DevOps Engineer-Hongkong

Position: DevOps Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: 3 to 6 Years

Key Skills: AWS, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, DevSecOps pipeline

Job Description:

• AWS Infrastructure: Architect, deploy, and manage AWS services like EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, SageMaker, API Gateway, and VPC.
• Networking: Proficient in subnetting, endpoints, NACL, security groups, VPC flow logs, and routing.
• API Management: Design and manage secure, scalable APIs using AWS API Gateway.
• CI/CD Pipelines: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.
• Automation & IaC: Use Terraform and CloudFormation for automating infrastructure management.
• Containerization & Kubernetes: Expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, and managing containerized deployments.
• Monitoring & Logging: Implement monitoring with AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and other tools.
• Security: Apply AWS security best practices using IAM, KMS, Secrets Manager, and GuardDuty.
• Cost Management: Monitor and optimize AWS usage and costs.
• Collaboration: Partner with development, QA, and operations teams to enhance productivity and system reliability.

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
•     • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
•     • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
•     • Experience with IAC tools  Terraform
•     • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
•     • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
•     • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
•     • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
•     • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
•     • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
•     • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
•     • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
•     • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

At Neurosensum we are committed to make customer feedback more actionable. We have developed a platform called SurveySensum which breaks the conventional market research turnaround time. 

SurveySensum is becoming a great tool to not only capture the feedbacks but also to extract some useful insights with the quick workflow setups and dashboards. We have more than 7 channels through which we can collect the feedbacks. This makes us challenge the conventional software development design principles. The team likes to grind and helps each other to lift in tough situations. 

Day to day responsibilities include:

1. Work on the deployment of code via Bitbucket, AWS CodeDeploy and manual
2. Work on Linux/Unix OS and Multi tech application patching
3. Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, and hotfixes on servers.
4. Create and modify scripts or applications to perform tasks
5. Provide input on ways to improve the stability, security, efficiency, and scalability of the environment
6. Easing developers’ life so that they can focus on the business logic rather than deploying and maintaining it. 
7. Managing release of the sprint. 
8. Educating team of the best practices.
9. Finding ways to avoid human error and save time by automating the processes using Terraform, CloudFormation, Bitbucket pipelines, CodeDeploy, scripting
10. Implementing cost effective measure on cloud and minimizing existing costs.

Skills and prerequisites

1. OOPS knowledge
2. Problem solving nature
3. Willing to do the R&D
4. Works with the team and support their queries patiently 
5. Bringing new things on the table - staying updated 
6. Pushing solution above a problem. 
7. Willing to learn and experiment
8. Techie at heart
9. Git basics
10. Basic AWS or any cloud platform – creating and managing ec2, lambdas, IAM, S3 etc
11. Basic Linux handling 
12. Docker and orchestration (Great to have)
13. Scripting – python (preferably)/bash

• 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