DevOps Engineer

BluePMS Software Solutions Pvt Ltd is hiring a talented DevOps Engineer to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for building and maintaining scalable infrastructure, automating deployment processes, and improving the reliability of our software delivery pipelines.

KeyResponsibilities:

 1: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for faster and reliable deployments.

 2: Manage and monitor cloud infrastructure and servers.

 3: Automate build, testing, and deployment processes.

 4: Collaborate with development and QA teams to improve release cycles.

 5: Monitor system performance and ensure high availability and reliability.

 6: Troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues.

 7: Implement security best practices in DevOps workflows.

RequiredSkills:

 1: Strong understanding of DevOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.

 2: Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or containerization technologies.

 3: Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

 4: Experience with Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

 5: Basic scripting knowledge (Bash, Python, or Shell).

 6: Good understanding of Linux systems and networking concepts.

Eligibility:

 1: Experience: 2 – 7 years

 2: Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field

 3: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Location: Chennai / Remote

Apply here: https://connectsblue.com/jobs/753/devops-engineer-at-bluepms-software-solutions-pvt-ltd

About The Role:

The products/services of Eclat Engineering Pvt. Ltd. are being used by some of the leading institutions in India and abroad. Our services/Products are rapidly growing in demand. We are looking for a capable and dynamic Senior DevOps engineer to help setup, maintain and scale the infrastructure operations. This Individual will have the challenging responsibility of channelling our IT infrastructure and offering customer services with stringent international standard levels of service quality. This individual will leverage the latest IT tools to automate and streamline the delivery of our services while implementing industry-standard processes and knowledge management.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Infrastructure and Deployment Automation: Design, implement, and maintain automation for infrastructure

provisioning and application deployment. Own the CI/CD pipelines and ensure they are efficient, reliable, and

scalable.

- System Monitoring and Performance: -Take ownership of monitoring systems and ensure the health and

performance of the infrastructure. Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and system issues.

- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and optimize resource

usage. Implement cost-saving measures while maintaining scalability and reliability.

- Configuration Management: Manage configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) to ensure

consistency across environments. Automate configuration changes and updates.

- Security and Compliance: Own security policies, implement best practices, and ensure compliance with industry

standards. Lead efforts to secure infrastructure and applications, including patch management and access controls.

- Collaboration with Development and Operations Teams: Foster collaboration between development and

operations teams, promoting a DevOps culture. Be the go-to person for resolving cross-functional infrastructure

issues and improving the development process.

- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures. Ensure

business continuity in the event of system failures or other disruptions.

- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations,

processes, and best practices. Share knowledge and mentor junior team members.

- Technical Leadership and Innovation: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies. Lead efforts

to introduce new tools and technologies that enhance DevOps practices.

- Problem Resolution and Troubleshooting: Be responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to

infrastructure and deployments. Implement preventive measures to reduce recurring problems.

Requirements:

● B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc.IT (if not should be able to demonstrate required skills)

● Overall 3+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud operations specifically in AWS.

● Experience with Linux Administrator

● Experience with microservice architecture, containers, Kubernetes, and Helm is a must

● Experience in Configuration Management preferably Ansible

● Experience in Shell Scripting is a must

● Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Gitlab, Jenkins

● Experience in logging, monitoring and analytics

● An Understanding of writing Infrastructure as a Code using tools like Terraform

● Preferences - AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible

Must Have:

● Knowledge of AWS Cloud Platform.

● Good experience with microservice architecture, Kubernetes, helm and container-based technologies

● Hands-on experience with Ansible.

● Should have experience in working and maintaining CI/CD Processes.

● Hands-on experience in version control tools like GIT.

● Experience with monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch/Sysdig etc.

● Sound experience in administering Linux servers and Shell Scripting.

● Should have a good understanding of IT security and have the knowledge to secure production environments (OS and server software).

The candidate must have 2-3 years of experience in the domain. The responsibilities include:

● Deploying system on Linux-based environment using Docker

● Manage & maintain the production environment

● Deploy updates and fixes

● Provide Level 1 technical support

● Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience

● Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems

● Perform root cause analysis for production errors

● Investigate and resolve technical issues

● Develop scripts to automate visualization

● Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

● Experience working on Linux-based infrastructure

● Excellent understanding of MERN Stack, Docker & Nginx (Good to have Node Js)

● Configuration and managing databases such as Mongo

● Excellent troubleshooting

● Experience of working with AWS/Azure/GCP

● Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services

● Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles

● Experience of CI/CD Pipeline

• Work towards improving the following 4 verticals - scalability, availability, security, and cost, for company's workflows and products.
• Help in provisioning, managing, optimizing cloud infrastructure in AWS (IAM, EC2, RDS, CloudFront, S3, ECS, Lambda, ELK etc.)
• Work with the development teams to design scalable, robust systems using cloud architecture for both 0-to-1 and 1-to-100 products.
• Drive technical initiatives and architectural service improvements.
• Be able to predict problems and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages.
• Mentor/manage a team of engineers.
• Design solutions with failure scenarios in mind to ensure reliability.
• Document rigorously to keep track of all changes/upgrades to the infrastructure and as well share knowledge with the rest of the team
• Identify vulnerabilities during development with actionable information to empower developers to remediate vulnerabilities
• Automate the build and testing processes to consistently integrate code
• Manage changes to documents, software, images, large web sites, and other collections of code, configuration, and metadata among disparate teams

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for https://www.simplilearn.com/top-benefits-of-learning-devops-article" target="_blank">DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the 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: When was the last time you went to 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 the 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.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

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.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. 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!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

• 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