DevOps Engineer

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

Electrum is looking for an experienced and proficient DevOps Engineer. This role will provide you with an opportunity to explore what’s possible in a collaborative and innovative work environment. If your goal is to work with a team of talented professionals that is keenly focused on solving complex business problems and supporting product innovation with technology, you might be our new DevOps Engineer. With this position, you will be involved in building out systems for our rapidly expanding team, enabling the whole engineering group to operate more effectively and iterate at top speed in an open, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering and a vivid experience in deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations. The ideal candidate has proven capabilities and experience in risk-taking, is willing to take up challenges, and is a strong believer in efficiency and innovation with exceptional communication and documentation skills.

YOU WILL:

• Plan for future infrastructure as well as maintain & optimize the existing infrastructure. 
• Conceptualize, architect, and build:
• 1. Automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins;
• 2. Infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and other serverless platforms; 
• 3. Secured network utilizing VPCs with inputs from the security team. 
• Work with developers & QA team to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional, and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies, and workflows which allow for a rollback of deployments. 
• Triage release of applications/ Hotfixes to the production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation to respond and support troubleshooting of issues in production.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with a postmortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Scale Electum platform to handle millions of requests concurrently.
• Reduce Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), enable High Availability and Disaster Recovery

PREREQUISITES:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of six years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructures such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail, and other services provided by AWS.
• At least 2 years of experience in building and owning serverless infrastructure.
• At least 2 years of scripting experience in Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible).
• Experience building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes performance and cost.
• Experience in automating the provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Worked on providing solutions for major automation with scripts or infrastructure.
• Experience with APM tools such as DataDog and log management tools.
• Experience in designing and implementing Essential Functions System Architecture Process; establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Experience establishing and enforcing:
• 1. System monitoring tools and standards
• 2. Risk Assessment policies and standards
• 3. Escalation policies and standards
• Excellent DevOps engineering, team management, and collaboration skills.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and writing code and scripts.
• Experience or knowledge in - Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and prior experience as an open-source contributor will be preferred.

We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers. We are looking to expand our team capabilities on the DevOps front and are on a lookout for 4 DevOps professionals having relevant hands on technical experience of 4-8 years. 

We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adopted. We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As a DevOps Engineer, you :

- Will work collaboratively with the engineering and customer support teams to deploy and operate our systems. 

- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

- Help automate and streamline our operations and processes. 

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our test and production environments. 

- Take control of various mandates and change management processes to ensure compliance for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular) 

- Monitor and optimize the usage of various cloud services. 

- Setup and enforce CI/CD processes and practices

Skills required :

- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SES, to name a few)

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and hardening 

- Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent 

- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (Jenkins) 

- Experience with container related technologies (docker, lxc, rkt, docker swarm, kubernetes)

- Working understanding of code and script (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java)

- Working understanding of SQL and databases 

- Working understanding of version control system (GIT is preferred) 

- Managing IT operations, setting up best practices and tuning them from time-totime. 

- Ensuring that process overheads do not reduce the productivity and effectiveness of small team. - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies and continuously refactor thetools and processes.

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

• 3+ years experience leading a team of DevOps engineers
• 8+ years experience managing DevOps for large engineering teams developing cloud-native software
• Strong in networking concepts
• In-depth knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures/services.
• Experience within the container and container orchestration space (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Passion for CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins etc.
• Familiarity with config management tools like Ansible Terraform etc
• Proven record of measuring and improving DevOps metrics
• Familiarity with observability tools and experience setting them up
• Passion for building tools and productizing services that empower development teams.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux command-line tools and ability to write bash scripts.
• Strong in Unix / Linux administration and management,

KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own and manage the entire cloud infrastructure
• Create the entire CI/CD pipeline to build and release
• Explore new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization
• Own and manage the site reliability
• Strong decision-making skills and metric-driven approach
• Mentor and coach other team members

JD for Devops

Experience: 5+ years

Job Summary

You'd be meticulously analyzing project requirements and carry forward the development of highly robust, scalable and easily maintainable backend applications, work independently, and you'll have the support & opportunity to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
• ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

Skill Requirements:

