DevOps Engineer

About the company :

- Provides free and subscription-based website and email services hosted and operated at data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

- Serve global audience and customers through sophisticated content delivery networks.

- Operate a service infrastructure using the latest technologies for web services and a very large storage infrastructure.

- Provides virtualized infrastructure, allows seamless migration and the addition of services for scalability.

- Pioneers and earliest adopters of public cloud and NoSQL big data store - since more than a decade.

- Provide innovative internet services with work on multiple technologies like php, java, nodejs, python and c++ to scale our services as per need.

- Has Internet infrastructure peering arrangements with all the major and minor ISPs and telecom service providers.

- Have mail traffic exchange agreements with major Internet services.

Job Details :

- This job position provides competitive professional opportunity both to experienced and aspiring engineers. The company's technology and operations groups are managed by senior professionals with deep subject matter expertise.

- The company believes having an open work environment offering mentoring and learning opportunities with an informal and flexible work culture, which allows professionals to actively participate and contribute to the success of our services and business.

- You will be part of a team that keeps the business running for cloud products and services that are used 24- 7 by the company's consumers and enterprise customers around the world. You will be asked to contribute to operate, maintain and provide escalation support for the company's cloud infrastructure that powers all of cloud offerings.

Job Role : 

- As a senior engineer, your role grows as you gain experience in our operations. We facilitate a hands-on learning experience after an induction program, to get you into the role as quickly as possible.

- The systems engineer role also requires candidates to research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks.

- The work culture allows a seamless integration with different product engineering teams. The teams work together and share responsibility to triage in complex operational situations. The candidate is expected to stay updated on best practices and help evolve processes both for resilience of services and compliance.

- You will be required to provide support for both, production and non-production environments to ensure system updates and expected service levels. You will be required to specifically handle 24/7 L2 and L3 oversight for incident responses and have an excellent understanding of the end-to-end support process from client to different support escalation levels.

- The role also requires a discipline to create, update and maintain process documents, based on operation incidents, technologies and tools used in the processes to resolve issues.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE :

- A graduate degree or senior diploma in engineering or technology with some or all of the following:

- Knowledge and work experience with KVM, AWS (Glacier, S3, EC2), RabbitMQ, Fluentd, Syslog, Nginx is preferred

- Installation and tuning of Web Servers, PHP, Java servlets, memory-based databases for scalability and performance

- Knowledge of email related protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP along with experience in maintenance and administration of MTAs such as postfix, qmail, etc will be an added advantage

- Must have knowledge on monitoring tools, trend analysis, networking technologies, security tools and troubleshooting aspects.

- Knowledge of analyzing and mitigating security related issues and threats is certainly desirable.

- Knowledge of agile development/SDLC processes and hands-on participation in planning sprints and managing daily scrum is desirable.

- Preferably, programming experience in Shell, Python, Perl or C.

Responsibilities:
The DevOps Engineer's core responsibilities include automated configuration and management
of infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery of distributed systems at scale in a Hybrid
environment.

Must-Have:
● You have 4-10 years of experience in DevOps
● You have experience in managing IT infrastructure at scale
● You have experience in automation of deployment of distributed systems and in
infrastructure provisioning at scale.
● You have in-depth hands-on experience on Linux and Linux-based systems, Linux
scripting
● You have experience in Server hardware, Networking, firewalls
● You have experience in source code management, configuration management,
continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous monitoring
● You have experience with CI/CD and related tools
* You have experience with Monitoring tools like ELK, Grafana, Prometheus
● You have experience with containerization, container orchestration, management
● Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems.
● Worked in startup-like environments with high levels of ownership and commitment.
● BTech, MTech or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related Technical Discipline

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).

DevOps 

Engineers : Min 3 to 5 Years 
Tech Leads : Min 6 to 10 Years 

 

• Implementing & supporting CI/CD/CT pipelines at scale.  
• Knowledge and experience using Chef, Puppet or Ansible automation to deploy and be able to manage Linux systems in production and CI environments.  
• Extensive experience with Shell scripts (bash).  
• Knowledge and practical experience of Jenkins for CI.  
• Experienced in build & release management.  
• Experience of deploying JVM based applications.  
• Enterprise AWS deployment with sound knowledge on AWS & AWS security.  
• Knowledge of encryption technologies: IPSec, SSL, SSH. 
• Minimum of 2 years of experience as a Linux Systems Engineer (CentOS/Red Hat) ideally supporting a highly-available, 24x7 production environments. 
• DNS providing and maintenance.  
• Helpful skills: Knowledge of applications relying on Maven, Ant, Gradle, Spring Boot.  
• Knowledge of app and server monitoring tools such as ELK/AppEngine. 
• Excellent written, oral communication and interpersonal skills. 

 

Role: As a part of the Platform Team, you will have a critical role in managing the ZipLoan infrastructure. 1. Understand the underlying infrastructure and keep it running 2. Design and improve processes related to CI/CD and ops monitoring and up time 3. Ensure release and ops monitoring standards remain consistent across engineering teams 4. Provide consultancy to engineering teams on specific DevOps challenges 5. Implement tools needed by various engineering teams Desired Profile: 1. Knowledge of different aspects of DevOps and the associated tools - CI, CD, SRE 2. Ability to build tools in Python 3. Excellent communication skills 4. Strong in Linux administration and able to administer scalable systems/servers 5. Knowledge of Web/database servers 6. Knowledge of Cloud systems, particularly AWS stack