Cloud Software Engineer

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

 

NEST® [NESTECH]

 

NEST® works with a range of international clientele in the development of bespoke software solutions. NEST® specializes in data and direct engagement structures, digital marketing, data with blockchain security and much more.

NEST® founders have had decades in the visual arts, architecture, sculpture as well as inking the human canvas. More mundanely, from fifteen countries our formal training is in law, philosophy, international logistics and technology. There are currently NEST® branch offices in England, Singapore, USA and India. What happened yesterday isn’t important. We believe what you privately achieve tomorrow is.

 

JOB DESCRIPTION:

REQUIRED SKILLS:

1) Docker and Kubernetes
2) Working knowledge of NodeJS applications, for purpose of troubleshootingCI/CD processes
3) CI/CD tools (Github Actions)
4) Solid experience with cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS
5)Concepts of REST, SOAP and API.

NEST® OFFERS

● Competitive Salary

● Flexible Hours

● Paid Vacations

● Fun & Creative Environment / Projects

● Quarterly Performance Reviews

● Generous Bonus Schemes

● Oversea Working Placements

● Dynamic International Clientele

● Multiple Learning Opportunities

● Control And Work On Full Product Life-Cycle

● Research and Implement Multiple New Technologies

 

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

Skill Requirements

 

·      2+ years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)

·         Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements

·         Expertise using Chef / Ansible / Terraform / Kubernetes

·         Hands-on experience.e deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

·         Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

·         Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS

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

·         Strong bias for action and ownership

  

Roles and responsibilities

 

DevOps Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation.  A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code.  The Engineer will work closely with the Manager of Operations and Devops to build, manage and automate our AWS infrastructure. 

 

·         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

·         Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS

·         Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements

·         Create utilities or automated tools for improving time to deploy

**JD for Senior DevOps Engineers**

If you are an Amazing Software Engineer with 3+ years of work experience and want to make a great impact on your career then keep reading our job description.


**What you'll be doing:**

* Automate, Manage and maintain Kubernetes clusters lifecycle
* Develop tools for automated build, test, deployment and management of the platform
* Maintain and Develop Docker images/containers for different technology stack
* Setting up and managing Docker private repository and creating docker file to create custom Docker images
* Ensure that the connectivity and network are always up and running
* Plan for capacity upgrading or downsizing as and when the need arises
* Monitor system events to ensure health, maximum system availability and service quality
* Produce clear documentation for delivered solutions
* Experience with public Cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services architecture, tools, and Cloud methodologies


**What we are looking for:**

* Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef
* Good experience on Containerization using Docker Containerization, Kubernetes, AWS ECS, EKS, Azure Container Service, AKS
* Hands on experience in designing Kubernetes cluster with high availability and high performance
* Strong knowledge in public clouds like AWS or Azure
* Having good knowledge in cloud deployment using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager
* Good Exposure on automation using of the following AWS Code Pipeline, Azure DevOps, Jenkins
* Experience in building CI/CD pipelines using GIT/Jenkins/Artifactory
* Intense sense of ownership, initiative-taking, and a can-do attitude
* Strong comprehension, analytical, and problem solving skills
* Excellent verbal & written communication skills


**Additional skills to be considered as a plus:**

* Python,Golang, Ruby


**Job Perks:**

*Fast-paced environment
*Freedom to implement and follow industry best practices.
*Get to work with the most down to earth and talented people.
*Get to work on very interesting problems with impact in the real world.
*We are always working on a bleeding-edge tech stack. MicroServices?? Serverless?? we got you covered.
*Open and Inclusive Environment.
*Remote first teams.
*Flexible timings as long as work gets done.
*Opportunity to contribute to open-source projects.*


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The DevOps engineers will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building highly resilient, scalable and performant AWS infrastructure in an automated and efficient manner. The DevOps engineers will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The engineers will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by AWS.

Key Accountabilities

1. Build and manage the AWS foundation platform to enable application deployments
2. Monitor Infra Performance, build monitors and alerts.
3. Engineer solutions on AWS foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
4. Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers)
5. Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security Standards
6. Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency)
7. Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities
8. Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally
9. Update support and operational documentation as required

Qualifications And Experience

• 1 > year experience in working as a Devops.

• Experience of building a range of Services in AWS including EC2, S3, VPC, Lambda, RDS, Fargate/ECS, Aurora Serverless

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

• Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools

• 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 with DevOps application ‘pods’ to provide AWS specific capability/skills required to deliver the service.

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

• Risk management effectiveness

• Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, GO etc.

