Cloud Platform Engineer - DevOps

Roles and Responsibilities:

• AWS Cloud Management: Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure. Optimize and maintain cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency. Monitor and ensure the security of cloud-based systems.
• Automated Provisioning: Develop and implement automated provisioning processes for infrastructure deployment. Utilize tools like Terraform and Packer to automate and streamline the provisioning of resources.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code principles. Collaborate with development and operations teams to define and maintain IaC scripts for infrastructure deployment and configuration.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and provide DevOps expertise. Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders regarding infrastructure changes, updates, and improvements.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery processes. Ensure reliable and efficient deployment of applications through the development lifecycle.
• Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization. Proactively identify opportunities for system and process improvements. 

Mandatory Skills:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in automated provisioning and cloud management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform and Packer.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack).

Looking out for GCP Devop's Engineer who can join Immediately or within 15 days

Job Summary & Responsibilities:

Job Overview:

You will work in engineering and development teams to integrate and develop cloud solutions and virtualized deployment of software as a service product. This will require understanding the software system architecture function as well as performance and security requirements. The DevOps Engineer is also expected to have expertise in available cloud solutions and services, administration of virtual machine clusters, performance tuning and configuration of cloud computing resources, the configuration of security, scripting and automation of monitoring functions. This position requires the deployment and management of multiple virtual clusters and working with compliance organizations to support security audits. The design and selection of cloud computing solutions that are reliable, robust, extensible, and easy to migrate are also important.

Experience:

Experience working on billing and budgets for a GCP project - MUST

Experience working on optimizations on GCP based on vendor recommendations - NICE TO HAVE

Experience in implementing the recommendations on GCP

Architect Certifications on GCP - MUST

Excellent communication skills (both verbal & written) - MUST

Excellent documentation skills on processes and steps and instructions- MUST

At least 2 years of experience on GCP.

Basic Qualifications:

● Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering OR Equivalent.

● Extensive scripting or programming experience (Shell Script, Python).

● Extensive experience working with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins).

● Extensive experience working with GCP, Azure, or Cloud Foundry.

● Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, elastic search).

● Must have 2 years of minimum experience with GCP certification.

Benefits :

● Competitive salary.

● Work from anywhere.

● Learning and gaining experience rapidly.

● Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.

● Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).

Location :

Remote - work from anywhere.

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.

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer responsible for handling our GCP/AWS clouds. The candidate will be responsible for automating the deployment of cloud infrastructure and services to support application development and hosting (architecting, engineering, deploying, and operationally managing the underlying logical and physical cloud computing infrastructure).

Job Description:

● Collaborate with teams to build and deliver solutions implementing serverless, microservice-based, IaaS, PaaS, and containerized architectures in GCP/AWS environments.

●Responsible for deploying highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems.

● Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning. Someone with a knack for benchmarking and optimization

● Hiring, developing, and cultivating a high and reliable cloud support team ● Building and operating complex CI/CD pipelines at scale

● Work with GCP Services, Private Service Connect, Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage, Networking

● Collaborate with Product Management and Product Engineering teams to drive excellence in Google Cloud products and features.

● Ensures efficient data storage and processing functions by company security policies and best practices in cloud security.

● Ensuring scaled database setup/monitoring with near zero downtime

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA 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 rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

• 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.

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I would need someone with DevOps experience, to ensure that the project is undertaken with the highest standards possible. I have had many experiences where ‘completed’ software after years of development was filled with bugs and it would be more cost-effective to start from scratch than to attempt to find and correct all the bugs.

I have attempted to learn as much as possible, but I now have an opportunity and it would better serve the venture to have someone handle the management of the project to ensure that;

• We choose the most appropriate technology
• We choose competent developers in those technologies
• The architecture and data modeling are clearly defined in a ‘blueprint’ plan
• A DevOps environment and processes are set up and the developers understand what is required
• Proper tests are carried out to ensure everything works as intended
• There are processes for testers to follow and competent testers are selected to follow them
• Accessibility, localization, and internationalization are planned ahead of time
• Security, scalability, and other future probabilities that I may not even be aware of are considered and planned ahead of time
• Documentation and code reviews, refactoring and other quality assurance processes are undertaken
• Working software is produced and systems that enable new developers or teams of people to easily take over and/or contribute new modules or updates in a controlled and organized fashion
• Cost estimates or budgets/projections or use of SaaS, hosting and other 3rd party services and applications

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Again, thank you for reading this, please reply with the word “superstar” anywhere in the second line of your response.  I look forward to hearing from you.

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