POSITION SUMMARY:
We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.
EXPERIENCE
7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.
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Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.
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Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.
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Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time
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Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.
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Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.
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Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.
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Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies
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Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services
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Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.
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Migration and consolidations of infrastructure
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Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.
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Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.
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Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.
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Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.
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Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.
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Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.
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On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones
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Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
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Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.
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Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations
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IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service
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Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies
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Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)
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DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms
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Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment
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Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.
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Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect
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Networking Skills – Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)
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Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)
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Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.
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A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies
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SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies
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Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .
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A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions
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Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.
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A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies
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Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.
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Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.
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Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
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A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.
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A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..
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A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.
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A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.
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A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)
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A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration
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A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
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A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
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A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories
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Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.
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Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.
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Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services
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SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
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Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.
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Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.
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Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.
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Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.
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Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles
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Working experience with ServiceNow
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Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.
About F5 Networks
F5 is an industry leader in Application Delivery Networking and Security, has over 8,000 employees worldwide At F5, we make apps faster, smarter, and safer…from anywhere. Come work within the F5 BIGIP Next Base Operating System team in an exciting, fast past environment charting the course for F5’s future. As a contributing member of the team, you will be integrated into cross functional working project teams in our Product Development organization. Build services that are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable within a company known for our excellent culture. If you enjoy providing quality solutions while keeping a focus on high availability, scalability, maintainability, and security then you are the Software Engineer that we would like to have join our team.
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Experience to enhance our cloud infrastructure and optimize application performance.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 5+ years of DevOps experience with strong scripting skills (shell, Python, Ruby).
- Familiarity with open-source technologies and application development methodologies.
- Experience in optimizing both stand-alone and distributed systems.
Key Responsiblities
- Design and maintain DevOps practices for seamless application deployment.
- Utilize AWS tools (EBS, S3, EC2) and automation technologies (Ansible, Terraform).
- Manage Docker containers and Kubernetes environments.
- Implement CI/CD pipelines with tools like Jenkins and GitLab.
- Use monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus) for system reliability.
- Collaborate effectively across teams and articulate technical choices.
Required Skills
• Automation is a part of your daily functions, so thorough familiarity with Unix Bourne shell scripting and Python is a critical survival skill.
• Integration and maintenance of automated tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working experience in source control tools such as GIT/Github/Gitlab/TFS
• Have experience with modern virtualization technologies (Docker, KVM, AWS, OpenStack, or any orchestration platforms)
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades, and monitoring through modern DevOps tools (Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc) • Advanced Linux admin experience
• Using Jenkins or similar tools
• Deep understanding of Container orchestration(Preferably Kubernetes )
• Strong knowledge of Object Storage(Preferably Cept on Rook)
• Experience in installing, managing & tuning microservices environments using Kubernetes & Docker both on-premise and on the cloud.
• Experience in deploying and managing spring boot applications.
• Experience in deploying and managing Python applications using Django, FastAPI, Flask.
• Experience in deploying machine learning pipelines/data pipelines using Airflow/Kubeflow /Mlflow.
• Experience in web server and reverse Proxy like Nginx, Apache Server, HAproxy
• Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience in provisioning & maintaining SQL/NoSQL databases.
Desired Skills
• Configuration software: Ansible
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Good experience on Networking Technologies like a Load balancer, ACL, Firewall, VIP, DNS
• Programmatic experience with AWS, DO, or GCP storage & machine images
• Experience on various Linux distributions
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps Server
• Docker management and troubleshooting
• Familiarity with micro-services and RESTful systems
• AWS / GCP / Azure certification
• Interact with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support
• Create fully automated global cloud infrastructure that spans multiple regions.
• Great learning attitude to the newest technology and a Team player
Infra360 Solutions is a services company specializing in Cloud, DevSecOps, Security, and Observability solutions. We help technology companies adapt DevOps culture in their organization by focusing on long-term DevOps roadmap. We focus on identifying technical and cultural issues in the journey of successfully implementing the DevOps practices in the organization and work with respective teams to fix issues to increase overall productivity. We also do training sessions for the developers and make them realize the importance of DevOps. We provide these services - DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, Cost Optimizations, CI/CD, Observability, Cloud Security, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Site Reliability, Performance Optimizations, SIEM and SecOps, Serverless automation, Well-Architected Review, MLOps, Governance, Risk & Compliance. We do assessments of technology architecture, security, governance, compliance, and DevOps maturity model for any technology company and help them optimize their cloud cost, streamline their technology architecture, and set up processes to improve the availability and reliability of their website and applications. We set up tools for monitoring, logging, and observability. We focus on bringing the DevOps culture to the organization to improve its efficiency and delivery.
Job Description
Our Mission
Our mission is to help customers achieve their business objectives by providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services and to make it a joy for all stakeholders to work with us. We function as a full stakeholder in business, offering a consulting-led approach with an integrated portfolio of technology-led solutions that encompass the entire Enterprise value chain.
Our Customer-centric Engagement Model defines how we engage with you, offering specialized services and solutions that meet the distinct needs of your business.
Our Culture
Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace has resulted in Infra360 Solution Pvt Ltd.
