DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Experience: 1–5 Years | Location: Hyderabad (Onsite)

About SmartDocs SmartDocs is an AI-powered Source-to-Pay platform helping enterprises digitize and automate their procurement and finance operations. As we scale our platform, we're building a strong DevOps function to keep our infrastructure fast, secure, and reliable.

The Role

You've moved past I followed the runbook and you're now at I wrote the runbook, and then improved it. This role sits between our Jr. DevOps Engineer and our DevOps Manager/Lead — you're not new to this, but you're not running the whole show either. You take ownership of real pipelines, real environments, and real incidents, with a manager who trusts you to make the call and only wants to hear about it if it's actually on fire.

What You'll Actually Be Doing

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines for trunk-based development, working directly with development teams across time zones.
• Deploy and manage containerized applications on Azure (AKS preferred) — you're comfortable enough with Docker and Kubernetes that just restart the pod isn't your only move.
• Design and maintain infrastructure as code (Terraform or Bicep) — provisioning, environment consistency, and cleaning up the drift nobody wants to own.
• Use AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar) as part of your actual daily workflow — not a novelty, a habit. Scripting, troubleshooting, and automation should be faster because of it.
• Operate production MongoDB — routine administration, backup/restore testing, and enough comfort with Mongo Atlas to not panic during a replica set election.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and centralized logging (Datadog, Site24x7, ELK, Splunk, or similar) so problems get caught before clients notice them.
• Take a share of the on-call rotation and run incident response for your piece of the system — writing postmortems that name the actual cause.
• Support security hygiene — patching, secrets, certificates, vulnerability follow-up — and help produce evidence for SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR audits when asked.
• Manage the unglamorous but critical stuff: domain/DNS (Cloudflare/GoDaddy), version control hygiene, ticket discipline in Jira.

Who We're Looking For

• 1–5 years in DevOps/SRE/infrastructure roles, with real production ownership — not just POCs and sandbox environments.
• Solid Azure fundamentals: compute, networking basics, IAM, cost visibility. AWS/GCP exposure is a plus, not a substitute.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes in a real deployment context.
• Working CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Bitbucket CI/CD.
• Comfortable with Python or Bash for automation — you'd rather write a script than repeat a manual step three times.
• Some exposure to MongoDB administration; Mongo Atlas familiarity is a plus.
• Familiarity with Git-based version control and ticketing tools (Jira or similar).

Must-Have (Non-Negotiable)

• Practical, current fluency with AI-assisted development tools — Claude Code specifically preferred, GitHub Copilot or equivalent acceptable. If you haven't used one to actually get work done faster, this isn't the right seat yet.
• Genuine curiosity about how AI tooling changes DevOps work — we're an AI company, and we expect that to show up in how you work, not just what you build.

Why SmartDocs

You'll get real ownership of pipelines and environments that matter, mentorship from a manager who's actually run production, and room to grow into more scope as you prove it out. Fast-growing AI product company, real infrastructure problems, no busywork theater.