DevOps Engineer

About Lean Technologies

Lean is on a mission to revolutionize the fintech industry by providing developers with a universal API to access their customers' financial accounts across the Middle East. We’re breaking down infrastructure barriers and empowering the growth of the fintech industry. With Sequoia leading our $33 million Series A round, Lean is poised to expand its coverage across the region while continuing to deliver unparalleled value to developers and stakeholders.

Join us and be part of a journey to enable the next generation of financial innovation. We offer competitive salaries, private healthcare, flexible office hours, and meaningful equity stakes to ensure long-term alignment. At Lean, you'll work on solving complex problems, build a lasting legacy, and be part of a diverse, inclusive, and equal opportunity workplace.

About the role:

Are you a highly motivated and experienced software engineer looking to take your career to the next level? Our team at Lean is seeking a talented engineer to help us build the distributed systems that allow our engineering teams to deploy our platform in multiple geographies across various deployment solutions. You will work closely with functional heads across software, QA, and product teams to deliver scalable and customizable release pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Distributed systems architecture – understand and manage the most complex systems
• Continual reliability and performance optimization – enhancing observability stack to improve proactive detection and resolution of issues
• Employing cutting-edge methods and technologies, continually refining existing tools to enhance performance and drive advancements
• Problem-solving capabilities – troubleshooting complex issues and proactively reducing toil through automation
• Experience in technical leadership and setting technical direction for engineering projects
• Collaboration skills – working across teams to drive change and provide guidance
• Technical expertise – depth skills and ability to act as subject matter expert in one or more of: IAAC, observability, coding, reliability, debugging, system design
• Capacity planning – effectively forecasting demand and reacting to changes
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources
• Incident response – rapidly detecting and resolving critical incidents. Minimizing customer impact through effective collaboration, escalation (including periodic on-call shifts) and postmortems

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Systems Engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles running large-scale infrastructure, cloud, or web services
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and networking concepts
• We work on OCI but would accept candidates with solid GCP/AWS or other cloud providers’ knowledge and experience
• 3+ years of experience with managing Kubernetes clusters, Helm, Docker
• Experience in operating CI/CD pipelines that build and deliver services on the cloud and on-premise
• Work with CI/CD tools/services like Jenkins/GitHub-Actions/ArgoCD etc.
• Experience with configuration management tools either Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or equivalent
• Infrastructure as Code - Terraform
• Experience in production environments with both relational and NoSQL databases
• Coding with one or more of the following: Java, Python, and/or Go

Bonus

• MultiCloud or Hybrid Cloud experience
• OCI and GCP

Why Join Us?

At Lean, we value talent, drive, and entrepreneurial spirit. We are constantly on the lookout for individuals who identify with our mission and values, even if they don’t meet every requirement. If you're passionate about solving hard problems and building a legacy, Lean is the right place for you. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

• Solid understanding of IP network and TCP/IP
• Minimum of 7+ years’ work experience in IT
• Minimum of 4+ years experience as DevOps Enginneer
• Good interpersonal skills and communication written and oral.

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

DevOps Engineer, Plum & Empuls 

As DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to setup and maintain GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, Cloud security.

Key Responsibilities

• Setup, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Working on Docker images and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Working on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Required Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps Frameworks, Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible or puppet or chef.
• Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud like AWS, Azure, Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience and well versed with Jira tool is a plus.

We are

A fast-growing SaaS commerce company based in Bangalore with offices in Delhi, San Francisco, and Dublin. Empuls works with over 100 global clients. We help our clients engage and motivate their employees, sales teams, channel partners, or consumers for better business results.

Way forward

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status

Roles & Responsibilities :

• Champion engineering and operational excellence.
• Establish a solid infrastructure framework and excellent development and deployment processes.
• Provide technical guidance to both your team members and your peers from the development team.
• Work with the development teams closely to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored fly, performant and secure systems.
• Be part of and help create a positive work environment based on accountability.
• Communicate across functions and drive engineering initiatives.
• Initiate cross team collaboration with product development teams to develop high quality, polished products, and services.

