Cloud Engineer

Staff DevOps Engineer with Azure

EGNYTE YOUR CAREER. SPARK YOUR PASSION.

Egnyte is a place where we spark opportunities for amazing people. We believe that every role has meaning, and every Egnyter should be respected. With 22,000+ customers worldwide and growing, you can make an impact by protecting their valuable data. When joining Egnyte, you’re not just landing a new career, you become part of a team of Egnyters that are doers, thinkers, and collaborators who embrace and live by our values:

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ABOUT EGNYTE

Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.

Our Production Engineering team enables Egnyte to provide customers access to their data 24/7 by providing best in class infrastructure.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We store multibillion files and multiple petabytes of data. We observe more than 11K API requests per second on average. To make that possible and to provide the best possible experience, we rely on great engineers. For us, people who own their work, from start to finish, are integral. Our engineers are part of the process from design to code, to test, to deployment and back again for further iterations. You can, and will, touch every level of the infrastructure depending on the day and what project you are working on. The ideal candidate should be able to take a complex problem and execute end to end. Mentor and set higher standards for the rest of the team and for the new hires.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

•  Design, build and maintain self-hosted and cloud environments to serve our own applications and services.

•  Collaborate with software developers to build stable, scalable and high-performance solutions.

•   Taking part in big projects like migrating solutions from self-hosted environments to the cloud, from virtual machines to Kubernetes, from monolith to microservices.

• Proactively make our organization and technology better!
• Advising others as to how DevOps can make a positive impact on their work.

•   Share knowledge, mentor more junior team members while also still learning and gaining new skills.

• Maintain​ ​consistently​ ​high​ ​standards​ ​of​ ​​communication,​ ​productivity, and teamwork​ ​across​ ​all​ ​teams.

YOUR QUALIFICATIONS:

•  5+ years of proven experience in a DevOps Engineer, System Administrator or Developer role, working on infrastructure or build processes.

•  Expert knowledge of Microsoft Azure.

•  Programming prowess (Python, Golang).

• Knowledge and experience about deployment and maintenance of Java and Python apps using application and web servers (Tomcat, Nginx, etc.).

• Ability to solve complex problems with simple, elegant and clean code.

• Practical knowledge of CI/CD solutions, GitLab CI or similar.

• Practical knowledge of Docker as a tool for testing and building an environment.

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and related technologies.

• Experience with metric-based monitoring solutions.

• Solid English skills to effectively communicate with other team members.

• Good understanding of the Linux Operating System on the administration level.

• Drive to grow as a DevOps Engineer (we value open-mindedness and a can-do attitude).

• Strong sense of ownership and ability to drive big projects.

BONUS SKILLS:

• Work experience as a Microsoft Azure architect.

• Experience in Cloud migrations projects.

• Leadership skills and experience.

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION:

At Egnyte, we celebrate our differences and thrive on our diversity for our employees, our products, our customers, our investors, and our communities. Egnyters are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work and to appreciate the many differences that collectively make Egnyte a higher-performing company and a great place to be.

Requirements

Core skills:

● Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration and

troubleshooting

● Experience with AWS (ideally including some of the following:

VPC, Lambda, EC2, Elastic Cache, Route53, SNS, Cloudwatch,

Cloudfront, Redshift, Open search, ELK etc.)

● Experience with Infra Automation and Orchestration tools

including Terraform, Packer, Helm, Ansible.

● Hands on Experience on container technologies like Docker,

Kubernetes/EKS, Gitlab and Jenkins as Pipeline.

● Experience in one or more of Groovy, Perl, Python, Go or

scripting experience in Shell.

● Good understanding of with Continuous Integration(CI) and

Continuous Deployment(CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins,

FlexCD, ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc

● Working knowledge of key value stores, database technologies

(SQL and NoSQL), Mongo, mySQL

● Experience with application monitoring tools like Prometheus,

Grafana, APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Pinpoint

● Good exposure on middleware components like ELK, Redis, Kafka

and IOT based systems including Redis, NewRelic, Akamai,

Apache / Nginx, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc

Good to have:

● Prior experience in Logistics, Payment and IOT based applications

● Experience in unmanaged mongoDB cluster, automations &

operations, analytics

● Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery

Core Experience

● 3-5 years of hands-on DevOps experience

● 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience

● 3+ years of Cloud Platform experience with special focus on

Lambda, R53, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk,

RDS, Open Search, EC2, Security tools

● 2+ years of scripting experience in Python/Go, shell

● 2+ years of familiarity with CI/CD, Git, IaC, Monitoring, and

Logging tools

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Ansible

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Willingness to learn new technologies and tools as required

Electrum is looking for an experienced and proficient DevOps Engineer. This role will provide you with an opportunity to explore what’s possible in a collaborative and innovative work environment. If your goal is to work with a team of talented professionals that is keenly focused on solving complex business problems and supporting product innovation with technology, you might be our new DevOps Engineer. With this position, you will be involved in building out systems for our rapidly expanding team, enabling the whole engineering group to operate more effectively and iterate at top speed in an open, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering and a vivid experience in deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations. The ideal candidate has proven capabilities and experience in risk-taking, is willing to take up challenges, and is a strong believer in efficiency and innovation with exceptional communication and documentation skills.

YOU WILL:

• Plan for future infrastructure as well as maintain & optimize the existing infrastructure. 
• Conceptualize, architect, and build:
• 1. Automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins;
• 2. Infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and other serverless platforms; 
• 3. Secured network utilizing VPCs with inputs from the security team. 
• Work with developers & QA team to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional, and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies, and workflows which allow for a rollback of deployments. 
• Triage release of applications/ Hotfixes to the production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation to respond and support troubleshooting of issues in production.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with a postmortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Scale Electum platform to handle millions of requests concurrently.
• Reduce Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), enable High Availability and Disaster Recovery

PREREQUISITES:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of six years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructures such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail, and other services provided by AWS.
• At least 2 years of experience in building and owning serverless infrastructure.
• At least 2 years of scripting experience in Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible).
• Experience building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes performance and cost.
• Experience in automating the provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Worked on providing solutions for major automation with scripts or infrastructure.
• Experience with APM tools such as DataDog and log management tools.
• Experience in designing and implementing Essential Functions System Architecture Process; establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Experience establishing and enforcing:
• 1. System monitoring tools and standards
• 2. Risk Assessment policies and standards
• 3. Escalation policies and standards
• Excellent DevOps engineering, team management, and collaboration skills.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and writing code and scripts.
• Experience or knowledge in - Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and prior experience as an open-source contributor will be preferred.

Description

DevOps Engineer / SRE

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Nagios,Terraform  etc

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

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification required
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly complex solutions (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring security and compliance, availability, reliability, etc.)
• Deep technical experience in serverless AWS infrastructure
• Understanding of cloud automation and orchestration tools and techniques including git, terraform, ARM or equivalent
• Create Technical Design documents, understand technical designs and translate into the application requirements.
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating alternative technical solutions
• Participate in code and design review process
• Write unit test cases for quality check of the deliverables
• Ability to work closely with others in a team environment as well as independently
• Proven ability to problem solve and troubleshoot
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Excellent English communication skills are required

We are looking for a Solution Architect with at least 5 years’ experience working on the following to join our growing team:

• AWS
• Postgresql
• EC2 on AWS
• Cognito
• and most importantly Serverless

You will need a strong technical AWS background focused on architecting on serverless (eg Lambda) AWS infrastructure.