Engineering
/Individual contributor at the frontier
Senior DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
Own build, deploy, run: infrastructure as code, observability, cost, and incident discipline.
Compensation
INR 18,00,000 - 35,00,000 per annum
Engagement
Full-Time
Permanent role. Full-time commitment. This is an on-site role at Kolkata. It is not remote and not hybrid.
Scope of role
Own complex problems end-to-end. Set technical direction. Mentor mid and junior teammates.
01 — The role
Why this role exists at EduRankAI
Many products, small team, limited budget: our infrastructure must be boring, observable, and cheap. You will own the pipelines and platforms that let engineers ship safely every day — and the cost discipline that keeps an independent company independent.
02 — The work
What you will own
- 01 Own CI/CD pipelines, environments, and release engineering.
- 02 Run infrastructure as code; kill snowflakes.
- 03 Build observability: metrics, logs, traces, alerting with low noise.
- 04 Drive cloud cost optimisation and capacity planning.
- 05 Lead incident response and post-incident learning.
- 06 Harden security: secrets, least privilege, supply-chain hygiene.
03 — The expertise
What we look for
04 — The bar
Who thrives here
- → Bachelor's in Computer Science or equivalent practice.
- → 4-10 years in DevOps/SRE/platform roles.
- → You have been on call for systems you built.
Terms of Engagement
How working time works at this level
No counted hours. A five-day week with a four-hour overlap window so colleagues can reach you, and objectives agreed for the cycle.
Type
Senior
Working days
5 per week
Rest days
2 per week
Hours counted
No
Daily overlap
4h
Measured by
Objectives agreed for the cycle, the quality of the judgement calls, and the people the work makes better. Not attendance.
Where this stands legally
Hours are not counted at this level. The statutory ceiling of 9 hours a day and 48 a week remains the limit the role is designed to fit inside: if the work cannot be done within a normal week, the scope is wrong, not the person.
The full per-level model is published at Working Hours by Level.
05 — Hiring process
What to expect after you apply
- 01
Application review
Every application is read personally within five business days. We respond either way.
- 02
Take-home or live exercise
Role-specific. Time-boxed. Real problems we are actually working on, not invented puzzles.
- 03
Conversations
Deep technical and values conversations with the team you would join. No trick questions. No panel ambushes.
- 04
Offer or honest no
If yes: digital offer letter, signed in-portal, transparent terms. If no: written feedback if you want it.
Before you start
What we will collect. What it costs. What we will not do with it.
We will collect
- Name, email, phone — Account + application updates. No marketing.
- Resume / portfolio link — Human review of your work.
- Date + place of birth — Identity verification only.
- Your written responses — Selection rubric. Read by humans.
- Government ID (later) — Anti-fraud at offer / interview stage. Not at signup.
We will never
- Sell your data
- Share with third-party recruiters
- Use for advertising
- Train models on it
- Send marketing email
Our situation
EduRankAI is a small, independent organization building long-term capabilities in educational intelligence, advanced AI systems, and research infrastructure. We take no advertiser money, no donations with strings attached, and no investor pressure on hiring decisions. Applying is free, and every application is read by a human — recruitment, technical, academic and leadership teams. It buys us the right to be honest.
Ready to apply?
We read every application personally. If you are the right person for this role — regardless of pedigree, background, or where you are based — you will hear back from us within five business days.
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