Cloud Engineer

Job Sector: IT , Software

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Sholinganallur (Chennai)

Experience: 6 -8 Years

Salary: 11 – 13 LPA

Education: Any Graduate

Notice Period: Immediate

Key Skills: CI/CD Tools –Maven, Gradle, Fastlane, Jenkins, Travis

CV submission closing date: 22/07/2021

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Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, ship, and motivate the creation of software and systems to increase product reliability and organizational efficiency.
• Guide reliability practices through the entire software development lifecycle through activities like architecture reviews, code reviews, creating platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and chaos testing.
• Maintain service health through monitoring and incident response.
• Improve service reliability through blameless post-incident reviews and using code to prevent or respond to problem recurrence.

Required Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience writing code in Java, Go, Shell, Perl, Python, or a similar language.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Strong interest in SRE topics like SLOs, resilience, scaling, performance, and more.
• We get excited about engineers who:
• have previous experience with public clouds and enabling technology (AWS & Terraform preferred or other similar technologies)
• Familiar on one or more CI/CD Tools – Maven, Gradle, Fastlane, Jenkins, Travis/CircleCI
• Experience designing using asynchronous messaging patterns

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
•     • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
•     • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
•     • Experience with IAC tools  Terraform
•     • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
•     • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
•     • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
•     • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
•     • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
•     • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
•     • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
•     • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
•     • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

Who We Are

Grip is building a new category of investment options for the new-age of Indian Investors. Millennials

don’t communicate, shop, pay, entertain and work like the previous generation - then why should they

invest the same way?

Started in June’20, Grip has seen 20% month-on-month growth to become one of India’s fastest-

growing destinations for alternative investments. Today, Grip offers multiple investment options providing

8-16% annual returns and 1-60 month tenures as the country’s only multi- asset (lease financing,

inventory financing, corporate bonds start-up equity, commercial real estate ) investment platform. With a

minimum investment size of INR 20,000, Grip is democratizing investment options that have previously

only been available to the largest funds and family offices.

Finance and technology (FinTech) is what we do, but people are at the core of our mission. From client-

facing roles to technology, and everywhere in between, you’ll work alongside a diverse team who loves

to solve problems, think creatively, and fly the plane as we continue to build it.

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What We Can Offer You

● Young and fast-growing company with a healthy work-life balance

● Great culture based on the following core values

○ Courage

○ Transparency

○ Ownership

○ Customer Obsession

○ Celebration

● Lean structure and no micromanaging. You get to own your work

● The Company has turned two so you get a seat on rocketship that’s just taking off!

● High focus on Learning & Development and monetary support for relevant upskilling

● Competitive compensation along with equity ownership for wealth creation

What You’ll Do

● Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available onAWS

● Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and

deploying requirements

● Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code

● Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools

● Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems

● Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas

● Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS

infrastructure and systems

● Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Your Superpowers

● At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure

(VPC,EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront,

S3,RDS,Elasticbeanstalk)

● Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet

compliance requirements

● Expertise using Chef/Cloudformation/Ansible for configuration management

● Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

● Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

● Experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes,, ELK and deploying applications onAWS

● Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

● Strong bias for action and ownership

Java with cloud