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• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering,
Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics or related technical field or
equivalent practical experience. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a
different stream of education.
• Well-versed in DevOps principals & practices and hands-on DevOps
tool-chain integration experience: Release Orchestration & Automation, Source Code & Build
Management, Code Quality & Security Management, Behavior Driven Development, Test Driven
Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment, and
Operational Monitoring & Management; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with
working examples.
• Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools
and platforms viz., Slack, Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory,
Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, Tekton, StackStorm, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK,
PagerDuty, VictorOps, etc.
• Well-versed in Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate
experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox,
Vagrant, etc.
• Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate
experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in
any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management &
Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstratable Cloud
Platform experience.
• Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management,
API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption, tools &
platforms.
• Hands-on programming experience in either core Java and/or Python and/or JavaScript
and/or Scala; freshers passing out of college or lateral movers into IT must be able to code in
languages they have studied.
• Well-versed with Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics
which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.
• Well-versed with Network, Data, and
Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business
Applications / API services environment.
• Extra points if you are certified in AWS and/or Azure
and/or Google Cloud.
Job Description
We are seeking a seasoned DevOps Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of DevOps principles, system design, and architecture, with a focus on creating robust and scalable infrastructure solutions through automation. This role requires a candidate with hands-on experience in development, testing, and deployment processes. Additionally, the candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps operations and should be proficient in team management, coordination, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and technical expertise.
About the company:
A rapidly growing omni-channel luxury retailer with eight stores across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and a global e-commerce platform servicing 65+ countries worldwide. The 18-year-old company is an established market leader with considerable brand equity.
Location: Prabhadevi, Mumbai
Key Responsibilities:
- System Design and Architecture: Develop robust and scalable system designs that align with business requirements and industry best practices.
- Automation: Implement automation solutions to streamline processes and enhance system reliability.
- Development, Testing, and Deployment: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from code creation to testing and deployment.
- Coordination and Issue Resolution: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, resolve technical issues, and ensure smooth project execution.
- Troubleshooting: Apply your technical expertise to diagnose and resolve complex system issues efficiently.
- Interpersonal Skills: Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management to ensure project success.
- Ecommerce (B2C) Expertise: Bring in-depth knowledge of Ecommerce (B2C) operations to tailor DevOps solutions to our specific needs.
- Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement infrastructure automation tools and workflows to support CI/CD initiatives.
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and operate complex CI/CD pipelines at scale, ensuring efficient software delivery.
- Cloud Expertise: Possess knowledge of handling GCP/AWS clouds, optimizing cloud resources, and managing cloud-based applications.
- Cybersecurity: Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, implementing best practices for data protection and compliance.
Requirements
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps operations.
- Has worked to ensure system reliability, scale & performance in high growth environments.
- Experienced in designing and implementing scalable and robust IT solutions.
- Strong technical background and proficiency in DevOps tools and practices.
- Experience with Ecommerce (B2C) platforms is mandatory.
- Excellent team management, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in troubleshooting and issue resolution.
- Familiarity with the latest open-source technologies.
- Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management.
- Knowledge of GCP/AWS cloud services.
- Understanding cybersecurity best practices.
Benefits
- Group Mediclaim cover 2.5 L sum assured (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children) & Group Personal Accident – 5 L sum assured.
- Rewards & Recognition programmes
Summary
We are building the fastest, most reliable & intelligent trading platform. That requires highly available, scalable & performant systems. And you will be playing one of the most crucial roles in making this happen.
You will be leading our efforts in designing, automating, deploying, scaling and monitoring all our core products.
Tech Facts so Far
1. 8+ services deployed on 50+ servers
2. 35K+ concurrent users on average
3. 1M+ algorithms run every min
4. 100M+ messages/min
We are a 4-member backend team with 1 Devops Engineer. Yes! this is all done by this incredible lean team.
Big Challenges for You
1. Manage 25+ services on 200+ servers
2. Achieve 99.999% (5 Nines) availability
3. Make 1-minute automated deployments possible
If you like to work on extreme scale, complexity & availability, then you will love it here.
Who are we
We are on a mission to help retail traders prosper in the stock market. In just 3 years, we have the 3rd most popular app for the stock markets in India. And we are aiming to be the de-facto trading app in the next 2 years.
We are a young, lean team of ordinary people that is building exceptional products, that solve real problems. We love to innovate, thrill customers and work with brilliant & humble humans.
Key Objectives for You
• Spearhead system & network architecture
• CI, CD & Automated Deployments
• Achieve 99.999% availability
• Ensure in-depth & real-time monitoring, alerting & analytics
• Enable faster root cause analysis with improved visibility
• Ensure a high level of security
Possible Growth Paths for You
• Be our Lead DevOps Engineer
• Be a Performance & Security Expert
Perks
• Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
• A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware
DevOps Engineer
The DevOps team is one of the core technology teams of Lumiq.ai and is responsible for managing network activities, automating Cloud setups and application deployments. The team also interacts with our customers to work out solutions. If you are someone who is always pondering how to make things better, how technologies can interact, how various tools, technologies, and concepts can help a customer or how you can use various technologies to improve user experience, then Lumiq is the place of opportunities.
