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 Description

We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure while ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our applications. You will be responsible for deploying and maintaining cloud environments, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring optimal performance through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure or AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancement: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and build robust development and production environments.
• Application Deployment: Manage application deployments, ensuring high reliability and minimal downtime.
• Monitoring: Monitor infrastructure health and perform application log analysis to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and debug incidents, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code: Enhance Ansible roles and Terraform modules, maintaining best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Tool Development: Write tools and utilities to streamline and improve infrastructure operations.
• SDLC Practices: Establish and uphold industry-standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices with a strong focus on quality.
• On-call Support: Be available 24/7 for on-call incident management for production environments.

Requirements:

• Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience deploying and provisioning virtual machines on Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
• Linux Administration: Proficient with Linux systems and basic system administration tasks.
• Networking Knowledge: Working knowledge of network fundamentals (Ethernet, TCP/IP, WAF, DNS, etc.).
• Scripting Skills: Proficient in BASH and at least one high-level scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Tools Proficiency: Familiarity with tools such as Git, Nagios, Snort, and OpenVPN.
• Containerization: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes is mandatory.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to engage with peers, customers, vendors, and partners across all levels of the organization.

The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience in the domain. The responsibilities include:

● Deploying system on Linux-based environment using Docker

● Manage & maintain the production environment

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Provide Level 1 technical support

● Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

● Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems

● Perform root cause analysis for production errors

● Investigate and resolve technical issues

● Develop scripts to automate visualization

● Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

● Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure

● Excellent understanding of MERN Stack, Docker & Nginx (Good to have Node Js)

● Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo

● Excellent troubleshooting

● Experience of working with AWS/Azure/GCP

● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

● Experience of CI/CD Pipeline

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

REVOS is a smart micro-mobility platform that works with enterprises across the automotive shared mobility value chain to enable and accelerate their smart vehicle journeys. Founded in 2017, it aims to empower all 2 and 3 wheeler vehicles through AI-integrated IoT solutions that will make them smart, safe, connected. We are backed by investors like USV and Prime Venture.

 Duties and Responsibilities :

• Automating various tasks in cloud operations, deployment, monitoring, and performance optimization for big data stack.
• Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Function well in a fast-paced, rapidly-changing environment
• Communicate effectively with people at all levels of the organization

Qualifications and Required Skills:

• Overall 3+ years of experience in various software engineering roles.
• 3+ years of experience in building applications and tools in any tech stack, preferably deployed on cloud
• Recent 3 years’ experience must be on Serverless/cloud-native development in AWS (preferred)/Azure
• Expertise in any of the programming languages – (NodeJS or Python preferable)
• Must have hands-on experience in using AWS/Azure - SDK/APIs.
• Must have experience in deploying, releasing, and managing production systems
• MCA or a degree in engineering in Computer Science, IT, or Electronics stream

Senior Devops Engineer

Who are we?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What do we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How do we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?

Introduction

When was the last time you thought about rebuilding your smart phone charger using solar panels on your backpack OR changed the sequencing of switches in your bedroom (on your own, of course) to make it more meaningful OR pointed out an engineering flaw in the sequencing of traffic signal lights to a fellow passenger, while he gave you a blank look? If the last time this happened was more than 6 months ago, you are a dinosaur for our needs. If it was less than 6 months ago, did you act on it? If yes, then let’s talk.

We are quite keen to meet you if:

• You eat, dream, sleep and play with Cloud Data Store & engineering your processes on cloud architecture
• You have an insatiable thirst for exploring improvements, optimizing processes, and motivating people.
• You like experimenting, taking risks and thinking big.

3 things this position is NOT about:

1. This is NOT just a job; this is a passionate hobby for the right kind.
2. This is NOT a boxed position. You will code, clean, test, build and recruit & energize.
3. This is NOT a position for someone who likes to be told what needs to be done.

3 things this position IS about:

1. Attention to detail matters.
2. Roles, titles, ego does not matter; getting things done matters; getting things done quicker & better matters the most.
3. Are you passionate about learning new domains & architecting solutions that could save a company millions of dollars?

Roles and Responsibilities

This is an entrepreneurial Cloud/DevOps Lead position that evolves to the Director- Cloud engineering .This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - architect a solution, code, research, understand customer needs, research more, rebuild and re-architect, you get the drift. We are seeking hard-core-geeks-turned-successful-techies who are interested in seeing their work used by millions of users the world over.

Responsibilities:

• Consistently strive to acquire new skills on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, AI and ML technologies
• Design, deploy and maintain Cloud infrastructure for Clients – Domestic & International
• Develop tools and automation to make platform operations more efficient, reliable and reproducible
• Create Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), strive for full automated solutions, ensure the up-time and security of all cloud platform systems and infrastructure
• Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and ensure our client are using the best techniques and tools
• Providing business, application, and technology consulting in feasibility discussions with technology team members, customers and business partners
• Take initiatives to lead, drive and solve during challenging scenarios

Requirements:

• 3 + Years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems, RHEL/CentOS preferred
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda)
• Experience with one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .Net)
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Deep experience in customer facing roles with a proven track record of effective verbal and written communications
• Dependable and good team player
• Desire to learn and work with new technologies

Key Success Factors

• Are you
• Likely to forget to eat, drink or pee when you are coding?
• Willing to learn, re-learn, research, break, fix, build, re-build and deliver awesome code to solve real business/consumer needs?
• An open source enthusiast?

• Absolutely technology agnostic and believe that business processes define and dictate which technology to use?
• Ability to think on your feet, and follow-up with multiple stakeholders to get things done
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Superior project management and organizational skills
• Logical thought process; ability to grasp customer requirements rapidly and translate the same into technical as well as layperson terms
• Ability to anticipate potential problems, determine and implement solutions
• Energetic, disciplined, with a results-oriented approach
• Strong ethics and transparency in dealings with clients, vendors, colleagues and partners
• Attitude of ‘give me 5 sharp freshers and 6 months and I will rebuild the way people communicate over the internet.
• You are customer-centric, and feel strongly about building scalable, secure, quality software. You thrive and succeed in delivering high quality technology products in a growth environment where priorities shift fast. 

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline