DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Position - SRE developer / DevOps Engineer

Location - Mumbai

Experience- 3- 10 years

About HaystackAnalytics:

HaystackAnalytics is a company working in deep technology of genomics, computing and data science for creating the first of its kind clinical reporting engine in Healthcare. We are a new but well funded company with a tremendous amount of pedigree in the team (IIT Founders, IIT & IIM core team). Some of the technologies we have created are a global first in infectious disease and chronic diagnostics. As a product company creating a huge amount of IP, our Technology and R&D team are our crown jewels. With early success of our products in India, we are now expanding to take our products to international shores. 

Inviting Passionate Engineers to join a new age enterprise:  

At HaystackAnalytics, we rely on our dynamic team of engineers to solve the many challenges and puzzles that come with our rapidly evolving stack that deals with Healthcare and Genomics.

We’re looking for full stack engineers who are passionate problem solvers, ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. 

Our ideal candidate has experience building enterprise products and has understanding and experience of working with new age front end technologies, web frameworks, APIs, databases, distributed computing,back end languages, caching, security, message based architectures et al.

You’ll be joining a small team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front end and back end architecture, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Objectives of this Role:

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ideate and develop new product features in collaboration with domain experts in healthcare and genomics 
• Develop state of the art enterprise standard front-end and backend services
• Develop cloud platform services based on container orchestration platform 
• Continuously embrace automation for repetitive tasks
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality by using clean coding principles and solid design patterns 
• Build robust tech modules that are Unit Testable, Automating recurring tasks and processes  
• Engage effectively with team members and collaborate to upskill and unblock each other

Frontend Skills 

• HTML 5  
• CSS framework ( LESS/ SASS ) 
• Es6 / Typescript 
• Electron app / TAURI
• Component library ( Webcomponents / radix / material ) 
• CSS ( tailwind) 
• State management --> Redux / Zustand / Recoil 
• Build tools - > (webpack/vite/Parcel/turborepo)
• Frameworks -- > Next JS / 
• Design patterns 
• Test Automation Frameworks (cypress playwright etc )
• Functional Programming concepts  
• Scripting ( bash , python )

Backend Skills 

1. Node / Deno / bun - Express / NEST JS 
2. Language : Typescript / Python / Rust / 
3. REST / GRAPHQL 
4. SOLID Design Principles
5. Storage (mongodb/ Object Storage / postgres ) 
6. Caching ( Redis / In memory Data grid )
7. Pub sub (KAFKA / SQS / SNS / Event bridge / RabbitMQ) 
8. Container Technology ( Docker / Kubernetes )  
9. Cloud ( azure , aws , openshift ) 
10. GITOPS 
11. Automation ( terraform , Serverless ) 

Other Skills 

• Innovation and thought leadership
• UI - UX design skills  
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies to grow
• Communication 

Must Have -

a. Background working with Startups

b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker

c. Background working in Azure

What you’ll be doing

• Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
• Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
• Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
• Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
• Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
• Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
• Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
• DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
• Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
• Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
• Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.

Requirements

• 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
• 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
• Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
• Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
• Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
• Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
• Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• 2+ years experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache, etc)
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc)
• Experience in setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Knowledge of setting up and securing networks (VPN, Intranet, VPC, Peering, etc)
• Understanding of common security issues

• 7+ years of experience in System Administration, Networking, Automation, Monitoring
• Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Experience managing systems deployed in public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS or Google Cloud)
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, etc.)
• Linux experience, flavours: Ubuntu, Redhat, CentOS (sysadmin, bash scripting)
• Experience setting up monitoring (Datadog, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience in Infrastructure Automation tools like Terraform
• Experience in Package Manager for Kubernetes like Helm Charts
• Experience with databases and data storage (Oracle, MongoDB, Postgres SQL, ELK stack)
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with orchestration technologies (Kubernetes or DC/OS)
• Familiar with Agile Software Development

Job Description

• Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
• Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
• Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
• Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
• Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
• Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
• Good communications and Presentation Skills

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field

Must-Have’s:

• Hands-on DevOps (Git, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python/Ruby)  

Job Description:

• Knowledge on what is a DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

• Understanding of version control systems like Git, including branching and merging strategies
• Knowledge of what is continuous delivery and integration tools like Jenkins, Github
• Knowledge developing code using Ruby or Python and Java or PHP 
• Knowledge writing Unix Shell (bash, ksh) scripts

• Knowledge of what is automation/configuration management using Ansible, Terraform, Chef or Puppet

• Experience and willingness to keep learning in a Linux environment
• Ability to provide after-hours support as needed for emergency or urgent situations

Nice to have’s:

• Proficient with container based products like docker and Kubernetes

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)

• Able to work in a team and be a team player
• Knowledge of PHP, MySQL, Apache and other open source software
• BA/BS in computer science or similar

• Mandatory: Docker, AWS, Linux, Kubernete or ECS
• Prior experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters / Kubernetes
• Production experience to build scalable systems (load balancers, memcached, master/slave architectures)
• Experience supporting a managed cloud services infrastructure
• Ability to maintain, monitor and optimise production database servers
• Prior work with Cloud Monitoring tools (Nagios, Cacti, CloudWatch etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, NoSQL databases (DynamoDB, Cassandra, MongoDB, etc)
• Other Open Source tools used in the infrastructure space (Packer, Terraform, Vagrant, etc.)
• In-depth knowledge on Linux Environment.
• Prior experience leading technical teams through the design and implementation of systems infrastructure projects.
• Working knowledge of Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible preferred) Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins preferred)
• Experience in handling large production deployments and infrastructure.
• DevOps based infrastructure and application deployments experience.
• Working knowledge of the AWS network architecture including designing VPN solutions between regions and subnets
• Hands-on knowledge with the AWS AMI architecture including the development of machine templates and blueprints
• He/she should be able to validate that the environment meets all security and compliance controls.
• Good working knowledge of AWS services such as Messaging, Application Services, Migration Services, Cost Management Platform.
• Proven written and verbal communication skills.
• Understands and can serve as the technical team lead to oversee the build of the Cloud environment based on customer requirements.
• Previous NOC experience.
• Client Facing Experience with excellent Customer Communication and Documentation Skills