DevOps Engineer

Role Purpose: Maintain and enhance the IaC-driven cloud infrastructure, pipelines, and environments post team-exit.

Key Skills:

• Azure DevOps Services (Repos, Pipelines, Artifacts)
• Terraform (advanced) – infrastructure provisioning
• CI/CD pipeline design and automation
• ARM templates, Bicep, or equivalent (if used alongside Terraform)
• Monitoring & Logging – Azure Monitor, Log Analytics
• Security & Compliance – Azure Policies, RBAC, NSGs, etc.
• Networking Basics – VNets, subnets, peering, firewalls

Experience Level:

• 5+ years total experience in cloud infrastructure
• 3+ years hands-on in Azure and Terraform
• Should have delivered or supported production-grade, IaC-managed platforms

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with the development team to plan, execute and monitor deployments
• Capacity planning for product deployments
• Adopt best practices for deployment and monitoring systems
• Ensure the SLAs for performance, up time are met
• Constantly monitor systems, suggest changes to improve performance and decrease costs.
• Ensure the highest standards of security

Key Competencies (Functional):

• Proficiency in coding in atleast one scripting language - bash, Python, etc
• Has personally managed a fleet of servers (> 15)
• Understand different environments production, deployment and staging
• Worked in micro service / Service oriented architecture systems
• Has worked with automated deployment systems – Ansible / Chef / Puppet.
• Can write MySQL queries

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At Toast, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all customer-facing services and other Toast production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound software engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and our codebase. Our decisions are based on instrumentation and continuous observability, as well as predictions and capacity planning.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplift
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Troubleshooting and Supporting Escalations:

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations across infrastructure, databases, web, and mobile applications
• Implement strategies to increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization
• Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively, looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again

Do you have the right ingredients? (Requirements)

• Extensive industry experience with at least 7+ years in SRE and/or DevOps roles
• Polyglot technologist/generalist with a thirst for learning
• Deep understanding of cloud and microservice architecture and the JVM
• Experience with tools such as APM, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker
• Experience developing software or software projects in at least four languages, ideally including two of Go, Python, and Java
• Experience with cloud computing technologies ( AWS cloud provider preferred)

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• 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

• As a DevOps Engineer, you need to have strong experience in CI/CD pipelines.
• Setup development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments (Mobile, Web API’s & AIML)

• 3+ years of experience as DevOps Engineer and strong working knowledge in CI/CD pipelines
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD using Git, BitBucket, CodeCommit, Jira, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc
• Strong knowledge in Linux-based infrastructures and AWS/Azure/GCP environment
• Working knowledge on AWS (IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, etc)
• Experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• Experience on Android source(AOSP) clone, build, and automation ecosystems
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Shell, Groovy, Bash, etc
• Familiar with Android ROM development and build process
• Knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

Improvement of monitoring systems

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops

- Incident analysis and fixing

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience of working with git

Preferred experience

 Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF) 

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience administering Atlassian products

Who we are?

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 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 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
• 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 ?

Your bucket of undertakings:

• This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in AWS
• Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation • Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. • • Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality. Highly organised and efficient. Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

• To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
• 6 - 10 years of experience with at least 5 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing
• (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
• Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as AWS and lean development methodologies.