Job Description
- Explore about the newest innovations in scalable and distributed systems.
- Helps in designing the architecture of the project, solutions to the existing problems and future improvements to be done.
- Make the cloud infrastructure and services smart by implementing automation and trigger based solutions.
- Interact with Data Engineers and Application Engineers to create continuous integration and deployment frameworks and pipelines.
- Playing around with large clusters on different clouds to tune your jobs or to learn.
- Researching about new technologies, proving the concepts and planning how to integrate or update.
- Be part of discussions of other projects to learn or to help.
Responsibilities
- 2+years of experience as DevOps Engineer.
- You understand actual networking to Software defined networking.
- You like containers and open source orchestration system like Kubernetes, Mesos.
- Should have experience to secure system by creating robust access policy and network restrictions enforcement.
- Should have knowledge about how applications work are very important to design distributed systems.
- Should have experience to open source projects and have discussed the shortcomings or problems with the community on several occasions.
- You understand that provisioning a Virtual Machine is not DevOps.
- You know you are not a SysAdmin but DevOps Engineer who is the person behind developing operations for the system to run efficiently and scalably.
- Exposure on Private Cloud, Subnets, VPNs, Peering, Load Balancers and have worked with them.
- You check logs before screaming about error.
- Multiple Screens makes you more efficient.
- You are a doer who don’t say the word impossible.
- You understand the value of documentation of your work.
- You understand the Big Data ecosystem and how can you leverage cloud for it.
- You know these buddies - #airflow, #aws, #azure, #gcloud, #docker, #kubernetes, #mesos, #acs
- You will manage all elements of the post-sale program relationship with your customers, starting with customer on-boarding and continuing throughout the customer relationship.
- As the primary customer interface, you engage with customer teams to educate, identify needs, develop designs, set goals, manage and execute on plans that unlock continuous, incremental value from their investments in the CloudPassage Halo platform.
- You are hands-on during execution and thoroughly enjoy seeing your security projects come to life and supporting them afterwards. You are a trusted adviser.
Responsibilities :
- Manage a portfolio of 5+ Enterprise customer accounts with complex needs (typical enterprise customers invest between $500k and $4m+ per year with CloudPassage, have hundreds to tens of thousands of individual public cloud infrastructure deployments, and protect hundreds of thousands of cloud infrastructure assets with Halo).
- Provide level-3 technical support on your customer's most complex issues
- Lead implementation of low-level security controls in Cloud environments, for services, server and containers
- Remotely diagnose & resolve DevSecOps issues in customer environments - able to resolve their DevOps issues that may be interfering with CloudPassage processing.
- Interact with CloudPassage Engineering team by providing customer issue reproduction and data capture, technical diagnostics and validating fixes. QA experience preferred.
- Establish and program manage proactive, value-driven, high-touch relationships with your customers to understand, document and align customer strategies, business objectives, designs, processes and projects with Halo platform capabilities and broader CloudPassage services.
- Develop a trusted advisor relationship by building and maintaining appropriate relationships at all levels with your customer accounts, creating a premium and high-caliber experience.
- Ensure continued satisfaction, identify & confirm unaddressed customer needs that can be value-add opportunities for up-sell and cross-sell, and communicate those needs to the CloudPassage sales team. Identify any early CSAT issues and renewal risks and work with the internal team to remediate and ensure strong CSAT and a successful renewal.
- Be a strong customer advocate within CloudPassage and identify and support areas for improvement in the customer experience, both in our product and processes.
- Be team-oriented, but with a bias towards action to get things done for your customers.
Requirements : Strong cloud security knowledge & experience including :
- End-to-end enterprise security processes
- Cloud security - cloud migrations & shift in security requirements, tooling & approach
- Hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps architecture & automation (critical)
- 4+ years experience in security consulting and project/program management serving cybersecurity customers.
- Complex, level 3 technical support
- Remotely diagnosing & resolving DevSecOps issues in customer environments
- Interacting with CloudPassage Engineering team with customer issue reproduction
- Experience working in a security SaaS company in a startup environment.
- Experience working with Executive and C-Level teams.
- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external constituents.
- Excellent organization, project management, time management, and communication skills.
- Understand and document customer requirements, map to product, track & report metrics, identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
- Analytical both quantitatively and qualitatively.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Security certifications (Security +, CISSP, etc.).
Expert Technical Skills :
- Consulting and project management : documenting project charters, project plans, executing delivery management, status reporting. Executive-level presentation skills.
- Security best practices expertise : software vulnerabilities, configuration management, intrusion detection, file integrity.
- System administration (including Linux and Windows) of cloud environments : AWS, Azure, GCP; strong networking/proxy skills.
Proficient Technical Skills :
- Configuration/Orchestration (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- CI/CD processes and environments.
Familiar Technical Skills & Knowledge : Python scripting & REST API's, Docker containers, Zendesk & JIRA.
1. Should have worked with AWS, Dockers and Kubernetes.
2. Should have worked with a scripting language.
3. Should know how to monitor system performance, CPU, Memory.
4. Should be able to do troubleshooting.
5. Should have knowledge of automated deployment
6. Proficient in one programming knowledge - python preferred.
- 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




