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Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, AI
Porch Group
IndiaremotePosted today
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Key highlights
- Salary: ₹24,75,000 – ₹34,65,000 INR Annually
- Required experience: 8+ years
- Key benefit: 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support included
- Notable requirement: Deep expertise with GCP required; significant AWS expertise preferred
Role overview
Porch Group is a leading vertical software and insurance platform focused on helping homebuyers move, maintain, and protect their homes, with homeowners insurance at the center. As a leader in home services SaaS, they've built relationships with approximately 30,000 companies key to home-buying transactions. Trading publicly on Nasdaq since 2020 under ticker PRCH, they're seeking to build a 'truly great company' and believe they're 'JUST GETTING STARTED.' The Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer role supports this growth by building infrastructure in GCP and AWS with a strong AI focus, requiring collaboration with development teams to create scalable, secure, intelligent cloud infrastructure while mentoring junior engineers and driving technical initiatives across departments.
Responsibilities
- Build infrastructure/systems that balance operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization
- Improve observability of systems to anticipate and address issues before they become critical, leveraging infrastructure as code, system operational and health metrics, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation
- Contribute to DevOps roadmaps, helping balance priorities like modernizing past infrastructure, supporting new projects and deployments, and improving/hardening systems where needed most
- Integrate AI-powered tools into DevOps workflows for predictive monitoring, anomaly detection, intelligent alerting, and auto-remediation
- Leverage AI/ML insights to optimize CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and infrastructure performance and cost
- Build and maintain self-healing systems using AI-based observability platforms
- Support initiatives for modernizing/centralizing cloud footprint in partnership with business, analytics, software, InfoSec, and data science teams
- Design and enforce SDLC, InfoSec, and compliance requirements
- Assist with root cause analysis/remediation for system incidents
- Provide support to engineering team in basic database operations (SQL Server, MySQL) in running SQL scripts, creating database objects, and troubleshooting performance and connection issues
- Manage, patch, and monitor MySQL and SQL Server databases running in AWS and GCP
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions for build, test, and deployment workflows
- Manage repository structure, branch protection, and access controls across GitHub Organization
- Automate release processes and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions and Infrastructure as Code
- Configure and manage Cloudflare services: DNS, CDN caching rules, Page Rules/Rulesets, Load Balancing, Workers, WAF, and Zero Trust (Access/Tunnel)
- Provide 24x7x365 monitoring, incident response, and on-call support as part of DevOps team
- Perform other IT related duties or projects, as assigned
- Mentor junior engineers
- Drive technical initiatives and collaborate across departments to achieve reliability goals
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software or Systems Engineering preferred, or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Expertise with cloud-based systems and containerized infrastructure (Linux/OS fundamentals, Kubernetes, database systems, cloud networking)
- Deep expertise with GCP required
- Experience supporting AI/ML platforms and integrating AI-powered DevOps tools
- Experience working with and supporting database infrastructure, mainly MySQL and SQL Server databases, in AWS and GCP
- Expertise building common web/internet platform components (e.g. proxies, caches, load balancers, firewalls, app/web server tiers, DB systems)
- Unix scripting experience required
- Conceptual and practical knowledge of modern DevOps techniques, such as CI/CD, IaC, configuration management, and secrets/vault management
- Expertise in troubleshooting that spans systems, network, and applications in a distributed/microservice environment
- Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions for CI/CD
- Candidates that have worked in IT for a United States based publicly owned company preferred
- Excellent written and communication skills in the English language
- Proven experience working with US based business teams
- Ability to work within core US business hours / time zone expectations - Eastern Standard Time (EST) overlap
- Workspace: A quiet, dedicated space to work, and a reliable internet connection with a minimum speed of 50 Mbps
Nice to have
- Significant expertise across two or more (GCP and AWS) preferred
- Familiarity with LLM-based systems, vector databases, or AI APIs
- Hands-on experience with Cloudflare
- Experience managing GitHub Organizations, repo permissions, and branch protection policies
Benefits
- Pay Range: ₹24,75,000 – ₹34,65,000 INR Annually (actual pay reflects work experience, skillsets, job related knowledge, market alignment, geographic location)
- Medical insurance
- Accident insurance
- Retiral benefits
- 12 company-paid holidays
- 2 flexible holidays
- Privilege/earned leave
- Casual/sick leave
- Paid maternity and paternity leaves
- Weekly wellness events
Additional details
- Job Title: Senior DevOps Cloud Engineer, AI
- Location: India
- Workplace Type: Remote
- Working Hours: 8 Hours (Excluding breaks) - 4 Core US Hours Overlap (7:30pm- 11:30pm IST) - 4 flexible hours (IST)
- Company: Porch Group (trading on Nasdaq under ticker PRCH since 2020)
- Company mission: Help homebuyers move, maintain, and fully protect their homes through differentiated products and services with homeowners insurance at the center
- Relationships: ~30,000 companies key to home-buying transaction (home inspectors, mortgage companies, title companies)
- Commitment to inclusive culture of belonging, diversity, and equal opportunity
- Originally posted on Himalayas
- Application process: Submit application below for Talent Acquisition review, possibly leading to chat conversation and virtual interviews