DevOps Engineer

What we look for:

As a DevOps Developer, you will contribute to a thriving and growing AIGovernance Engineering team. You will work in a Kubernetes-based microservices environment to support our bleeding-edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to deploy software using orchestrators /scripts/Automation on Hybrid and Public clouds like AWS
• Ability to write shell/python/ or any unix scripts
• Working Knowledge on Docker & Kubernetes
• Ability to create pipelines using Jenkins or any CI/CD tool and GitOps tool like ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of Git as a source control system and defect tracking system
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot deployment issues
• Ability to use tools for faster resolution of issues
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Passionate and ability work and deliver in a multi-team environment
• Good team player
• Flexible and quick learner
• Ability to write docker files, Kubernetes yaml files / Helm charts
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Prometheus and visualisation tools such as Grafana.
• Ability to write Ansible, terraform scripts
• Linux System experience and Administration
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.

• 2+ years work experience in a DevOps or similar role
• Knowledge of OO programming and concepts (Java, C++, C#, Python)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g., scripting via Bash, Python, etc)
• Fluency in one or more scripting languages such as Python or Ruby.
• Familiarity with Microservice-based architectures
• Practical experience with Docker containerization and clustering (Kubernetes/ECS)
• In-depth, hands-on experience with Linux, networking, server, and cloud architectures.
• Experience with CI/CD tools Azure DevOps, AWS cloud formation, Lamda functions, Jenkins, and Ansible
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or another cloud PaaS provider.
• Solid understanding of configuration, deployment, management, and maintenance of large cloud-hosted systems; including auto-scaling, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery
• Proficiency with source control, continuous integration, and testing pipelines
  
• Effective communication skills

• Deploy and maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture.
• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.
• Streamline the software development lifecycle by identifying pain points and productivity barriers and determining ways to resolve them.
• Analyze how customers are using the platform and help drive continuous improvement.
• Support and work alongside a cross-functional engineering team on the latest technologies.
• Iterate on best practices to increase the quality & velocity of deployments.
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering team
• Identification and prioritization of technical debt that risks instability or creates wasteful operational toil.
• Own daily operational goals with the team.

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA 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 rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

• Works independently without any supervision
• Work on continuous improvement of the products through innovation and learning. Someone with a knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Experience in deploying highly complex, distributed transaction processing systems.
• Stay abreast with new innovations and the latest technology trends and explore ways of leveraging these for improving the product in alignment with the business.
• As a component owner, where the component impacts across multiple platforms (5-10-member team), work with customers to obtain their requirements and deliver the end-to-end project.

Required Experience, Skills, and Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer. Experience with the Golang cycle is a plus
• At least one End to End CI/CD Implementation experience
• Excellent Problem Solving and Debugging skills in DevOps area· Good understanding of Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Hands-on Build/Package tool experience· Experience with AWS services Glue, Athena, Lambda, EC2, RDS, EKS/ECS, ALB, VPC, SSM, Route 53
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipeline for Glue jobs, Athena, Lambda functions
• Experience architecting interaction with services and application deployments on AWS
• Experience with Groovy and writing Jenkinsfile
• Experience with repository management, code scanning/linting, secure scanning tools
• Experience with deployments and application configuration on Kubernetes
• Experience with microservice orchestration tools (e.g. Kubernetes, Openshift, HashiCorp Nomad)
• Experience with time-series and document databases (e.g. Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Prometheus)
• Experience with message buses (e.g. Apache Kafka, NATS)
• Experience with key-value stores and service discovery mechanisms (e.g. Redis, HashiCorp Consul, etc)
  
  

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.