Cloud Solution Architect

We are looking to expand our existing Python team across our offices in Surat. This position is for SDE-1 - Junior Software Engineer. 

The requirements are as follows:

1) Familiar with the Django REST API Framework.

2) Experience with the FAST API framework will be a plus

3) Strong grasp of basic python programming concepts (We do ask a lot of questions on this on our interviews)

4) Experience with databases like MongoDB , Postgres , Elasticsearch , REDIS will be a plus

5) Experience with any ML library will be a plus.

6) Familiarity with using git , writing unit test cases for all code written and CI/CD concepts will be a plus as well.

7) Familiar with basic code patterns like MVC.

8) Grasp on basic data structures.

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You will work on:

You will be working on our client’s massive scale Infrastructure and CloudOps requirements. You will be directly working on the customer's cloud environment and managing their product infra life cycle.

What you will do (Responsibilities):

Understand how the product works and how it is used by the customers

Day-to-day operational support of product infrastructure on all three major public cloud services

Interact with customers on/off-site to troubleshoot issues, provide workarounds by leveraging your troubleshooting skills

Create and manage processes for the secure operation of customer cloud environments

System (Windows, Linux, and SQL Databases) and Network administrations

Use incident management tools used in incident analysis and troubleshooting. Identify, escalate, and communicate issues in a timely manner.

Contribute to building a knowledge base centered on known incidents/defects, Frequently Asked Questions, resolved issues, applying lessons learned and previous resolutions to new incidents.

Build hosting environments for clients all over the world

Collaborate with product managers and engineers to ensure that critical and time-sensitive projects run smoothly and achieve the business outcome

On-call responsibilities to respond to emergency situations and scheduled maintenance

Contribute to and maintain documentation for systems, processes, procedures, and infrastructure configuration.

What you bring (Skills):

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in cloudops (mainly into MS Azure), infrastructure management, and support

Strong Windows Systems, SQL Database, and Network administration skills

Strong understanding of cloud applications, concepts, and the storage, compute, and networking components

Readiness to work in 24x7 rotational shift model

Scripting in PowerShell, Linux shell, Python or C#

Proactive and self-motivated, committed to achieving deadlines, meeting SLAs, and producing results

Excellent customer service and people skills. Excellent analytical, written, and oral communication and relationship building skills

Ability to be a good listener, and to understand customer issues. Ability to provide innovative workarounds or design a solution to fix a customer’s problem

Great if you know (Skills):

AzureOps:

Comfortable using TFS (Team Foundation Server) and Azure DevOps workflows

Comfortable with Visual Studio and SQL Server Data Tools

Exposure to deployment using Azure cloud console and ARM templates

Experience in handling Azure AD & RBAC related activities will be a plus

Comfortable with basic DevOps concepts like CI/CD, and Infra-automation

Advantage Cognologix:

A higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams

Opportunities to become an expert in emerging technologies

Remote working options for the right maturity level

Competitive salary & family benefits

Performance-based career advancement

About Cognologix:

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business-first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are DevOps focused organization helping our clients focus on their core product activities by handling all aspects of their infrastructure, integration and delivery.

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.

• Deploy company Application on customer public cloud and on-premise data centers
• Building Kubernetes based workflows for wide variety of use cases
• Document and Automate the deployment process for internal and external deployments
• Interacting with customers over call to deployment and debugging
• Deployment and Product Support

Desired Skills and Experience

• 4-6 years of experience in infrastructure development, or development and operations.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience in docker and kubernetes.
• Experience working with Docker and Kubernetes. Aware of Kubernetes Internals, Networking etc. Experience with Linux infrastructures tools.
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management.
• Extensive experience in setting up Kubernetes on AWS, Azure etc.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with Big Data Tools like Hadoop, Spark.
• Experience with Java Application Debugging.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana etc

Job Description:

We are looking for a candidate with 5-8 years of experience in Agile methodologies like SCRUM, XP, Kanban, SAFe and fluid, along with in-depth knowledge of agile values, design thinking, customer value, product management, etc. with strong experience in Agile transformations from design to implementation.

Responsibilities:
- Preparing monthly project status updates and capital forecasts per established processes
- Disrupting and improving the way teams work by increasing organizational agility to produce dramatically better outcomes
- Preparing and conducting periodic project status reports to update teams and executive management regularly on progress, risks, and issues
- Understanding break down of backlog into tasks, defining effort (as complexity), and estimating initial remaining hours
- Designing an optimal system by meeting project requirements while maximizing characteristics such as scalability, security, reliability, durability, and cost-effectiveness
- Facilitating the process for building up multiple products parallel and doing continuous integration

- Focusing on customer values, coaching teams to embrace the right mindset in ways of working (cadence, ceremonies, tools), and on-boarding new teams with the setup of working processes

- Anticipating and identifying impediments (systematic, behavioral, etc.) and working with

the right team members to resolve them

- Monitoring the team's outcomes and dynamics while assisting them in improving team performance and agile maturity

Required Skills:
- Experience with Jira or any other Agile project management tool
- Good understanding of Agile development processes
- Strong working knowledge of technical engineering best practices including test-driven development, continuous integration, DevOps

- Good Documentation and Reporting Skills
- Good Analytical and Problem-solving skills

- Good Communication skills

- Strong Decision-making skills

Note: Certification in CSM, PSM or related field will be an added plus

Perks and Benefits 

Medical Insurance and other perks.

