DevOps Manager - 1

About The Company

Nitro Commerce is a Series A adtech startup founded in 2023 by an experienced team from Wigzo, a pioneering martech company that was successfully acquired by Shiprocket, marking a significant cash exit. The company is led by Umair Mohammed, a well-known figure in the martech space and founder of Wigzo, who brings deep expertise in ecommerce and marketing technology innovation. Nitro Commerce specializes in delivering in-market identified audiences targeted contextually with the most relevant creative, driving conversions directly on the brand’s own website within the same or multiple sessions.

Role Overview

DevOps Manager

Roles & Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure for our SaaS platform.
• Manage and monitor cloud resources (AWS/GCP), ensuring optimal performance and cost-effectiveness.
• Demonstrate a 

  deep understanding of raw networking

  , including protocols, routing, firewalls, and subnets, beyond what is managed by cloud providers.
• Expertise in configuring and managing 

  iptables

   is a must for network security.

Cyber Security:

• Integrate security best practices throughout the development and deployment pipelines.
• Conduct security audits and vulnerability assessments.
• Implement and manage security tools and systems (e.g., IDS/IPS, WAF, SIEM).
• Respond to and mitigate security incidents as needed.

Database Management:

• Oversee the management and performance tuning of our sharded database systems.
• Proven experience managing a sharded databases around 

  300 TB

   is a prerequisite.
• Ensure data integrity, backup, and disaster recovery processes are robust and reliable.

Containerization & Orchestration:

• Lead the management and optimization of our 

  Kubernetes

   clusters.
• Design and implement containerized deployment strategies.
• Ensure high availability and resilience of containerized applications.

Automation & CI/CD:

• Develop and maintain robust and efficient CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and application deployment using tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Implement a "you build it, you run it" culture within the engineering team.

Team Leadership:

• Manage and mentor a 

  small team

   of DevOps engineers.
• Foster a collaborative and innovative team environment.
• Conduct regular performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Lead the on-call rotation and incident response efforts.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps or a related field.
• At least 1 year of experience managing a small team.
• Deep expertise in 

  Kubernetes

   and container orchestration.

• Expert-level knowledge of raw networking

  , including TCP/IP, DNS, and specifically, 

  iptables

  .
• Demonstrable experience managing a sharded database of over 

  500 TB

  .
• Strong background in 

  cyber security

  , including threat modeling and incident response.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Bash/Python/Go).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).