About The Company

Gus Global Services (GGS) facilitates transformative education & industry relevant skills to students for various academic partner institutions in India. As the Indian subsidiary of Global University Systems (GUS)an integrated higher education platform—we aim to provide the best of everything.

About the Role:

GGS is looking for a Senior Devops Engineer (SDE3) with strong Linux, AWS, Azure, CI/CD, and infra optimization expertise responsible for building scalable, high-performance web applications. This is a builder role, not a caretaker role, and a hands-on role, focused on building scalable, reliable automation enabling consistent delivery of workloads. You will make architectural decisions, write CI/CD templates, introduce disk and i/o optimzations, reduce network attack surface areas, and directly influence product velocity and quality, and impact the life of millions of students.

If you like ambiguity, ownership, and speed, this role is for you.

What will you do?

The Senior Devops Engineer will

- Work closely with the Backend and Product teams to build scalable k8s, VM design that powers the edtech platforms of GGS.
- Work closely with developers and QA teams to ensure delivery processes are efficient, compliant and traceable
- Lead the creation, maintenance and optimisation of CI/CD pipelines to automate the deployment of applications. Focus should be on improving efficiency, speed and reliability of deployments.

1. Use CI/CD, Terraform to seamlessly deploy solutions across environments with minimal manual intervention
2. Ensure that environment-specific configuration is automated and consistently applied during developments such as certificates, secrets, database connections. Use Terraform or similar, to manage these configurations.
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Work with our software engineers, seek to develop a self-healing and resilient set of microservices, promoting good operational principles during our research, design, and development phases.
4. Manage communications and engagement with stakeholders including platform support, project management and live support DevOps.
5. Report status and manage risks within your primary application/service.
6. Develop complete understanding of end-to-end technical architecture and dependency systems.
7. Communicate with a range of stakeholders, including subject matter experts, software engineers and enterprise DevOps and security professionals.
8. Build and maintain i/o optimized infrastructure supporting HA and DR
9. Manage andoptimizeVM, Disk,
10. Desing Security Principles and PII Compliance Schemas
11. Manage Access policies and restorations

What must you bring?

1. 5+ Years of Experience and expertisein database performance tuning,security,

automationand cloud-based best practices

1. Have hands-on experience with writing code. You have a firm grasp of traditional data warehousing, can write SQL, and can optimise the use of a large relational database, as well as experience with NoSQL.
2. Have experience with, and are interested in, contemporary approaches to service design, including the use of containers and container orchestration technologies, streaming data platforms, APIs and in-memory/NoSQL stores
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Understand how to build and operate deployment pipelines.
4. Can debug products end to end through logs and error messages.
5. Have K8S, AWS, Azure and Linux experience.
6. You can deploy and optimise container-based streaming, storage and logging technologies and manage their operation during software development and testing.
7. Experience of working within Agile frameworks including Scrum and Kanban.
8. Experience with Git version control and branching strategies, e.g. trunk-based development, gitflow.
9. Ability to write explicit and concise documentation designed to be used by other devops teams, e.g. run books.
10. Ability to setup agents for scan packages and FOSS installed on production env
11. Setting up service discovery, observability and monitoring for proactive information
12. Agentic first Approach to fine tune large scale DBs
13. Expertise in setting up PGBouncer, RDSProxy for connection pooling
14. Expertise in setting up ETL and data pipelines using Apache Iceberg
15. Provide 24*7 support for our production application.
16. Perform installations, patching, and upgrades on Azure and AWS infrastructure.
17. Configure and managemulti-AZdeployments, Read Replicas, to ensure high availability.
18. Maintain Performance Baselines and document tuning efforts and outcomes
19. Identify network, fd, CPU, Mem, i/o, latency bottlenecks in end-to-end system design and drive optimisation
20. Thinks AI and Agentic First in designing solutions
21. Good expertise on AIDD and AIRD on either of the tools such as Cursor, Windsurf
22. Understands challenges and pace of 0-1 journey
23. Has propensity to build low latency end user experience in a high velocity environment

📌 Software Development Engineer - 3 (DevOps) (New Delhi)
🏢 Global University Systems
📍 New Delhi