Our Tech-Stack:
- Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, Active Directory (Microsoft Entra)
- Azure IAM and managed identity, Virtual network, VM Scale Set, App Service, Cosmos
- Azure, MySQL Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash),
- Azure Security, Security Documentation, Security Compliance,
- AKS, Blob Storage, Azure functions, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL
- AWS - IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, ECS, Route53, Cloud formation, Cloud front, S3
- GCP - GKE, Compute Engine, App Engine, SCC
- Kubernetes, Linux, Docker & Microservices Architecture
- Terraform & Terragrunt
- Jenkins & Argocd
- Ansible, Vault, Vagrant, SaltStack
- CloudFront, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Akamai
- Mysql, Aurora, Postgres, AWS RedShift, MongoDB
- ElasticSearch, Redis, Aerospike, Memcache, Solr
- ELK, Fluentd, Elastic APM & Prometheus Grafana Stack
- Java (Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), Nodejs, Ruby, Rails, Erlang, Python
What does this role hold for you…??
- Infrastructure as a code (IaC)
- CI/CD and configuration management
- Managing Azure Active Directory (Entra)
- Keeping the cost of the infrastructure to the minimum
- Doing RCA of production issues and providing resolution
- Setting up failover, DR, backups, logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Containerizing different applications on the Kubernetes platform
- Capacity planning of different environments infrastructure
- Ensuring zero outages of critical services
- Database administration of SQL and NoSQL databases
- Setting up the right set of security measures
Requirements
Apply if you have…
- A graduation/post-graduation degree in Computer Science and related fields
- 2-4 years of strong DevOps experience in Azure with the Linux environment.
- Strong interest in working in our tech stack
- Excellent communication skills
- Worked with minimal supervision and love to work as a self-starter
- Hands-on experience with at least one of the scripting languages - Bash, Python, Go etc
- Experience with version control systems like Git
- Understanding of Azure cloud computing services and cloud computing delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Strong scripting or programming skills for automating tasks (PowerShell/Bash)
- Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
- Knowledge and experience in IaC at least one (ARM Templates/ Terraform)
- Strong experience with managing the Production Systems day in and day out
- Experience in finding issues in different layers of architecture in a production environment and fixing them
- Experience in automation tools like Ansible/SaltStack and Jenkins
- Experience in Docker/Kubernetes platform and managing OpenStack (desirable)
- Experience with Hashicorp tools i.e. Vault, Vagrant, Terraform, Consul, VirtualBox etc. (desirable)
- Experience in Monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana/Elastic APM.
- Experience in logging tools Like ELK/Loki.
- Experience in using Microsoft Azure Cloud services
If you are passionate about infrastructure, and cloud technologies, and want to contribute to innovative projects, we encourage you to apply. Infra360 offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth.
Interview Process
Application Screening=>Test/Assessment=>2 Rounds of Tech Interview=>CEO Round=>Final Discussion
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
Sr Enterprise Software Architect with Cloud skills and preferably having either a GCP Associate or Professional Certification.
The requirement is to understand existing Enterprise Applications and help design a solution to enable Load balancing & Auto Scaling the application to meet certain KPIs.
Should be well versed with
- Designing and Deploying Large enterprise software in Cloud
- Understands Cloud fundamentals
- DevOps & Kubernetes
- Experience deploying cloud applications and monitoring operations
- Preferably Google Cloud
- Associate or Professional Certification.
A Strong Devops experience of at least 4+ years
Strong Experience in Unix/Linux/Python scripting
Strong networking knowledge,vSphere networking stack knowledge desired.
Experience on Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure)
Exposure to Continuous Development Tools such as Jenkins or Spinnaker
Exposure to configuration management systems such as Ansible
Knowledge of resource monitoring systems
Ability to scope and estimate
Strong verbal and communication skills
Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
Exposure to Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) like - Chainstack/IBM blockchain platform/Oracle Blockchain Cloud/Rubix/VMWare etc.
Capable of provisioning and maintaining local enterprise blockchain platforms for Development and QA (Hyperledger fabric/Baas/Corda/ETH).
Requirements:
● Should have at least 2+ years of DevOps experience
● Should have experience with Kubernetes
● Should have experience with Terraform/Helm
● Should have experience in building scalable server-side systems
● Should have experience in cloud infrastructure and designing databases
● Having experience with NodeJS/TypeScript/AWS is a bonus
● Having experience with WebRTC is a bonus
Job Summary
Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team. Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members. Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies
- Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.
- Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision
- Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product
- Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation
- Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them
- Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability
- Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction
- Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team
- Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions
- Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling
- Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation
- Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization
- Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists
- Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
- Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team
- Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior
- Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.
- Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure
- Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud
- Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services
- Other duties as assigned
Experience
Education
- BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience
Minimum Qualifications
- Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming
- Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned
- Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies
- Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications
Skills/Knowledge
- Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology
- Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:
- (Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)
- .Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python
- Additional desired skills:
- Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design
- Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io
- Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache
- Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka
- Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
- Ability to track software issues to successful resolution
- Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment
- Setting up complex AWS data storage hub
- Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components
- Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.
- Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
- Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
- Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
- Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
- Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.
- Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
- Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
- Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
- Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
- Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
- Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
- Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
- Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
- Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
- Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
- Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
- Highly organised and efficient.
- Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Experience :
- 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
- Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
- Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
- Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
- Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
- Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
- Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
- DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
- Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
- Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
Education :
- Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
- To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
- 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
- Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
- Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.