We are seeking a passionate DevOps Engineer to help create the next big thing in data analysis and search solutions.

You will join our Cloud infrastructure team supporting our developers . As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be automating our environment setup and developing infrastructure as code to create a scalable, observable, fault-tolerant and secure environment. You’ll incorporate open source tools, automation, and Cloud Native solutions and will empower our developers with this knowledge. 

We will pair you up with world-class talent in cloud and software engineering and provide a position and environment for continuous learning.

1. GCP Cloud experience mandatory
2. CICD - Azure DevOps
3. IaC tools – Terraform
4. Experience with IAM / Access Management within cloud
5. Networking / Firewalls
6. Kubernetes / Helm / Istio

Responsibilities

• Candidate must have demonstrated experience of migrating solutions to the Azure cloud platform
• Assess, analyze  current infrastructure footprint (compute, storage, network) and complete requirement gathering (HW, SW) to move individual applications to Cloud
• Complete high level and low level design for cloud infrastructure, databases and other required components.
• Build and deploy infrastructure in cloud
• Migrate OS, Database and application from on-premise to Cloud
• Apply technical knowledge and customer insights to create application modernization roadmap and architect solutions to meet business and IT needs, ensuring technical viability of new projects and successful deployments, orchestrating key resources and infusing key application development and DevOps technologies (e.g. App Service, containers, serverless, cloud native, Java/node.js, DevOps and OSS tools)
• Connect with Client  team to remove key blockers

Qualifications

• Must have at least 1 Azure certification (Administrator, Developer or Architect)
• Must have 5+ experience in Cloud and Data center migration project as solution architect
• Must have in-depth understanding of compute, storage, network components including backup, monitoring and DR environment requirements
• Experience and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premise workloads to the cloud) required;
• Deep domain expertise of cloud application development solutions (e.g. IaaS, Serverless, API Management), container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry), continuous integration technologies (e.g. Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet), web application server technologies, cloud application design, software architecture and practices (design/development/deployment, Agile, SCRUM, ALM), breadth of technical experience, and technical aptitude to learn and adjust to new technologies and cloud trends required;
• Experience and understanding of large-scale application development projects (including key coding skills and practices) required;

Responsibilities:

• Candidate will implement automation solutions on Azure using open source tools and technologies (e.g. Ansible, Jenkins, Chef) in any of the following technology tiers/products:
• Unix/Linux
• Microsoft Windows Server
• Oracle Database
• Middleware (IBM WebSphere, JBoss)
• VMware
• Candidate must have demonstrated experience of migrating solutions to the Azure cloud platform
• Candidate will provide expert level of automation solution support.
• Perform as primary Systems Administrator in a large enterprise environment.
• Perform Patch management tasks to include: maintaining current knowledge of available patches, deciding what patches are appropriate for particular systems, ensuring that patches are installed properly, testing systems after installation, and documenting all associated procedures
• Test new releases of products to ensure compatibility and minimize user impact.
• Recommend and implement system enhancements that will improve the performance and reliability of the system including installing, upgrading/patching, monitoring, problem resolution, and configuration management.
• Develop, document, and automate technical processes and procedures as needed.
• Adhere to strict Information Systems security guidelines in all cases. 

Qualifications:

• Must have at least 1 Azure certification (Administrator, Developer or Architect)
• Must have experience with one or more open source tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Yamal, Parker, etc.).
• Hands on experience with change automation and orchestration.
• Proficient in scripting languages (e.g. Perl, Python, Bash, Ruby, etc.)
• Hand on experience with troubleshooting and diagnoses of hardware and software problems.
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining computer hardware and software in a large-scale enterprise environment.

Your skills and experience should cover:

• 5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, and debugging solutions on the AWS platform using ALL AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Cognito, Cloudtrail, CodePipeline, Cloud Formation, Cloudwatch and WAF (Web Application Firewall).

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer: Associate, is required; Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Engineer: Professional, preferred.

• 5+ years of experience using one or more modern programming languages (Python, Node.js).

• Hands-on experience migrating data to the AWS cloud platform

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodology.

• Good understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices (including security and scalability)

• Experience with AWS Data Storage Tools.

• Experience in Configure and implement AWS tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail and direct system logs for monitoring.

• Experience working with GIT, or similar tools.

• Ability to communicate and represent AWS Recommendations and Standards.

The following areas are highly advantageous:

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with PostgreSQL database