Business Developer

Senior Data Scientist 

We are seeking a Senior Data Scientist Engineer with experience bringing highly scalable enterprise SaaS applications to market. This is a uniquely impactful opportunity to help drive our business forward and directly contribute to long-term growth at Virtana. 

If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, take initiative, embrace proactivity and collaboration, and you’re seeking an environment for continuous learning and improvement, we’d love to hear from you! 

Virtana is a “remote first” work environment so you’ll be able to work from the comfort of your home while collaborating with teammates on a variety of connectivity tools and technologies. 

Work Location- Chennai

Job Type- Hybrid

Role Responsibilities: 

• Research and test machine learning approaches for analyzing large-scale distributed computing applications. 
• Develop production-ready implementations of proposed solutions across different models AI and ML algorithms, including testing on live customer data to improve accuracy, efficacy, and robustness 
• Work closely with other functional teams to integrate implemented systems into the SaaS platform 
• Suggest innovative and creative concepts and ideas that would improve the overall platform  

 Qualifications:    

The ideal candidate must have the following qualifications: 

• 5 + years’ experience in practical implementation and deployment of large customer-facing ML based systems. 
• MS or M Tech (preferred) in applied mathematics/statistics;  CS or Engineering disciplines are acceptable but must have with strong quantitative and applied mathematical skills 
• In-depth working, beyond coursework, familiarity with classical and current ML techniques, both supervised and unsupervised learning techniques and algorithms 
• Implementation experiences and deep knowledge of Classification, Time Series Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Dynamic Programming and Optimization 
• Experience in working on modeling graph structures related to spatiotemporal systems 
• Programming skills in Python is a must 
• Experience in developing and deploying on cloud (AWS or Google or Azure) 
• Good verbal and written communication skills 
• Familiarity with well-known ML frameworks such as Pandas, Keras, TensorFlow 

About Virtana:  

Virtana delivers the industry’s only unified software multi-cloud management platform that allows organizations to monitor infrastructure, de-risk cloud migrations, and reduce cloud costs by 25% or more. 

Over 200 Global 2000 enterprise customers, such as AstraZeneca, Dell, Salesforce, Geico, Costco, Nasdaq, and Boeing, have valued Virtana’s software solutions for over a decade. 

Our modular platform for hybrid IT digital operations includes Infrastructure Performance Monitoring and Management (IPM), Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Cloud Cost Management (Fin Ops), and Workload Placement Readiness Solutions. Virtana is simplifying the complexity of hybrid IT environments with a single cloud-agnostic platform across all the categories listed above. The $30B IT Operations Management (ITOM) Software market is ripe for disruption, and Virtana is uniquely positioned for success. 

Company Profitable Growth and Recognition 

In FY2023 (Fiscal year ending January 2023), Virtana earned: 

—  Best CEO, Best CEO for Women, and Best CEO for Diversity by Comparably 

— Two years in a row YoY Profitable Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) Growth 

— Two consecutive years of +EBITDA, 78% YoY EBITDA growth, or 20% of Revenue 

— Positive Cash Flow, 171% YoY cash flow growth 

Job Position: DevOps Engineer

Experience Range: 2 - 3 years

Type:Full Time

Location:India (Remote)

Desired Skills: DevOps, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, Kafka, HAProxy, MQTT brokers, Redis, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB, Shell Scripting, Terraform, AWS (API Gateway, ALB, ECS, EKS, SNS, SES, CloudWatch Logs), Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, GitHub

Your key responsibilities:

• Collaborate with developers to design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure.
• Manage and automate CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins - Groovy Scripts, GitHub Actions), ensuring smooth deployments.
• Containerise applications using Docker and manage workloads on Kubernetes (EKS).
• Work with AWS services (ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SNS, SES, CloudWatch Logs) to provision and maintain infrastructure.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Set up and manage monitoring and alerting using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Manage and optimize Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB deployments.
• Troubleshoot issues in distributed systems and ensure high availability using HAProxy, load balancing, and failover strategies.
• Drive automation initiatives across development, testing, and production environments.

What you’ll bring

Required:

• 2–3 years of hands-on DevOps experience.
• Strong proficiency in Shell Scripting.
• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS).
• Knowledge of Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines (Groovy scripting preferred).
• Exposure to AWS cloud services (ECS, EKS, API Gateway, SNS, SES, CloudWatch).
• Understanding of microservices deployment and orchestration.
• Familiarity with monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Kafka, HAProxy, MQTT brokers.
• Knowledge of Redis, PostgreSQL, TimescaleDB.
• Exposure to DevOps best practices in agile environments.

• The business finance team will partner with the internal business stakeholders and drive decision support on finance issues. The primary purpose of the team is as follows:

• Business performance reporting: Develop reporting and dashboards of business performance metrics appropriate to different audiences

• Data analytics: Generate actionable insights based on historical trend analysis, variance from plan and deep dive of business key performance indicators

• Finance business partnering: Partner with the business stakeholders to identify, develop and implement action plans to improve financial performance

• Co-own TMRW planning and budgeting process along with the FP&A team

Ideal candidate attributes and experience:

- CA with 3+ years of experience in similar roles

- Strong Excel skills and ability to build dynamic models

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19,
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

• Writing clean, high-quality, high-performance, maintainable code.
• Develop and support software including applications, database integration, interfaces, and new functionality enhancements.
• Coordinate cross-functionally to insure project meets business objectives and compliance standards. 
• Support test and deployment of new products and features.
• Participate in code reviews.

• A highly talented developer with 6-9 years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Apache Spark, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.
• Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).

Job brief

We are looking for a Full Stack Developer to produce scalable software solutions. Youll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.

As a Full Stack Developer, you should be comfortable around both front-end and back-end coding languages, development frameworks and third-party libraries. You should also be a team player with a knack for visual design and utility.

Responsibilities

• Work with development team and product managers to ideate software solutions.
• Design client-side and server-side architecture.
• Build the front-end of applications through appealing visual design.
• Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications.
• Write effective APIs.
• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software.
• Create security and data protection settings.
• Build features and applications with a mobile responsive design in mind.
• Write technical documentation.

Requirements

• B.E./B.Tech. in Computer Science or a degree in Computer Science background.
• Experience as a Full Stack Developer or similar role (Institute or Organization level).
• Knowledge of multiple front-end languages and libraries (e.g. HTML/ CSS, JavaScript, jQuery)
• Knowledge of back-end languages and JavaScript frameworks (e.g. React and Node.js)
• Familiarity with MongoDB, web servers, and UI/UX design.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Great attention to detail.
• Organizational skills.
• An analytical mind.
• Knowledge of Cloud Platforms like AWS or GCP is a plus.

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

• 5+years’ experience in progressive development or architect roles
• Very strong programming skills in one or more of the above languages
• Deep understanding of back end systems; AWS architectures and managed service ecosystems
• Good understanding with web/app design workflow including user research, user scenario, user persona, sitemap, wireframing, and mockups
• Design, develop and implement quality solutions to meet complex project requirements as per defined timelines
• 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