1. Managing GitHub (example: - creating branches for test, QA, development and production, creating Release tags, resolve merge conflict)
2. Setting up of the servers based on the projects in either AWS or Azure (test, development, QA, staging and production)
3. AWS S3 configuring and s3 web hosting, Archiving data from s3 to s3-glacier
4. Deploying the build(application) to the servers using AWS CI/CD and Jenkins (Automated and manual)
5. AWS Networking and Content delivery (VPC, Route 53 and CloudFront)
6. Managing databases like RDS, Snowflake, Athena, Redis and Elasticsearch
7. Managing IAM roles and policies for the functions like Lambda, SNS, aws cognito, secret manager, certificate manager, Guard Duty, Inspector EC2 and S3.
8. AWS Analytics (Elasticsearch, Athena, Glue and kinesis).
9. AWS containers (elastic container registry, elastic container service, elastic Kubernetes service, Docker Hub and Docker compose
10. AWS Auto scaling group (launch configuration, launch template) and load balancer
11. EBS (snapshots, volumes and AMI.)
12. AWS CI/CD build spec scripting, Jenkins groovy scripting, shell scripting and python scripting.
13. Sagemaker, Textract, forecast, LightSail
14. Android and IOS automation building
15. Monitoring tools like cloudwatch, cloudwatch log group, Alarm, metric dashboard, SNS(simple notification service), SES(simple email service)
16. Amazon MQ
17. Operating system Linux and windows
18. X-Ray, Cloud9, Codestar
19. Fluent Shell Scripting
20. Soft Skills
21. Scripting Skills , Good to have knowledge (Python, Javascript, Java,Node.js)
22. Knowledge On Various DevOps Tools And Technologies

Qualifications and Skills

Job Type: Full-time

Experience: 4 - 7 yrs

Qualification: BE/ BTech/MCA.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka

We are looking for a Sr. Engineer DevOps and SysOps, who is responsible for managing AWS and Azure cloud computing.  Your primary focus would be to help multiple projects with various cloud service implementation, create and manage CI/CD pipelines for deployment, explore new services on cloud and help projects to implement them.

Technical Requirements & Responsibilities

1. Have 4+ years’ experience as a DevOps and SysOps Engineer.
2. Apply cloud computing skills to deploy upgrades and fixes on AWS and Azure (GCP is optional / Good to have).
3. Design, develop, and implement software integrations based on user feedback.
4. Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
5. Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines).
6. Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
7. Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security.
8. Optimize the company’s computing architecture.
9. Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability.
10. Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
11. Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef).
12. Can maintain Java / PHP / Ruby on Rail / DotNet web applications.
13. Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
14. Possess a strong command of software-automation production systems (Jenkins and Selenium).
15. Expertise in software development methodologies.
16. You have working knowledge of known DevOps tools like Git and GitHub.
17. Possess a problem-solving attitude.
18. Can work independently and as part of a team.

Soft Skills Requirements

1. Strong communication skills
2. Agility and quick learner
3. Attention to detail
4. Organizational skills
5. Understanding of the Software development life cycle
6. Good Analytical and problem-solving skills
7. Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
8. Should have a high level of energy working as an individual contributor and as a part of team.
9. Good command over verbal and written English communication

Mandatory Skills Sets                                                                   

• Excellent problem-solving skills in technical challenges
• Deep knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS Preferred)
• Understanding of Latest cloud computing technologies
• Experience in architecting solutions based on knowledge of infrastructure & application architectures including the integration approaches
• Complete hands-on with ability to grasp evolving technologies and coding languages
• Excellent communication skills which would involve customer facing role
• Design thinking
• Customer facing skills and strong technical capabilities to review the teams work as well as guide the team
• Experience working/building/contributing to proposals for architecture, estimations

Preferred Skills Sets                                                                      

• Experience architecting infrastructure solutions using both Linux/Unix and Windows with specific recommendations on server, load balancing, HA/DR, & storage architectures.
• Experience architecting or deploying Cloud/Virtualization solutions in enterprise customers.
• Person must have performed Application Architect Role for 3+ years
• AWS platform specific experience a bonus.
• Enterprise application and database architecture a bonus.