Data Devops - Senior Engineer
Job Description
Title: Data DevOps - Senior Engineer
About Us:
Paytm is India's leading digital payments and financial services company, which is focused on driving consumers and merchants to its platform by offering them a variety of payment use cases. Paytm provides consumers with services like utility payments and money transfers, while empowering them to pay via Paytm Payment Instruments (PPI) like Paytm Wallet, Paytm UPI, Paytm Payments Bank Net banking, Paytm FASTag and Paytm Postpaid - Buy Now, Pay Later.To merchants, Paytm offers acquiring devices like Soundbox, EDC, QR and Payment Gateway where payment aggregation is done through PPI and also other banks financial instruments. To further enhance merchants business, Paytm offers merchants commerce services through advertising and Paytm Mini app store.
Operating on this platform leverage, the company then offers credit services such as merchant loans, personal loans and BNPL, sourced by its financial partners.
About the Role:
We are looking for a Senior Data DevOps Engineer to manage and optimize data pipelines, databases, and cloud infrastructure. The ideal candidate will ensure smooth data flow, handle deployments, and improve system reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and scaling of data platforms.
- Work with development teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery of data services.
- Troubleshoot database and system issues to minimize downtime.
- Implement best practices for security, backups, and disaster recovery.
- Optimize performance of data storage and retrieval systems.
- Monitor system health and handle incidents proactively.
- Collaborate with DevOps and data engineering teams for continuous improvements.
Required Skills:
- Infrastructure Management: Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on AWS
- Strong practical knowledge of managing AWS Infrastructure, especially EC2, Load Balancers, CloudFront, ElasticCache, EBS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, Auto Scaling, Lambda, etc.
- Good experience in security compliance, including OS upgrades, patching, and kernel optimization
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Terraform.
- Experience with Big Data technologies such as Hive HMS and Apache Ranger.
- Familiarity with network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP)
- Proficiency in managing databases (MySQL).
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Jenkins/ArgoCD, GitLab,Airflow).
- Strong understanding of data processing tools (Spark, Kafka,Flink etc.).
- Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
- Good problem-solving skills and ability to work independently.
Nice to Have:
- Experience with big data tools like Hadoop .
- Familiarity with machine learning model deployment.
- Knowledge of data security and compliance.
Why join us :
A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology
Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opportunities
A solid 360 feedbacks from your peer teams on your support of their goals
Respect, that is earned, not demanded from your peers and manager
Compensation:
If you are the right fit, we believe in creating wealth for you with enviable 500 mn+ registered users, 21 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!