Load Test & DevOps Engineer

Shape the utilities market of the future with us!

As a Load Test & DevOps Engineer at Cuculus India, you will be responsible for ensuring the performance, scalability, and reliability of our software systems through rigorous load testing, infrastructure automation, and continuous integration practices. Working in an agile environment, you will play a critical role in optimizing system performance, streamlining deployment processes, and ensuring end-to-end observability and reliability.

Your Role at a Glance

Required skills and qualifications

1. Load Testing

• Hands-on experience with JMeter, Gatling, Locust, and LoadRunner.

• Identified performance bottlenecks and optimized system throughput and scalability.

• Simulated realistic user loads to evaluate system stability under stress.

• Collaborated with development and infrastructure teams to tune performance and improve response times.

• Generated and analyzed detailed performance and capacity planning reports.

2. DevOps

• Expertise in Docker and Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, rollouts/rollbacks).

• Experience with Helm and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

• Strong Linux background for system configuration and troubleshooting.

• Proficient in CI/CD pipelines, including build and release management, artifact handling, approvals, and rollbacks.

• Skilled in Git workflows: branching (GitFlow/trunk-based), code reviews (PRs), tagging, merging, rebasing, and conflict resolution.

3. Kafka

• Proficient in managing topics, partitions, and consumer groups.

• Knowledge of offset management, delivery semantics, and Schema Registry.

• Hands-on with Kafka Connect, data pipelines, and message monitoring/retention.

4. Observability

• Experience in implementing monitoring and alerting systems using Prometheus and Grafana.

• Strong understanding of logs, metrics, and distributed traces for system health and root cause analysis.

Preferred skills and qualifications

About us

Cuculus is the key to providing utilities to all, while protecting the world’s precious resources. Jointly with our international partner network, we provide cutting-edge software and technology solutions to address utility challenges now and in the future. Cuculus will never tire of creating innovative technology and services that enable utilities and organisations to successfully transition to a new era of providing and managing electricity, water, and gas. The work we do is important for individuals, cities, and entire nations. Our work is serious, but we have fun with it, too.