DevOps Engineer

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Senior Devops Engineer 2

- Industry: Ride-hailing

- Experience: 5-7 years

- Working Days: 5 days/week

- Work Mode: ONSITE

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Required Skills: Cloud & Infrastructure Operations, Kubernetes & Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Reliability & Observability, Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible etc., Strong problem-solving skills with scripting (Python/Go/Shell)

Criteria:

1.   Candidate must be from a product-based or scalable app-based start-ups company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2.   Minimum 5 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

3.   Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed

4.   Candidate must have experience in database migration from scratch 

5.   Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

6.   Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

7.   Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

8.   Working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

9.   Working experience on Cloud platform - AWS

10. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation.

Description 

Job Summary:

As a DevOps Engineer at company, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

● Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs

● Codify our infrastructure

● Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%

● Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities

● Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes

● Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization

● Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

Job Requirements:

● B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience

● Minimum 5 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

● Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

● Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

● Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to write scripts using any scripting language

● Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

● Comfortable working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

What’s there for you?

Company’s team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as

● 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks Golang/ java/ node

● More than 100,000 Request per second on our edge gateways

● ~20,000 events per second on self-managed Kafka

● 100s of TB of data on self-managed databases

● 100s of real-time continuous deployment to production

● Self-managed infra supporting

● 100% OSS

We are looking for a passionate DevOps Engineer who can support deployment and monitor our Production, QE, and Staging environments performance. Applicants should have a strong understanding of UNIX internals and should be able to clearly articulate how it works. Knowledge of shell scripting & security aspects is a must. Any experience with infrastructure as code is a big plus. The key responsibility of the role is to manage deployments, security, and support of business solutions. Having experience in database applications like Postgres, ELK, NodeJS, NextJS & Ruby on Rails is a huge plus. At VakilSearch. Experience doesn't matter, passion to produce change matters

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• As part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the infra components of VakilSearch’s product which are hosted in cloud services & on-prem facility
• Design, build tools and framework that support deploying and managing our platform & Exploring new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restore of different Env 
• Manage resources in a cost-effective, innovative manner including assisting subordinates ineffective use of resources and tools
• Resolve incidents as escalated from Monitoring tools and Business Development Team
• Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technology to protect our data
• Identify root cause for issues and develop long-term solutions to fix recurring issues and Document it
• Strong in performing production operation activities even at night times if required
• Ability to automate [Scripts] recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality
• Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

I Qualification(s): 

• Experience in working with Linux Server, DevOps tools, and Orchestration tools 
• Linux, AWS, GCP, Azure, CompTIA+, and any other certification are a value-add 

II Experience Required in DevOps Aspects:

• Length of Experience: Minimum 1-4 years of experience
• Nature of Experience: 
• Experience in Cloud deployments, Linux administration[ Kernel Tuning is a value add ], Linux clustering, AWS, virtualization, and networking concepts [ Azure, GCP value add ]
• Experience in deployment solutions CI/CD like Jenkins, GitHub Actions [ Release Management is a value add ]
• Hands-on experience in any of the configuration management IaC tools like Chef, Terraform, and CloudFormation [ Ansible & Puppet is a value add ]
• Administration, Configuring and utilizing Monitoring and Alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, Zabbix, Datadog, etc
• Experience with Containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, and Kubernetes [ Docker swarm is a value add ]Good Scripting skills in at least one interpreted language - Shell/bash scripting or Ruby/Python/Perl
• Experience in Database applications like PostgreSQL, MongoDB & MySQL [DataOps]
• Good at Version Control & source code management systems like GitHub, GIT
• Experience in Serverless [ Lambda/GCP cloud function/Azure function ]
• Experience in Web Server Nginx, and Apache
• Knowledge in Redis, RabbitMQ, ELK, REST API [ MLOps Tools is a value add ]
• Knowledge in Puma, Unicorn, Gunicorn & Yarn
• Hands-on VMWare ESXi/Xencenter deployments is a value add
• Experience in Implementing and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancing & Web application firewalls
• Deploying, Configuring, and Maintaining Linux server systems ON premises and off-premises
• Code Quality like SonarQube is a value-add
• Test Automation like Selenium, JMeter, and JUnit is a value-add
• Experience in Heroku and OpenStack is a value-add 
• Experience in Identifying Inbound and Outbound Threats and resolving it
• Knowledge of CVE & applying the patches for OS, Ruby gems, Node, and Python packages  
• Documenting the Security fix for future use
• Establish cross-team collaboration with security built into the software development lifecycle 
• Forensics and Root Cause Analysis skills are mandatory 
• Weekly Sanity Checks of the on-prem and off-prem environment 

III Skill Set & Personality Traits required:

• An understanding of programming languages such as Ruby, NodeJS, ReactJS, Perl, Java, Python, and PHP
• Good written and verbal communication skills to facilitate efficient and effective interaction with peers, partners, vendors, and customers

IV Age Group: 21 – 36 Years

V Cost to the Company: As per industry standards

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

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

• As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for
• Automated provisioning of infrastructure in AWS/Azure/OpenStack environments.
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
• Proactive Monitoring of overall infrastructure (Logs/Resources etc)
• Deployment of application to various cloud environments.
• Should be able to lead/guide a team towards achieving goals and meeting the milestones defined.
• Practice and implement best practices in every aspect of project deliverable.
• Keeping yourself up to date with new frameworks and tools and enabling the team to use them.

Skills Required

• Experience in Automation of CI/CD processes using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, Gitlab
• Experience in working with AWS and Azure platforms and Cloud-Native automation tools such as AWS cloud formation and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience in monitoring solutions such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
• Web Server/Application Server deployments and administration.
• Good Communication, Team Handling, Problem-solving, Work Ethic, and Creativity.
• Work experience of at least 1 year in the following are mandatory.

If you do not have the relevant experience, please do not apply.

• Any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Any of the configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Powershell DSC)
• Scripting languages (PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, etc.?
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.