DevOps Engineer

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.

• Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Improve Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work with other engineers to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.

• Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes development experience
• Linux/Unix experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

What You will do

We're looking for bright Senior DevOps engineers that are deeply experienced individual contributors and dynamic team leaders, to join our dedicated DevOps Practice Group. As a Senior DevOps practitioner at Zemoso you’ll use your expertise to provide DevSecOps services to our customers and to our inhouse Dev teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience. 
• 15+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years of DevOps experience with 5+ years of it on Azure platform
• Relevant Azure Certification(s)

Must have experience

• IaC tools ARM/bicep template, Azure DevOps
• GITHub repo and GIT tools
• scripting languages Python, PowerShell, bash development experience
• CI/CD design, build management.
• Container tools Docker and Kubernetes
• Azure Policy and permissions provisioning.
• IT experience to design, development (Java Spring Boot), automated testing, REST API’s, Microservices, Pub/Sub architecture
• Costing, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring cloud expenses.
• Architecture drawings and proposals, presentations.
• Stakeholder management.
• Prototyping.

Nice to have experience

• IaC tools CloudFormation, Terraform 
• Build tools Apache Maven, Jenkins
• Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN and VPN
• Security: NSG, firewall and Azure policies, HTTPS, SSL certificates, KMS key
• Authentication (IAM): SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, Keycloak-based IdAM, LDAP and AD, and/or 3rd-party SSO.
• Access: RBAC and ABAC
• Load Balancers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Encryption: PKI infrastructure, Certificate authorities, OCSP, CRL, CSRs, x.509 certificate structures, pkcs12 certificate containers

Additionally, we’re looking for individuals who:

• Will assist in the rollout and deployment of new product features, and deploy applications via automation with configuration management tools
• Will build applications and tools to reduce barriers, decrease friction and speed up delivery of products
• Can effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Have strong collaborative instincts and interpersonal skills; must enjoy and work well with a wide variety of stakeholders in a complex organization
• Will manage individual project priorities with guidance, meeting deadlines and deliverables.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

Location

Remote - work from anywhere.

About us:

Zemoso Technologies is a Software Product Market Fit Studio that brings silicon valley style rapid prototyping and rapid application builds to Entrepreneurs and Corporate innovation. We offer Innovation as a service and work on ideas from scratch and take it to the Product Market Fit stage using Design Thinking->Lean Execution->Agile Methodology.

We were featured as one of Deloitte Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016, 2018 and 2019). We were also featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific both in 2016 and 2018.

We are located in Hyderabad, India, and Dallas, US. We have recently incorporated another office in Waterloo, Canada.

Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack & NetWeaver BPM), early engineering team of Zoho (leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience.

Marquee customers along with some exciting start-ups are part of our clientele.

About us

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.

Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

What will you do?

· Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

· Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

· Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

· Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

· Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

· Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

You should apply, if you

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

Being Part of the Clan

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

• Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
• Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
• Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
• Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
• Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
• Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
• Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
• Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
• Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
• Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
• Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
• Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
• Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
• AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
• Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
• Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
• Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
• Monthly SLA Performance reports

As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need…. 

• 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
• 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
• 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
• 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
• Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
• Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
• Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
• Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
• Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
• Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
• Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting

• Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
• Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
• Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
• Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
• Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
• Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
• Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
• Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
• Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.

• Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
• Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
• Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
• Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
• Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
• SCM systems - Git
• Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
• Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
• High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
• SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
• Decisive and ability to work under pressure
• Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
• Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
• Atlassian Datacenter products
• Project management skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
• Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field

Position Summary

DevOps is a Department of Horizontal Digital, within which we have 3 different practices.

1. Cloud Engineering
2. Build and Release
3. Managed Services

This opportunity is for Cloud Engineering role who also have some experience with Infrastructure migrations, this will be a complete hands-on job, with focus on migrating clients workloads to the cloud, reporting to the Solution Architect/Team Lead and along with that you are also expected to work on different projects for building out the Sitecore Infrastructure from scratch.

We are Sitecore Platinum Partner and majority of the Infrastructure work that we are doing is for Sitecore.

Sitecore is a .Net Based Enterprise level Web CMS, which can be deployed on On-Prem, IaaS, PaaS and Containers.

So, most of our DevOps work is currently planning, architecting and deploying infrastructure for Sitecore.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• This role includes ownership of technical, commercial and service elements related to cloud migration and Infrastructure deployments.
• Person who will be selected for this position will ensure high customer satisfaction delivering Infra and migration projects.
• Candidate must expect to work in parallel across multiple projects, along with that candidate must also have a fully flexible approach to working hours.
• Candidate should keep him/herself updated with the rapid technological advancements and developments that are taking place in the industry.
• Along with that candidate should also have a know-how on Infrastructure as a code, Kubernetes, AKS/EKS, Terraform, Azure DevOps, CI/CD Pipelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent qualification.
• Total work experience of 6 to 8 Years.
• Total migration experience of 4 to 6 Years.
• Multiple Cloud Background (Azure/AWS/GCP)
• Implementation knowledge of VMs, Vnet,
• Know-how of Cloud Readiness and Assessment
• Good Understanding of 6 R's of Migration.
• Detailed understanding of the cloud offerings
• Ability to Assess and perform discovery independently for any cloud migration.
• Working Exp. on Containers and Kubernetes.
• Good Knowledge of Azure Site Recovery/Azure Migrate/Cloud Endure
• Understanding on vSphere and Hyper-V Virtualization.
• Working experience with Active Directory.
• Working experience with AWS Cloud formation/Terraform templates.
• Working Experience of VPN/Express route/peering/Network Security Groups/Route Table/NAT Gateway, etc.
• Experience of working with CI/CD tools like Octopus, Teamcity, Code Build, Code Deploy, Azure DevOps, GitHub action.
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery Implementations, taking into the consideration of RTO and RPO aspects.
• Candidates with AWS/Azure/GCP Certifications will be preferred.