DevOps Engineer

You will be responsible for:

• Managing all DevOps and infrastructure for Sizzle
• We have both cloud and on-premise servers
• Work closely with all AI and backend engineers on processing requirements and managing both development and production requirements
• Optimize the pipeline to ensure ultra fast processing
• Work closely with management team on infrastructure upgrades

You should have the following qualities:

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, and CI/CD
• Deep experience in: Gitlab, Gitops, Ansible, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus
• Strong background in Linux system administration
• Deep expertise with AI/ML pipeline processing, especially with GPU processing. This doesn’t need to include model training, data gathering, etc. We’re looking more for experience on model deployment, and inferencing tasks at scale
• Deep expertise in Python including multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
• Performance profiling including memory, CPU, GPU profiling
• Error handling and building robust scripts that will be expected to run for weeks to months at a time
• Deploying to production servers and monitoring and maintaining the scripts
• DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
• Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including - creating & maintaining custom Docker images, deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services, monitoring of production Docker images with robust error handling
• Expertise in AWS infrastructure, networking, availability

Optional but beneficial to have:

• Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks
• Experience with image processing in python (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
• Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB (Or SQL familiarity)
• Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
• Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
• Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field
• Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online

Skills:

DevOps, Ansible, CI/CD, GitLab, GitOps, Docker, Python, AWS, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, python, sqlalchemy, Linux / Ubuntu system administration

Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer

Salary: Will be commensurate with experience. 

Who Should Apply:

If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.

Work Experience: 3 years to 6 years

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools(IaS) like Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• Proficiency in cloud-native technologies and architectures (Docker/ Kubernetes), Ci/CD pipelines.
• Good experience in Javascript.
• Expertise in Linux / Windows environment.
• Good Experience in Scripting languages like PowerShell / Bash/ Python.
• Proficiency in revision control and DevOps best practices like Git

Objectives :

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

• Deploy updates and fixes
• 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

Skills and Qualifications :

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Proficient with git and git workflows
• Good logical skills and knowledge of programming concepts(OOPS,Data Structures)
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

Rules & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
• Should be able to work on 24 X 7 shifts for support of infrastructure.
• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability and security
• Manage the production deployment and deployment automation
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation
• Institute infrastructure as code, security automation and automation or routine maintenance tasks
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like docker, Kubernetes
• Build, Deploy and Manage Kubernetes clusters thru automation
• Create and deliver knowledge sharing presentations and documentation for support teams
• Learning on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision
• Work effectively with onsite/offshore teams

Qualifications:

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of experience in IT
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining all AWS infrastructure and services
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security
• Hands-on technical expertise in Security Architecture, automation, integration, and deployment
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and AWS(IAM, Route53, SSM, S3, EFS, EBS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM Roles and Policies
• Solid Linux experience with a focus on web (Apache Tomcat/Nginx)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Terraform\Chef\Ansible or similar.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like Microservices, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, LDAP, JDBC, SQL, HTML
• Experience in managing and working with the offshore teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, etc.)
• AWS, Kubernetes Certification is preferred
• Ability to work with and influence Engineering teams

Roles and Responsibilities

• 5 - 8 years of experience in Infrastructure setup on Cloud, Build/Release Engineering, Continuous Integration and Delivery, Configuration/Change Management.
• Good experience with Linux/Unix administration and moderate to significant experience administering relational databases such as PostgreSQL, etc.
• Experience with Docker and related tools (Cassandra, Rancher, Kubernetes etc.)
• Experience of working in Config management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform etc.) is a plus.
• Experience with cloud technologies like Azure
• Experience with monitoring and alerting (TICK, ELK, Nagios, PagerDuty)
• Experience with distributed systems and related technologies (NSQ, RabbitMQ, SQS, etc.) is a plus
• Experience with scaling data store technologies is a plus (PostgreSQL, Scylla, Redis) is a plus
• Experience with SSH Certificate Authorities and Identity Management (Netflix BLESS) is a plus
• Experience with multi-domain SSL certs and provisioning a plus (Let's Encrypt) is a plus
• Experience with chaos or similar methodologies is a plus

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

• Proficient in Java, Node or Python
• Experience with NewRelic, Splunk, SignalFx, DataDog etc.
• Monitoring and alerting experience
• Full stack development experience
• Hands-on with building and deploying micro services in Cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Experience with terraform w.r.t Infrastructure As Code
• Should have experience troubleshooting live production systems using monitoring/log analytics tools
• Should have experience leading a team (2 or more engineers)
• Experienced using Jenkins or similar deployment pipeline tools
• Understanding of distributed architectures

Job Description :

- The engineer should be highly motivated, able to work independently, work and guide other engineers within and outside the team. 

- The engineer should possess varied software skills in Shell scripting, Linux, Oracle database, WebLogic, GIT, ANT, Hudson, Jenkins, Docker and Maven

- Work is super fun, non-routine, and, challenging, involving the application of advanced skills in area of specialization.

Key responsibilities :

- Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for Hudson monitoring, installing Cloud Software, Infra and cloud application usage monitoring.

Required Knowledge :

- Source Configuration management, Docker, Puppet, Ansible, Application and Server Monitoring, AWS, Database Administration, Kubernetes, Log monitoring, CI/CD, Design and implement build, deployment, and configuration management, Improve infrastructure development, Scripting language.

- Good written and verbal communication skills

Qualification :

Education and Experience : Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science

Open for 24- 7 shifts