Business Development Associate | WFH

Job description

 Location: Chennai, India

 Experience: 5+ Years

 Certification: Kafka Certified (Mandatory); Additional Certifications are a Plus

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer specializing in GCP Cloud Infrastructure Management and Kafka Administration. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in cloud technologies, Kubernetes, and Kafka, with a mandatory Kafka certification.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Infrastructure Management:

· Manage and update Kubernetes (K8s) on GKE.

· Monitor and optimize K8s resources, including pods, storage, memory, and costs.

· Oversee the general monitoring and maintenance of environments using:

o OpenSearch / Kibana

o KafkaUI

o BGP

o Grafana / Prometheus

Kafka Administration:

· Manage Kafka brokers and ACLs.

· Hands-on experience in Kafka administration (preferably Confluent Kafka).

· Independently debug, optimize, and implement Kafka solutions based on developer and business needs.

Other Responsibilities:

· Perform random investigations to troubleshoot and enhance infrastructure.

· Manage PostgreSQL databases efficiently.

· Administer Jenkins pipelines, supporting CI/CD implementation and maintenance.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

· Kafka Certified Engineer (Mandatory).

· 5+ years of experience in GCP DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Kafka Administration.

· Strong expertise in Kubernetes (K8s), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and cloud environments.

· Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, OpenSearch, and Kibana.

· Experience managing PostgreSQL databases.

· Proficiency in Jenkins pipeline administration.

· Ability to work independently and collaborate with developers and business stakeholders.

If you are passionate about DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, and Kafka, and meet the above qualifications, we encourage you to apply!

Sankey Solutions, Thane.

We are looking for a Tech PM role – who are having the ability and keenness, to adapt and implement new technologies fast, and has a learning attitude and preference for learning over knowing. Organized, customer-facing, analytical, and technically sound lead who is interested in guiding key business decisions. The position holder will be working as a technical lead for Sankey Solutions and play a key role in driving projects through the whole lifecycle. Be able to think about all aspects of the problem and propose the right business and technical solutions.

Technical skills

• 5 to 10 years’ experience in Project Management and handling team

• Take end to end ownership to lead cross-functional teams to successfully deliver multiple software development projects supporting various business units.

• Design, Architect, develop application using multiple tech stack.

• Understanding of client-side web technologies like React/Redux Js JavaScript, J-Query, HTML, CSS.

• Understanding one of the core technologies like Java/Python/Php/.Net • Understanding of DB in PL/SQL, SQL DB design/ performance analysis for DB. Knowledge of cloud technologies will be added advantage.

• Ensure that solutions are being delivered as per standards of availability, scalability and security point of view and that are done on time with the highest quality.

• Ensure that all delivery artefacts are reviewed and are according to the standards and guidelines Communicate proactively with all involved personnel to provide encouragement, identify problems, create solutions, and implement efficiency improvements.

Soft Skills

• Should have good communication and direct interaction with customer on daily basis.

• Should grasp things quickly on new technologies and implement it for Project requirements.

• Handle resources and get hands on to solve technical problems faced by the delivery team.

• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of industry standards, methodologies, processes and best practices

Requirements:

1. Role- Tech PM
2. Job Qualifications: Only IT graduate (Technical background)
3. Job Location(s) – Mumbai, Thane
4. Industry Type IT - Software, Software Services
5. Functional Area IT Software - Application Programming
6. Maintenance Employment Type - Full Time, Permanent
7. Role Category- Project Management

About SLAY

SLAY Coffee is India's best rated and fastest growing coffee brand with a vision to democratise great coffee experiences through technology & innovative customer experiences. With 3 core lines of business (SLAY Cloud for Online, SLAY Coffee Bars for Grab & Go and SLAY Packaged Coffees for home consumption), SLAY Coffee’s core promise is sophisticated convenience at pocket friendly prices. The brand is 2-years old and currently has a footprint of over 150 locations across 8 cities.

Culture at SLAY

Excellence is our North Star and our culture fuels this pursuit. We work together as a sports team*; each member is united by a common purpose and drives excellence by bringing their unique self to the team.

We aim to build and nurture a team that finds meaning and fulfillment in the work they do at SLAY. If who you are and what you value is in alignment with what SLAY is and what we value, then the pursuit of excellence becomes meaningful.

