DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

About Us:

At Tese, we are committed to advancing sustainability through innovative technology solutions. Our platform empowers SMEs, financial institutions, and enterprises to achieve their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure.

Role Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the infrastructure that supports our applications and services. You will work closely with our development, QA, and data science teams to ensure smooth deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery of our products. Your role will be critical in automating processes, enhancing system performance, and maintaining high availability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management:
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Manage server environments, including provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development:
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Automate deployment processes to ensure quick and reliable releases.
• Configuration Management and Automation:
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Automate system configurations and deployments to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors.
• Monitoring and Logging:
• Set up and manage monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Implement logging solutions to ensure effective incident response and system analysis.
• Security and Compliance:
• Ensure systems are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations.
• Implement security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and vulnerability assessments.
• Collaboration and Support:
• Work closely with development and QA teams to support application deployments and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide support for infrastructure-related inquiries and incidents.

Qualifications:

• Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience:
• 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
• Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with database administration (SQL and NoSQL databases).
• Experience with Agile methodologies and working in a Scrum or Kanban environment.
• Passion for sustainability and interest in ESG initiatives.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package,and performance bonuses.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects that promote sustainability.
• Professional development opportunities, including access to training and conferences.

Job Responsibilities:

Section 1 -

- Responsible for managing and providing L1 support to Build, design, deploy and maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions on AWS.
- Implement, deploy and maintain development, staging & production environments on AWS.
- Familiar with serverless architecture and services on AWS like Lambda, Fargate, EBS, Glue, etc.
- Understanding of Infra as a code and familiar with related tools like Terraform, Ansible Cloudformation etc.

Section 2 -

- Managing the Windows and Linux machines, Kubernetes, Git, etc.
- Responsible for L1 management of Servers, Networks, Containers, Storage, and Databases services on AWS.

Section 3 -

- Timely monitoring of production workload alerts and quick addressing the issues
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the Backup and DR process.

Section 4 -

- Responsible for documenting the process.
- Responsible for leading cloud implementation projects with end-to-end execution.

Qualifications: Bachelors of Engineering / MCA Preferably with AWS, Cloud certification

Skills & Competencies

- Linux and Windows servers management and troubleshooting.

- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, ECS, Redshift, Glue, etc. - AWS EKS

- Kubernetes and containers knowledge

- Understanding of setting up AWS Messaging, streaming and queuing Services(MSK, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, MQ)

- Understanding of serverless architecture. - High understanding of Networking concepts

- High understanding of Serverless architecture concept - Managing to monitor and alerting systems

- Sound knowledge of Database concepts like Dataware house, Data Lake, and ETL jobs

- Good Project management skills

- Documentation skills

- Backup, and DR understanding

Soft Skills - Project management, Process Documentation

Ideal Candidate:

- AWS certification with between 2-4 years of experience with certification and project execution experience.

- Someone who is interested in building sustainable cloud architecture with automation on AWS.

- Someone who is interested in learning and being challenged on a day-to-day basis.

- Someone who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary action to get it done.

- Someone who is curious to analyze and solve complex problems.

- Someone who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking ownership of their success and failure, both.

Behavioral Traits

- We are looking for someone who is interested to be part of creativity and the innovation-based environment with other team members.

- We are looking for someone who understands the idea/importance of teamwork and individual ownership at the same time.

- We are looking for someone who can debate logically, respectfully disagree, and can admit if proven wrong and who can learn from their mistakes and grow quickly

What you will do

We are looking for an exceptional engineering lead to join our team. You will be responsible for building and owning the systems that would have critical impact for the business and the experience of our community from day one. 

• Build and lead an agile engineering team
• Work closely with Founder on product development
• Collaborate with operations team to understand customer pain points and solve interesting problems
• Code, test, ship - manage the entire application cycle
• Build libraries and documentation for future references
• Research and develop best practices and tools to enable delivery of features
• Set up capabilities to track and report business and user metrics
• Design and improve architecture to ensure scalability
  
  

Requirements

• Proven experience at scaling tech companies, preferably in commerce or social network
• Keen to innovate, open-minded and collaborative
• Able to interpret product needs and suggest appropriate solutions
• Have led a team, also able to code hands-on
• Strong communication skills
• Strong work ethic: responsible, responsive, and detail-oriented.
  
  

Technologies we use
Go, Flutter, AWS, Google Cloud

The candidates should have:

·  Strong knowledge on Windows and Linux OS

·   Experience working in Version Control Systems like git

·  Hands-on experience in tools Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, Kubernetes, ELK.

·  Basic understanding of SQL commands

·  Experience working on Azure Cloud DevOps

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

Azure DeVops

On premises to Azure Migration

Docker, Kubernetes

Terraform CI CD pipeline

9+ Location

Budget – BG, Hyderabad, Remote , Hybrid –

Budget – up to 30 LPA

• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning of AWS services like EC2, S3,EBS, AMI, VPC, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation.
• Good experience on Build and release process and extensively involved in the CICD using

Jenkins

• Experienced on configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Jenkins CI/CD
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and for end to end Automation for all Builds and Deployments.
• Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases.
• Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Good knowledge in version control system in Git and GitHub.
• Good experience in build tools
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes ,YAML and Manifest

• Proficient in Linux Commands line and troubleshooting.
• Proficient in AWS Services. Deployment, Monitoring and troubleshooting applications in AWS.
• Hands-on experience with CI tooling preferably with Jenkins.
• Proficient in deployment using Ansible.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management tools (Infrastructure as cloud) such as terraform, AWS cloudformation etc.
• Proficient in deployment of applications behind load balancers and proxy servers such as nginx, apache.
• Scripting languages: Bash, Python, Groovy.
• Experience with Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting tools like ELK(Elastic-search, Logstash, Kibana), Nagios. Graylog, splunk Prometheus, Grafana is a plus.

Skills:

• Strong working knowledge of AWS.
• Implements AWS cloud platform.
• Infrastructure as Code, GitLab CI/CD, and DevOps standard methodologies
• scripting in Shell, Python, Ruby or any preferred scripting language

Terraform expertise is a MUST for this role.

a short exercise on terraform to all shortlisted candidates to demonstrate their hands-on skills on terraform before rolling out the offer

Desired Profile

 Providing expertise on all matters related to CI, CD and DevOps.

 Building and maintaining highly available production systems.

 Developing and maintaining release related documents, such as release plan, release notes etc.

 Ensuring quality releases and managing release and configuration change conflicts to resolution.

 Tracking release and publishing release notes.  Investigating and resolving technical issues by deploying updates/ fixes.

 Onboard applications to DevOps process.

 Setup and configure build jobs.

 Create automated deployment scripts.

 Configure JIRA workflow, and integrate with Jenkins / Micro-services.

Qualification

 Degree/Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and have previous experience as a DevOps Engineer.

 AWS Certification will be a plus.

 Experience of automation and provisioning approaches, using tools such as Terraform & Cloud Formation

Skillset Required

 Solid experience within release management, infra architecture, CI&CD.

 Highly goal driven and work well in fast paced environments.

 Proven experience of using Jenkins, Unix Shell Commands, Container technology (Docker, Kubernetes),

Java Programming, Groovy Script, Git, Code Branching Strategy, Maven, Gradle, JIRA, ECS, OpenShift.