DevOps Engineer

Who We Are

Grip is building a new category of investment options for the new-age of Indian Investors. Millennials

don’t communicate, shop, pay, entertain and work like the previous generation - then why should they

invest the same way?

Started in June’20, Grip has seen 20% month-on-month growth to become one of India’s fastest-

growing destinations for alternative investments. Today, Grip offers multiple investment options providing

8-16% annual returns and 1-60 month tenures as the country’s only multi- asset (lease financing,

inventory financing, corporate bonds start-up equity, commercial real estate ) investment platform. With a

minimum investment size of INR 20,000, Grip is democratizing investment options that have previously

only been available to the largest funds and family offices.

Finance and technology (FinTech) is what we do, but people are at the core of our mission. From client-

facing roles to technology, and everywhere in between, you’ll work alongside a diverse team who loves

to solve problems, think creatively, and fly the plane as we continue to build it.

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What We Can Offer You

● Young and fast-growing company with a healthy work-life balance

● Great culture based on the following core values

○ Courage

○ Transparency

○ Ownership

○ Customer Obsession

○ Celebration

● Lean structure and no micromanaging. You get to own your work

● The Company has turned two so you get a seat on rocketship that’s just taking off!

● High focus on Learning & Development and monetary support for relevant upskilling

● Competitive compensation along with equity ownership for wealth creation

What You’ll Do

● Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available onAWS

● Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and

deploying requirements

● Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code

● Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools

● Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems

● Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas

● Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS

infrastructure and systems

● Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Your Superpowers

● At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure

(VPC,EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront,

S3,RDS,Elasticbeanstalk)

● Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet

compliance requirements

● Expertise using Chef/Cloudformation/Ansible for configuration management

● Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform

● Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration

● Experience with Docker, GitHub, Kubernetes,, ELK and deploying applications onAWS

● Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools

● Strong bias for action and ownership

Task:

• Need to run our software products in different international environments (on premise and cloud providers)
• Support the developers while debugging issues
• Analyse and monitor software during runtime to find bugs, performance issues and plan growth of the system
• Integrate new technologies to support our products while growing in the market
• Develop Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines
• Maintain our on premise hosted servers and applications, like operating system upgrades, software upgrades, introducing new database versions etc.
• Automation of task to reduce amount of human errors and parallelize work

We wish:

• Basic OS knowledge (Debian, CentOS, Suse Enterprise Linux)
• Webserver administration and optimization (Apache, Traefik)
• Database administration and optimization (Mysql/MariaDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch)
• jvm administration and optimization application server administration and optimization (Servicemix, Karaf, Glassfish, Springboot)
• Scripting experience (Perl, Python, PHP, Java)
• Monitoring experience (Icinga/Nagios, Appdynamics, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knowledge container management (Docker/ContainerD, DC/OS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with automatic deployment processes (Ansible, Gitlab-CI, Helm)
• Define and optimize processes for system maintenance, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skill & proficiency in English is necessary
• Leadership skill with team motivational approach
• Good Team player

We Offer:

• Freedom to realise your own ideas & individual career & development opportunity.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at work place with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

Your Contact for this position is Janki Raval .

Would you like to become part of this highly innovative, dynamic, and exciting world?

We look forward to your expressive Resume.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

Role and responsibilities

• Expertise in AWS (Most typical Services),Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong Scripting knowledge, Strong Devops Automation, Good at Linux
• Hands on with CI/CD (CircleCI preferred but any CI/CD tool will do). Strong Understanding of GitHub
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and. Strong with Security & Certificates.

Nice-to-have skills

• Involved in Product Engineering

• 7-10 years experience with secure SDLC/DevSecOps practices such as automating security processes within CI/CD pipeline.
• At least 4 yrs. experience designing, and securing Data Lake & Web applications deployed to AWS, Azure, Scripting/Automation skills on Python, Shell, YAML, JSON
• At least 4 years of hands-on experience with software development lifecycle, Agile project management (e.g. Jira, Confluence), source code management (e.g. Git), build automation (e.g. Jenkins), code linting and code quality (e.g. SonarQube), test automation (e.g. Selenium)
• Hand-on & Solid understanding of Amazon Web Services & Azure-based Infra & applications
• Experience writing cloud formation templates, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application architecture and deployment.
• Strong know-how on VA/PT integration in CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in handling financial solutions & customer-facing applications

Roles

• Accelerate enterprise cloud adoption while enabling rapid and stable delivery of capabilities using continuous integration and continuous deployment principles, methodologies, and technologies
• Manage & deliver diverse cloud [AWS, Azure, GCP] DevSecOps journeys
• Identify, prototype, engineer, and deploy emerging software engineering methodologies and tools
• Maximize automation and enhance DevSecOps pipelines and other tasks
• Define and promote enterprise software engineering and DevSecOps standards, practices, and behaviors
• Operate and support a suite of enterprise DevSecOps services
• Implement security automation to decrease the loop between the development and deployment processes.
• Support project teams to adopt & integrate the DevSecOps environment
• Managing application vulnerabilities, Data security, encryption, tokenization, access management, Secure SDLC, SAST/DAST
• Coordinate with development and operations teams for practical automation solutions and custom flows.
• Own DevSecOps initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights, and advice.
• Act as Release gatekeeper with an understanding of OWASP top 10 lists of vulnerabilities, NIST SP-800-xx, NVD, CVSS scoring, etc concepts
• Build workflows to ensure a successful DevSecOps journey for various enterprise applications. 
• Understand the strategic direction to reach business goals across multiple projects & teams
• Collaborate with development teams to understand project deliverables and promote DevSecOps culture
• Formulate & deploy cloud automation strategies and tools

Skills

• Knowledge of the DevSecOps culture and principles.
• An understanding of cloud technologies & components
• A flair for programming languages such as Shell, Python, Java Scripts,
• Strong teamwork and communication skills.
• Knowledge of threat modeling and risk assessment techniques.
• Up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats, current best practices, and the latest software.
• An understanding of programs such as Puppet, Chef, ThreatModeler, Checkmarx, Immunio, and Aqua.
• Strong know-how of Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure-based deployments
• On the job learning for new programming languages, automation tools, deployment architectures