DevOps Engineer

GradRight is the world’s first SaaS ecosystem that brings together students, universities and financial institutions on one platform. It enables students to find and fund high return college education, universities to engage and select the best-fit students and banks to lend in an effective and efficient manner. Our vision is to be the world’s leading Ed-Fin Tech company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable to all.

We have enabled 250,000+ students to get the best deals on $ 4+ Billion of loan requests and facilitated disbursements of more than $ 450+ Million in loans. We enable 50+ universities across US, Europe, Canada to develop their brand in India, attract the right students to apply and enroll for their Graduate programs. It has commenced a new business line of marketing, enrolling and managing the Online Programs for its university partners.

Founded in 2019, GradRight has offices across Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Bangalore, Delhi and Washington DC. GradRight’s team possesses extensive domestic and international experience in the launch and scale-up of premier higher education institutions like Ashoka, Krea and Plaksha University. It is led by alumni of IIT Delhi, ISB Hyderabad and BITS Pilani and University of Pennsylvania. GradRight is also the winner of the HSBC Fintech Innovation Challenge supported by the Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India.

At GradRight, we are transforming how students explore and access higher education abroad using technology and data. We're building smart, AI-powered tools that help match students to the best-fit universities and financial options. Join us to shape the future of student decision-making.

About the Role

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer with hands-on experience in AWS cloud infrastructure, containerization, and orchestration. The ideal candidate will be responsible for building, automating, and maintaining scalable cloud solutions, ensuring smooth CI / CD pipelines, and supporting development and operations teams.

Core Responsibilities

Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure on AWS.

Build and maintain CI / CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI / CD, or GitHub Actions.

Containerize applications using Docker and manage deployments with Kubernetes (EKS, self-managed, or other distributions).

Monitor system performance, availability, and security using tools like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / EFK stack.

Collaborate with development teams to optimize application performance and deployment processes.

Required Skills & Experience

3–4 years of professional experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.

Strong expertise in AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, EKS, etc.).

Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS or self-hosted clusters).

Proficiency in CI / CD pipeline design and automation.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation).

Solid understanding of Linux / Unix systems and shell scripting.

Knowledge of monitoring, logging, and alerting tools.

Familiarity with networking concepts (DNS, Load Balancing, Security Groups, Firewalls).

Basic programming / scripting experience in Python, Bash, or Go.

Nice to Have

Exposure to microservices architecture and service mesh (Istio / Linkerd).

Knowledge of serverless (AWS Lambda, API Gateway).