Cloud Automation Engineer

• Extensive experience in designing, building & supporting Azure Managed Services Operations.
• Good understanding of Azure IaaS and PaaS services (Azure VMs, App Service, VM Scale set, Storage, Web App, Function App, Logic App, SQL instance, Data factory, Key vault, API management service etc.).
• Good understanding of Azure networking, vNet, NSG, various load balancing services, VPN, Express Route and firewalls in cloud environment.
• Knowledge on Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Hands on Experience in migration of various workloads to Azure from on-prem sources like VMware, Hyper-V, Physical Servers and from other Clouds.
• Knowledge of Azure Backups and ASR (Azure Site Recovery).
• Strong Knowledge on Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
• Powershell Scripting, Azure CLI, ARM templates writing, setup automation for resources provisioning and other IaC tools like terraform, Ansible is an added advantage.
• Knowledge on Azure automation and Automation Desire State Configuration.
• Knowledge on Azure Devops or GIT Actions on CI/CD pipeline configuration.
• Strong experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft based production systems.
• Aspire to learn and be able to pick up latest technical advances in Azure and be able to implement it.
• Certificate on Azure Administrator & Azure Architect has added advantage.

Mactores is a trusted leader among businesses in providing modern data platform solutions. Since 2008, Mactores have been enabling businesses to accelerate their value through automation by providing End-to-End Data Solutions that are automated, agile, and secure. We collaborate with customers to strategize, navigate, and accelerate an ideal path forward with a digital transformation via assessments, migration, or modernization.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with expertise in infrastructure as a code, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated monitoring for big data workloads, large enterprise applications, customer applications, and databases.

You will have hands-on technology expertise coupled with a background in professional services and client-facing skills. You are passionate about the best practices of cloud deployment and ensuring the customer expectation is set and met appropriately. If you love to solve problems using your skills, then join the Team Mactores. We have a casual and fun office environment that actively steers clear of rigid "corporate" culture, focuses on productivity and creativity, and allows you to be part of a world-class team while still being yourself.

What you will do?

• Automate infrastructure creation with Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation
• Perform application configuration management, and application-deployment tool enabling infrastructure as code.
• Take ownership of the Build and release cycle of the customer project.
• Share the responsibility for deploying releases and conducting other operations maintenance.
• Enhance operations infrastructures such as Jenkins clusters, Bitbucket, monitoring tools (Consul), and metrics tools such as Graphite and Grafana.
• Provide operational support for the rest of the Engineering team help migrate our remaining dedicated hardware infrastructure to the cloud.
• Establish and maintain operational best practices.
• Participate in hiring culturally fit engineers in the organization, help engineers make their career paths by consulting with them.
• Design the team strategy in collaboration with founders of the organization.

What are we looking for?

• 4+ years of experience in using Terraform for IaaC
• 4+ years of configuration management and engineering for large-scale customers, ideally supporting an Agile development process.
• 4+ years of Linux or Windows Administration experience.
• 4+ years of version control systems (git), including branching and merging strategies.
• 2+ Experience in working with AWS Infrastructure, and platform services.
• 2+ Experience in cloud automation tools (Ansible, Chef).
• Exposure to working on container services like Kubernetes on AWS, ECS, and EKS
• You are extremely proactive at identifying ways to improve things and to make them more reliable.

You will be preferred if

• Expertise in multiple cloud services provider: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• AWS Solutions Architect Professional or Associate Level Certificate
• AWS DevOps Professional Certificate

Life at Mactores

We care about creating a culture that makes a real difference in the lives of every Mactorian. Our 10 Core Leadership Principles that honor Decision-making, Leadership, Collaboration, and Curiosity drive how we work.

1. Be one step ahead

2. Deliver the best

3. Be bold

4. Pay attention to the detail

5. Enjoy the challenge

6. Be curious and take action

7. Take leadership

8. Own it

9. Deliver value

10. Be collaborative

We would like you to read more details about the work culture on https://mactores.com/careers 

The Path to Joining the Mactores Team

At Mactores, our recruitment process is structured around three distinct stages:

Pre-Employment Assessment: 

You will be invited to participate in a series of pre-employment evaluations to assess your technical proficiency and suitability for the role.

Managerial Interview: The hiring manager will engage with you in multiple discussions, lasting anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour, to assess your technical skills, hands-on experience, leadership potential, and communication abilities.

HR Discussion: During this 30-minute session, you'll have the opportunity to discuss the offer and next steps with a member of the HR team.

At Mactores, we are committed to providing equal opportunities in all of our employment practices, and we do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other category protected by federal, state, and local laws. This policy extends to all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, compensation, promotions, transfers, disciplinary action, layoff, training, and social and recreational programs. All employment decisions will be made in compliance with these principles.

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
• A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
• An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
• Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
• Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe

• 7+ years of experience in System Administration, Networking, Automation, Monitoring
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Experience managing systems deployed in public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud)
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, etc.)
• Linux experience, flavours: Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS (sysadmin, bash scripting)
• Experience setting up monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation tools like Terraform
• Experience in Package Manager for Kubernetes like Helm Charts
• Experience with databases and data storage (Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres SQL, ELK stack)
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or DC/OS)
• Familiar with Agile Software Development

At Neurosensum we are committed to make customer feedback more actionable. We have developed a platform called SurveySensum which breaks the conventional market research turnaround time. 

SurveySensum is becoming a great tool to not only capture the feedbacks but also to extract some useful insights with the quick workflow setups and dashboards. We have more than 7 channels through which we can collect the feedbacks. This makes us challenge the conventional software development design principles. The team likes to grind and helps each other to lift in tough situations. 

Day to day responsibilities include:

1. Work on the deployment of code via Bitbucket, AWS CodeDeploy and manual
2. Work on Linux/Unix OS and Multi tech application patching
3. Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on servers.
4. Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
5. Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
6. Easing developers’ life so that they can focus on the business logic rather than deploying and maintaining it. 
7. Managing release of the sprint. 
8. Educating team of the best practices.
9. Finding ways to avoid human error and save time by automating the processes using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeDeploy, scripting
10. Implementing cost effective measure on cloud and minimizing existing costs.

Skills and prerequisites

1. OOPS knowledge
2. Problem solving nature
3. Willing to do the R&D
4. Works with the team and support their queries patiently 
5. Bringing new things on the table - staying updated 
6. Pushing solution above a problem. 
7. Willing to learn and experiment
8. Techie at heart
9. Git basics
10. Basic AWS or any cloud platform – creating and managing ec2, lambdas, IAM, S3 etc
11. Basic Linux handling 
12. Docker and orchestration (Great to have)
13. Scripting – python (preferably)/bash

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.

A strong background in Azure OR Amazon Web Services (AWS) or a similar cloud platform is a must-have, certification is a plus.

Excellent technical skills and knowledge include but not limited to: cloud methodologies like PaaS and SaaS; programming languages such as Python, Java, .Net; orchestration systems such as Chef, Ansible, Terraform; Azure IaaS servers; PowerShell scripting.

Fully aware of the DevOps cycle with hands-on on deployment models to the cloud.

Experience working with Docker and related containerization technologies.

Experience working on orchestration platforms such as AKS, RedHat OpenShift etc.

Extensive knowledge working with logging and monitoring tools such as EFK, visualization tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Exposure to security alert monitoring tools.