Azure DevOps Consultant

Experience: 3+ years of experience in Cloud Architecture

About Company:

Cloud Architect / Lead

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

 

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

 

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

 

Responsibilities

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

 

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

 

 

Objectives of this Role:

- 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

- 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

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

- Deploy updates and fixes

- Provide Level 2 technical support

- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

- Develop software to integrate with internal back end systems

- Perform root cause analysis for production errors

- Investigate and resolve technical issues

- Develop scripts to automate visualization

- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Skills and Qualifications :

- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

- Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role

- Proficient with git and git workflows

- Good knowledge of Python

- Working knowledge of databases such as Mysql,Postgres and SQL

- Problem solving attitude

- Collaborative team spirit

- Detail knowledge of Linux systems (Ubuntu)

- Proficient in AWS console and should have handled the infrastructure of any product (Including dev and prod environments)

Mandatory hands on experience in the following :

- Python based application deployment and maintenance

- NGINX web server

- AWS modules EC2, VPC, EBS, S3

- IAM setup

- Database configurations MySQL, PostgreSQL

- Linux flavoured OS

- Instance/Disaster management

Key Responsibilities :

Excellent understanding of SDLC patching, releases and software development at scale.

Excellent knowledge of Git.

Excellent knowledge of Docker.

Good understanding of enterprise standards ond enterprise building principles,

In-depth knowledge in Windows OS

Knowledge of Linux os

Theoretical and practical skills in Web-environments based on .Net technologies, e.g. Ils,

Kestrel, .Net Core, C#.

Strong scripting skills in one or any combination of CMD Shell,Bash, PowerShell. Python.

Good understanding of the mechanisms of Web-environment architectures approaches.

Strong knowledge of cloud providers offering, Azure or AWS.

Good knowledge of a configuration management tools, Ansible, Chef, Salt stack, Puppet.

(Good to have)

Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure orchestration tools like kubemetes or cloud based orchestration.

Good knowledge in one or any combination of cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like

ARM Templates, Terraform, Pulumi.

In-depth knowledge in one or any combination of software delivery orchestration tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, etc.

Strong practical knowledge of CI Tools, ie, Azure Devops, Jenkins Excellent knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery approaches

Good knowledge on integration of Code Quality tools like SonarQube, Application or Container Security tool like Vera Code, Checksum, Chekov, Trivy.

In-depth knowledge on Azure DevOps Build infrastructure setup, Azure DevOps

Administration and Access management

Technologies you will use:
Cloud native technologies - Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), AWS ECS, Helm, CircleCI, Harness, Severless platforms (AWS Fargate etc.)
Infrastructure as Code tools - Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
Scripting - Python, Bash


Desired Skills & Experience:
Projects/Internships with coding experience in either of Javascript, Python, Golang, Java etc.
Hands-on scripting and software development fluency in any programming language (Python, Go, Node, Ruby).
Basic understanding of Computer Science fundamentals - Networking, Web Architecture etc.
Infrastructure automation experience with knowledge of at least a few of these tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins etc.
Bonus points if you have contributed to open source projects, participated in competitive coding platforms like Hackerearth, CodeForces, SPOJ etc.
You’re willing to learn various new technologies and concepts. The “cloud-native” field of software is evolving fast and you’ll need to quickly learn new technologies as required.
Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech or equivalent experience.

Job Description: - Azure Devops. Admin
Experience: 5+yrs
Skills Required: -
Experience in Azure Administration, Configuration and Deployment of WindowsLinux VMContainer
based infrastructure Scripting Programming in Python, JavaScriptTypeScript, C Scripting PowerShell ,
Azure CLI and shell Scripts Identity, Access Management and RBAC model Virtual Networking, storage,
and Compute Resources
Azure Database Technologies. Monitoring and Analytics Tools in Azure
Azure DevOps based CICD Build pipeline integrated with GitHub – Java and Node.js
Test Automation and other CICD Tools
Azure Infrastructure using ARM template Terrafor

Job Responsibilities: Managing the cloud deployment with thousands of VM’s and Containers with 100% uptime Budgeting the infra costs and plan for continued cost optimisation Managing and motivating the team members Designing the architecture to scale the back-end to meet the business requirements Requirements: Strong background in Linux fundamentals and system administration Good command on coding with scripting languages like Python and Shell scripting Experience with Docker and any one of container management systems like Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Apache mesos Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services like AWS, GCP or Azure Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent Experience with Elasticsearch, Mongodb, Redis, Memcached, Kafka, RabbitMQ or ActiveMQ Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service Good team management skills and communications skills Good experience with monitoring and alerting systems like Nagios, Zabbix Experience with CI and CD tools Educational Qualification: BE/B.Tech/MCA

What is the Job like?We are looking for a talented individual to join our DevOps and Platforms Engineering team. You will play an important role in helping build and run our globally distributed infrastructure stack and platforms. Technologies you can expect to work on every day include Linux, AWS, MySQL/PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hadoop/HBase, ElasticSearch, FreeSwitch, Jenkins, Nagios, and CFEngine amongst others.Responsibilities:- * Troubleshoot and fix production outages and performance issues in our AWS/Linux infrastructure stack* Build automation tools for provisioning and managing our cloud infrastructure by leveraging the AWS API for EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS and Route53 amongst others* Contribute to enhancing and managing our continuous delivery pipeline* Proactively seek out opportunities to improve monitoring and alerting of our hosts and services, and implement them in a timely fashion* Code scripts and tools to collect and visualize metrics from linux hosts and JVM applications* Enhance and maintain our logs collection, processing and visualization infrastructure* Automate systems configuration by writing policies and modules for configuration management tools* Write both frontend (html/css/js) and backend code (Python, Ruby, Perl)* Participate in periodic oncall rotations for devopsSkills:- * DevOps/System Admin experience ranging between 3-4 years* In depth Linux/Unix knowledge, good understanding the various linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc)* DNS, TCP/IP, Routing, HA & Load Balancing* Configuration management using tools like CFEngine, Puppet or Chef* SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB and HBase* Build and packaging tools like Jenkins and RPM/Yum* HA and Load balancing using tools like the Elastic Load Balancer and HAProxy* Monitoring tools like Nagios, Pingdom or similar* Log management tools like logstash, fluentd, syslog, elasticsearch or similar* Metrics collection tools like Ganglia, Graphite, OpenTSDB or similar* Programming in a high level language like Python or Ruby