AWS Solution Architect

Job Description:

• Drive end-to-end automation from GitHub/GitLab/BitBucket to Deployment,

Observability and Enabling the SRE activities

• Guide operations support (setup, configuration, management, troubleshooting) of

digital platforms and applications

• Solid understanding of DevSecOps Workflows that support CI, CS, CD, CM, CT.

• Deploy, configure, and manage SaaS and PaaS cloud platform and applications

• Provide Level 1 (OS, patching) and Level 2 (app server instance troubleshooting)

• DevOps programming: writing scripts, building operations/server instance/app/DB

monitoring tools Set up / manage continuous build and dev project management

environment: JenkinX/GitHub Actions/Tekton, Git, Jira Designing secure networks,

systems, and application architectures

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure secure product development

• Disaster recovery, network forensics analysis, and pen-testing solutions

• Planning, researching, and developing security policies, standards, and procedures

• Awareness training of the workforce on information security standards, policies, and

best practices

• Installation and use of firewalls, data encryption and other security products and

procedures

• Maturity in understanding compliance, policy and cloud governance and ability to

identify and execute automation.

• At Wesco, we discuss more about solutions than problems. We celebrate innovation

and creativity.

Job description:

Skill: Devops with Docker ,Kubernets, Jenkins, Ansible, shell scripting, AWS, Azure, Terraform

• Automate and manage infrastructure deployments using Ansible and Terraform

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitLab

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to ensure smooth and reliable application deployments

• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues

• Continuously seek opportunities to automate processes and improve efficiency

• Design and delivery of the mission critical stack, with focus on security, resiliency, scale, and performance

• Partner with our development teams in defining and implementing improvements in service architecture

• Articulate technical characteristics of services and technology areas and guide Development Teams to engineer new solutions on the Azure Cloud

• Solve complex problems related to cloud services and to improve the availability, scalability, and efficiency of our products and services

• Design and develop designs, architectures, standards, and methods for large-scale distributed systems

• Facilitate service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis, and system tuning

• Share and contribute: Support and guide less senior team members, contribute to team spirit and dynamic growth, actively participate in wider engineering group- and product-wide activities

Experience: 4 to 12 yrs

Mode of Employment: Permanent

Work location: Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Coimbatore

Notice period: Serving and Immediate

e are looking for a DevOps Architect/Engineer with strong technical expertise and decent years of experience to join our IT firm. You will be responsible for facilitating the development process and operations across our organization. Besides, you should own excellent leadership skills to mentor and guide the team members.

To be successful in this job role, you should be able to streamline all DevOps practices. You should be able to review technical operations and automate the process using the right tools and techniques.

Your knowledge of the latest industry trends will prove beneficial in designing efficient practices. Moreover, you should be able to demonstrate excellent research skills and outstanding problem-solving abilities. If you possess the required skills, knowledge, and experience, then do write to us. We would be happy to meet you.

Responsibilities

• Simplifying the development process and operations
• Analyzing any setbacks or shortcomings in the operations
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels
• Setting up a continuous build environment to boost software development
• Designing and delivering efficient and comprehensive best practices
• Reviewing and managing technical operations
• Analyzing and streamlining the existing DevOps practices
• Monitoring and guiding the development team
• Using the right tools and techniques to automate technical processes
• Handling all deployment processes
• Minimizing failures and troubleshooting any technical issues
• Implementing effective DevOps solutions
• Ensuring all systems are secure and scalable

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or a related discipline
• Previous work experience in the IT industry
• Complete knowledge of DevOps tools like Docker, Git, Puppet, and Jenkins
• Familiarity with the latest industry trends and best practices
• Basic understanding of cloud-based environments
• Know-how of software development, testing, and configuration methodologies
• Knowledge of scripting languages like Python, JavaScript, and HTML
• Excellent analytical and research skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Ability to motivate team members
• Highly innovative individual
• Excellent problem-solving ability
• Ability to organize and manage time effectively
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently
• Good communication skills
• Ability to drive the automation process
• Demonstrating multitasking skills
• Familiarity with deployment process and tools
• Ability to maintain the confidentiality of any sensitive information
• Willingness to work in a competitive environment

