Backend + Devops Engineer

Preferred Education & Experience: 
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering,
Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics or related technical field or
equivalent practical experience. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a
different stream of education.
• Well-versed in DevOps principals & practices and hands-on DevOps
tool-chain integration experience: Release Orchestration & Automation, Source Code & Build
Management, Code Quality & Security Management, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven
Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and
Operational Monitoring & Management; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with
working examples.
• Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools
and platforms viz., Slack, Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory,
Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, Tekton, StackStorm, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,
PagerDuty, VictorOps, etc.
• Well-versed in Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate
experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox,
Vagrant, etc.
• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate
experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in
any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management &
Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstratable Cloud
Platform experience.
• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management,
API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption, tools &
platforms.
• Hands-on programming experience in either core Java and/or Python and/or JavaScript
and/or Scala; freshers passing out of college or lateral movers into IT must be able to code in
languages they have studied.
• Well-versed with Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics
which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.
• Well-versed with Network, Data, and
Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business
Applications / API services environment.
• Extra points if you are certified in AWS and/or Azure
and/or Google Cloud.

Job Overview:

 

You will work in engineering and development teams to integrate and develop cloud solutions and virtualized deployment of software as a service product. This will require understanding the software system architecture function as well as performance and security requirements. The DevOps Engineer is also expected to have expertise in available cloud solutions and services, administration of virtual machine clusters, performance tuning and configuration of cloud computing resources, the configuration of security, scripting and automation of monitoring functions. This position requires the deployment and management of multiple virtual clusters and working with compliance organizations to support security audits. The design and selection of cloud computing solutions that are reliable, robust, extensible, and easy to migrate are also important.

 

Experience:

 

• Experience working on billing and budgets for a GCP project - MUST
• Experience working on optimizations on GCP based on vendor recommendations - NICE TO HAVE
• Experience in implementing the recommendations on GCP
• Architect Certifications on GCP - MUST
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal & written) - MUST
• Excellent documentation skills on processes and steps and instructions- MUST
• At least 2 years of experience on GCP.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering OR Equivalent.
• Extensive scripting or programming experience (Shell Script, Python).
• Extensive experience working with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins).
• Extensive experience working with GCP, Azure, or Cloud Foundry.
• Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, elastic search).
• Must have 2 years of minimum experience with GCP certification.

 

Benefits :

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).

 

Location :

Remote - work from anywhere.

Ideal joining preferences:
Immediate or 15 days

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced software engineer with a strong background in DevOps and handling

traffic & infrastructure at scale.

Responsibilities :

Work closely with product engineers to implement scalable and highly reliable systems.

Scale existing backend systems to handle ever-increasing amounts of traffic and new product

requirements.

Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for - Continuous

Integration/Delivery/Deployment practices.

Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backend cluster, ML projects in the organization.

Monitor and track performance and reliability of our services and software to meet promised SLA

You are the right fit if you have:

1+ years of experience working on distributed systems and shipping high-quality product features on

schedule

Experience with Python including Object Oriented programming

Container administration and development utilizing Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos, or similar

Infrastructure automation through Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Packer or similar

Knowledge of cloud compute technologies, network monitoring

Experience with Cloud Orchestration frameworks, development and SRE support of these systems

Experience with CI/CD pipelines including VCS (git, svn, etc), Gitlab Runners, Jenkins

Working with or supporting production, test, and development environments for medium to large user

environments

Installing and configuring application servers and database servers

Experience in developing scripts to automate software deployments and installations

Experience in a 247 high-availability production environmentAbility to come with best solution by capturing big picture instead of focusing on minor details. Root

cause analysis

Mandatory skills: Shell/Bash Scripting, Unix, Linux, Dockers, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, GIT

• Responsible for the entire infrastructure including Production (both bare metal and AWS).
• Manage and maintain the production systems and operations including SysAdmin, DB activities.
• Improve tools and processes, automate manual efforts, and maintain the health of the system.
• Champion best practices, CI-CD, Metrics Driven Development
• Optimise the company's computing architecture
• Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability
• Maintain security of the system
• Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

