DevOps (Data DevOps) - Lead DevOps Engineer

Paytm is India’s leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Netbanking, Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later. To merchants Paytm offers acquiring devices like Sound box, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks’ financial instruments. To further enhance merchants’ business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store. Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

About the team: Paytm’s Infra Tech solves some of the most complex DevOps issues across the globe. Some of our DNA fingerprints are:

Cloud-First Paytm is a cloud-first company where we work on some of the largest cloud (AWS) workloads.

Scalability We tame scale. Our definition of scale is -- PBs of data, millions of requests per minute, few thousand microservices hosted on a few hundred thousand cores.

Innovation is our blood. Automation is our key Mantra. We work smartly -- We have designed one of the world's largest CI platforms, our own AWS cost management platform, EBS autoscale (Yes we downscale EBS without even an ms of outage), and so on.

Observability One of the best in-house designed observability systems processing a few 10s of millions of events per second and many more.

He/She/They should have 6 to 10 years of experience in DevOps Engineering

Hands on Experience in any of BD (Hadoop, Kafka, EMRs, Ranger, Spark, Hive, Starburst, Looker, TigerGraph, Neo4j) will be a big plus

Strong practical knowledge of managing AWS Infrastructure specially EC2, Load Balancers, Cloud Front, Elastic Cache, EBS, S3, IAM, Cloud Watch, Auto Scaling, Lambda, etc.

Understanding of open source server software (such as tomcat, hbase, Kafka, MYSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch)

Very good Experience in Infra automation (Ansible, Terraform, could formation or others)

Hands-on Experience in Kubernetes / EKS / Docker / ECS etc

Hands-on experience in writing automation using Shell, Python, PowerShell.

Strong experience in Jenkins / Maven / Gradle etc

Experience in DevOps and CI/CD pipeline using JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Nexus, docker.

Hands-on in CI/CD automation for EC2 / ASG / EKS / ECS using helm / jenkins and other tools

Experience in Configuration Management / DevOps / CI:CD / Agile

Very good knowledge in administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems like centos / ubuntu etc

Good problem solving and troubleshooting skills

Good experience in security compliance fixing on Systems like OS upgrade / Patching / Kernel optimization etc. Understanding of security in cloud solutions (API security, HTTPS, TLS, etc).

Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).

Knowledge of SQL Queries will be added advantage

Preferred Qualification : Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tech Stack: Lang: Java, DB: RDBMS, Messaging: Kafka/RabbitMQ, Caching: Redis/Aerospike, Micro services, AWS

Strong experience in scaling, performance tuning & optimization at both API and storage layers

Hands-on leader, and problem solver with a passion for excellence.

Because you get an opportunity to make a difference, and have a great time doing that

You are challenged and encouraged here to do stuff that is meaningful for you and for those we serve

You should work with us if you think seriously about what technology can do for people

We are successful, and our successes are rooted in our people's collective energy and unwavering focus on the customer, and that's how it will always be.

Learn more about the exciting work we do in Tech by reading our Engineering blogs

If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you.

With enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it.

India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here. It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!