DevOps Engineer - 1

About The Company Nitro Commerce is a Series A adtech startup founded in 2023 by an experienced team from Wigzo, a pioneering martech company that was successfully acquired by Shiprocket, marking a significant cash exit. The company is led by Umair Mohammed, a well-known figure in the martech space and founder of Wigzo, who brings deep expertise in ecommerce and marketing technology innovation. Nitro Commerce specializes in delivering in-market identified audiences targeted contextually with the most relevant creative, driving conversions directly on the brand’s own website within the same or multiple sessions.

Role Overview We are looking for an experienced

DevOps Manager to own the scalability, security, and reliability of our SaaS platform. This role will be responsible for designing world-class infrastructure, implementing cutting-edge automation practices, leading cybersecurity initiatives, and managing a large-scale sharded database environment. You will also mentor and grow a small team of DevOps engineers, driving best practices across infrastructure, CI/CD, and incident management.

Roles & Responsibilities: Infrastructure Management:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure for our SaaS platform.
• Manage and monitor cloud resources (AWS/GCP), ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Demonstrate a

deep understanding of raw networking , including protocols, routing, firewalls, and subnets, beyond what is managed by cloud providers.

• Expertise in configuring and managing

iptables is a must for network security.

Cyber Security:

• Integrate security best practices throughout the development and deployment pipelines.
• Conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Implement and manage security tools and systems (e.g., IDS/IPS, WAF, SIEM).
• Respond to and mitigate security incidents as needed.

Database Management:

• Oversee the management and performance tuning of our sharded database systems.
• Proven experience managing a sharded databases around

300 TB is a prerequisite.

• Ensure data integrity, backup, and disaster recovery processes are robust and reliable.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Lead the management and optimization of our

Kubernetes clusters.

• Design and implement containerized deployment strategies.
• Ensure high availability and resilience of containerized applications.

Automation & CI/CD:

• Develop and maintain robust and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and application deployment using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Implement a "you build it, you run it" culture within the engineering team.

Team Leadership:

• Manage and mentor a

small team of DevOps engineers.

• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Lead the on-call rotation and incident response efforts.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2 years of experience in DevOps or a related field.
• Deep expertise in

Kubernetes and container orchestration.

• Expert-level knowledge of raw networking , including TCP/IP, DNS, and specifically,

iptables .

• Demonstrable experience managing a sharded database of over

500 TB .

• Strong background in

cyber security , including threat modeling and incident response.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash/Python/Go).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).