Required Skills :

• 5+ years of professional experience developing and launching software products on Cloud.
• Basic understanding Java/Go Programming
• Good Understanding of Container Technologies/Orchestration platforms (e. g Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of AWS or Any Cloud.
• Good understanding of data stores like Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Good Understanding of Operating systems
• Strong technical background with track record of individual technical accomplishments
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly.
• Most importantly, ability to learn and urge to learn new things.
• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related technical field.

We are looking for candidates that have experience in development and have performed CI/CD based projects. Should have a good hands-on Jenkins Master-Slave architecture, used AWS native services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. Should have experience in setting up cross platform CI/CD pipelines which can be across different cloud platforms or on-premise and cloud platform.

Job Description:

• Hands on with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with DevOps services and CloudFormation.
• Experience interacting with customer.
• Excellent communication.
• Hands-on in creating and managing Jenkins job, Groovy scripting.
• Experience in setting up Cloud Agnostic and Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience in Maven.
• Experience in scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, Python.
• Experience in automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Docker and Kuberneties with creating docker files.
• Hands on with version control systems like GitHub, Gitlab, TFS, BitBucket, etc.

You will work on: 

You will be working on some of our clients massive scale Infrastructure and DevOps requirements - designing for microservices and large scale data analytics. You will be working on enterprise scale problems - but will be part of our agile team that delivers like a startup. You will have opportunity to be part of team that's building and managing large private cloud.

 
What you will do (Responsibilities):

• Work on cloud marketplace enablements for some of our clients products
• Write Kubernetes Operators to automate custom PaaS solutions
•  Participate in cloud projects to implement new technology solutions, Proof of concepts to improve cloud technology offerings.               
• Work with developers to deploy to private or public cloud/on-premise services, debug and resolve issues. 
• On call responsibilities to respond to emergency situations and scheduled maintenance. 
• Contribute to and maintain documentation for systems, processes, procedures and infrastructure configuration 

What you bring (Skills):
 

•  Experience with administering of and debugging on Linux based systems with programming skills in Scripting, Golang, Python among others
•  Expertise in Git repositories specifically on GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Gerrit 
•  Comfortable with DevOps for  Big Data databases like Terradata, Netezza, Hadoop based ecosystems,   BigQuery, RedShift among others
• Comfortable in interfacing with SQL and No-SQL databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis 

Great if you know (Skills):

• Understanding various build and CI/CD systems – Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Spinnaker or Cloud based build systems 
• Exposure to deploying and automating on any public cloud – GCP, Azure or AWS 
• Private cloud experience – VMWare or OpenStack 
• Big DataOps experience – managing infrastructure and processes for Apache Airflow, Beam, Hadoop clusters 
• Containerized applications – Docker based image builds and maintainenace. 
• Kubernetes applications – deploy and develop operators, helm charts, manifests among other artifacts. 

Advantage Cognologix:

•  Higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams 
•  Opportunities to become expert in emerging technologies 
•  Remote working options for the right maturity level 
•  Competitive salary & family benefits 
•  Performance based career advancement 

About Cognologix: 

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are DevOps focused organization helping our clients focus on their core product activities by handling all aspects of their infrastructure, integration and delivery.

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.

Your skills and experience should cover:

• 5+ years of experience with developing, deploying, and debugging solutions on the AWS platform using ALL AWS services such as S3, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, Cognito, Cloudtrail, CodePipeline, Cloud Formation, Cloudwatch and WAF (Web Application Firewall).

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer: Associate, is required; Amazon Web Services (AWS) DevOps Engineer: Professional, preferred.

• 5+ years of experience using one or more modern programming languages (Python, Node.js).

• Hands-on experience migrating data to the AWS cloud platform

• Experience with Scrum/Agile methodology.

• Good understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices (including security and scalability)

• Experience with AWS Data Storage Tools.

• Experience in Configure and implement AWS tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail and direct system logs for monitoring.

• Experience working with GIT, or similar tools.

• Ability to communicate and represent AWS Recommendations and Standards.

The following areas are highly advantageous:

• Experience with Docker

• Experience with PostgreSQL database