DevOps Engineer

Greetings!

Wissen Technology is hiring for Kubernetes Lead/Admin.

Required:

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Kubernetes
• Must have hands on experience on Implementation, CI/CD pipeline, EKS architecture, ArgoCD & Statefulset services.
• Good to have exposure on scripting languages
• Should be open to work from Chennai
• Work mode will be Hybrid

Company profile:

Company Name : Wissen Technology

Group of companies in India : Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech

Work Location - Bangalore

Website : www.wissen.com

Wissen Thought leadership : https://www.wissen.com/articles/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Excellent communication skills

Open to work on EST time zone(6pm to 3am)

Technical Skills: 

·        In depth understanding of DevSecOps process and governance 

·        Understanding of various branching strategies 

·        Hands on experience working with various testing and scanning tools (ex. SonarQube, Snyk, Blackduck, etc.) 

·        Expertise working with one or more CICD platforms (ex. Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc) 

·        Expertise within one CSP and experience/working knowledge of a second CSP (Azure, AWS, GCP) 

·        Proficient with Terraform 

·        Hands on experience working with Kubernetes 

·        Proficient working with GIT version control 

·        Hands on experience working with monitoring/observability tool(s) (Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, etc) 

·        Hands on experience working with Configuration Management platform(s) (Chef, Saltstack, Ansible, etc) 

·        Hands on experience with GitOps 

• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning of AWS services like EC2, S3,EBS, AMI, VPC, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation.
• Good experience on Build and release process and extensively involved in the CICD using

Jenkins

• Experienced on configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Jenkins CI/CD
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and for end to end Automation for all Builds and Deployments.
• Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases.
• Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Good knowledge in version control system in Git and GitHub.
• Good experience in build tools
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes ,YAML and Manifest

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

• 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

As DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to setup and maintain GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, Cloud security.

• Setup, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Working on Docker images and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Working on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Required Technical and Professional Expertise.
• Minimum 4-6 years of experience in IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps Frameworks, Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible or puppet or chef.
• Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud like AWS, Azure, Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience with working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience and well versed with Jira tool is a plus.

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline