Senior DevOps Engineer - 507

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, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.

Paytm PG (Payment Gateway) Tech is a robust, scalable, and secure platform designed to handle millions of transactions seamlessly for businesses of all sizes. It offers a wide range of payment options, including UPI, cards, net banking, and wallets, ensuring a smooth and quick checkout experience for customers. The tech stack is built with high availability, low latency, and advanced fraud detection capabilities to maintain trust and security. With cutting-edge APIs and easy integration, Paytm PG empowers merchants to customize and enhance their payment processes. It also provides real-time analytics and insights to help businesses optimize their payment strategies.

About the role: 

As a Senior Devops, you serve as the mentor and anchor for an engineering team. You create, own and are responsible for the Cloud & DevOps architecture that best serves a product in its functional and strategic needs.

1. Experience in AWS.

2.  A strong focus on automation and cloud-native thinking. A proven record of working within distributed infrastructures and experience in Cloud technology specifically AWS.

3.  Will be responsible for delivery of all the technical implementation as per the requests in JIRA for different self-hosted & managed resources on AWS in an automated fashion, using the best practices of DevOps, security & cost optimization.

4.  Own technical documentation for everything Cloud DevOps in Confluence.

5.  Plan and prioritize work for your team, including collaborating with cross border teams.

6.  Provide oversight and accountability for technical decisions.

7.  You will collaborate with Developers, Program Managers, QA and DevOps Engineers in an agile development environment.

8.  Constantly learn and grow as an engineer and an engine.

9.  Knowledge of Kubernetes concepts, like pods, services, deployments, and stateful sets.

10.  Experience with container runtimes like Docker and containers.

11.  Familiarity with Kubernetes networking, including CNI plugins, ingress controllers, and service meshes.

12.  Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools, such as Helm, Kustomize, Argocd and Terraform.

13.  Ability to set up monitoring, logging, and alerting for Kubernetes clusters.

14.  Understanding of Kubernetes security best practices, like RBAC, network, and pod security policies.

1.  Computer Sc. engineering graduate with 3+ years of relevant work experience in AWS, DevOps & team management.

2.  Extremely knowledgeable on Linux, Shell Scripting, AWS core services (VPC, EC2 S3 IAM, RDS), Amazon EKS/Kubernetes, GIT, Docker, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana.

3.  Strong operating system fundamentals with a focus on performance optimization & reliability of the system.

4.  Has exposure to networking concepts (SSH, FTP, TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing, CDN etc. )

5.  Good to have experience working with distributed systems & databases (SQL, NoSQL, Cache), stream-processing (Kafka), message-queuing (RabbitMQ) & search & analytics platform (ELK).

6.  Hands on experience building microservices architecture, applying design patterns and developing frameworks

7.  Able to develop and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external customers 

8.  Consistent track record for solution delivery, quality improvements, champion for agile scrum adoption.

9.  Have a strong focus on business outcomes

10. Comfortable with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders

11. Self-motivated and can get things done 

12. Have a strong knowledge of threading, concurrency, scaling, and high availability.

13.  Have a desire to build products that users love

14.  Stay current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

15. AWS Solution Architect / Professional certified a plus.

1.      A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology.

2.      Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opportunities.

3.      A solid 360 feedbacks from your peer teams on your support of their goals.

4.      Respect, that is earned, not demanded from your peers and manager.

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!