DevOps Engineer

Strong Lead DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer Profiles.

Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 7+ years of hands-on experience working as a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer.

Mandatory (Experience 2) – Candidate’s current title must be Lead DevOps Engineer (or equivalent Lead role) in the current organization

Mandatory (Experience 3) – Must have minimum 2+ years of team management / technical leadership experience, including mentoring engineers, driving infrastructure decisions, or leading DevOps initiatives.

Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes (container orchestration) including deployment, scaling, and cluster management.

Mandatory (Experience 5) – Must have experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.

Mandatory (Experience 6) – Must have strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting languages.

Mandatory (Experience 7) – Must have working experience with distributed databases or data systems such as MongoDB, Redis, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, or Puppet.

Mandatory (Experience 8) – Must have strong hands-on experience in Observability & Monitoring, CI/CD architecture, and Networking concepts in production environments.

Mandatory (Company) – Candidates must be from Good / Well Funded / Early Stage Product-based companies.

Mandatory (Education) –B.E/ B.Tech

Job Description: DevOps Engineer 

About Hyno:

Hyno Technologies is a unique blend of top-notch designers and world-class developers for new-age product development. Within the last 2 years we have collaborated with 32 young startups from India, US and EU to to find the optimum solution to their complex business problems. We have helped them to address the issues of scalability and optimisation through the use of technology and minimal cost. To us any new challenge is an opportunity.

As part of Hyno’s expansion plans,Hyno, in partnership with Sparity, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our software development processes, optimising system infrastructure, and ensuring the seamless deployment of applications. If you are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability in software development, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Position: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 5-7 years

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
• Develop and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of resources.
• Constantly evaluate continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions as the industry evolves, and develop standardised best practices.
• Work closely with development teams to provide support and guidance in building applications with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Perform regular security assessments and implement best practices for securing the entire development and deployment pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and application performance in a timely manner.
• Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies in the DevOps and cloud space, and proactively suggest improvements to current processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, system administration, or related roles.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services like ECS, S3, RDS, and more.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell..
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with container (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, or Splunk.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team.

Nice to Have:

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), etc.
• Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Join us in shaping the future of DevOps at Hyno in collaboration with Sparity. If you are a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer, eager to make an impact in a remote setting, we'd love to hear from you.

Objectives :

• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing code written by others and analyzing 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

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

• Deploy updates and fixes
• 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

Skills and Qualifications :

• Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering or BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
• 3+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Proficient with git and git workflows
• Good logical skills and knowledge of programming concepts(OOPS,Data Structures)
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL
• Problem-solving attitude
• Collaborative team spirit

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
• Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.  Includes:
  • Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
  • Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
  • Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
  • A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
  • Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
  • Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
  • Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
• Security and monitoring
  • Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
  • Using APM and logging tools:
    • Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
    • Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
    • Alert upon exception events
    • Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
• Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
• Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
• Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
• Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
• Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
• Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
• Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
• Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.

Skills Required:

• Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
• Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
• Experience with CI/CD and Release management
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
• Demonstrable expertise in Java
• Familiarity with REST APIs

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• AWS Certifications is added advantage