Service Delivery Engineer, SRE

About PhonePe Group:

PhonePe is Indias leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance Mutual Funds Stock Broking and Lending) as well as adjacent tech-enabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is Indias first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the companys vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.

Culture

At PhonePe we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work Everyday! And creating the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here you own your work from start to finish right from day one. Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology that impacts millions ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed join us!

SRE - Service Delivery

Team: The SRE - System Delivery team at PhonePe is a cross-functional centralized and horizontal team. We collaborate with other SRE teams to build various infrastructure services and carry out routine production management activities including infrastructure scaling database maintenance and operating system vulnerability rollouts etc. Job Overview: As an SRESD L1 Engineer you will be part of a team responsible for building managing and scaling the production systems of PhonePe to ensure uninterrupted services to users across the country. You will primarily work on well-defined tasks under supervision and by following predefined SOPs.

Responsibilities and Duties:
Build & manage various distributed systems such as Galera Nginx Aerospike ElasticSearch and RMQ.
Deploy operating system vulnerability fixes to production systems.
Perform routine database maintenance activities.
Build and roll out proxy configurations to production systems.
Understand the criticality of production infrastructure.
Be willing to work 24/7 shifts and provide on-call support across the SRE organisation.

Core Technical Skills Required:

Minimum Qualifications:
Linux CLI Tools for System Administration - Proficiency in using command-line tools for managing Linux systems
Disk & LVM Management - Hands-on experience with disk management and Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
System Services - Understanding of managing and configuring system services
Package Management - Understanding of package management tools and processes
File Permissions - Understanding of Linux file permission systems
Crontab & Scheduling - Understanding of cron jobs for task scheduling
DNS Concepts - Understanding of DNS and its configuration
Using Salt/Ansible for IaC - Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Salt or Ansible
Database Concepts & Administration - Understanding of Shards Partitions and Truncations
Bash / Python Scripting - Proficiency in writing and debugging Bash / Python scripts

Knowledge of the following will be a plus
MariaDB or similar Distributed Database Systems
Docker or similar Containerization technology
Nginx or similar Proxy technology
GIT
Basic Networking Concepts
Linux-based Firewall
Basic understanding of HTTP & TLS Security
Ability to write Python based scripts for various automations

Softskills:
Good Interpersonal Communication Skills
Ability to understand & follow SOPs

Qualifications:
Minimum of 1-3 years of hands-on experience in Linux / Unix System Administration.

Work Location: Bangalore Note: This role requires the candidate to be available for on-call shifts on a rotational basis covering 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits (Not applicable for Intern or Contract Roles)

• Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance Critical Illness Insurance Accidental Insurance Life Insurance
• Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program Onsite Medical Center Emergency Support System
• Parental Support - Maternity Benefit Paternity Benefit Program Adoption Assistance Program Day-care Support Program
• Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits Transfer Support Policy Travel Policy
• Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution Flexible PF Contribution Gratuity NPS Leave Encashment
• Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance Car Lease Salary Advance Policy

Working at PhonePe is a rewarding experience! Great people a work environment that thrives on creativity the opportunity to take on roles beyond a defined job description are just some of the reasons you should work with us. Read more about PhonePe on our blog.

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