage development, staging, and production environments.
- Securely manage environment variables and secrets.
- Build and maintain Docker images and Docker Compose configurations.
- Troubleshoot Docker, networking, server, and application issues.
AWS Experience Required
Hands-on experience with:
- EC2
- S3
- IAM
- CloudWatch
- RDS
- VPC
- Security Groups
- Load Balancers
- Route 53
- ECR
- Lambda is a plus
You should understand how AWS services work together to run production applications.
Hostinger VPS
You should be comfortable independently managing VPS servers, including:
- Linux administration
- SSH
- Users and permissions
- Firewall
- NGINX
- Docker
- Application deployment
- Process management
- Server monitoring
- Disk and memory management
- Logs
- Backups
- Security hardening
- Production troubleshooting
Cloudflare & Cloudflare R2
Hands-on Cloudflare experience is required, including:
- DNS
- SSL/TLS
- CDN
- Proxy configuration
- DNS records
- Cache settings
- Cloudflare security
- Cloudflare API
- Cloudflare R2
- R2 buckets
- R2 access keys
- Storage permissions
- Application integration with R2
Development Skills
Development is a secondary part of this role. You should be able to understand and troubleshoot existing applications.
Backend:
- Python
- FastAPI / Flask
- REST APIs
- API integrations
- Authentication
- Basic database operations
- SQL
Frontend:
- Basic React
- JavaScript
- HTML/CSS
- Frontend build and deployment
Databases:
You should be able to:
- Read existing code.
- Debug application problems.
- Modify existing backend functionality.
- Create or modify simple API endpoints.
- Fix API and integration issues.
- Write scripts and automation.
- Perform basic database operations.
Required Skills
Must Have:
- Linux
- AWS
- Hostinger VPS
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare R2
- Docker
- NGINX
- Git / GitHub
- GitHub Actions / CI/CD
- SSH
- DNS
- SSL/TLS
- Server administration
- Production deployment
- Basic networking
- Python
- REST APIs
- Basic SQL
- Basic React/Node.js environment knowledge
Good to Have:
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Kubernetes
- Redis
- PostgreSQL administration
- Prometheus/Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code
- AWS Lambda
- AWS ECR
- Automated backups
- Bash scripting
- Security hardening
What We Are Looking For
- Strong practical DevOps experience.
- Ability to independently manage production servers.
- Good AWS and VPS experience.
- Strong Linux/server administration skills.
- Good understanding of application deployment.
- Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues.
- Good understanding of APIs and databases.
- Ability to automate repetitive work.
- Good knowledge of server security.
- Comfortable reading and modifying Python/backend code.
- Able to work with developers and take ownership of infrastructure.
- Willing to work from office.
Qualifications
- 2–3 years of practical DevOps experience.
- Production infrastructure experience.
- Hands-on AWS experience.
- Linux/server administration experience.
- Docker and NGINX experience.
- Cloudflare and Cloudflare R2 experience.
- Git and CI/CD experience.
- Basic-to-intermediate development skills.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field preferred.
Equivalent practical experience may also be considered.
Practical Evaluation
The selection process may include practical questions or tasks related to:
- Deploying an application on a Linux VPS.
- Configuring NGINX reverse proxy.
- Setting up DNS and HTTPS.
- Dockerizing an application.
- Creating a basic CI/CD pipeline.
- Configuring Cloudflare and R2.
- Troubleshooting a production deployment.
- Reading/modifying Python/FastAPI code.
- Working with PostgreSQL or another SQL database.
- Securing and monitoring a production server.
Success in This Role
You will be successful if you can independently manage and improve our infrastructure.
Your responsibilities will include keeping production systems stable, making deployments reliable and automated, resolving infrastructure issues quickly, maintaining servers and cloud resources, managing backups and security, monitoring costs, automating repetitive work, and documenting infrastructure.
Key Requirement: We need a DevOps-first engineer who can own infrastructure and is also comfortable working with application code when required.
Pay: ₹30,000.00 - ₹40,000.00 per month
Application Question(s):
- How many years of hands-on DevOps experience do you have?
- Do you have hands-on production experience with AWS? Which AWS services have you managed?
- Have you independently managed a Linux VPS/Hostinger VPS in production? Please explain briefly.
- Have you configured Cloudflare DNS, SSL/TLS, proxy settings, and Cloudflare R2? Please explain.
- Have you created CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools? Give one example.
- How comfortable are you with Python/FastAPI, REST APIs, SQL, and troubleshooting application code?
- Have you personally handled a production server outage or deployment failure? What did you do to resolve it?
Location:
- Mohali, Punjab (Required)
Work Location: In person
