DevOps Engineer

Position: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure Cloud Infra & Application deployments)   

Location:

Hyderabad  

Hiring a Senior

DevOps engineer having 2 to 5 years of experience.  

Primary Responsibilities   

Strong Programming experience in PowerShell and batch

scripts. 

Strong expertise in Azure DevOps, GitLab, CI/CD, Jenkins and

Git Actions, Azure Infrastructure. 

Strong

experience in configuring infrastructure and Deployments application in

Kubernetes, docker & Helm charts, App Services, Server less, SQL database, Cloud

services and Container deployment. 

Continues

Integration, deployment, and version control (Git/ADO).  

Strong experience in managing and configuring RBAC, managed identity and

security best practices for cloud environments. 

Strong verbal and written communication skills. 

Experience with agile development process. 

· 

Good analytical skills  

Additional Responsibility.  

Familiar with

various design and architecture patterns. 

Work with modern frameworks and design patterns. 

Experience with cloud applications Azure/AWS.  Should have experience in developing solutions and plugins and should have used XRM Toolbox/ToolKit.

Exp in Customer Portal and Fetchxml and Power Apps and Power Automate is good to have.

• 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.

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

Website: https://moneyhop.co/">https://moneyhop.co/

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Should have excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Technical Skills

• Work with developer teams with a focus on automating build and deployment using tools such as Jenkins.
• Implement CI/CD in projects (GitLabCI preferred).
• Enable software build and deploy.
• Provisioning both day to day operations and automation using tools, e. g. Ansible, Bash.
• Write, plan, create infra as a code using Terraform.
• Monitoring, ITSM automation incident creation from alerts using licensed and open source tools.
• Manage credentials for AWS cloud servers, github repos, Atlassian Cloud services, Jenkins, OpenVPN, and the developers environment.
• Building environments for unit tests, integration tests, system tests, and acceptance tests using Jenkins.
• Create and spin off resource instances.
• Experience implementing CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure automation solutions (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. ).
• Experience with AWS.
• Should have expert Linux and Network administration skills to troubleshoot and trace symptoms back to the root cause.
• Knowledge of application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about developing solution strategies, and deliver results.
• Good understanding of design of native Cloud applications Cloud application design patterns and practices in AWS.

• Work with the developer team to enhance the existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Adopt industry best practices to set up a UAT and prod environment for scalability.
• Manage the AWS resources including IAM users, access control, billing etc.
• Work with the test automation engineer to establish a CI/CD pipeline.
• Work on replication of environments easy to implement.
• Enable efficient software deployment.

Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team.  Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members.  Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.

• Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies
• Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.
• Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision
• Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product 
• Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation
• Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them
• Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability
• Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction
• Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team
• Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions
• Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling
• Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization
• Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists
• Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned
• Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team
• Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior
• Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.
• Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure
• Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud
• Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services
• Other duties as assigned

• BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience

• Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming
• Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned
• Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies
• Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications

• Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology
• Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:
• (Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)
• .Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python
• Additional desired skills:
  • Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design
  • Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io
  • Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache
  • Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka
  • Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task
• Ability to track software issues to successful resolution
• Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment
• Setting up complex AWS data storage hub
• Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components
• Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.
• Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

Job Location: Jaipur

Experience Required: Minimum 3 years

About the role:

As a DevOps Engineer for Punchh, you will be working with our developers, SRE, and DevOps teams implementing our next generation infrastructure. We are looking for a self-motivated, responsible, team player who love designing systems that scale. Punchh provides a rich engineering environment where you can be creative, learn new technologies, solve engineering problems, all while delivering business objectives. The DevOps culture here is one with immense trust and responsibility. You will be given the opportunity to make an impact as there are no silos here. 

Responsibilities:

• Deliver SLA and business objectives through whole lifecycle design of services through inception to implementation.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems
• Scale our systems and services through continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and gradual refactoring in an agile environment. 
• Maintain services once a project is live by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system and application health.
• Write and maintain software that runs the infrastructure that powers the Loyalty and Data platform for some of the world’s largest brands.
• 24x7 in shifts on call for Level 2 and higher escalations
• Respond to incidents and write blameless RCA’s/postmortems
• Implement and practice proper security controls and processes
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on platform.

Must have:  

• Minimum 3 Years of Experience in DevOps.  
• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong inter-personal skills.
• Must have experience in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Must have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or  Mesos
• Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language fromthis list: python, ruby, golang, groovy
• Proficient in shell scripting, and most importantly, know when to stop scripting and start developing.
• Experience in creation of highly automated infrastructures with any Configuration Management tools like: Terraform, Cloudformation or Ansible.  
• In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system and administration. 
• Production experience with a major cloud provider such Amazon AWS.
• Knowledge of web server technologies such as Nginx or Apache. 
• Knowledge of Redis, Memcache, or one of the many in-memory data stores.
• Experience with various load balancing technologies such as Amazon ALB/ELB, HA Proxy, F5. 
• Comfortable with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems.

Good to have:  

• Understanding of Web Standards (REST, SOAP APIs, OWASP, HTTP, TLS)
• Production experience with Hashicorp products such as Vault or Consul
• Expertise in designing, analyzing troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in an PCI environment
• Experience with Big Data distributions from Cloudera, MapR, or Hortonworks
• Experience maintaining and scaling database applications
• Knowledge of fundamental systems engineering principles such as CAP Theorem, Concurrency Control, etc. 
• Understanding of the network fundamentals: OSI, TCI/IP, topologies, etc.
• Understanding of Auditing of Infrastructure and help org. to control Infrastructure costs. 
• Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ or any messaging bus.

• 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
• Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
• Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
• Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.