Engineering Lead/Principle Engineer - DevOps

About Us:

Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology.

About the team: Paytm 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.

Requirements:

He/She/They should have 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

Skills that will help you succeed in this role:

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.

Why join us:

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

Compensation:

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!