Associate DevOps Engineer

About Lean Technologies

Lean is on a mission to revolutionize the fintech industry by providing developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We’re breaking down infrastructure barriers and empowering the growth of the fintech industry. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, Lean is poised to expand its coverage across the region while continuing to deliver unparalleled value to developers and stakeholders.

Join us and be part of a journey to enable the next generation of financial innovation. We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes to ensure long-term alignment. At Lean, you'll work on solving complex problems, build a lasting legacy, and be part of a diverse, inclusive, and equal opportunity workplace.

About the role:

Are you a highly motivated and experienced software engineer looking to take your career to the next level? Our team at Lean is seeking a talented engineer to help us build the distributed systems that allow our engineering teams to deploy our platform in multiple geographies across various deployment solutions. You will work closely with functional heads across software, QA, and product teams to deliver scalable and customizable release pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Distributed systems architecture – understand and manage the most complex systems
• Continual reliability and performance optimization – enhancing observability stack to improve proactive detection and resolution of issues
• Employing cutting-edge methods and technologies, continually refining existing tools to enhance performance and drive advancements
• Problem-solving capabilities – troubleshooting complex issues and proactively reducing toil through automation
• Experience in technical leadership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Collaboration skills – working across teams to drive change and provide guidance
• Technical expertise – depth skills and ability to act as subject matter expert in one or more of: IAAC, observability, coding, reliability, debugging, system design
• Capacity planning – effectively forecasting demand and reacting to changes
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Incident response – rapidly detecting and resolving critical incidents. Minimizing customer impact through effective collaboration, escalation (including periodic on-call shifts) and postmortems

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles running large-scale infrastructure, cloud, or web services
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and networking concepts
• We work on OCI but would accept candidates with solid GCP/AWS or other cloud providers’ knowledge and experience
• 3+ years of experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, Helm, Docker
• Experience in operating CI/CD pipelines that build and deliver services on the cloud and on-premise
• Work with CI/CD tools/services like Jenkins/GitHub-Actions/ArgoCD etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools either Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform
• Experience in production environments with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Coding with one or more of the following: Java, Python, and/or Go

Bonus

• MultiCloud or Hybrid Cloud experience
• OCI and GCP

Why Join Us?

At Lean, we value talent, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit. We are constantly on the lookout for individuals who identify with our mission and values, even if they don’t meet every requirement. If you're passionate about solving hard problems and building a legacy, Lean is the right place for you. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Skills Required:

- Good experience with programming language Python
- Strong experience in Docker.
- Good knowledge with any of the Cloud Platform like Azure.
- Must be comfortable working in a Linux environment.
- Must have exposure into IOT domain and its protocols ((Zigbee & BLE ,LoRa,Modbus)
- Must be a good team player.
- Strong Communication Skills

Description

Do you dream about code every night? If so, we’d love to talk to you about a new product that we’re making to enable delightful testing experiences at scale for development teams who build modern software solutions.

What You'll Do

 Troubleshooting and analyzing technical issues raised by internal and external users.

 Working with Monitoring tools like Prometheus / Nagios / Zabbix.

 Developing automation in one or more technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Puppet, Chef will be preferred.

 Monitor infrastructure alerts and take proactive action to avoid downtime and customer impacts.

 Working closely with the cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

 Test, build, design, deployment, and ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools like Jenkins, maven Git, etc.

 Work in close coordination with the development and operations team such that the application is in line with performance according to the customer's expectations.

What you should have

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any related field.

 3 - 6 years of experience in Linux / Unix, cloud computing techniques.

 Familiar with working on cloud and datacenter for enterprise customers.

 Hands-on experience on Linux / Windows / Mac OS’s and Batch/Apple/Bash scripting.

 Experience with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL.

 Familiar with AWS technologies like EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, etc.

 Must know how to choose the best tools and technologies which best fit the business needs.

 Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins etc.

 Excellent organizational skills to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release
  processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity
  threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
  
  

• BE / MCA / B.Sc-IT / B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of overall development experience.
• Strong understanding of cloud deployment and setup
• Hands-on experience with tools like Jenkins, Gradle etc.
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate deployment
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Skills and Qualifications
• Proficient with git and git workflows
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

• Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash be able to build and administer CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
• Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
• Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
• Deep understanding of Web Sockets and their functioning. Hands on experience of ElasticCache, Redis, ECS or EKS. Installation, configuration and management of Apache or Nginx web server, Apache/Tomcat Application Server, configure SSL certificates, setup reverse proxy.
• Exposure to RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.) is a plus.
• Exposure to programming languages like JAVA, PHP, SQL is a plus.
• AWS Developer or AWS SysOps Administrator certification is a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification experience is a plus.
• Experience building Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployment strategies, advanced understanding of VPC, EC2 Route53 IAM, Lambda is a plus.

100ms is building a Platform-as-a-Service for developers integrating video-conferencing experiences into their apps. Our SDKs enable developers to add gold standard audio-video quality conferencing with much faster shipping times.

We are a team uniquely placed to work on this problem. We have built world-record scale live video infrastructure powering billions of live video minutes in a day. We are a remote-first global team with engineers who've built video teams at Facebook and Hotstar.

As part of the infrastructure team, you will be mainly responsible for looking after the cloud infrastructure.

You Will Be:

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Driving centralized solutions like logging, rate limiting, service discovery
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats

 You Have:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 4 years of professional software development experience, or 2 years with an advanced degree
• Expertise in managing large scale Cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages like Python, Golang and Ruby
• Hands on experience with prometheus, grafana, fluentd, splunk etc.

Good To Have:

• Knowledge of Terraform, Chef, Helm etc., 
• Ability to take on complex and ambiguous problems
• Strong inclination to keep up-to-date with latest trends, learn new concepts, or contribute to open-source projects and would be eager to talk about ideas in internal or external forum

You Will Gain:

• You'll be part of a small team at a fast-growing engineering-first startup
• You'll work with engineers across the globe with experience at Facebook and Hotstar
• You can grow as an individual contributor or as a team leader - freedom to set your own goals
• You'll work on problems at the cutting-edge of real-time video communication technology at massive scale

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification required
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly complex solutions (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring security and compliance, availability, reliability, etc.)
• Deep technical experience in serverless AWS infrastructure
• Understanding of cloud automation and orchestration tools and techniques including git, terraform, ARM or equivalent
• Create Technical Design documents, understand technical designs and translate into the application requirements.
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating alternative technical solutions
• Participate in code and design review process
• Write unit test cases for quality check of the deliverables
• Ability to work closely with others in a team environment as well as independently
• Proven ability to problem solve and troubleshoot
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Excellent English communication skills are required

We are looking for a Solution Architect with at least 5 years’ experience working on the following to join our growing team:

• AWS
• Postgresql
• EC2 on AWS
• Cognito
• and most importantly Serverless

You will need a strong technical AWS background focused on architecting on serverless (eg Lambda) AWS infrastructure.