DevOps Engineer

Role

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps
practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices. This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application-level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
- Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
- Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
- System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and
platforms.
- Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
- Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS
platform.
- Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way
by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration
management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in
time.
- Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
- Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based
auto scaling.
- Have on call responsibilities.
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered
within the project.
- Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom
workflow.

Requirements
- Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a
sense of ownership and drive.
- Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming
languages.
- Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying
services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)
- Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache
- Strong Linux system administration background.
- Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
- Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT
gateway, DynamoDB)
- Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~
1 Lakh users a day)
- A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
- Expertise with Git
- Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
- Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or
Mongo.
- Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
- Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the
ones we should implement.
- Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as
needed.

 

What you need to have:

Key Skills:

• AWS Cloud, CICD, Serverless setups, Monitoring Setup
• Performance setup, scalability in hands experience, Linux expertise, DevOps Operations

Responsibilities:

• AWS Cloud, CICD, Serverless setups, Monitoring Setup, Performance setup, scalability in hands experience, Linux expertise, DevOps Operations.

Primary Skill : Azure Infra Architecture, monitoring infra, Azure resource management, designing application for Azure, writing program/scripts for Azure deployment, Containers/Kubernetes support team experience. Secondary Skills : Design, Architecture, .Net component development, Azure component development using C# Description Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, secure, and fault tolerant systems on Azure Evaluating and improving existing Azure Identifying appropriate use of Azure and operational best practices Advanced knowledge of web hosting architecture including on host web servers, script processing, configurations and packages. The ideal candidate will have a strong experience in support customer-facing cloud operations to ensure 99.999% uptime and an aptitude with the ability to lead in-depth technology discussions in cloud operations. Candidates with strong Azure operations experience are also encouraged to apply. Job Duties: Designs, builds, tests, deploys, analyses, administers, monitors and maintains 24x7 Cloud-based service. Researches and recommends the procurement and use of Azure Cloud-based infrastructure services. Provides support and issue investigation and resolution for all internal and client facing Cloud-based solutions. Actively mentors all staff on the proper use of all Cloud-based services. Provide 24/7 operational support for production network, servers and systems. Reviews, evaluates, specifies, designs, maintains, and documents system architecture, system configuration, system monitoring and system performance monitoring. Contributes to setting priorities, establishing milestones and deadlines for product releases. Works directly with NOC, QA and Engineering to trouble-shoot system issues and deliver timely resolutions. Process and complete simultaneous projects in an accurate and timely fashion. Qualifications: Deep technical familiarity with Azure and its components, virtualization and networking. 4+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud based IaaS, PaaS or SaaS. Expert level understanding and knowledge of Microsoft Azure services (Virtual Machines, Websites, Storage Blobs, SQL Database, Virtual Network, Traffic Manager, Automation, Active Directory, CDN, Cache). Expert level knowledge of Azure Site Recovery, Backups, Clustering, Load Balancing and SQL Always On, Virtual Networking, Site to Site VPN. Working knowledge of Information Security, Data Privacy & regulatory compliance. Bachelors degree in Information Systems/Computer Science. Experienced working in a 24x7x365 SaaS environment. Work closely with team members to understand requirements, review design documents, and provide release support and architecture planning. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communications, analytical and presentation skills. Ability to manage customer escalations and work under pressure Capabilities to operate in a flexible team environment with minimal supervision Windows Azure architecture and its components (Fabric, Compute, Storage) Deep knowledge of Windows Azure Platform services Azure Platform development and deployment concepts Experience with Active Directory, Security, OS Internals concepts Understanding of operational concepts like change management, on call rotations, escalations, uptime, etc. Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions 70-533 certification will be added plus Work Location - Coimbatore

Required Skills: Strong experience in AWS / Google Cloud. Strong development experience in Perl, Python, Docker, and Postgres. Strong experience in build/release management. Working experience on Linux. Excellent knowledge of shell scripts. Knowledge of Virtualization Platforms VMware. Working experience on Configuration Management tools. Working experience on Test and Build Systems Jenkins/Maven Should have strong communication skills, a passion to learn, and an ability to work well with people at all levels of an organization. Roles and Responsibilities: Create Deployment Unit consisting build, documents and installation artifacts. Preparing Delivery definition / Release Note / Production turn-over Note documents. Establish DevOps Policies. Communicate with developers, product managers and technical support specialists on product issues. Assist in Creating and maintaining Configuration and Change Management Plan for the project. Choosing suitable DevOps tools. Setting up Configuration Management Environment. Assist in routine back-up and archival of project repository.