DevOps Engineer
Company Introduction
https://www.cometchat.com/">CometChat harnesses the power of chat by helping thousands of businesses around the world create customized in-app messaging experiences. Our products allow developers to seamlessly add voice, video and text chat to their websites and mobile apps so that their users can communicate with each other, resulting in a unified customer experience, increased engagement and retention, and revenue growth.
In 2019, CometChat was selected into the exclusive Techstars Boulder Accelerator. CometChat (Industry CPaaS: communication-platform-as-a-service) has also been listed among the top 10 best SaaS companies by G2 Crowd. With solid financials, strong organic growth and increasing interest in developer tool-focused companies (from the market and with top technical talent), we’re heading into an exciting period of growth and acceleration. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/cometchat">CometChat is backed by seasoned investors such as iSeed Ventures, Range Ventures, Silicon Badia, eonCapital and Matchstick Ventures.
A global business from the start, we have 60+ team members across our Denver and Mumbai offices serving over 50,000 customers around the world. We’ve had an exciting journey so far, and we know this is just the beginning!
CometChat’s Mission
Enable meaningful connections between real people in an increasingly digital world.
CometChat’s Products
CometChat offers a robust suite of cloud hosted text, voice and video options that meet businesses where they are–whether they need drag and drop plugins that can be ready within 30 minutes or if they want more advanced features and can invest development resources to launch the experience that will best serve their users.
● Quickly build a reliable & full featured chat experience into any mobile or web app
● Fully customizable SDKs and API designed to help companies ship faster
At every step, CometChat helps customers solve complex infrastructure, performance and security challenges, regardless of the platform. But there is so much more! With over 20 ready to use extensions, customers can build an experience and get the data, analysis and insights they need to drive their business forward.
CometChat’s solutions are perfect for every kind of chat including:
● Social community – Allowing people in online communities to interact without moving the conversation to another platform
● Marketplace – Enabling communications between buyers and sellers
● Events – Bringing thousands of users together to interact without diminishing the quality of the experience
● Telemedicine – Making connections between patients and providers more accessible
● Dating – Keeping people engaged while they connect with one another
● And more!
CometChat is committed to fostering a culture of innovation & collaboration. Our people are our strength so we respect and nurture their individual talent and potential. Join us if you are looking to be a part of a high growth team!
Position Overview & Priorities:
The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems and software using Infrastructure as Code. This can include the provision of cloud instances, streamlining deployments, configuring virtual instances, scaling out DB servers.
Primary responsibility would be:
- Oversight of all server environments, from Dev through Production.
- Work on an infrastructure that is 100% on AWS.
- Work on CI/CD tooling which is used to build and deploy code to our cloud.
- Assist with day-to-day issue management.
- Work on internal tooling which simplifies workflows.
- Research, design and implement solutions for fault tolerance, monitoring, performance enhancement, capacity optimization, and configuration management of systems and applications.
Work Location:
We operate on a Hybrid model – you choose where you work from! Remotely or from our offices. Currently, our talent is spread across 14 different cities globally.
Prioritized Experiences and Capabilities:
- 2-4 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer/currently practicing DevOps methodology
- Experience in AWS Infrastructure
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Cloud Formation / Terraform, Puppet / Chef / Ansible)
- Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration
- DevOps automation with CI/CD, a pipeline that enforces proper versioning and branching practices
- Experience in Docker and Kubernetes.
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SHIFT- Shift time either US East coast or west coast (2:30 PM to 10:30 PM India time or 5 to 2 am india time)
Exp- 5 to 8 years
Salary- Upto 25 LPA
Hyderabad based candidates preferred!
Immediate joiners would be preferred!!
Role Objective:
- Ability to identify processes where efficiency could be improved via automation
- Ability to research, prototype, iterate and test automation solutions
- Good Technical understanding of Cloud service offering, with a sound appreciation of the associated business processes.
- Ability to build & maintain a strong working relationship with other Technical teams using the agile methodology (internal and external), Infrastructure Partners and Service Engagement Managers.
- Ability to shape and co-ordinate delivery of key initiatives to deliver improvements in stability
- Good understanding of the cost of the e2e service provision, and delivery of associated savings.
- Knowledge of web security principals
- Strong Linux experience – comfortable working from command line
- Some networking knowledge (routing, DNS)
- Knowledge of HA and DR concepts and experience implementing them
- Working with team to analyse and design infrastructure with 99.99% up-time.
Qualifications:
- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (Eg Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Java, shell) or previous software development experience
- Experience in building and managing production cloud environments from the ground up.
- Hands-on, working experience with primary AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, Route53, S3)
- Knowledge on repository management (GitHub, SVN)
- Solid understanding of web application architecture and RDBMS (SQL Server preferred).
- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements is a bonus. (Eg Security, Privacy, HIPAA, SOX, etc)
- Strong logical, analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication skills.
- Should have degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent with 5+ years of experience.
- Should be willing to work in rotational shifts (including the nights)
Perks and benefits:
- Health & Wellness
- Paid time off
- Learning at work
- Fun at work
- Night shift allowance
- Comp off
- Pick and drop facility available to certain distance
- Hands-on knowledge on various CI-CD tools (Jenkins/TeamCity, Artifactory, UCD, Bitbucket/Github, SonarQube) including setting up of build-deployment automated pipelines.
- Very good knowledge in scripting tools and languages such as Shell, Perl or Python , YAML/Groovy, build tools such as Maven/Gradle.
