DevOps Engineer

• DevOps Pre Sales Consultant

Ashnik

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

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THE POSITION Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg. Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tender

 

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
  · Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

 

Salary: upto 20L

Location: Mumbai

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Key Responsibilities
● Building and managing multiple application environments on AWS using automation tools like Terraform or
Cloudformation etc.
● Deploy applications with zero downtime via automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
● Setting up Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
● Setting up centralised logging using tools such as ELK.
● Containerisation of applications/microservices.
● Ensure application availability to 99.9% with highly available infrastructure.
● Monitoring performance of applications and databases.
● Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats.
● Working with software developers to ensure that release cycle and deployment processes are followed.
● Evaluating existing applications and platforms, give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis,
identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
Skills -
● Strong knowledge of AWS Managed Services such as EC2, RDS, ECS, ECR, S3, Cloudfront, SES, Redshift, Elastic Cache,
AMQP etc.
● Experience in handling production workloads.
● Experience with Nginx web server.
● Experience with NoSql and Sql Databases such as MongoDB, Postgresql etc.
● Experience with Containerisation of applications/micro services using Docker.
● Understanding of system administration in Linux environments.
● Strong Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code such as Terraform, Cloudformation etc.
● Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef etc.
● Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Vercel, JIRA etc.
● Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python etc.
● Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices and agile methodology
● Strong communication and documentation skills.
● An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
● Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
● Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role.
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Proven record of infra automation and programming skills in any of these languages - Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript.
• Implement DevOps Industry best practices and the application of procedures to achieve a continuously deployable system
• Continuously improve and increase the capabilities of the CI/CD pipeline
• Support engineering teams in the implementation of life-cycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
• Participate in production outages and handle complex issues and works towards resolution

 

 

Duties & Responsibilities:
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Qualifications:
• At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Expertise on configuration management
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Strong bias for action and ownership

Contract to hire
Total 8 years of experience and relevant 4 years
• Experience with building and deploying software in the cloud, preferably on Google Cloud       Platform (GCP)
• Sound knowledge to build infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Comfortable with test-driven development, testing frameworks and building CI/CD pipelines     with version control software Gitlab
• Strong skills of containerisation with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiar with Gitlab, systems integration and BDD
• Solid networking skills e.g. IP, DNS, VPN, HTTP/HTTPS
• Scripting experience (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration
• Experience with agile methods and practices (Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Integration, Pair     Programming, TDD)

Position Summary:
You will be responsible for
1. Setting up, maintaining cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) and kubernetes cluster and automating
their operation
2. All operational aspects of devtron platform including maintenance, upgrades,
automation.
3. Providing kubernetes expertise to facilitate smooth and fast customer onboarding on
devtron platform
Responsibilities:
1. Manage devtron platform on multiple kubernetes clusters
2. Designing and embedding industry best practices for online services including disaster
recovery, business continuity, monitoring/alerting, and service health measurement
3. Providing operational support for day to day activities involving the deployment of
services
4. Identify opportunities for improving the security, reliability, and scalability of the platform
5. Facilitate smooth and fast customer onboarding on devtron platform
6. Drive customer engagement
Requirements:
● Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field.
● 2+ years working as a devops engineer
● Proficient in 1 or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Go, Ruby).
● Familiar with shell scripts, Linux commands, network fundamentals
● Understanding of large scale distributed systems
● Basic understanding of cloud computing (AWS/GCP/Azure)
Preferred Qualifications:
● Great analytical and interpersonal skills
● Passion for creating efficient, reliable, reusable programs/scripts.
● Excited about technology, have a strong interest in learning about and playing with the
latest technologies and doing POC.
● Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.
● Knowledge and experience with cloud native tools like prometheus, kubernetes, docker,
grafana.

• Works closely with the development team, technical lead, and Solution Architects within the
Engineering group to plan ongoing feature development, product maintenance.
• Familiar with Virtualization, Containers - Kubernetes, Core Networking, Cloud Native
Development, Platform as a Service – Cloud Foundry, Infrastructure as a Service, Distributed
Systems etc
• Implementing tools and processes for deployment, monitoring, alerting, automation, scalability,
and ensuring maximum availability of server infrastructure
• Should be able to manage distributed big data systems such as hadoop, storm, mongoDB,
elastic search and cassandra etc.,
• Troubleshooting multiple deployment servers, Software installation, Managing licensing etc,.
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures in order to protect data, software, and
hardware.
• Monitor the performance of computer systems and networks, and to coordinate computer network
access and use.
• Design, configure and test computer hardware, networking software, and operating system
software.
• Recommend changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or
software requirements related to such changes.