Cloudforms performance ENgineer

Location: Remote (India only)

About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.

Role Overview

Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
• Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
• Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
• Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
• Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
• Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.

What You Bring

1. Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
2. Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
3. AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
4. IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
5. CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
6. GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
7. Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
8. Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
9. Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
10. Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
11. Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
12. Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
13. Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.

Why Join Us

• Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
• Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
• Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
• Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
• Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
• Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

• Strong experience working with tools and platforms like Helm charts, Circle CI, Jenkins,
• and/or Codefresh
• Excellent knowledge of AWS offerings around Cloud and DevOps
• Strong expertise in containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes & Rancher
• Should be familiar with leading Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Strong experience in Python, Shell Scripting, Ansible, and Terraform
• Good command over monitoring tools like Datadog, Zabbix, Elk, Grafana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Prometheus, JFrog, Nagios, etc.
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.

Bito is a startup that is using AI (ChatGPT, OpenAI, etc) to create game-changing productivity experiences for software developers in their IDE and CLI. Already, over 100,000 developers are using Bito to increase their productivity by 31% and performing more than 1 million AI requests per week.

Our founders have previously started, built, and taken a company public (NASDAQ: PUBM), worth well over $1B. We are looking to take our learnings, learn a lot along with you, and do something more exciting this time. This journey will be incredibly rewarding, and is incredibly difficult!

We are building this company with a fully remote approach, with our main teams for time zone management in the US and in India. The founders happen to be in Silicon Valley and India.

We are hiring a DevOps Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the development team to design, develop, and implement Java-based applications
• Perform analysis and provide recommendations for Cloud deployments and identify opportunities for efficiency and cost reduction
• Build and maintain clusters for various technologies such as Aerospike, Elasticsearch, RDS, Hadoop, etc
• Develop and maintain continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) frameworks
• Provide architectural design and practical guidance to software development teams to improve resilience, efficiency, performance, and costs
• Evaluate and define/modify configuration management strategies and processes using Ansible
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to coordinate work efforts and enhance team efficiency
• Take on leadership responsibilities to influence the direction, schedule, and prioritization of the automation effort

Requirements:

• Minimum 4+ years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role
• At least 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing infrastructure as code within the AWS/GCP/Azure ecosystem
• Expert knowledge of any cloud core services, big data managed services, Ansible, Docker, Terraform/CloudFormation, Amazon ECS/Kubernetes, Jenkins, and Nginx
• Expert proficiency in at least two scripting/programming languages such as Bash, Perl, Python, Go, Ruby, etc.
• Mastery in configuration automation tool sets such as Ansible, Chef, etc
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and Git toolset
• Experience with automation tools for monitoring and alerts such as Nagios, Grafana, Graphite, Cloudwatch, New Relic, etc
• Proven ability to manage and prioritize multiple diverse projects simultaneously

What do we offer: 

At Bito, we strive to create a supportive and rewarding work environment that enables our employees to thrive. Join a dynamic team at the forefront of generative AI technology. 

·               Work from anywhere 

·               Flexible work timings 

·               Competitive compensation, including stock options 

·               A chance to work in the exciting generative AI space 

·               Quarterly team offsite events

About Us -Celebal Technologies is a premier software services company in the field of Data Science, Big Data and Enterprise Cloud. Celebal Technologies helps you to discover the competitive advantage by employing intelligent data solutions using cutting-edge technology solutions that can bring massive value to your organization. The core offerings are around "Data to Intelligence", wherein we leverage data to extract intelligence and patterns thereby facilitating smarter and quicker decision making for clients. With Celebal Technologies, who understands the core value of modern analytics over the enterprise, we help the business in improving business intelligence and more data-driven in architecting solutions.

Key Responsibilities

•        As a part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the CI/CD components.

•        Creating and managing build and release pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins.

•        Assist in planning and reviewing application architecture and design to promote an efficient deployment process.

•        Troubleshoot server performance issues & handle the continuous integration system.

•        Automate infrastructure provisioning using ARM Templates and Terraform.

•        Monitor and Support deployment, Cloud-based and On-premises Infrastructure.

•        Diagnose and develop root cause solutions for failures and performance issues in the production environment.

•        Deploy and manage Infrastructure for production applications

•        Configure security best practices for application and infrastructure

Essential Requirements

•        Good hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS & GCP. (Preferably Azure)

•        Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles.

•        Strong work experience with CI/CD implementation tools like Azure DevOps, Team city, Octopus Deploy, AWS Code Deploy, and Jenkins.

•        Experience of writing automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.

•        GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and Continuous Integration (CI) system.

•        Understanding of secure DevOps practices

Good to Have -

•        Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash

•        Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc.

•        Experience with Build technologies and cloud services. (Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS Code Deploy)

•        Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.

•        Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

•        Must have a good understanding of SDLC.

•        Knowledge of Linux, Windows server, Monitoring tools, and Shell scripting.

•        Self-motivated; demonstrating the ability to achieve in technologies with minimal supervision.

•        Organized, flexible, and analytical ability to solve problems creatively.