The following principles guide us in our day to day working at SLAY:

1. Customer first
2. Transparency
3. Simplicity in thought and action
4. Long term thinking
5. Passion
6. Data over opinion, company and team over self
7. Integrity and respect
8. Communication for impact

Core Values

Our core values define how we operate and bring about an alignment of purpose. We learn and get inspired from each other in strengthening these behaviors & skills both at an individual level and collectively at the Company level. New members are added to the team and existing team members are rewarded and developed based on these values.

1. Courage:
1. To think big, act without fear and voice your opinion.
2. To question the status quo- go beyond rules and hierarchies.
3. To act in the best interest of the customer and company, even if it calls for going outside your comfort zone.
2. Ownership:
1. Seek to understand the context and objective, then drive for results
2. Collaborate independently across teams
3. Communicate proactively. Eliminate the need for follow ups
4. Act with authority
3. Action
1. Prioritize action over discussions
2. Run small pilots for each idea
3. Make mistakes, learn, don't repeat.
4. Curiosity
1. To understand our customers and markets deeply beyond the stated
2. To push the boundaries and innovate
3. To never settle for less

Beyond the salary (and great coffee!)

• Freedom to test out any idea in your function or outside of it.
• Gender-neutral policies
• Free Books Program- buy any book that you would like to read for the company library. The Company pays for it.
• 25% of your time can be devoted to the causes you care about. (Pursue your passion or hobby)
• Exclusive talks & insights from the experts for the growth & development of our team
• Full tuition fees sponsorship for Baristas
• Family support programs for Baristas

Opportunity

As a team member in SLAY’s growth team, you will work on projects to grow the brand’s reach, resonance and resultant goodness.

Your Boss

You will work directly with the Co-founder . This position is being hired for the Centre of Excellence team at SLAY.

Your Team

You will collaborate with business teams to develop in house training & learning strategies, creative teams to develop impactful creatives, operations teams for execution & external partners to set up and manage specific learning and development initiatives..

Key Result Areas

• Drive technology first learning interventions for all members of the organization.
• Design and deploy the end to end training framework from training needs identification to continuous assessments and certifications. 
• Develop content using instructional design methodologies. Suggest and deploy new age and industry first tools and systems.
• Own the competency dictionary of the organization and drive brand values and culture through culture philosophy through all training and development activities.
• Manage and guide the training team which will include instructional designers, content developers, training coordinators etc.
• Keep abreast of training trends, developments and best practices of the Industry.

Your role requires knowledge and demonstrable experience of:

• 6+ years of experience in developing and executing successful training initiatives.
• Familiar with traditional and modern training processes
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively
• Entrepreneurial with the ability to think of industry first and rule breaking initiatives
• Organizational skills

Next Steps:

If you wish to explore this opportunity further,

1.  Send us a copy of your latest resume
2. A quick note on what excites you about working with SLAY. You can do this as an audio file, video file or a simple write up as well.
3. We will schedule one to one interactions with your potential boss, team members and peers.

• Develop, test, and deploy fast and scalable web apps
• Assist high-end web applications using , Node JS , Mongo DB , Angular9+
• Responsible for solving complex technical issues and giving quick solutions
• Active in client communication to understand functional requirements
• Assist in design, coding and testing
• Provide quick and simple technical solutions
• Ensure quality projects are delivered within defined timelines
• Maintain database to ensure strong optimization and functionalities
•  Designing and maintenance of fully functional large relational and non-relational databases
• Timely deployment of web apps on the cloud
•  Server management and cloud-based infrastructure
• Establishment and integration of development tools as required
• Identification of application issues when deploying the apps
• App deployment on the cloud along with solving debugging issues
• Coding architecture for frontend and backend
• Building interactive consumer data
• Creating features in apps that have a mobile responsive design
• Testing applications and fixing bugs, along with security and data protection features
• Establish code architecture decisions for supporting scalability and good performance
• Makes use of popular front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, LESS, etc and design UI components
• Participation with developers for the creation of scalable RESTful APIs
• Conducting code reviews of developers

• A Bachelor’s in a related computer science field.
• Expertise and experience in the four main technologies – MongoDB, ExpressJS, Angular, and NodeJS
• Knowledge of HTML/CSS, jQuery, Python, OOPS, UI/UX design, AWS, Git, and design framework, web services, JSON, AJAX, cryptography, and security,
• Experience implementing applications using Angular or React
• Experience creating front end applications using HTML5, Angular, LESS/SASS frontend CSS frameworks like Bootstrap, etc.
• In depth knowledge of NodeJS, ExpressJS or Restify
• Experience implementing applications using Angular
• Hands-on experience with JavaScript Development on both client and server-side
• Experience with modern frameworks and design patterns,
• Experience with cloud technologies also a plus

