Cloud DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps engineer

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will work closely with our client’s team to establish DevOps practice. 

Your role will include establishing configuration management, automating the infrastructure, implementing continuous integration, and training the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.

You will be part of a continually growing team. You will have the chance to be creative and think of new ideas. You might also get the opportunity to work on some open-source projects, ranging from small to large.

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree in IT/Software Engineering or similar, or equivalent practical experience
• 1yr+ experience in DevOps supporting cloud environments, specifically in AWS or GCP
• 1yr+ experience with automation tools and performing refactorisation
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills which you can quickly draw on in unfamiliar situations
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to take instructions and constructive guidance
• Exposure to Agile/DevOps principles and CI/CD tools
• Good written skills and demonstrated experience in documentation of work
• Excellent collaboration skills with a positive and helpful attitude towards your coworkers
• Good capabilities in source control technologies such as Git
• Good capabilities with Python/Bash/PowerShell
• Familiarity with multiple operating systems, particularly Linux

Desired

• AWS certification or similar Cloud certification and working cloud support experience
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with CDN tools
• Experience with using cloud security tools
• Experience with multiple public cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with SQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / GraphQL
• Experience with Content Mgmt tools and Front End applications

What you’ll be doing – your role

Key Responsibilities

1. To support the DevOps process for web-based products hosted on cloud infrastructure, specifically:

• To respond and complete tickets, meet SLAs, and manage Reporter expectations.
• To collaborate with assigned tribe change streams to deliver project/change objectives:

a. Understand requirements, and support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

b. Build software and systems to manage infrastructure and applications through automation deployment.

c. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve performance, reliability, scalability, security, and velocity.

• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• To monitor and respond to alerts, issues, and incidents about cloud infrastructure (and corporate infrastructure as required).
• Practice sustainable incident response and provide appropriate communications and blameless post-mortems.

2. To drive DevOps process and Cloud infrastructure improvements as part of service and security improvement roadmap, specifically:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• To support training and learning by sharing knowledge with the Tech team and taking responsibility for own professional development.
• Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward.
• To articulate and escalate risks and issues, provide recommended solutions to problems, and implement them.
• Document procedures, configuration changes, and guidelines.

3. To maintain cloud infrastructure and networking as per Cloud policy, standards, and governance requirements.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time without notice.

After-hours support, as agreed, for eg, on-call support, releases that need to be done out of business hours due to potential risk of disruption to the business, incidents work that needs to be resolved as a priority.

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

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.

• 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 looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead ( and/or CTO ) to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will 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

• Implement and own the CI.
• Manage CD tooling.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting.
• Build and maintain highly available production systems.

Qualification- B.tech in IT