Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Bengaluru

About Prophecy

The leader in AI-native data preparation and analysis, Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world's top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights. We introduce the AI-native data lifecycle (generate, refine, deploy) where our industry leading AI agents and humans work hand-in-hand in visual and document interfaces to analyze, transform and prepare data, to ship trusted insights at enterprise scale.

Don't miss the rocket ship—join Prophecy and build the next data revolution.

Position Summary

This is an amazing opportunity to be an early Dev Ops engineer in a high-growth, high-potential startup starting in Prophecy's India engineering center. You will be working with a team of dynamic engineers who take pride in solving complex problems.

The Impact You Will Have

Lead comprehensive cost optimisation initiatives to optimise cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
Analysis of AWS, Azure and GCP billing data, usage data from asset inventory and monitoring utilization data to assess across department cloud consumption, identify wasteful spend, and provide actionable insights to optimize spend.
Analysis of cloud spending across all departments based on the usage/trends.
Build and maintain automation for cloud infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cost control.
Develop and maintain cost optimization strategies, roadmaps, and forecasting models
Monitor, analyze, and report on cloud usage patterns to identify cost savings opportunities.
Partner with the rest of the engineering teams to design cost-efficient architectures without compromising scalability or reliability.
Develop internal tools and automation to improve developer productivity (CI/CD pipelines, observability, local dev environments, etc.).
Stay updated with modern Dev Ops, Fin Ops, and developer productivity tooling to continuously improve processes.

What You'll Need

4-8 years of overall system programming experience, with a few years of relevant engineering experience, specifically working on building infrastructure platform-as-a-service services
Proven experience in cloud cost optimisation (Fin Ops) across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Strong hands-on knowledge of cloud services (compute, storage, networking, databases, containers).
Proficiency in scripting and automation (Golang, Python, Bash, Shell, or similar).

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Pulumi, etc.).
Good understanding of CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, etc.).
Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability tools (Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, etc.).
Background working in modern tech companies/startups focused on scaling and developer productivity.
Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to balance cost, performance, and developer needs.
Strong desire to work in a not well-structured, fast-moving startup environment
B Tech or above degree in CS or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Go
Full-stack infrastructure knowledge
Good understanding of computer architecture, networking, and CS fundamentals.
Proficiency in Linux.
Ability to assess new technologies and make pragmatic choices that help guide us towards a long-term vision

What You'll Have At Prophecy

Great culture
Fair and Open Equity awards for everyone
Amazing work
Private medical insurance
Flexible time off
Manage your own growth and career
Experience building a transformative product
High learning opportunity
End-to-end ownership of your projects