Business Central Functional Consultant

Primary Skills:

Linux – Ubuntu Administration, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins Administration, Cloud services (Preferred AWS) Apache, Ansible, Python, Postgresql, Rabbit MQ, CloudWatch AWS, CFT in AWS

Additional Skills Required:

• Should have experience working with Jenkins, Git, Gerrit
• Should have Good understanding of AWS Security and execution.
• Should have Good python skills
• Should have experience of working with GIT, Gerrit, Jira, Confluence,
• Exposure to messaging systems Rabbit MQ
• Exposure to Html, Groovy, Javascript, shell scripting
• Exposure to Kibana, Provisioning, capacity planning and performance analysis at various levels
• Exposure to Android skills.
• Should have experience in working with cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with log stash and elastic search
• Expert in Full Stack design technique as well as experience working across large environments with multiple operating systems/infrastructure for large-scale programs
• May be recognized as a leader in Agile and cultivating teams working in Agile frameworks
• Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, resiliency, security
• Stays abreast of cutting edge technologies/trends and uses experience to influence application of those technologies/trends to support the business
• Experience on Modelling and Provisioning cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform a Technical Lead role for DevOPs development and support teams.
• Need to communicate & coordinate with both offshore and onsite teams
• Should translate business requirements into project plans and workable item/activities
• Have a thorough understanding of software development lifecycle and the ability to implement software following the structured approach.
• Need to perform in-depth technical reviews of project deliverables and ensure it should be defect free (minimize post release defects).
• Understand the current applications and technical architecture and improvise them as needed.
• Stay abreast of new technologies, methods to optimize development process and latest SDKs, testing tools etc

R&D Skills

Team work and Communication skills (verbal and written)

Acceptance and steadiness under pressure

Showing responsibility and daily reporting

Problem solving and decision-making skills

Creative and innovative ideas

Quality of work and timelines

Bug free development and code quality

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.

EXPERIENCE

7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.

• Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.

• Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.

• Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time

• Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.

• Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.

• Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.  

• Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies

• Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services

• Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.

• Migration and consolidations of infrastructure

• Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.

• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.

• Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.

• Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.

• Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.

• Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.

• On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones

• Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.

• Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations

• IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service

• Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies

• Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)

• DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms

• Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment

• Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.

• Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect 

• Networking Skills –   Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)

• Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)

• Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.

• A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies

• SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies

• Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .

• A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions

• Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies

• Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.

• Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.

• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.

• A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.

• A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..

• A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.

• A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.

• A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)

• A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration

• A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL

• A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

• A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories

• Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.

• Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.

• Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services

• SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

• Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.

• Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.

• Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.

• Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.

• Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles

• Working experience with ServiceNow

• Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

Description

DevOps Engineer / SRE

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Nagios,Terraform  etc

We are seeking a passionate DevOps Engineer to help create the next big thing in data analysis and search solutions.

You will join our Cloud infrastructure team supporting our developers . As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be automating our environment setup and developing infrastructure as code to create a scalable, observable, fault-tolerant and secure environment. You’ll incorporate open source tools, automation, and Cloud Native solutions and will empower our developers with this knowledge. 

We will pair you up with world-class talent in cloud and software engineering and provide a position and environment for continuous learning.

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.

• JD: • 10+ years of overall industry experience
  • 5+ years of cloud experience
  • 2+ years of architect experience
  • Varied background preferred between systems and development
  o Experience working with applications, not pure infra experience
  • Azure experience – strong background using Azure for application migrations
  • Terraform experience – should mention automation technologies in job experience
  • Hands on experience delivering in the cloud
  • Must have job experience designing solutions for customers
  • IaaS Cloud architect
  workload migrations to AWS and/or Azure
  • Security architecture considerations experience
  • CI/CD experience
  • Proven applications migration track of record.