• 7+ years of experience into DevOps/Technical Operations
• Extensive experience in operating scripting language like shell, python, etc
• Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD process for SaaS applications using tools such as Jenkins
• Hands on experience in using configuration management tools such as Puppet, SaltStack, Ansible, etc
• Hands-on experience to build and handle VMs, Containers utilizing tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, etc
• Hands on experience in building, designing and maintaining cloud-based applications with AWS, Azure,GCP, etc
• Knowledge of Databases (MySQL, NoSQL)
• Knowledge of security/ethical hacking

• Have experience with ElasticSearch, Kibana, LogStash
• Have experience with Cassandra, Hadoop, or Spark
• Have experience with Mongo, Hive

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

 

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

This is a very interesting job.   Our ~30 year old company seeks a generalist...somebody who can take on a variety of tasks.  For example: Updating our state-of-the art logistics systems,  moving more of our infrastructure to Azure, helping our Fortune 50 clients get the best value from our software.   

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

 

 

We are looking for a full-time remote DevOps Engineer who has worked with CI/CD automation, big data pipelines and Cloud Infrastructure, to solve complex technical challenges at scale that will reshape the healthcare industry for generations. You will get the opportunity to be involved in the latest tech in big data engineering, novel machine learning pipelines and highly scalable backend development. The successful candidates will be working in a team of highly skilled and experienced developers, data scientists and CTO.

 

Job Requirements

 

• Experience deploying, automating, maintaining, and improving complex services and pipelines • Strong understanding of DevOps tools/process/methodologies
• Experience with AWS Cloud Formation and AWS CLI is essential
• The ability to work to project deadlines efficiently and with minimum guidance
• A positive attitude and enjoys working within a global distributed team

 

Skills

 

• Highly proficient working with CI/CD and automating infrastructure provisioning
• Deep understanding of AWS Cloud platform and hands on experience setting up and maintaining with large scale implementations
• Experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Node, Python and Bash/Shell Scripting
• Hands on experience with Docker and container orchestration
• Experience setting up and maintaining big data pipelines, Serverless stacks and containers infrastructure
• An interest in healthcare and medical sectors
• Technical degree with 4 plus years’ infrastructure and automation experience

 

Selected intern's day-to-day responsibilities include:

1. Developing a video player website where students can learn various courses, view e-books, solve tests, etc.
2. Building the product to reach higher scalability
3. Developing software to integrate with internal back-end systems
4. Working on AWS cloud platform
5. Working on Amazon Ec2, Amazon S3 bucket, and Git
6. Working on the implementation of continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins (mandatory)
7. Monitoring, troubleshooting, and diagnosing infrastructure systems (excellent knowledge required for the same)
8. Building tools to reduce the occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
9. Should have experience in MERN Stack too.

Devops Engineer

What we are looking for

 Work closely with product & engineering groups to identify and document

infrastructure requirements.

 Design infrastructure solutions balancing requirements, operational

constraints and architecture guidelines.

 Implement infrastructure including network connectivity, virtual machines

and monitoring.

 Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technical to

protect our customers.

 Resolve incidents as escalated from monitoring solutions and lower tiers.

 Identify root cause for issues and develop long term solutions to fix recurring

issues.

 Ability to automate recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality.

 Partner with the engineering team to build software tolerance for

infrastructure failure or issues.

 Research emerging technologies, trends and methodologies and enhance

existing systems and processes.

Qualifications

 Master’s/Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,

Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, and two years of experience

in software/systems or related.

 5+ years overall experience.

Work experience must have included:

 Proven track record in deploying, configuring and maintaining Ubuntu server

systems on premise and in the cloud.

 Minimum of 4 years’ experience designing, implementing and troubleshooting

TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancers & Firewalls.

 Minimum 3 years of experience working in public clouds like AWS & Azure.

 Hands on experience in any of the configuration management tools like Anisble,

Chef & Puppet.

 Strong in performing production operation activities.

 Experience with Container & Container Orchestrator tools like Kubernetes, Docker

Swarm is plus.

 Good at source code management tools like Bitbucket, GIT.

 Configuring and utilizing monitoring and alerting tools.

 Scripting to automate infrastructure and operational processes.

 Hands on work to secure networks and systems.

 Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision making skills

 Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

 Strong analytical and organizational skills

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Interview focus areas

 Networks, systems, monitoring

 AWS (EC2, S3, VPC)

 Problem solving, scripting, network design, systems administration and

troubleshooting scenarios

 Culture fit, agility, bias for action, ownership, communication