DevOps Engineer

at Olacabs.com

Who You Are

• Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
• Able to balance multiple tasks and projects effectively and quickly adapt to new situations and technologies
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Systematic problem-solver, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

What you need

• 3-7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or a mix of a software engineer and DevOps.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux fundamentals, System administration scripting, performance tuning/scalability, troubleshooting.
• Write great quality code using SOLID principles including unit and integration tests.
• Hands-on development experience in an object-orientated programming language like Python.
• Hands-on experience developing task automations
• Experience using tools to create and manage CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery) pipelines.
• Familiarity with software development tools: source code management (SCM systems), code review systems, issue tracking tools, build tools, test frameworks, code quality tools.
• Experience implementing open-source observability and alerting tools, like Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Thanos, Alertmanager etc
• Have decent knowledge on networking (VPC, VNet, DNS etc) and of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.
• Worked with log and configuration management tool
• Prior experience of working with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
• Prior experience of working with Kubernetes, Docker and containers is plus
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
• Documenting your work should be in your DNA

What you get

• A chance to develop and build something (probably from scratch) which you can be proud of
• Build and Implement modern systems observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and APM & distributed tracing.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Maintain business continuity by identifying and driving opportunities to make systems highly resilient and human-free.
• Closely work with the software engineering team to ensure accurate monitoring and metrics are being built into applications before going to production.
• Develop and maintain software modules for use and re-use in cloud and on-premise systems automation.
• Identify process gaps and implement process improvements to increase operational reliability
• Drive standardization efforts across the services, infrastructure, systems, and practices
• Develop Systems & Tools to help with Development team to uphold the Reliability principles

Requirement
- At least 3 years of experience with relative experience in managing development operations
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Thorough knowledge on setting up release pipeline, managing multiple environments like Beta, Staging, UAT, and Production
- Thorough knowledge about best cloud practices and architecture
- Hands-on with benchmarking and performance monitoring
- Identifying various bottlenecks and taking pre-emptive measures to avoid downtime
- Hands-on knowledge with at least one toolset Chef/Puppet/Ansible
- Hands-on with CloudFormation / Terraform or other Infrastructure as code is a plus.  
- Thorough experience with Shell Scripting and should not know to shy away from learning new technologies or programming languages
- Experience with other cloud providers like Azure and GCP is a plus
- Should be open to R&D for creative ways to improve performance while keeping costs low

What we want the person to do?

- Manage, Monitor and Provision Infrastructure - Majorly on AWS
- Will be responsible for maintaining 100% uptime on production servers (Site Reliability)
- Setting up a release pipeline for current releases. Automating releases for Beta, Staging & Production
- Maintaining near-production replica environments on Beta and Staging
- Automating Releases and Versioning of Static Assets (Experience with Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
- Should have hands-on experience with Build Tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild etc
- Identify performance gaps and ways to fix.
- Weekly meetings with Engineering Team to discuss the changes/upgrades. Can be related to code issue/architecture bottlenecks.
- Creative Ways of Reducing Costs of Cloud Computing
- Convert Infrastructure Deployment / Provision to Infrastructure as Code for reusability and scaling.

Hey there!

Biostrap is based in Los Angeles, California with our team working remotely in several countries around the globe. This is a remote position, you’ll need a computer and a high speed internet connection.

We are looking for the tough kinds, the warrior ones, always learning  Sr. Devops Engineers to take care of our infrastructure and site reliability @ Biostrap. As an engineer at Biostrap, you will be a part of a lean but extremely passionate team of engineers and work towards making and keeping Biostrap as the go-to best health platform

Responsibilities: What would the job be like?

