DevOps Engineer

6+ years of experience with deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters in production environment as DevOps engineer.

• Expertise in Kubernetes fundamentals like nodes, pods, services, deployments etc., and their interactions with the underlying infrastructure.

• Hands-on experience with containerization technologies such as Docker or RKT to package applications for use in a distributed system managed by Kubernetes.

• Knowledge of software development cycle including coding best practices such as CI/CD pipelines and version control systems for managing code changes within a team environment.

• Must have Deep understanding on different aspects related to Cloud Computing and operations processes needed when setting up workloads on top these platforms

• Experience with Agile software development and knowledge of best practices for agile Scrum team.

• Proficient with GIT version control

• Experience working with Linux and cloud compute platforms.

• Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex issues in distributed systems.

• Excellent communication & interpersonal skills, effective problem-solving skills and logical thinking ability and strong commitment to professional and client service excellence.

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

We are an on-demand E-commerce technology and Services Company and a tech-enabled 3PL (third party logistics). We unlocks ecommerce for companies by managing the entire operations lifecycle:

Sell, Fulfil & Reconcile.

Using us, companies can: -

• Store their inventory in our fulfilment centers (FCs)

• Sell their products on multiple sales channels (online marketplaces like Amazon, Flipkart, and their own website)

• Get their orders processed within a defined SLA

• Reconcile payments against the sales company combines infrastructure and dedicated experts to give brands: accountability, peace of mind, and control over the ecommerce journey.

The company is working on a remarkable concept for running an E-commerce business- starting from establishing an online presence for many enterprises. It offers a combination of products and services to create a comprehensive platform and manage all aspects of running a brand online, including the development of an exclusive web store, handling logistics, integrating all marketplaces and so on.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our Centre of Excellence to build and scale effective software solutions for our Ecommerce Domain.

Wondering what your Responsibilities would be?

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure

• Provide full support to the software development teams to deploy, run and roll out new services and new capabilities in Cloud infrastructure

• Implement CI/CD and DevOps best practices for software application teams and assist in executing the integration and operation processes

• Build proactive monitoring and alerting infrastructure services to support operations and system health

• Be hands-on in developing prototypes and conducting Proof of Concepts

• Work in an agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other engineers to bring new solutions to the table

• Join the DevOps Chapter where you’ll have the opportunity to investigate and share information about technologies within the DevOps Engineering Community

What Makes you Eligible?

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or Software Engineering with appropriate experience

• Minimum of 1 year of proven experience as DevOps Engineer

• Experience in working with a DevOps culture, following Agile Software Development methodologies of Scrum

• Proven experience in source code management tools like Bitbucket and Git

• Solid experience in CI/CD pipelines like Jenkins

• Shown ability with configuration management tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Docker and Kubernetes) and repository tools like Artifactory

• Experience in Cloud architecture & provisioning

• Knowledge in Programming / Querying NoSQL databases

• Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude

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

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.

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: 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