Job Responsibilities:

Section 1 -

- Responsible for managing and providing L1 support to Build, design, deploy and maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions on AWS.
- Implement, deploy and maintain development, staging & production environments on AWS.
- Familiar with serverless architecture and services on AWS like Lambda, Fargate, EBS, Glue, etc.
- Understanding of Infra as a code and familiar with related tools like Terraform, Ansible Cloudformation etc.

Section 2 -

- Managing the Windows and Linux machines, Kubernetes, Git, etc.
- Responsible for L1 management of Servers, Networks, Containers, Storage, and Databases services on AWS.

Section 3 -

- Timely monitoring of production workload alerts and quick addressing the issues
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the Backup and DR process.

Section 4 -

- Responsible for documenting the process.
- Responsible for leading cloud implementation projects with end-to-end execution.

Qualifications: Bachelors of Engineering / MCA Preferably with AWS, Cloud certification

Skills & Competencies

- Linux and Windows servers management and troubleshooting.

- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, ECS, Redshift, Glue, etc. - AWS EKS

- Kubernetes and containers knowledge

- Understanding of setting up AWS Messaging, streaming and queuing Services(MSK, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, MQ)

- Understanding of serverless architecture. - High understanding of Networking concepts

- High understanding of Serverless architecture concept - Managing to monitor and alerting systems

- Sound knowledge of Database concepts like Dataware house, Data Lake, and ETL jobs

- Good Project management skills

- Documentation skills

- Backup, and DR understanding

Soft Skills - Project management, Process Documentation

Ideal Candidate:

- AWS certification with between 2-4 years of experience with certification and project execution experience.

- Someone who is interested in building sustainable cloud architecture with automation on AWS.

- Someone who is interested in learning and being challenged on a day-to-day basis.

- Someone who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary action to get it done.

- Someone who is curious to analyze and solve complex problems.

- Someone who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking ownership of their success and failure, both.

Behavioral Traits

- We are looking for someone who is interested to be part of creativity and the innovation-based environment with other team members.

- We are looking for someone who understands the idea/importance of teamwork and individual ownership at the same time.

- We are looking for someone who can debate logically, respectfully disagree, and can admit if proven wrong and who can learn from their mistakes and grow quickly

• Experience using AWS (that’s just common sense)
• Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
• Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
• A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
• Experience using https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/devops-tutorial/devops-tools" target="_blank">DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/what-is-docker-container" target="_blank">Docker, GitHub, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/jenkins-tutorial/what-is-jenkins" target="_blank">Jenkins, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/kubernetes-tutorial/what-is-kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
• Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus
• An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
• Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
• Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
• Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
• The ability to be a team player
• The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

As a special aside, an AWS engineer who works in DevOps should also have experience with:

• The theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
• An understanding of automation

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems like Kafka, Yarn, Elastic Search, etc..
• Familiarity with Python-related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls, etc) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies, and hardware, SDN, etc)
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructures - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Source code management and Implementation of security best practices.
• Experienced in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
• Good understanding & implementation experience using 12-factor App principles
• Awareness of Cloud Security concepts
• Awareness of Information Security concepts and Best Practices

What will you do?  

• Setup, manage Applications with automation, DevOps, and CI/CD tools. 
• Deploy, Maintain and Monitor Infrastructure and Services. 
• Automate code and Infra Deployments. 
• Tune, optimize and keep systems up to date. 
• Design and implement deployment strategies. 
• Setup infrastructure in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM cloud, Digital Ocean etc as per requirement. 

Job Dsecription:

○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture

○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards

○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution

○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity

Required Experience and Expertise

○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.

○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.

○ Hands-on experience of GCP  and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.

○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals

NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days