Cloud Engineer

Primary Skills:

Linux – Ubuntu Administration, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins Administration, Cloud services (Preferred AWS) Apache, Ansible, Python, Postgresql, Rabbit MQ, CloudWatch AWS, CFT in AWS

Additional Skills Required:

• Should have experience working with Jenkins, Git, Gerrit
• Should have Good understanding of AWS Security and execution.
• Should have Good python skills
• Should have experience of working with GIT, Gerrit, Jira, Confluence,
• Exposure to messaging systems Rabbit MQ
• Exposure to Html, Groovy, Javascript, shell scripting
• Exposure to Kibana, Provisioning, capacity planning and performance analysis at various levels
• Exposure to Android skills.
• Should have experience in working with cloud-native architecture.
• Experience with log stash and elastic search
• Expert in Full Stack design technique as well as experience working across large environments with multiple operating systems/infrastructure for large-scale programs
• May be recognized as a leader in Agile and cultivating teams working in Agile frameworks
• Strong understanding of techniques such as Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Test Driven Development, Cloud Development, resiliency, security
• Stays abreast of cutting edge technologies/trends and uses experience to influence application of those technologies/trends to support the business
• Experience on Modelling and Provisioning cloud infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform a Technical Lead role for DevOPs development and support teams.
• Need to communicate & coordinate with both offshore and onsite teams
• Should translate business requirements into project plans and workable item/activities
• Have a thorough understanding of software development lifecycle and the ability to implement software following the structured approach.
• Need to perform in-depth technical reviews of project deliverables and ensure it should be defect free (minimize post release defects).
• Understand the current applications and technical architecture and improvise them as needed.
• Stay abreast of new technologies, methods to optimize development process and latest SDKs, testing tools etc

• Solid understanding of IP network and TCP/IP
• Minimum of 7+ years’ work experience in IT
• Minimum of 4+ years experience as DevOps Enginneer
• Good interpersonal skills and communication written and oral.

• Pixuate is a deep-tech AI start-up enabling businesses make smarter decisions with our edge-based video analytics platform and offer innovative solutions across traffic management, industrial digital transformation, and smart surveillance. We aim to serve enterprises globally as a preferred partner for digitization of visual information.

  Job Description

  We at Pixuate are looking for highly motivated and talented Senior DevOps Engineers to support building the next generation, innovative, deep-tech AI based products. If you are someone who has a passion for building a great software, has analytical mindset and enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in a challenging environment, self-driven, constantly exploring & learning new technologies, have ability to succeed on one’s own merits and fast-track your career growth we would love to talk!

  What do we expect from this role?

  • This role’s key area of focus is to co-ordinate and manage the product from development through deployment, working with rest of the engineering team to ensure smooth functioning.
  • Work closely with the Head of Engineering in building out the infrastructure required to deploy, monitor and scale the services and systems.
  • Act as the technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader within the Cloud Native Development, DevOps and CI/CD pipeline technology engineering discipline.
  • Should be able to understand how technology works and how various structures fall in place, with a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications.
  • Troubleshoots basic software or DevOps stack issues

  You would be great at this job, if you have below mentioned competencies

  • Tech /M.Tech/MCA/ BSc / MSc/ BCA preferably in Computer Science
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • https://www.edureka.co/blog/devops-skills#knowledge">Knowledge on Various DevOps Tools and Technologies
  • Should have worked on tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible in a production environment for data intensive systems.
  • Experience in developing https://www.edureka.co/blog/continuous-delivery/">Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) preferably using Jenkins, scripting (Shell / Python) and https://www.edureka.co/blog/what-is-git/">Git and Git workflows
  • Experience implementing role based security, including AD integration, security policies, and auditing in a Linux/Hadoop/AWS environment.
  • Experience with the design and implementation of big data backup/recovery solutions.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting; experience as Linux Admin is good to have.
  • Working knowledge in Python is a plus
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers (ELB, HAProxy) and high availability architecture is a plus
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope and timeline
  • Willingness to travel within India and internationally whenever required
  • Demonstrated leadership qualities in past roles

  More about Pixuate:

  Pixuate, owned by Cocoslabs Innovative Solutions Pvt. Ltd., is a leading AI startup building the most advanced Edge-based video analytics products. We are recognized for our cutting-edge R&D in deep learning, computer vision and AI and we are solving some of the most challenging problems faced by enterprises. Pixuate’s plug-and-play platform revolutionizes monitoring, compliance to safety, and efficiency improvement for Industries, Banks & Enterprises by providing actionable real-time insights leveraging CCTV cameras.

