Cloud Architect

The candidates should have:

 

·  Strong knowledge on Windows and Linux OS

 

·   Experience working in Version Control Systems like git

 

·  Hands-on experience in tools Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, Kubernetes, ELK.

 

·  Basic understanding of SQL commands

 

·  Experience working on Azure Cloud DevOps

Job Responsibilities:

Section 1 -

- Responsible for managing and providing L1 support to Build, design, deploy and maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions on AWS.
- Implement, deploy and maintain development, staging & production environments on AWS.
- Familiar with serverless architecture and services on AWS like Lambda, Fargate, EBS, Glue, etc.
- Understanding of Infra as a code and familiar with related tools like Terraform, Ansible Cloudformation etc.

Section 2 -

- Managing the Windows and Linux machines, Kubernetes, Git, etc.
- Responsible for L1 management of Servers, Networks, Containers, Storage, and Databases services on AWS.

Section 3 -

- Timely monitoring of production workload alerts and quick addressing the issues
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the Backup and DR process.

Section 4 -

- Responsible for documenting the process.
- Responsible for leading cloud implementation projects with end-to-end execution.

Qualifications: Bachelors of Engineering / MCA Preferably with AWS, Cloud certification

Skills & Competencies

- Linux and Windows servers management and troubleshooting.

- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, ECS, Redshift, Glue, etc. - AWS EKS

- Kubernetes and containers knowledge

- Understanding of setting up AWS Messaging, streaming and queuing Services(MSK, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, MQ)

- Understanding of serverless architecture. - High understanding of Networking concepts

- High understanding of Serverless architecture concept - Managing to monitor and alerting systems

- Sound knowledge of Database concepts like Dataware house, Data Lake, and ETL jobs

- Good Project management skills

- Documentation skills

- Backup, and DR understanding

Soft Skills - Project management, Process Documentation

Ideal Candidate:

- AWS certification with between 2-4 years of experience with certification and project execution experience.

- Someone who is interested in building sustainable cloud architecture with automation on AWS.

- Someone who is interested in learning and being challenged on a day-to-day basis.

- Someone who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary action to get it done.

- Someone who is curious to analyze and solve complex problems.

- Someone who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking ownership of their success and failure, both.

Behavioral Traits

- We are looking for someone who is interested to be part of creativity and the innovation-based environment with other team members.

- We are looking for someone who understands the idea/importance of teamwork and individual ownership at the same time.

- We are looking for someone who can debate logically, respectfully disagree, and can admit if proven wrong and who can learn from their mistakes and grow quickly

OPERATIONS ENGINEER(DevOps)
Role Description:
● Own, deploy, configure, and manage infrastructure environment and/or applications in
both private and public cloud through cross-technology administration (OS, databases,
virtual networks), scripting, and monitoring automation execution.
● Manage incidents with a focus on service restoration.
● Act as the primary point of contact for all compute, network, storage, security, or
automation incidents/requests.
● Manage rollout of patches and release management schedule and implementation.
Technical experience:
● Strong knowledge of scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and Golang.
● Expertise in using command line tools and shells
● Strong working knowledge of Linux/UNIX and related applications
● Knowledge in implementing DevOps and having an inclination towards automation.
● Sound knowledge in infrastructure-as-a-code approaches with Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or
Terraform, and Helm. (preference towards Terraform, Ansible, and Helm)
● Must have strong experience in technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift,
etc.
● Working with REST/gRPC/GraphQL APIs
● Knowledge in networking, firewalls, network automation
● Experience with Continuous Delivery pipelines - Jenkins/JenkinsX/ArgoCD/Tekton.
● Experience with Git, GitHub, and related tools
● Experience in at least one public cloud provider
Skills/Competencies
● Foundation: OS (Linux/Unix) & N/w concepts and troubleshooting
● Automation: Bash or Python or Golang
● CI/CD & Config Management: Jenkin, Ansible, ArgoCD, Helm, Chef/Puppet, Git/GitHub
● Infra as a Code: Terraform
● Platform: Docker, K8s, VMs
● Databases: MySQL, PostgreSql, DataStore (Mongo, Redis, AeroSpike) good to have
● Security: Vulnerability Management and Golden Image
● Cloud: Deep working knowledge on any public cloud (GCP preferable)
● Monitoring Tools: Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

 

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

 

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

DevOps Engineer, Plum & Empuls 

 

As DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to setup and maintain GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, Cloud security.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Setup, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Working on Docker images and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Working on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Required Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps Frameworks, Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible or puppet or chef.
• Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud like AWS, Azure, Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience and well versed with Jira tool is a plus.