• Work closely with the engineering team to deploy and maintain the infrastructure.
• Add automation at every part of the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Analyze and help in Infrastructure cost optimizations.
• Build and work with CI + CD workflows..
• Build robust observability system for system monitoring and tracing.
• Architect scalable logging servers.
• Add extensive alerting systems for various important issues, events using monitoring and logging services.
• Work with other engineers in developing architecture that is scalable and resilient to changes in product requirements and usage in an agile environment.
• Security Hardening of cloud infrastructure against known/unknown vulnerabilities
• Write Infrastructure as Code for most of the cloud.
• Suggest and implement pragmatic changes to infrastructure to increase performance, resilience and availability and to fool-proof infrastructure for future.
• Build auditing systems for various resource accesses and have a breach detection notification system.
• Do periodic security reviews and implement improvements.
• Be incharge of and manage deployments of various services.
• Work with aws resources, containers and systems like Ansible/EKS/kubernetes.

Qualifications: Who should apply for this role?

• You have 3+ years of working in small to medium size teams building and shipping products.
• Strong grasp of at least one of the scripting or systems languages like Python, Javascript, Golang etc.
• Good experience managing various AWS resources.
• Well equipped with Linux and Bash/Shell scripting
• Working knowledge of Docker or container management.
• Have some development experience with Kubernetes.
• You spin out containers as if it's your fantasy war ground. 
• Understand deployment tools like Ansible or similar.
• Built and worked with CI+CD systems like Gitlab Ci, Jenkins, CircleCi, Travis etc.
• Working knowledge of GIT for version control.
• Experience with database management and security.
• Experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of configuration management and secrets/keys management services like AWS KMS, Vault etc.
• Required to be proficient in English (both speaking and writing).

Brownie Points for (:D):

• You already use Biostrap and have plenty of feedback to provide.
• You can lecture developers on scalable infrastructures.
• You have built or worked with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK systems.
• You have a story to tell about how you managed a failure or was part of a disaster recovery.
• You contribute to Open Source projects or have a good Github/GitLab presence to showcase your past projects.
• You have sent your code to Space and it runs “a” Rover on Mars. :P

• We are looking for a Senior SRE with a proven track record of success leading complex cloud-hybrid environments. You will have:
• Strong sense of Being an Owner, Wearing the Customer Shoes, with the ability to Empower Others demonstrated through clear
• communication and collaboration.
• Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating our global infrastructure on AWS and on-prem.
• Operational experience in complex distributed and real-time systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability,reliability and DR goals.
• DevOps experience in building tools and frameworks, with an understanding of continuous deployment processes.
• Ability to think at scale, bringing a focus on continuous delivery methodologies from design through deployment and operations.
• Experience building and managing systems with tools including Kubernetes, Chef/Ansible/Puppet, Kafka, Docker, and Terraform.

• 5+ years experience in a Software and/or Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience writing automation code in GoLang, Python or Java
• Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience in running real time and low latency high available applications (Kafka, gRPC, RTP)
• Experience running public cloud environments on AWS
• Experience running hybrid clouds and on-prem infrastructures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• The ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across an engineering organization

About the Role

Dremio’s SREs ensure that our internal and externally visible services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. You will be joining a newly formed team that will spearhead our efforts to launch a cloud service. This is an opportunity to join a very fast growth startup and help build a cloud service from the ground up.

Responsibilities and Ownership

• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Evangelize and advocate for reliability practices across our organization.
• Collaborate with other Engineering teams to support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, monitoring/alerting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Analyze and optimize our core product by developing and implementing reliability and performance practices.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Be on-call for services that the SRE team owns.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in the following areas: SRE, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Excellent command of cloud services on AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Have moderate-advanced experience in Java, C, C++, Python, Go or other object-oriented programming languages.
• You are Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• You have a great ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• You have a solid background in software development and architecting resilient and reliable applications.

• 5+ years of software development or site reliability engineering or equivalent experience
• Skilled at problem solving, algorithms, and data structures
• Building tools and scripting frameworks from scratch
• Working with Cloud Automation tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK, aws-cli
• Scripting languages like Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash, Perl etc.
• Configuration automation using Ansible or equivalent tools
• Exposure to Windows, Linux administration skills
• Project management tools like Jira, Trello
• Prior experience in dealing with Datastore technologies like Postgres, MySQL, SQL, DynamoDB is desirable
• Familiarity with basic networking, security and cloud engineering concepts
• Team player who is eager to help others to succeed through mentoring and leading by example
• Highly collaborative with effective written and verbal communication skills