About The Role
We are looking for a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer who can own, design, and scale the DevOps architecture for our complex, distributed, microservices-based product. You will be responsible for both hands-on implementation and strategic infrastructure decisions, ensuring our platform’s reliability, scalability, and security.The ideal candidate should have deep experience in cloud-native architecture, automation, CI/CD, container orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code.
About Aries
You will be working on our core products:
- Aries.com – the first open-source brokerage for active traders.
- Finance.dev – developer infrastructure for trading products.
Key Responsibilities
Infrastructure & Cloud
- Design, manage, and scale infrastructure across AWS using Terraform.
- Work extensively with AWS services such as Cognito, SNS, SQS, EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudWatch, etc.
- Design secure and highly available systems using VPC, subnets, load balancers, and networking best practices.
Containerization & Orchestration
- Manage and optimize Docker-based microservices.
- Deploy, monitor, and scale workloads in Kubernetes (EKS preferred).
- Implement and maintain service mesh, ingress, and reverse proxies (Traefik, Nginx, etc.).
- Handle Pod Identity, RBAC, and multi-environment deployments.
CI/CD & Automation
- Build and maintain end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Workflows, and ArgoCD.
- Automate environment provisioning, testing, and deployment for multiple services.
- Define and enforce GitOps principles and environment promotion strategies.
Monitoring, Reliability & Security
- Set up observability with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK stack, or Datadog.
- Define SLOs, SLIs, and alerting strategies for proactive monitoring.
- Ensure infrastructure and data security, implement IAM best practices, secrets management, and compliance policies.
- Establish disaster recovery and backup strategies.
Databases & Messaging Systems
- Manage and optimize Databases like PostgreSQL, Redis, DragonflyDB, and caching layers.
- Handle Kafka clusters and messaging systems to support high-throughput event-driven architectures.
Team Leadership & Strategy
- Mentor junior Devops team members.
- Collaborate closely with backend, frontend, and system teams.
- Handle infrastructure cost optimization, reliability improvements, and security hardening.
- Define DevOps best practices, documentation, and runbooks.
Required Skills & ExperienceCore Technical Expertise
- 4–8+ years of DevOps/SRE experience with complex distributed systems.Strong experience with:
- AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Terraform / Infrastructure-as-Code
- Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
- Docker, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD
- Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis/DragonflyDB
- Traefik, Pod Identity, Cloudflare
- Deep understanding of microservices networking, observability, and scaling.
- Proficient in at least one scripting or backend language (Bash, Python, or Go preferred).
Soft Skills
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration abilities.
- Proven experience owning DevOps architecture in fast-paced startups or large-scale systems.
- Excellent problem-solving and incident response skills.
- Passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Nice to haves
- Interest in trading, fintech, or financial infrastructure.
- Experience with low-latency, high-throughput systems.
- Exposure to open-source contributions or impactful side projects.
Who You Are
- You move with urgency, take initiative, and do what it takes to win.
- You know the difference between excellent and mediocre engineering.
- You’re highly opinionated yet open to stronger logic and collaboration.
- You see elegant solutions in code and systems design.
- You value precision, clarity, and accountability.
- You thrive in startups and want to help entrepreneurs grow and thrive.
Benefits Overview
- Competitive base salary depending on experience + equity package.
- Unlimited PTO with a guaranteed two-week minimum.
- Internet & equipment reimbursement.
- Hybrid company model, hiring everywhere.
- Latest 14” or 16” MacBook Pro.
Compensation Range: ₹20L - ₹35L