 

We are

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, San Francisco, and Dublin. Empuls works with over 100 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Way forward

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status

Who we are?
Searce is a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech
to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering,
AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We
are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with
over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.
What we believe?
1. Best practices are overrated
○ Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .
2. Honesty and Transparency
○ We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.
3. Client Partnership
○ Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead.
○ And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.
How we work?
It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by
HAPPIER.
1. Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to
respond.
2. Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As
that’s what life's about.
3. Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and
forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.
4. Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the
street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and
makes us deliver the quality we deliver.
5. Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.
6. Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.
7. Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would
‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did
the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on
vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations
across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak,
people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can
attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions
to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from
one public cloud to the other.
1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best
practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution
visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs
evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build
hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project
deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met;
deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access
management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
● Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing
interest and credibility
● Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a
willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
● Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
● Highly organised and efficient.
● Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Education, Experience, etc.
1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you
otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's
degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from
12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some
manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the
new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives
those fancy degrees!
3. 1 - 5 years of experience with at least 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud
Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise
environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platf

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform

Role
We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company. You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

Responsibilities
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
- Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
- Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
- Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on the AWS
platform.
- Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way
by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
- Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
- Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand-based
auto-scaling.
- Have on-call responsibilities.
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered
within the project.
- Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
- Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high-level programming
languages.
- Extensive experience in any Javascript-based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)
- Strong Linux system administration background.
- Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
- Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT
gateway, DynamoDB)
- Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~
1 Lakh users a day)
- A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
- Expertise with Git
- Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
- Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or
Mongo.
- Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
- Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the
ones we should implement.
- Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as
needed.

Cloud Architects for On-prem to Cloud Migration:
Experience: 12 - 20 years

Responsibilities :

The Cloud Solution Architect/Engineer specializing in migrations is a cloud role in the project delivery cycle with hands on experience migrating customers to the cloud.
 Demonstrated experience in cloud infrastructure project deals for hands on migration to public clouds such as Azure.
 Strong background in linux/Unix and/or Windows administration
 Ability to use wide variety of open source technologies.
 Closely work with Architects and customer technical teams in migrating applications to Azure cloud in Architect Role.
 Mentor and monitor the junior developers and track their work.
 Design as per best practices and insustry standard coding practices
 Ensure services are built for performance, scalability, fault tolerance and security with reusable patterns.
 Recommend best practises and standards for Azure migrations
 Define coding best practices for high performance and guide the team in adopting the same

Skills:

Mandatory:
 Experience with cloud migration technologies such as Azure Migrate
 Azure trained / certified architect – Associate or Professional Level
 Understanding of hybrid cloud solutions and experience of integrating public cloud into tradition hosting/delivery models
 Strong understanding of cloud migration techniques and workflows (on premise to Cloud Platforms)
 Configuration, migration and deployment experience in Azure apps technologies.
 High Availability and Disaster recovery implementations
 Experience architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications.
 Experience building and deploying multi-tier, scalable, and highly available applications using Java, Microsoft and Database technologies
 Experience in performance tuning, including the following ; (load balancing, web servers, content delivery Networks, Caching (Content and API))
 Experience in large scale data center migration
 Experience of implementing architectural governance and proactively managing issues and risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.
 Good familiarity with the disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration & release management, source code & version controls, and operational considerations such as monitoring and instrumentation
 Experience of consulting or service provider roles (internal, or external);
 Experience using database technologies like Oracle, MySQL and understanding of NoSQL is preferred.
 Experience in designing or implementing data warehouse solutions is highly preferred.
 Experience in automation/configuration management using Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, Bosh, Terraform or an equivalent.
 Experience with source code management tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or equivalent
 Experience with SQL and NoSQL DBs such as SQL, MySQL.
 Solid understanding of networking and core Internet Protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP and routing in distributed networks.
 A working understanding of code and script such as: PHP, Python, Perl and/or Ruby.
 A working understanding with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or equivalent
 A working understanding of scheduling and orchestration with tools such as: kubernetes, Mesos swarm or equivalent.