DevOps Engineer

Position Overview: 

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer with 3-8 years of experience to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in Linux, infrastructure automation, containerization, orchestration tools, and cloud platforms. This role offers an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and contribute to the development and maintenance of scalable, secure, and efficient CI/CD pipelines. 

Key Responsibilities: 

● Design, implement, and maintain scalable CI/CD pipelines to streamline software development and deployment. 

● Manage, monitor, and optimize infrastructure using tools like Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC). 

● Deploy, configure, and manage containerized applications using Docker and orchestrate them with Kubernetes. 

● Develop and maintain Helm charts for managing Kubernetes deployments.

● Automate repetitive operational tasks using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell. 

● Collaborate with development teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications. 

● Monitor and troubleshoot system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability of services. 

● Configure and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS.

● Implement and maintain security best practices in cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines. 

● Manage and optimize system logs and metrics using monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Cloud-native monitoring tools. 

Key Requirements: 

● Experience: 3-8 years in a DevOps or similar role. 

● Linux: Strong proficiency in Linux-based systems, including configuration, troubleshooting, and performance tuning is must

● IaC Tools: Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation. 

● Containerization: Proficient in using Docker to build, deploy, and manage containers. 

● Kubernetes: Experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration, including knowledge of deployments, services, pv, pvc and ingress controllers.

● Helm Charts: Familiarity with creating and managing Helm charts for Kubernetes applications. 

● CI/CD Tools: Knowledge of tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI for continuous integration and deployment. 

● Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, or GCP). 

● Scripting: Proficiency in automation scripting using Python, Bash, or similar languages. 

● Monitoring: Understanding of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack. 

● Version Control: Strong experience with version control tools like Git. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

● Knowledge of networking concepts (e.g., DNS, load balancing, firewalls).

● Familiarity with security practices such as role-based access control (RBAC) and secrets management. 

● Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and tools like Jira. 

● Certification in any of the cloud platforms (AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, or GCP Professional DevOps Engineer) is a plus. 

Soft Skills: 

● Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills. 

● Ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment. 

● Excellent communication and documentation skills. 

● Proactive approach to learning new tools and technologies. 

Note: Experience over Linux is Must.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

DevOps Engineer (Automation) 

ABOUT US

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

LOCATION:  Mumbai

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate Technical consultant to be part of the training team and work with customers on DevOps Solution. You will be responsible for implementation and consultations related work for customers across SEA and India. We are looking for personnel with personal qualities like -

• Passion for working for different customers and different environments.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills
• Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
• Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

                     First 2 months:

• Get an in-depth understanding of Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC.
• Get hands-on experience with various technologies of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, Vault, Sysdig

After 2 months: The ideal candidate can will ensure the following outcomes from every client deployment:

• Utilize various open source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions.
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Will be involved in automation using CI/CD/DevOps concepts.
• Be able to document procedures for building and deploying.
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Work on a cloud-based infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Work with pre-sales and sales team to help customers during their evaluation of Terraform, Vault and other open source technologies.
• Conduct workshops for customers as needed for technical hand-holding and technical handover.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate/Post Graduate in any technology.
• Hands on experience in Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Jira etc
• Hands on experience at least in one scripting language like Perl/Python/Groovy/Bash
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages.
• Experience in Jenkins maintenance and scalability, designing and implementing advanced automation pipelines with Jenkins.
• Experience with a repository manager like JFrog Artifactory
• Strong background in git, Github/Bitbucket, and code branching/merging strategies
• Ability to understand and make trade-offs among different DevOps tools.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud and/or Azure is a strong plus
• Some experience with secrets/key management preferably with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience using monitoring solutions, i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, NewRelic, Nagios etc

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

• Must have a minimum of 3 years of experience in managing AWS resources and automating CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python or Bash be able to build and administer CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of infrastructure tools like Cloud Formation, Terraform, Ansible.
• Experience with microservices and/or event-driven architecture.
• Experience using containerization technologies (Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, Mesos or Vagrant).
• Strong practical Windows and Linux system administration skills in the cloud.
• Understanding of DNS, NFS, TCP/IP and other protocols.
• Knowledge of secure SDLC, OWASP top 10 and CWE/SANS top 25.
• Deep understanding of Web Sockets and their functioning. Hands on experience of ElasticCache, Redis, ECS or EKS. Installation, configuration and management of Apache or Nginx web server, Apache/Tomcat Application Server, configure SSL certificates, setup reverse proxy.
• Exposure to RDBMS (MySQL, SQL Server, Aurora, etc.) is a plus.
• Exposure to programming languages like JAVA, PHP, SQL is a plus.
• AWS Developer or AWS SysOps Administrator certification is a plus.
• AWS Solutions Architect Certification experience is a plus.
• Experience building Blue/Green, Canary or other zero down time deployment strategies, advanced understanding of VPC, EC2 Route53 IAM, Lambda is a plus.

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

You will 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.

Responsibilities

• Implement and own the CI.
• Manage CD tooling.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting.
• Build and maintain highly available production systems.

Qualification- B.tech in IT