Description:

Talentica Software, started by industry veterans and exIITB grads, is a product engineering company that helps tech-native enterprises and startups turn their ideas into market-leading products.

We deliver innovative, high-quality products at an accelerated pace by combining the product mindset of our human experts with the power of AI.

Over the last 22 years, the company has worked with over 200+ startups, with most clients based in the US, ensuring many successful exits.

In 2022, Great Place to Work recognized Talentica Software as India's Great Mid-Size Workplace.

What we're looking for?.

We are seeking a hands-on DevOps Architect who can design, build, and scale modern cloud infrastructure for both startups and large enterprise platforms.

This role requires deep expertise across cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, security, and DevOps/GitOps practices, with the ability to modernize legacy systems and support microservices and MLOps workloads.

If you enjoy building systems from the ground up, solving complex infrastructure challenges, and driving engineering excellence, this role is for you.

What youll do?.

Infrastructure Architecture & Automation:

- Design and build cloud infrastructure from scratch; modernize existing enterprise environments.

- Implement IaC using Terraform / Pulumi / CloudFormation.

- Architect VPCs, networking, load balancing, autoscaling, high availability, and secure connectivity.

- Implement scalable, cost-efficient cloud environments following best practices.

Cloud Expertise:

- Deep hands-on expertise in one cloud provider (AWS / GCP / Azure).

- Strong understanding of compute, networking, storage, security (IAM/KMS), managed databases, and messaging services.

- Experience designing multi-AZ/region architectures and working with cloud-native security.

Kubernetes & Cloud-native Platform Engineering:

- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS/GKE/AKS, Kops, Rancher, Openshift) in production.

- GitOps workflows using ArgoCD / FluxCD.

- Knowledge of autoscaling (HPA/VPA/Karpenter), Helm, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), and cluster security (RBAC, PSP/PSS, network policies).

- Container security, image scanning, and runtime protection.

Observability, Monitoring & SRE Practices:

- Build observability stack:.

Metrics: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Datadog.

Logs: ELK/EFK, Loki, OpenSearch.

Tracing: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Tempo.

- Implement SRE frameworks: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, postmortems.

- Capacity planning, performance tuning, and system reliability improvements.

CI/CD, DevOps & GitOps:

- Design end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Tekton, etc.

- Implement GitOps-based environment promotion and automated deployment workflows.

- Manage artifacts (JFrog, Nexus), image registries, and release versioning.

- Apply DevSecOps: SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, SBOM, policy-as-code (OPA/Kyverno).

Security & Compliance (Nice to have):

- Cloud and Kubernetes security (IAM, secrets management, Vault, SOPS, KMS).

- Network policies, mTLS, service mesh security.

- Exposure to enterprise compliance (SOC2, ISO27001, GDPR).

- Experience with CSPM, policy enforcement, and vulnerability management.

Architecture Modernization & Microservices (Nice to have):

- Experience modernizing legacy workloads and supporting microservices architectures.

- Knowledge of service mesh, API gateways, distributed systems, and hybrid environments.

- Migration of monolith microservices (or VM ? container/k8s).

MLOps & Data Platform Support (Nice to have) :

- Exposure to MLOps tools: Kubeflow, MLflow, SageMaker.

- Deploying GPU workloads and model-serving pipelines.

- Basic understanding of data pipelines, feature stores, metadata tracking.

To be successful in this role, you should have.

Qualifications:

- BE / BTech in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related fields from premier institutes (IITs, NITs, BITS, etc.

Experience:

- 812 years of experience in DevOps / Cloud / Platform Engineering.

- Proven experience designing and operating large-scale production systems.

Core Skills:

- Cloud platforms, Kubernetes, CI/CD.

- Observability, security, and DevOps/GitOps practices.

- Legacy modernization, microservices, and MLOps support.

What youll find here?.

- A culture of innovation: We only take up projects that challenge us to innovate.

- Our customers come to us for our technology expertise.

- Endless learning opportunities: Continuous learning is baked into our DNA.

- Youll always have the chance to learn new things and stay on top of the latest trends.

- Talented peers: Work alongside engineers from IITs, NITs, BITS, and other premier institutions.

- Work-life balance: We value work-life balance and offer flexible schedules, including remote work options, so you can thrive both professionally and personally.

- A great culture: Our employees love working here! 82% recommend Talentica to their friends, according to Glassdoor.

Join us, and youll see why!.

- Recognition & rewards: We dont just work hard, we celebrate success.

- Your contributions wont go unnoticed.

- Well make sure you're recognized for the amazing work you do.