DevOps Engineer

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.

EXPERIENCE

7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.

• Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.

• Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.

• Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time

• Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.

• Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.

• Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.  

• Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies

• Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services

• Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.

• Migration and consolidations of infrastructure

• Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.

• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.

• Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.

• Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.

• Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.

• Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.

• On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones

• Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.

• Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations

• IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service

• Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies

• Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)

• DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms

• Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment

• Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.

• Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect 

• Networking Skills –   Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)

• Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)

• Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.

• A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies

• SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies

• Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .

• A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions

• Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies

• Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.

• Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.

• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.

• A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.

• A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..

• A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.

• A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.

• A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)

• A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration

• A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL

• A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

• A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories

• Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.

• Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.

• Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services

• SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

• Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.

• Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.

• Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.

• Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.

• Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles

• Working experience with ServiceNow

• Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.

• Work towards improving the following 4 verticals - scalability, availability, security, and cost, for company's workflows and products.
• Help in provisioning, managing, optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS (IAM, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, ELK etc.)
• Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture for both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 products.
• Drive technical initiatives and architectural service improvements.
• Be able to predict problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
• Mentor/manage a team of engineers.
• Design solutions with failure scenarios in mind to ensure reliability.
• Document rigorously to keep track of all changes/upgrades to the infrastructure and as well share knowledge with the rest of the team
• Identify vulnerabilities during development with actionable information to empower developers to remediate vulnerabilities
• Automate the build and testing processes to consistently integrate code
• Manage changes to documents, software, images, large web sites, and other collections of code, configuration, and metadata among disparate teams

The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS

Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing

• ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
• SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
• Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
• Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
• Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).

Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration

What you will get:

1. To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
2. A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
3. Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
4. High Growth Work Environment ⚙️

What we are looking for:

1. An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
2. Ability to take Ownership of your work
3. Past experience in leading a team

BENEFITS: -

 Competitive salary and stock options -

 Premium medical benefits 

LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test 

Who we are?

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 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 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
• 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 ?

Your bucket of undertakings:

• This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in AWS
• Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation • Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. • • Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality. Highly organised and efficient. Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

• To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
• 6 - 10 years of experience with at least 5 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing
• (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
• Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as AWS and lean development methodologies.

Role : DevOps Engineer 

Experience : 1 to 2 years and 2 to 5 Years as DevOps Engineer (2 Positions)

Location : Bangalore. 5 Days Working.

Education Qualification : Tech/B.E for Tier-1/Tier-2/Tier-3 Colleges or equivalent institutes 

Skills :- DevOps Engineering, Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills, Docker, rkt or similar container engine, Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to  work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability. 

Responsibilities: 

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the  organization. 
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on  improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes. 
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams. 
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally. 
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start). 
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company. 
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry  events. 
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening. ∙ Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous  Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices. 

Requirements: 

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing  amounts of traffic and new product requirements. 
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills. 
• Experience managing complex systems at scale. 
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine. 
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions. 
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart  metrics and alerting. 
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are  on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch). 
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers. 
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud. 
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash. 
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch. 
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins. 
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage. 
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu. 

Good to have: 

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka,  Elasticsearch.