"Database Administration"

Must Have -

a. Background working with Startups

b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

c. Background working in Azure

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
• DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

What you need to have:

We are hiring candidates who are looking to work in a cloud environment and ready to learn and adapt to the evolving technologies.

Linux Administrator Roles &  Responsibilities:

• 5+ or more years of professional experience with strong working expertise in Agile environments
• Deep knowledge in managing Linux servers.
• Managing Windows servers(Not Mandatory).
• Manage Web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Manage Application servers.
• Strong background & experience in any one scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Manage firewall rules.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL.
• Ready to learn and adapt to business requirements.
• Manage information security controls with best practises and processes.
• Support business requirements beyond working hours.
• Ensuring highest uptimes of the services.
• Monitoring resource usages.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• Knowledge in managing databases such as My SQL, MS SQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and cloud services like AWS, Azure is a plus. Candidates willing to learn will be preferred.
• Experience in managing web applications.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• 5+ years experience in the IT industry.

• You have experience of 2-4 years in building high-performance consumer-facing mobile applications at Product companies of a decent scale.
• You can write code preferably in Golang and Python.
• You have experience with debugging production issues and writing RCAs.
• You have demonstrable stories of being on-call and how outages have been handled.
• You have experience developing products on Kubernetes and cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
• You have worked with Cloud Native (CNCF) technologies.
• You have experience automating CI/CD pipelines.
• You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that start-ups are a team sport.
• You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company

Role : DevOps Engineer 

Experience : 1 to 2 years and 2 to 5 Years as DevOps Engineer (2 Positions)

Location : Bangalore. 5 Days Working.

Education Qualification : Tech/B.E for Tier-1/Tier-2/Tier-3 Colleges or equivalent institutes 

Skills :- DevOps Engineering, Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills, Docker, rkt or similar container engine, Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to  work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability. 

Responsibilities: 

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the  organization. 
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on  improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes. 
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams. 
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally. 
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start). 
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company. 
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry  events. 
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening. ∙ Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous  Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices. 

Requirements: 

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing  amounts of traffic and new product requirements. 
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills. 
• Experience managing complex systems at scale. 
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine. 
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions. 
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart  metrics and alerting. 
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are  on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch). 
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers. 
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud. 
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash. 
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch. 
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins. 
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage. 
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu. 

Good to have: 

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka,  Elasticsearch.

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.

• Expertise in Infrastructure & Application design & architecture
• Expertise in AWS, OS & networking
• Having good exposure on Infra & Application security
• Expertise in Python, Shell scripting
• Proficient with Devops tools Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GIT
• Solid background in systems engineering and operations
• Strong in Devops methodologies and processes
• Strong in CI/CD pipeline & SDLC.

• 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
• Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
• Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
• Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.