DevOps Engineer

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and deployment processes.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
• Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
• Monitor and maintain the health of the production infrastructure, including load balancers, databases, and application servers.
• Automate the software development and delivery lifecycle, including code building, testing, deployment, and release.
• Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
• Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
• Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
• Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
• ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
• Design and implement database schemas.
• Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
• Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
• Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
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• Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.

Required Qualifications

• BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer (or similar role) with experience in backed development.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
• Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
• Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
• Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
• Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
• Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
• Have worked in a product based company.

What we offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
• Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
• Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects

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.

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.

• Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need:

• BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
• Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
• Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

What will you do?  

• Setup, manage Applications with automation, DevOps, and CI/CD tools. 
• Deploy, Maintain and Monitor Infrastructure and Services. 
• Automate code and Infra Deployments. 
• Tune, optimize and keep systems up to date. 
• Design and implement deployment strategies. 
• Setup infrastructure in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM cloud, Digital Ocean etc as per requirement. 

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them