DevOps Engineer

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

• Degree in Computer Science or related discipline.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification required
• 5+ years of architecture, design, implementation, and support of highly complex solutions (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring security and compliance, availability, reliability, etc.)
• Deep technical experience in serverless AWS infrastructure
• Understanding of cloud automation and orchestration tools and techniques including git, terraform, ARM or equivalent
• Create Technical Design documents, understand technical designs and translate into the application requirements.
• Exercise independent judgment in evaluating alternative technical solutions
• Participate in code and design review process
• Write unit test cases for quality check of the deliverables
• Ability to work closely with others in a team environment as well as independently
• Proven ability to problem solve and troubleshoot
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts
• Excellent English communication skills are required

We are looking for a Solution Architect with at least 5 years’ experience working on the following to join our growing team:

• AWS
• Postgresql
• EC2 on AWS
• Cognito
• and most importantly Serverless

You will need a strong technical AWS background focused on architecting on serverless (eg Lambda) AWS infrastructure.