Software Engineer, Infrastructure

Sun King

full-time

Posted on: 8/29/2025

Location: 🇮🇳 India

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Mid-LevelSenior

ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDNSDockerElasticSearchFirewallsGrafanaKubernetesLinuxMongoDBNGINXPrometheusPythonTCP/IP

About the role

Job location: Gurugram (Hybrid)
About the role: Sun King is looking for a self-driven Infrastructure engineer, who is comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment and balancing the needs of multiple development teams and systems.
You will work on improving our current IAC, observability stack, and incident response processes.
You will work with the data science, analytics, and engineering teams to build optimized CI/CD pipelines, scalable AWS infrastructure, and Kubernetes deployments.

Hands-on experience with Docker or any other container runtime environment and Linux with the ability to perform basic administrative tasks.
Experience working with web servers (nginx, apache) and cloud providers (preferably AWS).
Hands-on scripting and automation experience (Python, Bash), experience debugging and troubleshooting Linux environments and cloud-native deployments.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines, with familiarity with monitoring & alerting systems (Grafana, Prometheus, and exporters).
Knowledge of web architecture, distributed systems, and single points of failure.
Familiarity with cloud-native deployments and concepts like high availability, scalability, and bottleneck.
Good networking fundamentals — SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls.
Experience with backend development and setting up databases and performance tuning using parameter groups.
Working experience in Kubernetes cluster administration and Kubernetes deployments.
Experience working alongside sec ops engineers.
Basic knowledge of Envoy, service mesh (Istio), and SRE concepts like distributed tracing.
Setup and usage of open telemetry, central logging, and monitoring systems.