DevOps Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a seasoned DevOps Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of DevOps principles, system design, and architecture, with a focus on creating robust and scalable infrastructure solutions through automation. This role requires a candidate with hands-on experience in development, testing, and deployment processes. Additionally, the candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps operations and should be proficient in team management, coordination, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and technical expertise.

About the company:

A rapidly growing omni-channel luxury retailer with eight stores across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and a global e-commerce platform servicing 65+ countries worldwide. The 18-year-old company is an established market leader with considerable brand equity.

Location: Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Key Responsibilities:

• System Design and Architecture: Develop robust and scalable system designs that align with business requirements and industry best practices.
• Automation: Implement automation solutions to streamline processes and enhance system reliability.
• Development, Testing, and Deployment: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from code creation to testing and deployment.
• Coordination and Issue Resolution: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, resolve technical issues, and ensure smooth project execution.
• Troubleshooting: Apply your technical expertise to diagnose and resolve complex system issues efficiently.
• Interpersonal Skills: Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management to ensure project success.
• Ecommerce (B2C) Expertise: Bring in-depth knowledge of Ecommerce (B2C) operations to tailor DevOps solutions to our specific needs.
• Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement infrastructure automation tools and workflows to support CI/CD initiatives.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and operate complex CI/CD pipelines at scale, ensuring efficient software delivery.
• Cloud Expertise: Possess knowledge of handling GCP/AWS clouds, optimizing cloud resources, and managing cloud-based applications.
• Cybersecurity: Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, implementing best practices for data protection and compliance.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred).
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps operations.
• Has worked to ensure system reliability, scale & performance in high growth environments.
• Experienced in designing and implementing scalable and robust IT solutions.
• Strong technical background and proficiency in DevOps tools and practices.
• Experience with Ecommerce (B2C) platforms is mandatory.
• Excellent team management, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Familiarity with the latest open-source technologies.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management.
• Knowledge of GCP/AWS cloud services.
• Understanding cybersecurity best practices.

Benefits

• Group Mediclaim cover 2.5 L sum assured (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children) & Group Personal Accident – 5 L sum assured.
• Rewards & Recognition programmes

Key Responsibilities: 

• Develop and Maintain CI/CD Pipelines: Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using GitOps practices. 
• Kubernetes Management: Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters to ensure high availability and scalability of applications. 
• Cloud Infrastructure: Design, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, utilizing services such as EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and others. 
• Infrastructure as Code: Implement and manage infrastructure using IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar. 
• Monitoring and Logging: Set up and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the infrastructure. 
• Automation: Identify and automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency and reliability. 
• Security: Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards. 
• Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of products. 

Required Skills and Qualifications: 

• Experience: 2-5 years of experience in a DevOps role. 
• AWS: In-depth knowledge of AWS services and solutions. 
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar. 
• GitOps Expertise: Proficient in GitOps methodologies and tools. 
• Kubernetes: Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration. 
• Scripting and Automation: Proficient in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or similar. 
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Hands-on experience with IaC tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar. 
• Monitoring Tools: Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar. 
• Version Control: Strong understanding of version control systems, primarily Git. 
• Problem-Solving: Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills. 
• Collaboration: Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. 
• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or a related field. 

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’ s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

• Integrate gates into CI/CD pipeline and push all flaws/issues to developers IDE (as far left as possible) - ideally in code repo but required by the time code is in the artifact repository.

• Demonstrable experience in Containerization-Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes)     
• Experience withsetting up self-managed Kubernetes clusters without using any managed cloud offerings like EKS 
• Experience working withAWS - Managing AWS services - EC2, S3, Cloudfront, VPC, SNS, Lambda, AWS Autoscaling, AWS IAM, RDS, EBS, Kinesis, SQS, DynamoDB, Elastic Cache, Redshift, Cloudwatch, Amazon Inspector. 

• Familiarity withLinux and UNIX systems (e.g. CentOS, RedHat) and command line system administration such as Bash, VIM, SSH.
• Hands on experience in configuration management of server farms (using tools such asPuppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.,).

• Demonstrated understanding of ITIL methodologies, ITIL v3 or v4 certification
• Kubernetes CKA or CKAD certification nice to have

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Terraform  etc

Specific responsibilities commensurate with experience and include:

• Ability to react quickly and effectively to identify and resolve issues that heavily impact CI/CD system (immediate mitigation of impact, long-term resolution including strategies for risk mitigation/monitoring/alert for proactive resolution of potential future occurrences)
• Design, develop, unit test, and implement build automation scripts including environment configuration validation processes
• Automate and improve development process by evaluation and introduction of new tools and scripts, and manage their life cycle and validation
• Determine branching strategy and maintain branches for various components, products, and product lines
• Come up with solutions to open-ended problems that focus on workflow improvements for the Software department
• Address issues with well-defined requirements efficiently; come up with short-term and long-term solutions and staged deployment strategies
• Self-driven-- takes action to move tickets from start to completion with minimal oversight
• Ability to communicate with and consider perspectives of stakeholders including but not limited to: IT, software development, verification
• Ability to break down a problem into smaller components and solve them in a logical, controlled, clearly explainable approach
• Lead the creation and maintenance of a pre-production environment as a testbed for build process improvements and changes before deployment to the production environment
• Gather metrics via direct input, data based on analysis of developer working habits analysis and pain points to assess current state and areas requiring further improvement
• Define chain of communication and immediate paths of action in the case of a build fault state
• Ability to work within constraints of the internal network without access to commercial cloud solutions
• Create metrics that define ‘efficiency’ and ‘reliability’ in measurable terms, and track them
• Perform static code and security analysis
• Design and execute unit tests and perform code coverage analysis
• Able to work in Agile development team environment

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years (minimum) experience handling Build, Release, and Deployment of software on Windows and/or Linux environments (on-premise)
• Experience with the development and deployment of CM processes and tools
• Build automation for .NET using TeamCity (Jenkins is an asset)
• Scripting languages: Windows batch scripting, Powershell, Ant/NAnt
• Source control systems usage, branching strategies, and workflow (Git preferred, Subversion)
• 6+ years of hands-on programming experience with C# and .NET (both Framework and Core)
• Troubleshooting and debugging-- what information to gather when there are issues with CI/CD system, and how to gather it (i.e., analyzing network communication? Windows crash dumps, java logs, etc.)
• 6+ years (minimum) in web/desktop application software development experience
• Excellent problem solving, critical and analytical thinking
• Strong team player who understands SDLC and QA methodologies
• A professional, results-oriented individual with a high degree of self-motivation
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to coordinate work/activities with multiple software/IT teams
• Working with virtual machines and build management on virtual machines (VMware preferred).
• Managing configurations for multiple build environments
• OS administration and scripting experience (Windows is a must, Linux desired)
• Experience with test automation tools (NUnit, customer inhouse frameworks) and strategies is an asset
• Creation and maintenance of monitoring and alert systems (Zabbix)
• Familiarity with databases (SQL-based) - create, modify, optimize (via script)
• Data and metrics gathering, aggregation, and reporting
• Experience with work management and documentation tools: JIRA and Confluence

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.