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Problem Statement-Solution
Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.
One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.
About Koo
Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.
Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.
Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.
Founding Team
Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).
Technology Team & Culture
The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.
Technology skill sets required for a matching profile
- Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
- Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
- Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
- Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
- Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
- Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
- Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

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Roles and Responsibilities:
· Experience Required 3+ yrs in Devops.
· Position - 1
· Hands-on experience on Azure.
. Hands on experience on IIS
· Ability to design a good cloud solution.
· Strong Linux troubleshooting, Shell Scripting, Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins Skills.
· Design and implement the CI/CD pipeline following the best industry practices using open-source tools.
· Use knowledge and research to constantly modernize our applications and infrastructure stacks.
· Be a team player and strong problem-solver to work with a diverse team.
· Having good communication skills.
Requirements
- 3+ years work experience writing clean production code
- Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation etc). High proficiency with Terraform / Terragrunt is absolutely critical
- Experience of setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
- Experience with AWS(EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache etc), AWS lambda, Kubernetes, Docker, ServiceMesh
- Experience with ETL pipelines, Bigdata infra
- Understanding of common security issues
Roles / Responsibilities:
- Write terraform modules for deploying different component of infrastructure in AWS like Kubernetes, RDS, Prometheus, Grafana, Static Website
- Configure networking, autoscaling. continuous deployment, security and multiple environments
- Make sure the infrastructure is SOC2, ISO 27001 and HIPAA compliant
- Automate all the steps to provide a seamless experience to developers.
As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.
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Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.
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Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.
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Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.
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Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.
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Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.
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Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.
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Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.
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Work in a globally distributed team.
What achievements should you have so far?
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Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
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Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.
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Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).
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Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.
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Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.
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Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).
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Good Networking skills and experience.
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Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.
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Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.
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Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
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Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.
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.
Why you should join us
- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives
- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)
- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment
What you will do
- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.
- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring operational excellence
- You will setup infrastructure on AWS that will be represented as code
- You will work on several automation projects that provide great developer experience
- You will setup secure, fault tolerant, reliable and performant systems
- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards for your team that are well documented
- You will set up systems in a way that are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience
- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums
- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)
You should apply if
- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals
- You have been working on cloud infrastructure setup, especially on AWS since 8+ years
- You have set up and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale
- You have experience in hardening and securing cloud infrastructures
- You have a solid understanding of computer networking, network security and CDNs
- Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and optionally Terraform
- Experience in building automation tools for code build and deployment (preferably in JS)
- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity
- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment
- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance
- You work well in a team to enhance your impact
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.
Position: DevOps Engineer
Job Description
The candidate should have the following Skills:
- Hands-on experience with DevOps & CICD open source tools (Jenkins, ), including AWS DevOps services (CodePipeline, CloudFormation, etc).
- Experience in building and deploying using Java/Python/Node.js on Cloud infrastructure (Docker or Kubernetes containers or Lambda.)
- Exposure to Cloud operations, releases, and configuration management
- Experience in implementing Non-functional requirements for microservices, including performance, security, compliance, HA and Disaster Recovery.
- Good soft skills, great attitude, and passion for working in a product startup environment
Total Experience of 2-5 years post BE or BTech or MCA in Computer Science Engineering.
- Azure Devops - Working experience in Azure yaml pipelines. (Note – Some say they worked in yaml but it’s for Jenkins and not Azure devops)
- Azure – Infrastructure automation using Terraform/ARM templates. (Note – Some say that they worked in terraform but it’s for AWS and not Azure). Please confirm Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.
- Powershell scripting to automate and deploy .Net applications.
- 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.









