Devops Engineer 1 - Cloud & Infra Automation

Why Astra?

Astra is shaping the future of security - fast, intuitive, and deeply integrated. Our engineering culture values clarity, velocity, and human connection. We don’t just ship-we shape. As a DevOps Engineer I, you’ll help architect the systems that power our products and internal platforms, enabling scale without sacrificing reliability.

What You’ll Do:

You’ll be the backbone of our infrastructure evolution - designing, automating, and scaling systems that power Astra’s velocity. Expect to:

• Build and maintain containerized environments using Docker, Kubernetes and hosted solutions
• Architect cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS with a focus on scalability, security and performance
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Terraform and Ansible
• Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions for fast, safe deployments
• Implement monitoring and logging frameworks with Prometheus, Cloud Logging and GCP Monitoring
• Embed security and reliability into every layer - from IAM policies to deployment strategies.
• Define deployment strategies across staging and production, including blue/green and rollback mechanisms.
• Write clean, reusable scripts in Python and Bash to support automation and tooling.
• Integrate service mesh technologies like Istio for traffic management and observability
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to align infrastructure with business goals
• Document systems and processes clearly to support scale and cross-team understanding
• Continuously improve reliability posture by identifying bottlenecks and driving incident response learnings.

What Success Looks Like:

• Our environments are reproducible, observable and secure.
• Product teams ship faster with NO infra bottlenecks.
• You proactively surface reliability risks and solve them before they escalate.
• You mentor junior engineers and elevate the team’s DevOps maturity.

Requirements

We’re looking for curious minds who build with intent. You’ll thrive here if you:

• Min 2-3 years hands-on experience with GCP and AWS in production environments
• Strong understanding with compute, IAM, networking and integration services.
• Have built and maintained container infrastructure using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Can design container-based topologies that follow well-architected principles.
• Have exposure to Service Mesh technologies like Istio.
• Are fluent in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Have built CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and understand pipelines as code.
• Write automation scripts in Python and Bash with clarity and purpose.
• Understand observability and security best practices in cloud-native environments (Prometheus, Cloud Logging, and GCP Monitoring).
• Think in terms of reliability SLAs, not just uptime.
• Communicate clearly and collaborate across functions with empathy and ownership.

Bonus Points

• Experience with incident response and postmortem culture.
• Exposure to cost optimization in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows.
• Contributions to open-source or internal tooling that improved team velocity.

Benefits

• Be a part of a fast-growing company and work on hard problems that matter.
• Flexible work hours and hybrid setup
• A team that values ownership, clarity, and kindness
• Holistic understanding of the SaaS and security industry.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was to Wayanad!).
• Health insurance & other benefits for you and your spouse (maternity benefits included).

In a Nutshell:

You’ll build and maintain the cloud systems, automation pipelines, and reliability frameworks that help Astra’s products run fast, safe, and smooth - so developers can focus on shipping, not firefighting.