DevOps Engineer

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.

• Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.

• Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.

• Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.

• Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.

• Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.

• Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.

• Work in a globally distributed team.

 

What achievements should you have so far?

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).

• Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.

• Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.

• Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).

• Good Networking skills and experience.

• Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.

• Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.

• Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.

You need to drive automation for implementing scalable and robust applications. You would indulge your dedication and passion to build server-side optimization ensuring low-latency and high-end performance for the cloud deployed within datacentre. You should have sound knowledge of Open stack and Kubernetes domain.

YOUR ‘OKR’ SUMMARY

OKR means Objective and Key Results.

As a Cloud Engineer, you will understand the overall movement of data in the entire platform, find bottlenecks,define solutions, develop key pieces, write APIs and own deployment of those. You will work with internal and external development teams to discover these  opportunities and to solve hard problems. You will also guide engineers in solving the complex problems, developing your acceptance tests for those and reviewing the work and

the test results.

What you will do

• End to End Complete RHOSP Deployment (Under and Overcloud) considered as a NFVi Deployment

• Installing Red Hat’s OpenStack technology using the OSP-director

• Deploying a Red Hat OpenStack Platform based on Red Hat's reference architecture

• Deploying managed hosts with required OpenStack parameters

• Deploying Three (3) Node Highly available (HA) Controller Hosts using Pacemaker and HAP Roxy

• Deploying all the supplied compute hosts that will be hosting multiple VNFs (SRIOV & DPDK)

• Implementing CEPH

• Integrate Software-defined storage (CEPH) with RHOSP, Red Hat OpenStack Platform Operation Tools as

           per Industry standard & best practices

• Detailed Network configuration and implementation using Neutron networking - (VXLAN) network type

           and Modular Layer 2 (ML2) Open Switch plugin

• Integrating Monitoring Solution with RHOSP

• Design and deployment of common Alarm and Performance Management solution

• Red Hat OpenStack management & monitoring

• VM Alarm and Performance management

• Cloud Management Platform will be configured for day-to-day operational tools to measure uponCPU/Mem/Network utilization etc. from VM level

• Baseline Security Standard) & VA (Vulnerability Assessment) for RHOSP.

Additional Advantage:

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.

• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimize hardware cost.

• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide and influence within a dynamic environment.

• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.

• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints. 

What's In It for You

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products

• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.

• You can expect a steep learning curve.

• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive Salary

• Health Insurance

• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.

• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely

• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy

• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.

• Flexible working hours

• 5 days week

• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

Our Hiring Process

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)

• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team

• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.

• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview

• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview

• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR

• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team

• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

So, if you are looking at an opportunity to really make a difference- make it with us…

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What you need to have:

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release
  processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity
  threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions
  
  

• BE / MCA / B.Sc-IT / B.Tech in Computer Science or a related field.
• 4+ years of overall development experience.
• Strong understanding of cloud deployment and setup
• Hands-on experience with tools like Jenkins, Gradle etc.
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate deployment
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
• Skills and Qualifications
• Proficient with git and git workflows
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

Requirements:-

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering,Software Engineering or a relevant field. 
• Strong experience with Windows/Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• knowledge of Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Xray, Ansible, Windows and  .Net. as their Core Skill.
• Strong experience with databases such as SQL, MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Shell Scripting /Python/ PHP/Groovy, Bash.  
• Experience with project management and workflow tools such as   Agile, Jira / WorkFront etc.
• Experience with open-source technologies and cloud services.
• Experience in working with Puppet or Chef for automation and configuration.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team  and management.  
• Experience in a DevOps Engineer role (or similar role)
• AExperience in software development and infrastructure development is a plus

 

 

Job Specifications:-

• Building and maintaining tools, solutions and micro services associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.  
• Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch.
• Test our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed
• Deploy product updates as required while implementing integrations when they arise.  
• Automate our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our security requirements.
• Specifying, documenting and developing new product features, and writing automating scripts.  Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
• Work with open-source technologies as needed.
• Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN.
• Lead the team through development and operations.
• Offer  technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.

