Client: Rapido

Work Mode: Hybrid (2 days from office, 3 days from home)

About Rapido

We are India’s largest bike-taxi platform, steadily venturing into Auto, Cabs, Delivery, Rental, and more. Currently, present in ~100 cities, we are growing close to ~50% year-on-year with steady funding. We have changed the concept of intra-city travel and made last-mile connectivity affordable to all. Along with being the #1 choice of 40 million people, we have also built a solid captain base of over 5 million registered captains, who have bettered their lives with Rapido. As an employer, we provide a lot of ownership to our team members providing multiple avenues for them to grow within the company. You will only grow with us with the right balance of ambition, fun, and transparent work culture!

Rapido Cabs made its debut on May 2023, marking the commencement of its services in eight cities. Notably, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Delhi stand out as the primary cities for this initial launch. However, the ambitious plan includes an extensive expansion to encompass over 50 cities in the coming 12 months.

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Job Summary:

As a Lead DevOps Engineer at Rapido, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

? You will lead and guide your team toward developing high-quality and optimized deliverables

? Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs (Mandatory)

? Manage large-scale production environment and mission-critical infrastructure

? Codify and manage our infrastructure

? Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%

? Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities

? Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes

? (Lead, Influence, and evangelize the DevOps principles across the organization),Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization

? Work closely with Engineering Leadership to ensure that the infrastructure can serve current and future needs.

? Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

Job Requirements:

? B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience

? Minimum 7 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant with a minimum of 2-3 years of experience leading a team

? Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes (and should have the ability to advise the dev team on how to build and run it)

? Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

? Experience in any one programming language like GO/Python, and Java and can design and propose solutions in software development life cycle

? Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to write scripts in more than one scripting language

? Experience working with database technologies Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka

What’s there for you?

Our team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as

? 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks Golang/ java/ node

? More than 100,000 Request per second on our edge gateways

? ~20,000 events per second on self-managed Kafka

? 100s of TB of data on self-managed databases

? 100s of continuous real-time deployment to production

? Self-managed infra supporting

? 100% OSS

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Education

B.Tech/B.E.