- Hands-on knowledge in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Good knowledge in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet/Chef and have worked on setting up of monitoring tools (Splunk/Geneos/New Relic/Elk).
- Expertise in job schedulers/workload automation tools such as Control-M or AutoSys is good to have.
- Hands-on knowledge on Cloud technology (preferably GCP) including various computing services and infrastructure setup using Terraform.
- Should have basic understanding on networking, certificate management, Identity and Access Management and Information security/encryption concepts.
- • Should support day-to-day tasks related to platform and environments upkeep such as upgrades, patching, migration and system/interfaces integration.
- • Should have experience in working in Agile based SDLC delivery model, multi-task and support multiple systems/apps.
- • Big-data and Hadoop ecosystem knowledge is good to have but not mandatory.
- Should have worked on standard release, change and incident management tools such as ServiceNow/Remedy or similar
Summary
We are building the fastest, most reliable & intelligent trading platform. That requires highly available, scalable & performant systems. And you will be playing one of the most crucial roles in making this happen.
You will be leading our efforts in designing, automating, deploying, scaling and monitoring all our core products.
Tech Facts so Far
1. 8+ services deployed on 50+ servers
2. 35K+ concurrent users on average
3. 1M+ algorithms run every min
4. 100M+ messages/min
We are a 4-member backend team with 1 Devops Engineer. Yes! this is all done by this incredible lean team.
Big Challenges for You
1. Manage 25+ services on 200+ servers
2. Achieve 99.999% (5 Nines) availability
3. Make 1-minute automated deployments possible
If you like to work on extreme scale, complexity & availability, then you will love it here.
Who are we
We are on a mission to help retail traders prosper in the stock market. In just 3 years, we have the 3rd most popular app for the stock markets in India. And we are aiming to be the de-facto trading app in the next 2 years.
We are a young, lean team of ordinary people that is building exceptional products, that solve real problems. We love to innovate, thrill customers and work with brilliant & humble humans.
Key Objectives for You
• Spearhead system & network architecture
• CI, CD & Automated Deployments
• Achieve 99.999% availability
• Ensure in-depth & real-time monitoring, alerting & analytics
• Enable faster root cause analysis with improved visibility
• Ensure a high level of security
Possible Growth Paths for You
• Be our Lead DevOps Engineer
• Be a Performance & Security Expert
Perks
• Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
• A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware
Below is the Job Description for the position of DevOps Azure Engineer in Xceedance co.
Qualifications BE/ B.Tech/ MCA in computer science
Key Requirement for the Position Develop Azure application design and connectivity patterns, Azure networking topologies, and Azure storage facilities.
• Run code conformance tools as part of releases.
• Design Azure app service web app by using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and other tools.
• Implement containerized solution using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Automating the build and deployment process through Azure DevOps approach and tools from development to production
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Script and update build and deployments.
• Coordinate environment usage and alignment.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated deployments code for development, test, staging and production environments.
• Configure the application and container platform with proactive monitoring tools and trigger alerts through communication channels
• Develop infrastructure and platform code
• Effectively contribute to building the overall knowledge and expertise of the technical team
• Provide Level 2/3 technical support
Location Noida or Gurgaon
- 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
Responsibilities
- Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
- Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
- Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
- Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
- Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
- Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.
Skills
- Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team
- Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
- Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
- Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
- Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
- CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution
- Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
- Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
- Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
- Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
- Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
- Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
- Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
- Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
- Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
- Knowledge of helm and terraform
Currently, Indus OS has a user base of over 12+ Million on the back of 10+ smartphone brand partnerships with leading OEMs such as Samsung, Gionee, iTel, Micromax, Intex, Karbonn, and others. The Indus platform is available in English & 23 Indian regional languages and is intended to digitally connect the next 1 billion people in the emerging markets.
Indus App Bazaar: Indus also has its very own app market place called Indus App Bazaar with over 400,000 applications. Indus App Bazaar is India's largest indigenous app store available in 12 languages, designed to suit specific requirements of the Indian consumers. The recent partnership with Samsung will see Indus App Bazaar power Samsung's new Galaxy Apps Store in all Samsung Devices. With this partnership, we will be able to reach a user base of over 150 Million by 2021.
Indus OS in News:
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Economic Times: http://bit.ly/2ayTvD4
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Key Responsibilities
- Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
- Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
- Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
- Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
- Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
- Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization
- Management of staging/development environments
What you know :
- Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
- Experience with systems and IT operations
- Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
- Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare metal systems
- Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
- Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
- Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
- Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment
- Data management skills
Education :
- Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science or 2-5 years equivalent experience in systems administration or DevOps roles.
- Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
- Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)
- Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.
Our Offering :
- True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.
- The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.
Perks :
- Awesome benefits, social gatherings etc.
- Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.
EXP:: 4 - 7 yrs
- Any scripting language:: Python, Scala, shell or bash
- Cloud:: AWS
- Database:: Relational (SQL) & non-relational (NoSQL)
- CI/CD tools and Version controlling
2. Has done Infrastructure coding using Cloudformation/Terraform and Configuration also understands it very clearly
3. Deep understanding of the microservice design and aware of centralized Caching(Redis),centralized configuration(Consul/Zookeeper)
4. Hands-on experience of working on containers and its orchestration using Kubernetes
5. Hands-on experience of Linux and Windows Operating System
6. Worked on NoSQL Databases like Cassandra, Aerospike, Mongo or
Couchbase, Central Logging, monitoring and Caching using stacks like ELK(Elastic) on the cloud, Prometheus, etc.
7. Has good knowledge of Network Security, Security Architecture and Secured SDLC practices