DevOps Engineer

About the Role:

The DevOps team is responsible for building and running the ecosystem that delivers services to our customers internally and externally. They are embedded in project tribes to collaborate and ensure project objectives are achieved within time, cost, and quality.

In true DevOps spirit, they will improve the DevOps process and ensure Cloud Infrastructure architectural integrity, automating where possible and ensuring production website stability, integrity, performance, and supportability.

Required Skills & Experience:

● Degree in IT/Software Engineering or similar, or equivalent practical experience

● 2-4 years experience in DevOps supporting cloud environments, specifically in AWS or GCP

● 1+ year experience with automation tools and performing refactorisation

● Excellent technical problem-solving skills which you can quickly draw on in unfamiliar situations

● Exposure to Agile/DevOps principles and CI/CD tools

● Good written skills and demonstrated experience in documentation of work

● Good capabilities in source control technologies such as Git

● Good capabilities with Python/Bash/PowerShell

● Familiarity with multiple operating systems, particularly Linux

● Good spoken and written English

Must-haves:

● AWS certification or similar Cloud certification and working cloud support experience

● Experience with Docker or Kubernetes (EKS)

● Experience with Terraform

● Experience in setting up Prometheus and Grafana in Amazon EKS

Good-to-have:

● Experience with CDN tools

● Experience with using cloud security tools

● Experience with multiple public cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)

● Experience with SQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / GraphQL

● Experience with Content Mgmt tools and Front End applicmations

Key Responsibilities:

1. To support the DevOps process for web-based products hosted on cloud infrastructure, specifically:

● To respond and complete tickets, meet SLAs, and manage Reporter expectations.

● To collaborate with assigned tribe change streams to deliver project/change objectives:

a. Understand requirements, and support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

b. Build software and systems to manage infrastructure and applications through automation deployment.

c. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve performance, reliability, scalability, security, and velocity.

● Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.

● To monitor and respond to alerts, issues, and incidents about cloud infrastructure (and corporate infrastructure as required).

● Practice sustainable incident response and provide appropriate communications and blameless post-mortems.

2. To drive DevOps process and Cloud infrastructure improvements as part of service and security improvement roadmap, specifically:

● Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.

● To support training and learning by sharing knowledge with the Tech team and taking responsibility for own professional development.

● Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward.

● To articulate and escalate risks and issues, provide recommended solutions to problems, and implement them.

● Document procedures, configuration changes, and guidelines.

3. To maintain cloud infrastructure and networking as per Cloud policy, standards, and governance requirements.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time without notice.

After-hours support, as agreed, for eg, on-call support, releases that need to be done out of business hours due to potential risk of disruption to the business, incidents work that needs to be resolved as a priority.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

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 or Build & Deploy..

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.

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

• Install, configuration management, performance tuning and monitoring of Web, App and Database servers.
• Install, setup and management of Java, PHP and NodeJS stack with software load balancers.
• Install, setup and administer MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch & PostgreSQL DBs.
• Install, set up and maintenance monitoring solutions for like Nagios, Zabbix.
• Design and implement DevOps processes for new projects following the department's objectives of automation.
• Collaborate on projects with development teams to provide recommendations, support and guidance.
• Work towards full automation, monitoring, virtualization and containerization.
• Create and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.
• Automation of processes in a scalable and easy to understand way that can be detailed and understood through documentation.
• Develop and deploy software that will help drive improvements towards the availability, performance, efficiency, and security of services.
• Maintain 24/7 availability for responsible systems and be open to on-call rotation.

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

MTX Group Inc. is seeking a motivated Lead DevOps Engineer to join our team. MTX Group Inc. is a global implementation partner enabling organizations to become fit enterprises. MTX provides expertise across various platforms and technologies, including Google Cloud, Salesforce, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data integration, data governance, data quality, analytics, visualization and mobile technology. MTX’s very own Artificial Intelligence platform Maverick, enables clients to accelerate processes and critical decisions by leveraging a Cognitive Decision Engine, a collection of purpose-built Artificial Neural Networks designed to leverage the power of Machine Learning. The Maverick Platform includes Smart Asset Detection and Monitoring, Chatbot Services, Document Verification, to name a few.

Responsibilities:

• Be responsible for software releases, configuration, monitoring and support of production system components and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot technical or functional issues in a complex environment to provide timely resolution, with various applications and platforms that are global.
• Bring experience on Google Cloud Platform.
• Write scripts and automation tools in languages such as Bash/Python/Ruby/Golang.
• Configure and manage data sources like PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo, Elasticsearch, Redis, Cassandra, Hadoop, etc
• Build automation and tooling around Google Cloud Platform using technologies such as Anthos, Kubernetes, Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, Helm, Cloud Build etc.
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment with and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Work with users to understand and gather their needs in our catalogue. Then participate in the required developments
• Manage several streams of work concurrently
• Understand how various systems work
• Understand how IT operations are managed

What you will bring:

• 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Must possess ample knowledge and experience in system automation, deployment, and implementation.
• Must possess experience in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in configuring and automating the monitoring tools.
• Experience in the software development process and tools and languages like SaaS, Python, Java, MongoDB, Shell scripting, Python, MySQL, and Git. 
• Knowledge in handling distributed data systems. Examples: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Hadoop, and others.

What we offer:

• Group Medical Insurance (Family Floater Plan - Self + Spouse + 2 Dependent Children)
• Sum Insured: INR 5,00,000/- 
• Maternity cover upto two children
• Inclusive of COVID-19 Coverage
• Cashless & Reimbursement facility
• Access to free online doctor consultation

• Personal Accident Policy (Disability Insurance) -

• Sum Insured: INR. 25,00,000/- Per Employee
• Accidental Death and Permanent Total Disability is covered up to 100% of Sum Insured
• Permanent Partial Disability is covered as per the scale of benefits decided by the Insurer
• Temporary Total Disability is covered

• An option of Paytm Food Wallet (up to Rs. 2500) as a tax saver  benefit
• Monthly Internet Reimbursement of upto Rs. 1,000 
• Opportunity to pursue Executive Programs/ courses at top universities globally
• Professional Development opportunities through various MTX sponsored certifications on multiple technology stacks including Salesforce, Google Cloud, Amazon & others

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• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline