About this role
About Impact Analytics Impact Analytics is an agentic-first AI software company transforming retail merchandising through cutting-edge AI, LLMs, and Generative AI technologies. As a fast-growing Series D company with deployments across five continents, it is building both industry-leading merchandising solutions and foundational AI agents that are redefining how retail decisions are made. What makes Impact Analytics unique is its combination of deep retail domain expertise, strong innovation culture, and global presence. It is one of the few India-born AI companies recognized globally by organizations like Fortune, Gartner, and the Inc. 5000. For candidates looking to work on next-generation AI products with global scale and real-world impact, Impact Analytics is an exciting place to build your career. Here’s a link to our website: www.impactanalytics.co. (http://impactanalytics.co)
The impact you will make As the DevOps Architect, you will lead the architecture, automation, and continuous optimization of our enterpriseGoogle Cloud infrastructure. You will define our global DevOps strategy, enforce Zero Trust security standards, design resilient CI/CD frameworks, and ensure high-performance execution for our agentic AI engines and multi-tenant SaaS platforms across Fortune 500 deployments.
What lands you in this Role (KEY RESPONSIBILITIES)
- GCP Infrastructure Architecture: Design, deploy, and maintain highly resilient, scalable Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible).
- CI/CD & Automated Delivery: Architect scalable CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, ArgoCD) for zero-downtime deployment of microservices, distributed data streams, and AI/ML model execution pipelines.
- Kubernetes & Container Orchestration: Lead enterprise multi-cluster Kubernetes deployments on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Anthos / Service Mesh architecture, and container security for high-throughput enterprise workloads.
- Security, Compliance & FinOps: Drive Zero Trust architecture, HashiCorp Vault secrets management, vulnerability monitoring (Trivy/Snyk), SOC 2/ISO compliance, and FinOps cloud cost optimization across GCP environments.
- Observability & Reliability Engineering: Establish full-stack telemetry (Google Cloud Operations Suite / Stackdriver, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) to enforce high-availability SLAs, proactive alerting, and low MTTR.
- Technical Leadership & Governance: Mentor engineers across DevOps and SRE domains, foster a culture of continuous automation, and align infrastructure strategy with product roadmaps.
What this role entails (QUALIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL STACK)
- 12–15 years of progressive experience in DevOps, Cloud Architecture, and Systems Engineering supporting high-scale enterprise SaaS or AI/ML product environments.
- Cloud Platforms: Deep, expert-level hands-on proficiency strictly centered on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Expertise across core GCP services including GKE, Cloud Run, Compute Engine, BigQuery, IAM, Artifact Registry, and Vertex AI infrastructure support.
- IaC & Containers: Mastery of Terraform, Pulumi, Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Helm, and Service Mesh.
- Automation & MLOps : Advanced hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Python, Go, or Bash, alongside supporting distributed compute engines and pipelines (Spark, Cloud Composer / Airflow).
- Mandatory Certifications: Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect and/or Google Cloud Certified Professional DevOps Engineer.
What we offer
- An opportunity to be part of some of the best enterprise SaaS products to be built out of India.
- Opportunities to quench your thirst for problem-solving, experimenting, learning, and implementing innovative solutions.
- A flat, collegial work environment, with a work hard, play hard attitude.
- A platform for rapid growth if you are willing to try new things without fear of failure.
- Remuneration with best-in-class industry standards with generous health insurance cover.
Some of our accolades include
- Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Companies by Financial Times for five consecutive years: 2020-2024.
- Ranked as one of America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies by Inc. 5000 for seven consecutive years: 2018-2024.
- Voted #1 by more than 300 retailers worldwide in the RIS Software LeaderBoard 2024 report.
- Ranked #72 in America’s Most Innovative Companies list in 2023 —by Fortune —alongside companies like Microsoft, Tesla, Apple, IBM, etc.
- Forged a strategic partnership with Google to equip retailers with cutting-edge generative AI tools.
- Recognized in multiple Gartner reports , including Market Guides and Hype Cycle , spanning assortments, merchandising, forecasting, algorithmic retailing, and Unified Price, Promotion, and Markdown Optimization Applications.