Azure DevOps Engineer

About PaperLite

PaperLite is an enterprise-software / SaaS startup based in Pune, founded in 2023, focused on workflow automation and enterprise collaboration solutions. We help organisations streamline notifications, task management, document tracking, secure file sharing, communication, data security & encryption, access control, client management, and more.

As a growing team, we're building scalable infrastructure and systems to support our platform (for ourselves and our customers), and we are looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help make everything robust, automated, secure, and efficient.

Role Overview

We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who will work closely with our engineering, QA, product, and security teams to:

• Build/maintain the infrastructure that powers PaperLite's SaaS platform
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Automate operations (deployments, monitoring, scaling, backups, etc.)
• Ensure reliability, performance, and security of the platform
• Assist in ensuring the infrastructure can scale smoothly as user base / usage increases

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain infrastructure (cloud / hybrid) that supports the PaperLite platform
• Build, maintain, and optimise CI/CD pipelines to ensure frequent, reliable, and safe code deployments
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using popular tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, etc.
• Containerization & orchestration: setting up & managing Docker / Kubernetes clusters (or similar)
• Monitoring, alerting, logging: ensure good observability (metrics, logs, tracing) so issues can be caught & resolved quickly
• Automation of routine operations: auto-scaling, backups, disaster recovery, security patching, etc.
• Collaborate with dev, QA & product teams to enforce best practices for reliability, performance, security, deployment, rollback etc.
• Improve system security: ensure compliance, secure configurations, vulnerability assessments etc.
• Cost optimization of infrastructure and resource usage

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar infrastructure / operations-automation role
• Strong proficiency with cloud platforms (especially with Azure and Firebase) and associated services
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, etc.)
• Experience with the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) concept
• Proficiency in containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
• Good scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python, or similar)
• Strong understanding of systems, networking, and OS (Linux) internals
• Experience with monitoring/logging/observability tools
• Solid understanding of security best practices in cloud & DevOps contexts.
• Should have basic knowledge of various databases, MongoDB, Postgres, especially Postgres
• Basic knowledge about SQL
• Basic knowledge about taking automated backups, basic disaster recovery principles etc.
• Basic knowledge about managing policies and permissions etc.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Experience in SaaS platforms handling multi-tenancy, large scale, or high availability
• Experience in setting up disaster recovery, geo / regional redundancy, etc.
• Expertise in Azure Portal and its products.
• Experience with serverless architectures or event-driven microservices
• Knowledge of compliance / data protection / encryption / confidentiality (especially for enterprise / client data)
• Experience with cost optimisation strategies in cloud infrastructure

What We Value in You

• Strong problem-solving & troubleshooting instincts
• Great communication skills. Able to explain technical designs/questions to stakeholders, developers, security, etc.
• Ownership mindset. You care about platform reliability and user experience
• Willingness to learn and adopt new tooling / best practices

What Success Looks Like in This Role

We will assess your performance by:

1. Uptime, reliability, performance metrics of the system (reduced downtime, fast recovery, etc.)

2. Speed, safety, and stability of deployments (how often deploys happen + how cleanly)

3. Degree of automation achieved (less manual intervention, more self-healing / self-monitoring systems)

4. Cost efficiency of infrastructure usage

5. Security posture & adherence to best practices

What We Offer

• Opportunity to be an early/hands-on member of a startup building enterprise SaaS infrastructure
• Exposure to end-to-end systems: cloud, security, performance, scalability
• A collaborative engineering culture with learning & growth
• Flexible / hybrid environment (if applicable)
• Competitive compensation & benefits

How to Apply

Interested candidates, please send:

• Your updated CV
• A summary/portfolio of relevant work (CI/CD / Infrastructure / Automation)
• One example of a system you designed or improved (with challenges faced, what you did, and results)

Send application to 

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