Sun King

Off-grid solar home systems provider

Software Engineer - Infrastructure

Platform EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13

Full-timeNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

Hands-on experience with Docker or another container runtime and Linux, including basic administrative tasks.
Experience with web servers such as Nginx or Apache and cloud providers, preferably AWS.
Hands-on scripting and automation experience with Python and Bash, including debugging and troubleshooting Linux environments and cloud-native deployments.
Experience building CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with monitoring and alerting systems such as Grafana, Prometheus, and exporters.
Knowledge of web architecture, distributed systems, and single points of failure.
Familiarity with cloud-native deployments and concepts such as high availability, scalability, and bottlenecks.
Networking fundamentals including SSH, DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, load balancing, reverse proxies, and firewalls.

Responsibilities

Work with engineering, automation, and data teams on infrastructure requirements.
Design modular and efficient GitOps CI/CD pipelines that are agnostic to the underlying platform.
Manage AWS services for multiple teams.
Manage custom data store deployments, including sharded MongoDB clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, and upcoming services.
Deploy and manage Kubernetes resources.
Deploy and manage custom metrics exporters, trace data, and custom application metrics; design dashboards and query metrics from multiple resources as an end-to-end observability stack solution.
Set up incident response services and design effective processes.
Deploy and manage critical platform services such as OPA and Keycloak for IAM.
Advocate best practices for high availability and scalability when designing AWS infrastructure and observability dashboards, implementing IAC, deploying to Kubernetes, and designing GitOps CI/CD pipelines.

Desired Qualifications

Experience with backend development, setting up databases, and performance tuning using parameter groups.
Working experience in Kubernetes cluster administration and Kubernetes deployments.
Experience working alongside security operations engineers.
Basic knowledge of Envoy, service mesh such as Istio, and SRE concepts such as distributed tracing.
Experience setting up and using OpenTelemetry, central logging, and monitoring systems.

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.

Work with engineering, automation, and data teams to work on various infrastructure requirements.
Designing modular and efficient GitOps CI/CD pipelines, agnostic to the underlying platform.
Managing AWS services for multiple teams.
Managing custom data store deployments like sharded MongoDB clusters, Elasticsearch clusters, and upcoming services.
Deployment and management of Kubernetes resources.
Deployment and management of custom metrics exporters, trace data, custom application metrics, and designing dashboards, querying metrics from multiple resources, as an end-to-end observability stack solution.
Set up incident response services and design effective processes.
Deployment and management of critical platform services like OPA and Keycloak for IAM.
Advocate best practices for high availability and scalability when designing AWS infrastructure, observability dashboards, implementing IAC, deploying to Kubernetes, and designing GitOps CI/CD pipelines.

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.

Good to have:

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.

About the Company

Sun King

Off-grid solar home systems provider

Sun King designs, manufactures, distributes, and finances solar home energy products for off-grid communities in Africa and Asia. Its range includes solar lanterns and solar home systems with inverters and storage that can power lights, radios, phones, and household appliances, all financed through a pay-as-you-go model with small mobile money installments after a low upfront payment. The company differentiates itself with an end-to-end approach—handling product design, manufacturing, distribution, and financing—supported by a large field-agent network and strategic acquisitions like PayGo Energy to expand into clean cooking. Its goal is to increase energy access by helping households leapfrog kerosene and unreliable grids, aiming to reach millions of homes and businesses, including over 2 million in Ethiopia by 2030.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: Debt Financing
Total funding: $864.9M
Headquarters: Chicago, IL
Founded: 2008

Recently Posted Jobs

Explore more opportunities at Sun King

See more jobs