DevOps Engineer-SDE III

Job Responsibilities:

Section 1 -

- Responsible for managing and providing L1 support to Build, design, deploy and maintain the implementation of Cloud solutions on AWS.
- Implement, deploy and maintain development, staging & production environments on AWS.
- Familiar with serverless architecture and services on AWS like Lambda, Fargate, EBS, Glue, etc.
- Understanding of Infra as a code and familiar with related tools like Terraform, Ansible Cloudformation etc.

Section 2 -

- Managing the Windows and Linux machines, Kubernetes, Git, etc.
- Responsible for L1 management of Servers, Networks, Containers, Storage, and Databases services on AWS.

Section 3 -

- Timely monitoring of production workload alerts and quick addressing the issues
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining the Backup and DR process.

Section 4 -

- Responsible for documenting the process.
- Responsible for leading cloud implementation projects with end-to-end execution.

Qualifications: Bachelors of Engineering / MCA Preferably with AWS, Cloud certification

Skills & Competencies

- Linux and Windows servers management and troubleshooting.

- AWS services experience on CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, VPC, EKS, ECS, Redshift, Glue, etc. - AWS EKS

- Kubernetes and containers knowledge

- Understanding of setting up AWS Messaging, streaming and queuing Services(MSK, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, MQ)

- Understanding of serverless architecture. - High understanding of Networking concepts

- High understanding of Serverless architecture concept - Managing to monitor and alerting systems

- Sound knowledge of Database concepts like Dataware house, Data Lake, and ETL jobs

- Good Project management skills

- Documentation skills

- Backup, and DR understanding

Soft Skills - Project management, Process Documentation

Ideal Candidate:

- AWS certification with between 2-4 years of experience with certification and project execution experience.

- Someone who is interested in building sustainable cloud architecture with automation on AWS.

- Someone who is interested in learning and being challenged on a day-to-day basis.

- Someone who can take ownership of the tasks and is willing to take the necessary action to get it done.

- Someone who is curious to analyze and solve complex problems.

- Someone who is honest with their quality of work and is comfortable with taking ownership of their success and failure, both.

Behavioral Traits

- We are looking for someone who is interested to be part of creativity and the innovation-based environment with other team members.

- We are looking for someone who understands the idea/importance of teamwork and individual ownership at the same time.

- We are looking for someone who can debate logically, respectfully disagree, and can admit if proven wrong and who can learn from their mistakes and grow quickly

Responsibilities :
● Explore
○ As a devops engineer, you will have multiple ways, tools & technologies to solve
a particular problem. We want you to take things in your own hands and figure
out the best way to solve it.
● PDCT
○ Plan, design, code & write test cases for problems you are solving
● Tuning
○ Help to tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure, including
reviewing system and application logs
● Security
○ Work on code-level application security
● Deploy
○ Deploy, manage and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant
systems in client environments.
Technologies (4 out of 5 are required) :
● Terraform*
● Docker*
● Kubernetes*
● Bash Scripting
● SQL
(* marked are a must)
The challenges are great (as are the rewards). If you are looking to take these DevOps
challenges head on & wish to learn a great deal out of it and contribute to the company along
the way, this is the role for you.
Ready?
If developing impactful product for a initial stage startup sounds appealing to you, let’s
have a conversation. (Confidential, of course)

What you’ll be doing at Novo:

● Systems thinking
● Creating best practices, templates, and automation for build, test, integration and
deployment pipelines on multiple projects
● Designing and developing tools for easily creating and managing dev/test infrastructure
and services in AWS cloud
● Providing expertise and guidance on CI/CD, Github, and other development tools via
containerization
● Monitoring and support systems in Dev, UAT and production environments
● Building mock services and production-like data sources for use in development and
testing
● Managing Github integrations, feature flag systems, code coverage tools, and other
development & monitoring tools tools
● Participating in support rotations to help troubleshoot to infrastructure issues

● Creating and working with containers, as well as using container orchestration tools
(Kubernetes / Docker)
● AWS: S3, EKS, EC2, RDS, Route53, VPC etc.
● Fair understanding of Linux
● Good knowledge of CI/CD : Jenkins / CircleCI / Github Actions
● Basic level of monitoring
● Support for Deployment along with various Web Servers and Linux environments , both
backend and frontend.

Objectives of this Role:

- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure

- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers

- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes

- 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

Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :

- Deploy updates and fixes

- Provide Level 2 technical support

- 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 :

- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

- Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role

- Proficient with git and git workflows

- Good knowledge of Python

- Working knowledge of databases such as Mysql,Postgres and SQL

- Problem solving attitude

- Collaborative team spirit

- Detail knowledge of Linux systems (Ubuntu)

- Proficient in AWS console and should have handled the infrastructure of any product (Including dev and prod environments)

Mandatory hands on experience in the following :

- Python based application deployment and maintenance

- NGINX web server

- AWS modules EC2, VPC, EBS, S3

- IAM setup

- Database configurations MySQL, PostgreSQL

- Linux flavoured OS

- Instance/Disaster management

Responsibilities:

● Manage AWS services and day to day cloud operations.
● Work closely with the development and QA team to make the deployment process
smooth and devise new tools and technologies in order to achieve automation of most
of the components.
● Strengthen the infrastructure in terms of Reliability (configuring HA etc.), Security (cloud
network management, VPC, etc.) and Scalability (configuring clusters, load balancers,
etc.)
● Expert level understanding of DB replication, Sharding (mySQL DB Systems), HA
clusters, Failovers and recovery mechanisms.
● Build and maintain CI-CD (continuous integration/deployment) workflows.
● Having an expert knowledge on AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudfront and other AWS offered
services and products.
● Installation and management of software systems in order to support the development
team e.g. DB installation and administration, web servers, caching and other such
systems.