• Public clouds, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
• Automation technologies, such as Kubernetes or Jenkins
• Configuration management tools, such as Puppet or Chef
• Scripting languages, such as Python or Ruby

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for https://www.simplilearn.com/top-benefits-of-learning-devops-article" target="_blank">DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

• You have experience of 2-4 years in building high-performance consumer-facing mobile applications at Product companies of a decent scale.
• You can write code preferably in Golang and Python.
• You have experience with debugging production issues and writing RCAs.
• You have demonstrable stories of being on-call and how outages have been handled.
• You have experience developing products on Kubernetes and cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
• You have worked with Cloud Native (CNCF) technologies.
• You have experience automating CI/CD pipelines.
• You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that start-ups are a team sport.
• You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

Role : DevOps Engineer 

Experience : 1 to 2 years and 2 to 5 Years as DevOps Engineer (2 Positions)

Location : Bangalore. 5 Days Working.

Education Qualification : Tech/B.E for Tier-1/Tier-2/Tier-3 Colleges or equivalent institutes 

Skills :- DevOps Engineering, Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills, Docker, rkt or similar container engine, Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to  work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability. 

Responsibilities: 

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the  organization. 
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on  improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes. 
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams. 
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally. 
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start). 
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company. 
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry  events. 
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening. ∙ Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous  Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices. 

Requirements: 

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing  amounts of traffic and new product requirements. 
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills. 
• Experience managing complex systems at scale. 
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine. 
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions. 
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart  metrics and alerting. 
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are  on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch). 
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers. 
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud. 
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash. 
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch. 
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins. 
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage. 
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu. 

Good to have: 

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka,  Elasticsearch.

- You will manage all elements of the post-sale program relationship with your customers, starting with customer on-boarding and continuing throughout the customer relationship. 

- As the primary customer interface, you engage with customer teams to educate, identify needs, develop designs, set goals, manage and execute on plans that unlock continuous, incremental value from their investments in the CloudPassage Halo platform.

- You are hands-on during execution and thoroughly enjoy seeing your security projects come to life and supporting them afterwards. You are a trusted adviser.

Responsibilities :

- Manage a portfolio of 5+ Enterprise customer accounts with complex needs (typical enterprise customers invest between $500k and $4m+ per year with CloudPassage, have hundreds to tens of thousands of individual public cloud infrastructure deployments, and protect hundreds of thousands of cloud infrastructure assets with Halo).

- Provide level-3 technical support on your customer's most complex issues

- Lead implementation of low-level security controls in Cloud environments, for services, server and containers

- Remotely diagnose & resolve DevSecOps issues in customer environments - able to resolve their DevOps issues that may be interfering with CloudPassage processing.

- Interact with CloudPassage Engineering team by providing customer issue reproduction and data capture, technical diagnostics and validating fixes. QA experience preferred.

- Establish and program manage proactive, value-driven, high-touch relationships with your customers to understand, document and align customer strategies, business objectives, designs, processes and projects with Halo platform capabilities and broader CloudPassage services.

- Develop a trusted advisor relationship by building and maintaining appropriate relationships at all levels with your customer accounts, creating a premium and high-caliber experience.

- Ensure continued satisfaction, identify & confirm unaddressed customer needs that can be value-add opportunities for up-sell and cross-sell, and communicate those needs to the CloudPassage sales team. Identify any early CSAT issues and renewal risks and work with the internal team to remediate and ensure strong CSAT and a successful renewal.

- Be a strong customer advocate within CloudPassage and identify and support areas for improvement in the customer experience, both in our product and processes.

- Be team-oriented, but with a bias towards action to get things done for your customers.

Requirements : Strong cloud security knowledge & experience including :

- End-to-end enterprise security processes

- Cloud security - cloud migrations & shift in security requirements, tooling & approach

- Hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps architecture & automation (critical)

- 4+ years experience in security consulting and project/program management serving cybersecurity customers.

- Complex, level 3 technical support

- Remotely diagnosing & resolving DevSecOps issues in customer environments

- Interacting with CloudPassage Engineering team with customer issue reproduction

- Experience working in a security SaaS company in a startup environment.
 
- Experience working with Executive and C-Level teams.

- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external constituents.

- Excellent organization, project management, time management, and communication skills.

- Understand and document customer requirements, map to product, track & report metrics, identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
 
- Analytical both quantitatively and qualitatively.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 
- Security certifications (Security +, CISSP, etc.).

Expert Technical Skills :

- Consulting and project management : documenting project charters, project plans, executing delivery management, status reporting. Executive-level presentation skills.

- Security best practices expertise : software vulnerabilities, configuration management, intrusion detection, file integrity.

- System administration (including Linux and Windows) of cloud environments : AWS, Azure, GCP; strong networking/proxy skills.

Proficient Technical Skills :

- Configuration/Orchestration (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CloudFormation, Terraform).

- CI/CD processes and environments.

Familiar Technical Skills & Knowledge : Python scripting & REST API's, Docker containers, Zendesk & JIRA.