Associate Software Engineer - DevOps & Kubernetes

Overview

Associate Software Engineer supporting the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud-based applications and services, working under the guidance of senior engineers on CI/CD, deployment automation, monitoring, and incident response.

What you'll do

• Support and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application build, test, and deployment.
• Assist with automating deployments, environment configuration, and routine operational tasks.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health using logs, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Respond to incidents, perform initial troubleshooting, and escalate complex issues appropriately.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and track corrective actions.
• Support containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Work with development and QA teams to improve release reliability and deployment quality.
• Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and standard procedures.
• Learn and apply SRE practices, including service-level indicators, service-level objectives, error budgets, and automation.
• Investigate alerts and service issues, document findings, and contribute to corrective and preventive actions.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and platform teams to deliver stable and secure releases.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Approximately one year of hands-on experience in SRE, DevOps, cloud operations, build and release engineering, or a related role.
• Basic experience with CI/CD concepts and tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar platforms.
• Working knowledge of Git and common branching and pull-request workflows.
• Basic understanding of Linux or Windows administration and scripting with Shell, PowerShell, or Python.
• Familiarity with cloud services, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Basic understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, networking, and distributed systems.
• Ability to analyse logs, investigate alerts, and troubleshoot application or deployment issues.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident-management practices.
• Strong communication, collaboration, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Willingness to learn, take ownership of assigned tasks, and participate in operational support.

Nice to have

• Exposure to infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience supporting Java or Spring Boot microservices.
• Familiarity with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Awareness of security practices for secrets, access control, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience working in an Agile delivery team.

Details

• Location: Bangalore.