Requirements:

● B. Tech or Bachelor's in a related field.
● 2-5 years of hands-on experience with AWS cloud services such as EC2, ECS,
Cloudwatch, SQS, S3, CloudFront, route53.
● Experience with setting up CI-CD pipelines and successfully running large scale
systems.
● Experience with source control systems (SVN, GIT etc), Deployment and build
automation tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible etc.
● Good experience and understanding of Linux/Unix based systems and hands-on
experience working with them with respect to networking, security, administration.
● Atleast 1-2 years of experience with shell/python/perl scripting; having experience with
Bash scripting is an added advantage.
● Experience with automation tasks like, automated backups, configuring fail overs,
automating deployment related process is a must have.
● Good to have knowledge of setting up the ELK stack; Infrastructure as a code services
like Terraform; working and automating processes with AWS SDK/CLI tools with scripts

The AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation.  A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code.  The Engineer will work closely with the Manager of Operations and Devops to build, manage and automate our AWS infrastructure. 

Duties & Responsibilities:

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

Qualifications:

• At least 1-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Expertise using Chef for configuration management
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Experience with CI-CD, Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Strong bias for action and ownership

Position: Technology Lead - DevOps

Position Summary:

Technology Lead provides technical leadership with in-depth DevOps experience and is responsible for enabling delivery of high-quality projects to Saviant clients through highly effective DevOps process. This is a highly technical role, with a focus on analysing, designing, documenting, and implementing a complete DevOps process for enterprise applications using the most advanced technology stacks, methodologies, and best practices within the agreed timelines.
Individuals in this role will need to have good technical and communication skills and strive to be on the cutting edge, innovate, and explore to deliver quality solutions to Saviant Clients.

Your Role & Responsibilities at Saviant:

• Design, analyze, document, and develop the technical architecture for on-premise as well as cloud-based DevOps solutions around customers’ business problems.
• Lead end to end process and setup implementation of configuration management, CI, CD, and monitoring platforms.
• Conduct reviews of design and implementation of DevOps processes while establishing, and maintaining best practices
• Setup new processes to improve the quality of development, delivery and deployment processes
• Provide technical support and guidance to project team members.
• Upgrade by learning technologies beyond traditional area of expertise
• Contribute to pre-sales, proposal creation, POCs, technology incubation from technical and architecture perspective
• Participate in recruitment and people development initiatives.
Job Requirements/Qualifications:
• Educational Qualification: BE, BTech, MTech, MCA from a reputed institute • 6 to 8 years of hands-on experience of the DevOps process using technologies like Dot Net Core, Python, C#, MVC, ReactJS, Python, Android, IOS, Linux, Windows
• Strong hands-on experience of the full life cycle of DevOps: DevOps Orchestration/Configuration/Security/CI-CD/Release Management and Environment management • Solid hands-on knowledge of DevOps technologies and tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Azure for DevOps, Chef, Puppet, JIRA, TFS, Git, SVN, various scripting tools, etc. • Solid hands-on knowledge of containerization technologies and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry • In-depth understanding of various development and deployment architectures from a DevOps perspective
• Expertise in Grounds-up DevOps projects involving multiple agile teams spread across geographies.
• Experience in a various Agile Project Management software /techniques / tools
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Enjoys working as part of agile software teams in a startup environment.

Who Should Apply?

• You have independently managed end-to-end DevOps projects, including understanding requirements, design solutions and implementing, setting up best practices with different business domain over last 2 years.
• You are well versed with Agile development methodologies and have successfully implemented them across at least 2-3 projects
• You have lead development team of 5 to 8 developers with Technology responsibility
• You have served as “Single Point of Contact” for managing technical escalations and decisions

• 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

 

 

A strong background in Azure OR Amazon Web Services (AWS) or a similar cloud platform is a must-have, certification is a plus.

Excellent technical skills and knowledge include but not limited to: cloud methodologies like PaaS and SaaS; programming languages such as Python, Java, .Net; orchestration systems such as Chef, Ansible, Terraform; Azure IaaS servers; PowerShell scripting.

Fully aware of the DevOps cycle with hands-on on deployment models to the cloud.

Experience working with Docker and related containerization technologies.

Experience working on orchestration platforms such as AKS, RedHat OpenShift etc.

Extensive knowledge working with logging and monitoring tools such as EFK, visualization tools such as Grafana and Prometheus.

Exposure to security alert monitoring tools.

Experience in building both microservices and public facing API's.- Experience in working with any of the API gateways.