DevOps- Azure

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).

DevOps Engineer

1.   Should have at least 5+ years of experience

2.   Should have working experience in Docker, Microservices Architecture Application Deployment, GitHub Container Registry, GitHub Actions, Load Balancer, Nginx Web server, 

3.   Should have working expertise in CI/CD tool

4.   Should have working experience with the bash script

5.   Good to have at least one cloud platform services knowledge

About Company:

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

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:

• 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.

• Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.

• 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.

• Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time

• Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.

• Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.

• Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.  

• Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies

• Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services

• Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.

• Migration and consolidations of infrastructure

• Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.

• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.

• Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.

• Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.

• Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.

• Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.

• On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones

• Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.

• Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations

• IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service

• Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies

• Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)

• DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms

• Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment

• Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.

• Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect 

• Networking Skills –   Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)

• Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)

• Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.

• A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies

• SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies

• Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .

• A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions

• Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies

• Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.

• Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.

• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.

• A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.

• A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..

• A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.

• A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.

• A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)

• A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration

• A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL

• A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

• A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories

• Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.

• Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.

• Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services

• SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

• Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.

• Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.

• Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.

• Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.

• Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles

• Working experience with ServiceNow

• Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, systems administration, or software engineering roles.

 B. Tech. in computer science or related field from top tier engineering colleges.

 Strong technical skills in software development, systems administration, and cloud infrastructure management.

 Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terra form or Cloud Formation.

 Experience with containerization technologies such as Dockers and Kubernetes.

 Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.

 Experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

 Strong communication and collaboration skills

• 3 - 6 years of software development, and operations experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications at scale.
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Experience managing any distributed NoSQL system (Kafka/Cassandra/etc.)
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, deployment and service orchestration using Kubernetes, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Strong scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• 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

• Good experience in AWS services like Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2), IAM, RDS, API Gateway, Cognito, etc.
• Using GIT, SonarQube, Ansible, Nexus, Nagios, etc.
• Strong experience in creating, importing and launching volumes with security groups, auto-scaling, Load Balancers, Fault-tolerant
• Experience in configuring Jenkins job with related Plugins for     Building, Testing, and Continuous Deployment to accomplish the complete CI/CD.