DevOps Engineer

●              Work with application development teams to identify and understand their operational pain points.

●              Document these challenges and define goals to be achieved by the infrastructure team.

●              Prototype and evaluate multiple solutions, often by experimenting with various vendors and tools available, to achieve the goals undertaken.

●              Rollout tools and processes with heavy focus on automation.

●              Evangelize and help onboard application development teams on the platforms provided by the infrastructure team.

●              Co-own the responsibility with application development teams to ensure the reliability of services.

●              Design and implement solutions around observability to ensure ease of maintenance and quick debugging of services

●              Establish and implement administrative and operational best practices in the application development teams.

●              Find avenues to reduce infrastructure costs and drive optimization in all services.

 

●              5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)

●              Experience with git, CI / CD, Docker, etc

●              Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc).

●              Strong Linux Shell scripting experience

●              Experience with one of the programming languages like Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.

LeadSquared is a leading customer acquisition SaaS platform used by over 20,000 users across 25 countries to run their sales and marketing processes. Our goal is to have million+ users on our platform in the next 5 years, which is an extraordinary and exciting challenge for Engineering team to work on. The Role LeadSquared is looking for an engineer to be part of our DevOps team to build, operate and monitor our Cloud based SaaS platform. The role involves taking full responsibility of uptime, performance, security and cost of production, staging, test and dev environments. Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprises of web applications, web services, APIs, databases, analytics systems, storage and networking systems. We are looking for an engineer to be part of our team and help us build world-class infrastructure to host reliable, cost optimized and high performing LeadSquared apps and services. The initial focus would be to optimize our MySQL infrastructure which is currently on RDS and we are looking to migrate it to EC2. There are several other exciting projects lined up, in addition to opportunities to learn large number of exciting tools and technologies. Requirements: • Passion for building and delivering great software with a strong sense of ownership & pride in work • Experience in MySQL deployment, replication and administration on Amazon EC2. • Strong knowledge of Linux OS and shell scripting • Experience of deploying web applications on Linux platform. • Knowledge of Redis and ElasticSearch is a great plus.

Job Requirements:

• 2+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g., scripting via Bash, Python, etc)
• Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python or Ruby.
• Familiarity with Microservice-based architectures
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux, networking, server, and cloud architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools Azure DevOps, AWS cloud formation, Lamda functions, Jenkins, and Ansible
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management, and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
  
• Effective communication skills

Job Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Streamline the software development lifecycle by identifying pain points and productivity barriers and determining ways to resolve them.
• Analyze how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement.
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies.
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments.
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team
• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that risks instability or creates wasteful operational toil.
• Own daily operational goals with the team.

Please find the JD below: 

• Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform. 
• The devops engineer needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests. 
• Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure. 

• To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms. 
• VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed. 
• Good hands-on experience of Networking on Cloud is required. 
• Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services. 
• Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking (load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential. 

• Requirement is to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue green/canary deployment models etc). 
• The experience in AWS is desirable. 
• Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory. 
• Know-how on the use of GitHub 
• Administration of Azure Kubernetes services 

• Collaborate with Dev, QA and Data Science teams on environment maintenance, monitoring (ELK, Prometheus or equivalent), deployments and diagnostics
• Administer a hybrid datacenter, including AWS and EC2 cloud assets
• Administer, automate and troubleshoot container based solutions deployed on AWS ECS
• Be able to troubleshoot problems and provide feedback to engineering on issues
• Automate deployment (Ansible, Python), build (Git, Maven. Make, or equivalent) and integration (Jenkins, Nexus) processes
• Learn and administer technologies such as ELK, Hadoop etc.
• A self-starter and enthusiasm to learn and pick up new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Need to have

• Hands-on Experience in Cloud based DevOps
• Experience working in AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ECR, ECS etc)
• Experience with any programming language.
• Experience using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Experience in Python.
• Should be very comfortable working in Linux/Unix environment.
• Exposure to Shell Scripting.
• Solid troubleshooting skills

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
• Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
• Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
• Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
• Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
• Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
• Develops and maintains accurate estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports
• Organize and maintain packaging and deployment of various internal modules and third-party vendor libraries
• Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
• Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

 

SKILLS & ABILITIES

 

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering

 

Technical Skills:

• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
• Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
• 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
• Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
• Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
• Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)

 

Location:

• Bangalore

Experience:

• 10 + Years.

Technical Skills: - Knowledge of infrastructure and cloud (preferably AWS); experience with infrastructure-as-code (preferably Terraform) - Experienced with one or more scripting languages, Yaml, Python, Ruby, Bash, and/or NodeJS. - Experience with web services standards and related technologies. - Experience in working with Git, or other source control and CI/CD technologies following Agile Development Methodology for Software Development and related Agile practices, and exposure to Agile tools
- Preferred experience in development associated with Kafka or big data technologies understand essential Kafka components like Zookeeper, Brokers, and optimization of Kafka clients applications (Producers & Consumers). -
Experience with Automation of Infrastructure, Testing , DB Deployment Automation, Logging/Monitoring/alerting
- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, ECS, Elastic Container Registry, Pipelines, Cloudwatch, Glue, and other related services.
- AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS) - Kubernetes and containers managing and auto-scaling -
Good knowledge and hands-on experiences with various AWS services like EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, Lambda, API, Cloudwatch, etc.
- Good and quick with log analysis to perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) on production deployments and container errors on cloud watch. 
Working on ways to automate and improve deployment and release processes.
- High understanding of the Serverless architecture concept. - Good with Deployment automation tools and Investigating to resolve technical issues.
technical issues. - Sound knowledge of APIs, databases, and container-based ETL jobs.
- Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions. Soft Skills
- Adaptability
- Collaboration with different teams
- Good communication skills
- Team player attitude

Key Responsibilities
● Building and managing multiple application environments on AWS using automation tools like Terraform or
Cloudformation etc.
● Deploy applications with zero downtime via automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
● Setting up Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
● Setting up centralised logging using tools such as ELK.
● Containerisation of applications/microservices.
● Ensure application availability to 99.9% with highly available infrastructure.
● Monitoring performance of applications and databases.
● Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats.
● Working with software developers to ensure that release cycle and deployment processes are followed.
● Evaluating existing applications and platforms, give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis,
identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
Skills -
● Strong knowledge of AWS Managed Services such as EC2, RDS, ECS, ECR, S3, Cloudfront, SES, Redshift, Elastic Cache,
AMQP etc.
● Experience in handling production workloads.
● Experience with Nginx web server.
● Experience with NoSql and Sql Databases such as MongoDB, Postgresql etc.
● Experience with Containerisation of applications/micro services using Docker.
● Understanding of system administration in Linux environments.
● Strong Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code such as Terraform, Cloudformation etc.
● Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef etc.
● Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Vercel, JIRA etc.
● Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python etc.
● Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices and agile methodology
● Strong communication and documentation skills.
● An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
● Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
● Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills

We are seeking a passionate DevOps Engineer to help create the next big thing in data analysis and search solutions.

You will join our Cloud infrastructure team supporting our developers . As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be automating our environment setup and developing infrastructure as code to create a scalable, observable, fault-tolerant and secure environment. You’ll incorporate open source tools, automation, and Cloud Native solutions and will empower our developers with this knowledge. 

We will pair you up with world-class talent in cloud and software engineering and provide a position and environment for continuous learning.