Environment engineer

Job Description:

Job Title

Backend Environment Engineer

Location & Experience

• Location: [City, State], India

• Experience: 2-3 years in backend infrastructure / environment engineering

Role Summary

You will work as part of the infrastructure / environment team to build, maintain and optimise the backend environments that support production services, development pipelines and data flows. You’ll ensure environments are provisioned, configured, secured and monitored for reliability and scalability in an infrastructure setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Provision, configure and maintain backend environments (development, test, staging, production) supporting services and pipelines.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) for environment setup, configuration drift control and reproducibility.

• Monitor environment health (availability, performance, stability) and respond to incidents/alerts.

• Collaborate with software, operations, security, and DevOps teams to define and apply environment standards, guardrails and best practices.

• Optimize resource usage, environment cost, and lifecycle (creation → teardown) of development/test environments.

• Document environment architecture, runbooks, configuration guides, and onboarding processes.

• Assist in access controls, environment hardening, configuration management, patching/upgrades, backups/disaster recovery planning.

• Participate in root-cause analysis for environment-related issues and implement improvements.

Qualifications / Skills Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (BE/BTech) – preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electronics, or related.

• 2-3 years of hands-on experience in backend infrastructure, environment engineering, DevOps or related roles.

• Some experience with public cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) or hybrid/on-prem infrastructure.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) or configuration management tools.

• Understanding of containerisation / orchestration concepts (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) — at least exposure.

• Good scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.

• Basic knowledge of monitoring/observability tools & logging practices.

• Good interpersonal and communication skills; able to collaborate across teams.

• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and learn quickly.

Preferred / Desirable

• Experience with multi-region or large-scale backend systems.

• Knowledge of network, security, and configuration management in infrastructure contexts.

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines and integration with backend environments.

• Understanding of cost/usage optimisation of cloud or infrastructure resources.

• Experience in the infrastructure or construction sector (given infrastructure business domain) would be a plus.