DevOps Engineer

Skills We Require:- Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

SUMMARY:-

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• 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

Have good hands on experience on Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

Have knowledge on EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Centos, Server Hardening

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

What you will do

We are looking for an exceptional engineering lead to join our team. You will be responsible for building and owning the systems that would have critical impact for the business and the experience of our community from day one. 

• Build and lead an agile engineering team
• Work closely with Founder on product development
• Collaborate with operations team to understand customer pain points and solve interesting problems
• Code, test, ship - manage the entire application cycle
• Build libraries and documentation for future references
• Research and develop best practices and tools to enable delivery of features
• Set up capabilities to track and report business and user metrics
• Design and improve architecture to ensure scalability
  
  

Requirements

• Proven experience at scaling tech companies, preferably in commerce or social network
• Keen to innovate, open-minded and collaborative
• Able to interpret product needs and suggest appropriate solutions
• Have led a team, also able to code hands-on
• Strong communication skills
• Strong work ethic: responsible, responsive, and detail-oriented.
  
  

Technologies we use
Go, Flutter, AWS, Google Cloud

Who we are :

Stanza Living is India's largest and fastest growing tech-enabled, managed accommodation company that delivers a hospitality-led living experience to migrant students and young working professionals across India. We have a full-stack business model that focuses on design, development and delivery of daily living solutions tailored to the young consumers' lifestyle. From smartly-planned residences, host of amenities and services for hassle-free living to exclusive community engagement programmes - everything is seamlessly integrated through technology to ensure the highest consumer delight.

Today, we are :

• India's largest managed accommodation company with over 75,000+ beds under management across 25+ cities
• Most capitalized player in the managed accommodation space, backed by global marquee investors - Falcon Edge, Equity International, Sequoia Capital, Matrix Partners, Accel Partners
• Recognized as the Best Real Estate Tech company across the Globe in 2020 by leading analysis agency, Tracxn
• LinkedIn Top Startup to Work for - 2019

Objectives of this role :

- Work in tandem with our engineering team to identify and implement the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the company

- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance

- Provide guidance, thought leadership, and mentorship to developer teams to build their cloud competencies

- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design

- Manage cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines

Job Description :

- Excellent understanding of Cloud Platform (AWS)

- Strong knowledge on AWS Services, design, configuration on enterprise systems

- Good knowledge on Kubernetes configuration, Dockers

- Understanding the needs of the business for defining AWS system specifications

- Understand Architecture Requirements and ensure effective support activities

- Evaluation and choosing suitable AWS Service or and suggesting methods for integration

- Overseeing assigned programs and guiding the team members

- Providing assistance when technical problems arise

- Making sure the agreed infrastructure and architecture are implemented

- Addressing the technical concerns, suggestions, and ideas

- Configure Monitoring systems to make sure they meet business goals as well as user requirements

- Excellent knowledge of AWS IaaS Layer

- Ability to lead & implement PS workloads or POCs

- Ensure continual knowledge management

Description

DevOps Engineer / SRE

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Nagios,Terraform  etc

• Strong Systems Experience- Linux, networking, cloud, APIs
• Scripting language Programming - Shell, Python
• Strong Debugging Capability
• AWS Platform -IAM, Network,EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch
• Knowledge on Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins
• Observability - Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace,
• Grafana, Splunk • DevSecOps-CI/CD - Jenkins
• Microservices
• Security & Access Management
• Container Orchestration a plus - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Big Data Platforms knowledge EMR, Databricks. Cloudera a plus

Experienced with Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Jenkins.

Experience is needed in Kubernetes (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, Docker.

Good understanding in Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, and other Azure components.

Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer ready for a Senior role or already at a Senior level.

Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:

Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) product such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services.

Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such including Azure AD or AD B2C.

Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics.

Knowledge of PowerShell, GitHub, ARM templates, version controls/hotfix strategy and deployment automation.

Ability and desire to quickly pick up new technologies, languages, and tools

Excellent communication skills and Good team player.

Passionate about code quality and best practices is an absolute must

Must show evidence of your passion for technology and continuous learning

• Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need:

• BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
• Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
• Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

KaiOS is a mobile operating system for smart feature phones that stormed the scene to become the 3rd largest mobile OS globally (2nd in India ahead of iOS). We are on 100M+ devices in 100+ countries. We recently closed a Series B round with Cathay Innovation, Google and TCL.

What we are looking for:

• BE/B-Tech in Computer Science or related discipline
• 3+ years of overall commercial DevOps / infrastructure experience, cross-functional delivery-focused agile environment; previous experience as a software engineer and ability to see into and reason about the internals of an application a major plus
• Extensive experience designing, delivering and operating highly scalable resilient mission-critical backend services serving millions of users; experience operating and evolving multi-regional services a major plus
• Strong engineering skills; proficiency in programming languages
• Experience in Infrastructure-as-code tools, for example Terraform, CloudFormation
• Proven ability to execute on a technical and product roadmap
• Extensive experience with iterative development and delivery
• Extensive experience with observability for operating robust distributed systems – instrumentation, log shipping, alerting, etc.
• Extensive experience with test and deployment automation, CI / CD
• Extensive experience with infrastructure-as-code and tooling, such as Terraform
• Extensive experience with AWS, including services such as ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, EMR, Redshift, Elasticsearch, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFront, IAM, etc.
• Strong knowledge of backend and web technology; infrastructure experience with at-scale modern data technology a major plus
• Deep expertise in server-side security concerns and best practices
• Fluency with at least one programming language. We mainly use Golang, Python and JavaScript so far
• Outstanding analytical thinking, problem solving skills and attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Requirements

Designation: DevOps Engineer

Location: Bangalore OR Hongkong

Experience: 4 to 7 Years

Notice period: 30 days or Less