• Experienced in full automation and configuration management

• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programs, 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

Cloud & DevOps Engineer to work :-
1. New Implementation in the area of building Cloud Infrastructure on AWS or Azure or GCP
2. Automating the Infrastructure Provisioning using Ansible, Terraform and other similar tools
3. Build end-to-end CI/CD automation using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab and many other new generatio tools etc.
4. Integrate multiple functional or non-functional testing in CI/CD e.g. from Code quality, linting to shift left of Performance and Security testing
5. Cloud Migration - On-prem to any Cloud
6. Multi-cloud implementation
7. Take part in enhancements of cloud infrastructure, and automation process including security & compliance

CloudTechner is out to develop a full-stack Cloud & DevOps engineers and delivery a high quality service to it's clients. In a short span of one year, we have acquired more than a dozen active clients. Setup by founders whose root exist in the core area of Cloud & DevOps. Head out to https://www.cloudtechner.com" target="_blank">https://www.cloudtechner.com or https://linkedin.com/company/cloud-techner" target="_blank">https://linkedin.com/company/cloud-techner for more details about CloudTechner. You can also reach out to the Founder via LinkedIn -
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Technical Skills :-
1. Proficiency / Working knowledge in any one cloud - AWS, GCP or Azure
2. Worked on Linux / Unix. Good networking concepts
3. Used CI/CD tools - Jenkins, GitHub, Sonar, JMeter etc.
4. Worked Automation tools - Terraform, Ansible, Python, Shell Scripting
5. Working knowledge of Container Technologies - Docker, Kubernetes
6. Installation / Setup & Configuration of  Java / Node.js based application using tools like Apache, Ngnix, Tomcat etc.
7. Knowledge in Database would be a plus

Role & Responsibilities :
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure on GCP
• Hands-on-Experience on Kubernetes is a mandate
• Exposure to configuration management and orchestration tools at scale (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Packer)
• Knowledge and hand-on-experience in DevOps tools (e.g. Jenkins, Groovy, and Gradle)
• Knowledge and hand-on-experience on the various platforms (e.g. Gitlab, CircleCl and Spinnakar)
• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus)
• Proven ability to work independently or as an integral member of a team

Preferable Skills:
• Familiarity with standard IT security practices such as encryption,
credentials and key management.
• Proven experience on various coding languages (Java, Python-) to
• support DevOps operation and cloud transformation
• Familiarity and knowledge of the web standards (e.g. REST APIs, web security mechanisms)
• Hands on experience with GCP
• Experience in performance tuning, services outage management and troubleshooting.

Attributes:
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional leadership, time management, and organizational skill Ability to operate independently and make decisions with little direct supervision

Primary Skill : Azure Infra Architecture, monitoring infra, Azure resource management, designing application for Azure, writing program/scripts for Azure deployment, Containers/Kubernetes support team experience. Secondary Skills : Design, Architecture, .Net component development, Azure component development using C# Description Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on Azure Evaluating and improving existing Azure Identifying appropriate use of Azure and operational best practices Advanced knowledge of web hosting architecture including on host web servers, script processing, configurations and packages. The ideal candidate will have a strong experience in support customer-facing cloud operations to ensure 99.999% uptime and an aptitude with the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions in cloud operations. Candidates with strong Azure operations experience are also encouraged to apply. Job Duties: Designs, builds, tests, deploys, analyses, administers, monitors and maintains 24x7 Cloud-based service. Researches and recommends the procurement and use of Azure Cloud-based infrastructure services. Provides support and issue investigation and resolution for all internal and client facing Cloud-based solutions. Actively mentors all staff on the proper use of all Cloud-based services. Provide 24/7 operational support for production network, servers and systems. Reviews, evaluates, specifies, designs, maintains, and documents system architecture, system configuration, system monitoring and system performance monitoring. Contributes to setting priorities, establishing milestones and deadlines for product releases. Works directly with NOC, QA and Engineering to trouble-shoot system issues and deliver timely resolutions. Process and complete simultaneous projects in an accurate and timely fashion. Qualifications: Deep technical familiarity with Azure and its components, virtualization and networking. 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud based IaaS, PaaS or SaaS. Expert level understanding and knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (Virtual Machines, Websites, Storage Blobs, SQL Database, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Automation, Active Directory, CDN, Cache). Expert level knowledge of Azure Site Recovery, Backups, Clustering, Load Balancing and SQL Always On, Virtual Networking, Site to Site VPN. Working knowledge of Information Security, Data Privacy & regulatory compliance. Bachelors degree in Information Systems/Computer Science. Experienced working in a 24x7x365 SaaS environment. Work closely with team members to understand requirements, review design documents, and provide release support and architecture planning. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications, analytical and presentation skills. Ability to manage customer escalations and work under pressure Capabilities to operate in a flexible team environment with minimal supervision Windows Azure architecture and its components (Fabric, Compute, Storage) Deep knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services Azure Platform development and deployment concepts Experience with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts Understanding of operational concepts like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc. Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 70-533 certification will be added plus Work Location - Coimbatore