  We have enabled our customers such as Hindustan Unilever, Godrej, Secuira, L&T, Bigbasket, Microlabs, Karnataka Bank etc and rapidly expanding our business to cater to the needs of Manufacturing & Logistics, Oil and Gas sector.

  Rewards & Recognitions:

  • Winner of Elevate by Startup Karnataka (https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/">https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/).
  • Winner of Manufacturing Innovation Challenge in the 2nd edition of Fusion 4.0’s MIC2020 organized by the NASSCOM Centre of Excellence in IoT & AI in 2021
  • Winner of SASACT program organized by MEITY in 2021

  Why join us?

  You will get an opportunity to work with the founders and be part of 0 to 1 journey& get coached and guided. You will also get an opportunity to excel your skills by being innovative and contributing to the area of your personal interest. Our culture encourages innovation, freedom and rewards high performers with faster growth and recognition.   

  Where to find us?

  Website: http://pixuate.com/">http://pixuate.com/                            

  Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixuate-ai     

   

  Place of Work:

  Work from Office – Bengaluru

Job description

The role requires you to design development pipelines from the ground up, Creation of Docker Files,  design and operate highly available systems in AWS Cloud environments. Also involves Configuration Management, Web Services Architectures, DevOps Implementation, Database management, Backups, and Monitoring.

Key responsibility area
- Ensure reliable operation of CI/CD pipelines
- Orchestrate the provisioning, load balancing, configuration, monitoring and billing of resources in the cloud environment in a highly automated manner
- Logging, metrics and alerting management.
- Creation of Bash/Python scripts for automation
- Performing root cause analysis for production errors.

Requirement
- 2 years experience as Team Lead.
- Good Command on kubernetes.
- Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
- Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
- Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins. 
- Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
- Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
- Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache. 
- Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
- Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Must Have:
Linux, CI/CD(Jenkin), AWS, Scripting(Bash,shell Python, Go), Ngnix, Docker.

Good to have
Configuration Management(Ansible or similar tool), Logging tool( ELK or similar), Monitoring tool(Ngios or similar), IaC(Terraform, cloudformation).

You will make an ideal candidate if you have: 

• Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider

• Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques

• Strong understanding of CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub)

• Managed an infrastructure that involved 50+ hosts/network 

• 3+ years of Kubernetes experience & 5+ years of experience in Native services such as Compute (virtual machines), Containers (AKS), Databases, DevOps, Identity, Storage & Security

• Experience in engineering solutions on cloud foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (eg. Terraform)

• Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools

• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams

• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment

• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards

• Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Experienced in full automation and configuration management

• A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change

• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences

• Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilizing appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success

• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes

Essential Skills :

• Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including compute, devops, databases, storage & security

• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat

• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools

• Experience working within an Agile environment

• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Node.JS

• Server administration (either Linux or Windows)

• Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)

• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

Required Skills :

• Linux & Windows Server Certification

This person MUST have:

• Min of 3-5 prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline maintenance and enhancement specifically Jenkins based pipelines.
• Working experience with engineering tools like git, git work flow, bitbucket, JIRA etc
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure
• Hands on experience of Linux administration.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration
• Works closely with engineering team for day to day activities
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On Prem or  AWS) for engineering team (Build servers/Jenkin nodes etc.)
• Works with engineering team for new config required for infra like replicating the setups, adding new resources etc.
• Works closely with engineering team for improving existing pipelines for build .
• Troubleshoots problems across infrastructure/services

Experience:

• Min 5-7  year experience

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week (11 AM to 7 PM).

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s