DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote (India only)

About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.

Role Overview

Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
• Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
• Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
• Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
• Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
• Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.

What You Bring

1. Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
2. Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
3. AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
4. IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
5. CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
6. GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
7. Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
8. Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
9. Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
10. Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
11. Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
12. Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
13. Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.

Why Join Us

• Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
• Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
• Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
• Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
• Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
• Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

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About You

You have 6+ years of experience in AWS infra Automation. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a fast-paced operations environment and to develop your career in Cloud technologies, particularly Amazon Web Services.

You are building and monitoring CI/CD pipeline in AWS cloud. This is a highly scalable backend application building on Java platform. We need a resource who can troubleshoot, diagnose and rectify system service issues.

You’re cloud native with Terraform as an orchestration. You would use Terraform as a key Orchestration in Infrastructure as Code.

You're comfortable driving. You prefer to own your work streams and enjoy working in autonomy to progress towards your goals.

 You provide an incredible support to the team. You sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind. You know that a pair programming can give better result

An ideal candidate is/are:

This is a key role within our DevOps team and will involve working as part of a collaborative agile team in a shared services DevOps organization to support and deliver innovative technology solutions that directly align with the delivery of business value and enhanced customer experience. The primary objective is to provide support to Amazon Web Services hosted environment, ensure continuous availability, working closely with development teams to ensure best value for money, and effective estate management.

• Setup CI/CD Pipeline from scratch along with integration of appropriate quality gates.
• Expertise level knowledge in AWS cloud. Provision and configure infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Build and configure Kubernetes-based infrastructure, networking policies, LBs, and cluster security. Define autoscaling and cost strategies.
• Automate the build of containerized systems with CI/CD tooling, Helm charts, and more
• Manage deployments and rollbacks of applications
• Implement monitoring and metrics with Cloud watch, Newrelic
• Troubleshoot and optimize containerized workload deployments for clients
• Automate operational tasks, and assist in the transition to service ownership models.

Senior Devops Engineer

Who are we?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What do we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How do we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?

Introduction

When was the last time you thought about rebuilding your smart phone charger using solar panels on your backpack OR changed the sequencing of switches in your bedroom (on your own, of course) to make it more meaningful OR pointed out an engineering flaw in the sequencing of traffic signal lights to a fellow passenger, while he gave you a blank look? If the last time this happened was more than 6 months ago, you are a dinosaur for our needs. If it was less than 6 months ago, did you act on it? If yes, then let’s talk.

We are quite keen to meet you if:

• You eat, dream, sleep and play with Cloud Data Store & engineering your processes on cloud architecture
• You have an insatiable thirst for exploring improvements, optimizing processes, and motivating people.
• You like experimenting, taking risks and thinking big.

3 things this position is NOT about:

1. This is NOT just a job; this is a passionate hobby for the right kind.
2. This is NOT a boxed position. You will code, clean, test, build and recruit & energize.
3. This is NOT a position for someone who likes to be told what needs to be done.

3 things this position IS about:

1. Attention to detail matters.
2. Roles, titles, ego does not matter; getting things done matters; getting things done quicker & better matters the most.
3. Are you passionate about learning new domains & architecting solutions that could save a company millions of dollars?

Roles and Responsibilities

This is an entrepreneurial Cloud/DevOps Lead position that evolves to the Director- Cloud engineering .This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - architect a solution, code, research, understand customer needs, research more, rebuild and re-architect, you get the drift. We are seeking hard-core-geeks-turned-successful-techies who are interested in seeing their work used by millions of users the world over.

Responsibilities:

• Consistently strive to acquire new skills on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, AI and ML technologies
• Design, deploy and maintain Cloud infrastructure for Clients – Domestic & International
• Develop tools and automation to make platform operations more efficient, reliable and reproducible
• Create Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), strive for full automated solutions, ensure the up-time and security of all cloud platform systems and infrastructure
• Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and ensure our client are using the best techniques and tools
• Providing business, application, and technology consulting in feasibility discussions with technology team members, customers and business partners
• Take initiatives to lead, drive and solve during challenging scenarios

Requirements:

• 3 + Years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems, RHEL/CentOS preferred
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda)
• Experience with one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .Net)
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Deep experience in customer facing roles with a proven track record of effective verbal and written communications
• Dependable and good team player
• Desire to learn and work with new technologies

Key Success Factors

• Are you
• Likely to forget to eat, drink or pee when you are coding?
• Willing to learn, re-learn, research, break, fix, build, re-build and deliver awesome code to solve real business/consumer needs?
• An open source enthusiast?

• Absolutely technology agnostic and believe that business processes define and dictate which technology to use?
• Ability to think on your feet, and follow-up with multiple stakeholders to get things done
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Superior project management and organizational skills
• Logical thought process; ability to grasp customer requirements rapidly and translate the same into technical as well as layperson terms
• Ability to anticipate potential problems, determine and implement solutions
• Energetic, disciplined, with a results-oriented approach
• Strong ethics and transparency in dealings with clients, vendors, colleagues and partners
• Attitude of ‘give me 5 sharp freshers and 6 months and I will rebuild the way people communicate over the internet.
• You are customer-centric, and feel strongly about building scalable, secure, quality software. You thrive and succeed in delivering high quality technology products in a growth environment where priorities shift fast.