Junior Devops Engineer
About us
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In short, we are building the platform to drive global careers for millennials from emerging economies
We work at the exciting intersection of the 2 hottest trends around - edtech & fintech!
And we love that we succeed as a business while powering the dreams of talented students!
Founder Profile
Arnav Kumar
is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. Leap is his second company and he
has raised more than $30M in capital for his startups. In his last
role, he was a VC investor with SAIF Partners (Now Elevation
Capital), which is an early investor in paytm, meesho, urban
company, unacademy and many other unicorns. He thinks and tweets
about Product, Business Models and Company Building,
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Vaibhav Singh
is a graduate of IIT Kharagpur. He spent his first 6 years at
DeutscheBank, across Singapore & Sydney to manage a $3Bn flow
book. He has built 2 fintech startups before, as a founding member
of CapitalFloat and Incred, both pioneering businesses valued
>$500Mn The Leap team has a fine balance of industry experience
(edtech, fintech, study abroad) and technical skills (engineering,
product, design)
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About the Role:
We are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer who can own the cloud infrastructure of Leap. As a seasoned professional, the individual should be able to drive upgrades at the infrastructure level, handle the scale and should be able to readily rectify any outages that might occur.
The charter will include:
Ensuring zero-time deployments.
Auto-scale the infrastructure during high traffic periods.
Identify and resolve infrastructure related issues in production.
Support development teams during dev cycles and resolve any environment related issues.
Own the alerting and monitoring infrastructure.
Stay up to date with the industry standards and best practices.
Ideal persona would have:
1.5 - 3 years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, working with AWS or other cloud platforms.
Have worked on AWS services, specifically, EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, VPC etc.
Strong understanding of containerisation using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes.
Solid scripting skills in Bash, Python, or similar languages for automation purposes.
Proficiency in configuring and managing Nginx as a reverse proxy, load balancer, and web server.
Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, or Grafana.
Experience in managing and optimising PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic Search and Redis Cache datastores.
Strong understanding of version control using Git and familiarity with best practices for code management.
Life @ Leap
Mutual Respect
We love people who are ‘relentlessly resourceful’. Find your way out. Focus on the possibilities instead of the problems.
Bias for action
We take calculated risks backed by data and information available and encourage fail fast to find the best solutions as soon as possible
Learn & get better
Continuous learning and improvement is the key. We don’t stop learning. We treat feedback as a gift and as an opportunity to get better.
Growth mindset
We operate with a growth mindset and not a mindset of fear or judgement. You are in control of your own ability to learn and improve. We love Resilience.