• Angular 6
• Java Script
• HTML
• Css
• UI 

• Automate and maintain ML and Data pipelines at scale
• Collaborate with Data Scientists and Data Engineers on feature development teams to containerize and build out deployment pipelines for new modules
• Maintain and expand our on-prem deployments with spark clusters
• Design, build and optimize applications containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes and AWS or Azure

• 5 years of IT experience in data-driven or AI technology products
• Understanding of ML Model Deployment and Lifecycle
• Extensive experience in Apache airflow for MLOps workflow automation
• Experience is building and automating data pipelines
• Experience in working on Spark Cluster architecture
• Extensive experience with Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with standard concepts and technologies used in CI/CD build, deployment pipelines using Jenkins
• Strong experience in Python and PySpark and building required automation (using standard technologies such as Docker, Jenkins, and Ansible).
• Experience with Kubernetes or Docker Swarm
• Working technical knowledge of current systems software, protocols, and standards, including firewalls, Active Directory, etc.
• Basic knowledge of Multi-tier architectures: load balancers, caching, web servers, application servers, and databases.
• Experience with various virtualization technologies and multi-tenant, private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Hands-on software and hardware troubleshooting experience.
• Experience documenting and maintaining configuration and process information.
• Basic Knowledge of machine learning frameworks: Tensorflow, Caffe/Caffe2, Pytorch

Roles and Responsibilities:

1. SDLC and Agile methodologies of software development.
2. Experience in managing software development projects - Ability to oversee entire Project Management lifecycle, to include scheduling, coordinating, invoicing and management of multiple projects
3. End to end accountability for Software Development projects
4. Managing the team of software developers; Advanced level of technical background to provide highly-credible leadership to the team
5. Provide technical leadership for software development
6. Deliver the project to the clients
7. Troubleshoot the issues - custom web applications, mobile application development
8. Establish the framework, leverage our product Turanto-Cloud Application Development Platform for each project
9. Has a product development background and has experience in building enterprise grade products using C#.Net MVC
10. Proven ability to handle multiple scrum teams and guide them to overcome technical challenges
11. Good experience in WebAPI and Service Oriented Architecture
12. Have practical experience in implementing CI and CD in recent projects and have a DevOps mindset
13. Solid understanding of the design process and various tools and resources available in the market and of backend and frontend development
14. Ability to accurately and objectively evaluate complex project risks and issues
15. Strong knowledge and understanding of business needs with the ability to establish and maintain a high level of stakeholder trust and confidence
16. Exceptional tracking and time management skills
17. Ability to balance conflicting priorities and changing demands.
18. Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences.
19. Should have expertise on client co-ordination
20. Mentor team members for successful delivery of projects
21. Guide cross-functional teams in the execution of projects
22. Deliver the project successfully with highest quality, agreed effort and on-time

Skills

1. Agile development practices (Kanban, Scrum)
2. Can do attitude
3. Thirst for knowledge and relish the opportunity to solve problems either as a team or independently.
4. A natural curiosity, always searching for improvements and learning new skills
5. A deep passion for technology and a love of learning new concepts and technologies.
6. Must be good in collaboration/team building/servant leadership.
7. Key Performance Indicator: Project Delivery Metrics Effort, On-Time Delivery, First Time Right
8. Strong technical knowledge in Web Development Frameworks, Mobile App Development Framework, emerging web and app development technologies
9. Successfully delivered the software solutions to the client (must)
10. Experience of leading a team of 15-20 developers
11. Demonstrate leadership skills
12. Passion for coding/programming and development

7+ years experience in software development with primary focus on Microsoft .Net stack(Asp.Net MVC, C#, Dotnet Core, SQLAzure, Microsoft Azure) & relevant experience in Web & Mobile App Development is must.

Industry: https://www.naukri.com/it-software-jobs">IT-Software / https://www.naukri.com/software-services-jobs">Software Services

Functional Area: https://www.naukri.com/it-software-qa-&;-testing-jobs">IT Software – Development and Maintenance

Role Category: Programming & Design

Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc depending on your technology stack)

Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds

Good with REST Api and integration of many API's in our backend

Good understanding of server-side templating languages (such as Jade, EJS, etc depending on your technology stack)

Understanding accessibility and security compliance

User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system

Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform

Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Good Code writing skills 
Integration with Shopfy, Zoho, ERP, CRM is a plus.