About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer (5+ years experience) with strong expertise in GCP and working knowledge of AWS and/or GCP to lead end-to-end cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices. 

This role focuses on designing and operating secure, scalable, and production-grade cloud platforms, with emphasis on GCP-native services, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, and cloud governance. You will work closely with engineering teams and clients to deliver highly available, cost-optimized, and compliant systems.

Experience: 5+ Years
Location: Ahmedabad
Employment Type: Full-time

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure across GCP(preferred), AWS/GCP cloud.
• Own end to end DevOps responsibilities of the assigned project including architecture, implementation, and operations.
• Design and implement GCP project structure, folder hierarchy, and organization policies for environment isolation and governance.
• Design and manage infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and GCP-native tools where applicable.
• Design, build, Manage and support containerized and microservices based workloads using GKE and Cloud Run.
• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ensuring secure and reliable software delivery.
• Manage multiple environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Prod) including environment promotion, release governance, and deployment strategies (blue-green, canary).
• Implement monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting solutions to ensure system reliability and observability.
• Ensure adherence to security, compliance, IAM and operational best practices.
• Design and manage highly available database deployments and ensure secure access management.

Required Skills: 

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, and GCP.
• Solid programming experience in Python or Go.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or similar.
• Deep understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• A passion for developer productivity and building internal tools that empower engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• A positive and proactive approach to work and team dynamics.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Write custom automation scripts and tools using Bash, Python, or Go lang for automation and improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate closely with developers, architects, PMs, and clients to deliver optimal technical solutions.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, architecture diagrams and other relevant documentations.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps roles.
• Strong production experience with GCP(preferred), exposure to AWS or Azure is a plus and willingness to learn and work across other cloud environments as needed.
• Deep hands-on experience in designing and managing complex Terraform based infrastructure provisioning. Experience of configuration management tools such as Ansible is a plus.
• Strong understanding, design and management of secure networking architecture including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, private connectivity, Cloud Load Balancing, and Cloud CDN.
• Strong experience with container orchestration platforms such as GKE (must-have) and serverless containers like Cloud Run. Exposure to EKS, AKS, ECS is a plus.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture including advanced concepts such as ingress controllers, API gateways, Service mesh, autoscaling, cluster upgrades, networking and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and optimizing autoscaling strategies across cloud infrastructure including Linux VMs and container orchestration platforms to ensure high availability, performance efficiency and cost optimization.
• Solid expertise in Docker, image optimization, security hardening, and container best practices.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using Cloud Build, GitHub Actions or similar tools with best practices to improve developer experience and integrating security tools.
• Understanding of release strategies including versioning, rollback strategies, and artifact management.
• Experience working with serverless and event-driven architectures using Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Eventarc, API Gateway.
• Strong understanding and hands on production experience of implementing observability solutions including logging, metrics, distributed tracing and alerting using cloud native or open source tools.
• Hands-on experience with IAM design, service accounts, workload identity, and secret management using Secret Manager.
• Design and manage cloud storage solutions using GCP services (Cloud Storage, Filestore, Persistent Disks) with a strong focus on secure access patterns, including private access, encryption, IAM/service account-based access control, lifecycle management, and data flow architecture across services and environments.
• Experience implementing GCP governance using organization policies, IAM roles, and resource hierarchy.
• Cloud cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency practices.
• Experience in administering Linux based Cloud virtual machines, including disk management, networking, backup configuration, performance optimization, access control, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and managing highly available and secure database deployments using cloud services with knowledge of MySQL, PostgreSQL including access management, backup strategies, disaster recovery, replication, and security best practices.
• Strong troubleshooting and Hands on experience in incident management, conducting root cause analysis and implementing preventive measures to improve system reliability and avoid recurring issues.
• Good communication skills with experience interacting with clients for requirement discussions, updates, and technical clarifications.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers, QA, Architects, project managers, other stakeholders and teams.

Nice to Have

• Certifications in GCP, AWS, Azure, Terraform, or Kubernetes.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

What we offer:

• A culture that values flexibility, work-life balance, and employee well-being - including Work From Home Fridays
• Competitive compensation packages and comprehensive health benefits
• Work with a collaborative, global team of engineers who thrive on solving complex challenges
• Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and modern DevOps tooling at scale
• Professional growth through continuous learning, mentorship, and access to new technologies
• Leadership that recognizes contributions and supports career advancement
• The chance to shape DevOps best practices and directly influence company-wide engineering culture
• A people-first environment where your ideas matter and innovation is encouraged

Experience Range

Overall Experience: 3-6 Years (IT Recruitment)

Job Location - Ahmedabad, Gujarat (WFO)

Who you’ll be working with

Reporting to the HR Manager, you will be responsible for managing all staffing operations for the company, including managing candidate pipelines, reporting on candidate status, implementing innovative and proactive recruiting processes/practices, and hiring the highest-performing technical talent. This role will be 100% dedicated to the end-to-end recruitment life cycle. The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated self-starter passionate about building teams.

What you’ll be doing

• Provide hands-on, full-cycle recruiting support for critical, hard-to-fill technical positions
• Develop a talent acquisition strategy to attract, select, and close the highly qualified talent
• Own sourcing using standard and creative outlets to build a robust pipeline of qualified leads
• Create a personalized candidate experience that highlights Codals unique selling points
• Collaborate with hiring managers to define candidate profiles
• Stay "ahead of the curve" on emerging trends and the latest creative recruiting channels, particularly among Codal's competitors for talent in technology.
• Maintain accurate pipeline data and share weekly metrics to highlight wins and concerns 
• Build sustainable talent pipelines of top talent with a variety of resources and techniques 
• Source, recruit, screen, interview, and recommend external and/or internal candidates for all level jobs, including entry-level, experienced professional/technical, support staff, and hourly, and people leaders
• Ensure the presentation of diverse candidate slates for consideration and encourage strategic approaches for incorporating diversity in the search process
• Partner with leadership to understand staffing needs and develop sourcing strategies to meet those needs
• Drive offer process, including generating and extending offers, and closing candidates 

What you’ll need to be successful (Requirements)

• 3-6 years of full cycle recruiting experience; experience in a growth company and fast-paced environments is a plus
• Experience recruiting for a variety of technical roles
• Experience closing competitive candidates with multiple offers
• Proven ability to implement sourcing strategies that build a representative and inclusive candidate pipeline
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to partner with and advise hiring managers on recruiting best practices
• Experience using recruiting metrics to identify problems, provide insights, and influence decisions
• A growth mindset and true flexibility. You can shift tasks and priorities when circumstances change
  
  

Need another reason to hit the “apply” button?

• Codal is a global agency with over 250 employees, and offices in the US, UK, Canada and India 
• We are a BigCommerce Partner and have won the Partner of the year award twice (most recently this past year).
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work.
• Company sponsored lunch every Wednesday.
• Health Insurance: Comprehensive medical coverage for employees and their dependents
• Maternity/Paternity Leave: Additional time off and support for new parents
• Professional Development: Opportunities for training, workshops, conferences to enhance employees' skills and knowledge
• Accidental Insurance