Devsecops Engineer

Company Introduction :

Varaha is a leading climate tech venture focused on nature-based solutions such as regenerative agriculture, ARR, and biochar projects that support smallholder land stewards at scale. In our second year of operation we are removing and avoiding more than 1 Million tons of CO2 and distributing the majority of the revenues to more than 100,000 smallholder land stewards in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Our in-house best in class MRV technology includes a bio-geo-chemical model for soil carbon, remote sensing and machine learning and uses soil samples for calibration. Backed by leading global investors, our founding and management team comes with a stellar track record of successfully scaling projects and products to millions of smallholder land stewards at leading agri- and tech businesses.

Position :- DevSecOps Engineer

About the Role:

Were looking for someone who can own both DevOps and SecOps—designing resilient infrastructure while making sure our systems are airtight from day one.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure (AWS primarily, open to GCP/Azure if you bring expertise).
• Build CI/CD pipelines to support fast, reliable deployments across environments.
• Automate infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for proactive system health management.
• Lead SecOps initiatives: threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, IAM hardening, and compliance practices.
• Manage containerized workloads (ECS, EKS, or Kubernetes) with strong security posture.
• Set up secure data pipelines and storage practices for sensitive datasets.
• Partner with engineering to embed security into development and release cycles (DevSecOps mindset).
• Establish disaster recovery, backup, and incident response playbooks.
• Keep ahead of evolving threats and ensure infrastructure meets industry best practices.

Skills & Qualifications :

• 2-3 years of DevOps/SecOps experience in production environments.
• Deep hands-on with AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, Security Groups, etc.).
• Strong infrastructure-as-code background (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Solid understanding of networking, firewalls, VPNs, TLS, and secure system design.
• Track record of implementing and enforcing cloud security standards.
• Scripting knowledge (Python, Bash, Go preferred).
• Mindset: ownership, pragmatism, and bias for automation.

Bonus Points If You Have:

• Experience in regulated environments (ISO, SOC2, GDPR).
• Exposure to geospatial or IoT data pipelines.
• Knowledge of zero-trust architectures.
• Contributions to open-source DevOps/SecOps tools.

What We Offer:

• Join a small, ambitious, and international team and enjoy the following benefits:
• Mentorship from experienced data scientists and platform engineers.
• Support for learning & professional development.
• A culture of undogmatic, unbureaucratic creativity and collaboration.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Varaha is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above-listed items.

If you are interested in becoming a part of this venture, then we would love to know your story, write to us