 

AWS Architect/Engineer - Part Time/Freelancer JOB DESCRIPTION Strong Implementation experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway Route53 & S3) with solid architecture and design knowledge/experience. Strong knowledge in creating various environments such as Development, Test, UAT and Production. As a key member of the team, ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform. Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on AWS and also be part of the development lifecycle. Deep hands-on experience leading the design, development and deployment of business software at scale. Leading highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software deployments. Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Perl). Configuration management using Cloud Formation and/or Chef/Puppet. Experience in performance optimization techniques. AWS Solutions Architect Certified is preferred. High end Troubleshooting and Communication skills. Why We need this position We are implementing AWS Lambda for our Android Mobile Application development. So, an AWS Cloud expert who can help the company and team to setup the development, Production environments. When required, should assist in resolving any technical problems related to AWS environment on ad-hoc basis.

• As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for
• Automated provisioning of infrastructure in AWS/Azure/OpenStack environments.
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
• Proactive Monitoring of overall infrastructure (Logs/Resources etc)
• Deployment of application to various cloud environments.
• Should be able to lead/guide a team towards achieving goals and meeting the milestones defined.
• Practice and implement best practices in every aspect of project deliverable.
• Keeping yourself up to date with new frameworks and tools and enabling the team to use them.

Skills Required

• Experience in Automation of CI/CD processes using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, Gitlab
• Experience in working with AWS and Azure platforms and Cloud-Native automation tools such as AWS cloud formation and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience in monitoring solutions such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
• Web Server/Application Server deployments and administration.
• Good Communication, Team Handling, Problem-solving, Work Ethic, and Creativity.
• Work experience of at least 1 year in the following are mandatory.

If you do not have the relevant experience, please do not apply.

• Any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Any of the configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Powershell DSC)
• Scripting languages (PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, etc.?
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.

 

 

 

 

At Karza technologies, we take pride in building one of the most comprehensive digital onboarding & due-diligence platforms by profiling millions of entities and trillions of associations amongst them using data collated from more than 700 publicly available government sources. Primarily in the B2B Fintech Enterprise space, we are headquartered in Mumbai in Lower Parel with 100+ strong workforce. We are truly furthering the cause of Digital India by providing the entire BFSI ecosystem with tech products and services that aid onboarding customers, automating processes and mitigating risks seamlessly, in real-time and at fraction of the current cost.

A few recognitions:

• Recognized as Top25 startups in India to work with 2019 by LinkedIn
• Winner of HDFC Bank's Digital Innovation Summit 2020
• Super Winners (Won every category) at Tecnoviti 2020 by Banking Frontiers
• Winner of Amazon AI Award 2019 for Fintech
• Winner of FinTech Spot Pitches at Fintegrate Zone 2018 held at BSE
• Winner of FinShare 2018 challenge held by ShareKhan
• Only startup in Yes Bank Global Fintech Accelerator to win the account during the Cohort
• 2nd place Citi India FinTech Challenge 2018 by Citibank
• Top 3 in Viacom18's Startup Engagement Programme VStEP

 

What your average day would look like:

• Deploy and maintain mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems
• Manage low cost, scalable streaming data pipelines
• Provide direct and responsive support for urgent production issues
• Contribute ideas towards secure and reliable Cloud architecture
• Use open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
• Use coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve automation problems
• Collaborate with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex infrastructure, security, or deployment problem
• Identify processes and practices to streamline development & deployment to minimize downtime and maximize turnaround time

 

What you need to work with us:

• Proficiency in at least one of the general-purpose programming languages like Python, Java, etc.
• Experience in managing the IAAS and PAAS components on popular public Cloud Service Providers like AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
• Proficiency in Unix Operating systems and comfortable with Networking concepts
• Experience with developing/deploying a scalable system
• Experience with the Distributed Database & Message Queues (like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.)
• Experience in managing Hadoop clusters
• Understanding of containers and have managed them in production using container orchestration services.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Applied exposure to continuous delivery pipelines (CI/CD).
• Keen interest and proven track record in automation and cost optimization.

 

Experience:

• 1-4 years of relevant experience
• BE in Computer Science / Information Technology 

 

Will be part of product development team and will be supporting the team with design and implementation of several features for distributed docker deployments. - 2+ Years of experience in using, deploying Docker, LXC or Rkt containers. - Programming experience in C, C++, GoLang. Engineers with other programming language experience with willingness to learn GoLang are also welcome. - Experience in the following areas is added advantage REST interface implementation, OAUTH, ProtoBuff, RabbitMQ etc.