The Role
Design, build, and operate scalable DevOps platforms and AWS infrastructure; implement advanced deployment strategies (canary, progressive), enhance observability (metrics, logging, tracing), automate workflows (including AI-assisted), improve reliability, performance, and cost optimization, and mentor teammates.
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JD - Senior DevOps Engineer
About Us:
Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology and innovation.
About the Role:
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will play a key role in building and operating reliable, scalable, and efficient infrastructure and deployment systems. You will work on improving platform capabilities, enhancing observability, and driving automation across the DevOps charter. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, deployment strategies, and observability, along with the ability to take ownership of production systems and continuously improve them using automation and AI-assisted workflows.
What You Will Do:
● Design and maintain high-performance, resilient DevOps platforms and infrastructure components
● Execute advanced deployment strategies including canary and progressive delivery (Argo Rollouts, Spinnaker, etc.)
● Take ownership of AWS infrastructure components, ensuring reliability, scalability, and security
● Build and enhance observability systems (metrics, logging, tracing) to improve system visibility and debugging
● Engineer and automate workflows using modern tooling and emerging AI/agentic solutions
● Strengthen system reliability through effective monitoring, alerting, and incident response practices
● Collaborate with engineering and security teams to implement DevOps best practices and standards
● Contribute to improving deployment efficiency, system performance, and cloud cost optimization initiatives
● Support and mentor team members through knowledge sharing and technical guidance
AI & Automation Mindset:
● Comfortable leveraging AI tools to improve productivity and reduce manual effort
● Ability to identify opportunities for automation and intelligent workflows
● Interest in applying AI to analysis, debugging, and operational efficiency
Required Skills:
● 3–6 years of experience (at least 3 years in DevOps)
● Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and other containerized environments
● Experience with Terraform (or equivalent IaC tools)
● Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
● Experience with GitOps workflows (ArgoCD preferred)
● Solid understanding of deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, rolling)
● Strong experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalent)
● Experience managing production-grade systems (Kafka, Redis, etc.)
● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed systems
● Proficiency in scripting (Python preferred)
● Proven ability to independently own and drive improvements in at least one critical DevOps domain (CI/CD, observability, cost optimization, or infrastructure reliability).
What Makes You a Strong Fit:
● Strong sense of ownership for production systems
● Ability to think in terms of systems, trade-offs, and scalability
● Bias for automation over manual processes
● Strong collaboration and communication skills
● Proactive problem-solving and continuous improvement mindset
Why Join Us?
● A collaborative, output-driven environment that fosters innovation.
● Opportunities to work on large-scale, high-impact projects.
● A culture that values technical excellence, automation, and efficiency.
● Respect that is earned from peers and leadership based on contributions and impact.
Compensation:
If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you with enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 25 mn+ merchants and depth of data in our ecosystem, we are in a unique position to democratize credit for deserving consumers & merchants – and we are committed to it. India’s largest digital lending story is brewing here.
It’s your opportunity to be a part of the story!
Skills Required
- 3-6 years of experience (at least 3 years in DevOps)
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
- Experience with Terraform or equivalent Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, etc.)
- Experience with GitOps workflows
- Experience with ArgoCD
- Understanding of deployment strategies (canary, blue-green, rolling)
- Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalent)
- Experience managing production-grade systems (Kafka, Redis, etc.)
- Proficiency in scripting (Python preferred)
- Ownership and proven ability to drive improvements in a DevOps domain (CI/CD, observability, cost optimization, or reliability)
- Experience owning AWS infrastructure components (reliability, scalability, security)
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed systems
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The Company
What We Do
Paytm started the Digital Revolution in India. And we went on to become India’s leading Payments App. Today, more than 20 Million merchants & businesses are powered by Paytm to Accept Payments digitally. This is because more than 300 million Indians use Paytm to Pay at their stores. And that’s not all, Paytm App is used to Pay bills, do Recharges, Send money to friends & family, Book movies & travel tickets. With innovations to Financial services & products in pipeline, this is but one of the milestones achieved towards our mission – to bring 500 million unserved and underserved Indians to the mainstream economy.
