DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant experience

Key Responsibilities:

 • Hands-on experience with AWS tools and CI/CD pipelines, Redhat Linux

 • Strong expertise in DevOps practices and principles

 • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management

 • Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail

Nice to Have:

 • Redhat certification

What You will do

We're looking for bright Senior DevOps engineers that are deeply experienced individual contributors and dynamic team leaders, to join our dedicated DevOps Practice Group. As a Senior DevOps practitioner at Zemoso you’ll use your expertise to provide DevSecOps services to our customers and to our inhouse Dev teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience. 
• 15+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years of DevOps experience with 5+ years of it on Azure platform
• Relevant Azure Certification(s)

Must have experience

• IaC tools ARM/bicep template, Azure DevOps
• GITHub repo and GIT tools
• scripting languages Python, PowerShell, bash development experience
• CI/CD design, build management.
• Container tools Docker and Kubernetes
• Azure Policy and permissions provisioning.
• IT experience to design, development (Java Spring Boot), automated testing, REST API’s, Microservices, Pub/Sub architecture
• Costing, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring cloud expenses.
• Architecture drawings and proposals, presentations.
• Stakeholder management.
• Prototyping.

Nice to have experience

• IaC tools CloudFormation, Terraform 
• Build tools Apache Maven, Jenkins
• Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN and VPN
• Security: NSG, firewall and Azure policies, HTTPS, SSL certificates, KMS key
• Authentication (IAM): SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, Keycloak-based IdAM, LDAP and AD, and/or 3rd-party SSO.
• Access: RBAC and ABAC
• Load Balancers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Encryption: PKI infrastructure, Certificate authorities, OCSP, CRL, CSRs, x.509 certificate structures, pkcs12 certificate containers

Additionally, we’re looking for individuals who:

• Will assist in the rollout and deployment of new product features, and deploy applications via automation with configuration management tools
• Will build applications and tools to reduce barriers, decrease friction and speed up delivery of products
• Can effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Have strong collaborative instincts and interpersonal skills; must enjoy and work well with a wide variety of stakeholders in a complex organization
• Will manage individual project priorities with guidance, meeting deadlines and deliverables.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

Location

Remote - work from anywhere.

About us:

Zemoso Technologies is a Software Product Market Fit Studio that brings silicon valley style rapid prototyping and rapid application builds to Entrepreneurs and Corporate innovation. We offer Innovation as a service and work on ideas from scratch and take it to the Product Market Fit stage using Design Thinking->Lean Execution->Agile Methodology.

We were featured as one of Deloitte Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016, 2018 and 2019). We were also featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific both in 2016 and 2018.

We are located in Hyderabad, India, and Dallas, US. We have recently incorporated another office in Waterloo, Canada.

Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack & NetWeaver BPM), early engineering team of Zoho (leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience.

Marquee customers along with some exciting start-ups are part of our clientele.

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Java with cloud

•  Expertise in implementing and managing Devops CI/CD pipeline. ( either using Jenkins or Azure DevOps ) 
• At least one AWS or Azure Certification
• Terraform Scripting
•  Hands-on experience with git and source code management and release management.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. And Very well versed with DevOps principles and the Agile Frameworks.
• Working knowledge of scripting using shell, Python, Gradle, Yaml, Ansible or puppet or chef.
• Working knowledge of build systems for various technologies like npm, maven etc. 
• Experience and good understanding in any of Cloud platforms like AWS, Azure or Google cloud.
• Hands on Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues. Experience with working with ticketing tools (Jira & Service now)
• A programming language like Java, Go , NodeJS is a nice to have.

• Work Permit for United Kingdom ( tier 2 visa ) total duration of visa will be 5 years ( first 2 years and then 3 year extension) 
• At the end of the 5 years you will be eligible for British Citizenship by applying for Indefinite leave to remain in the UK
• Learn new technologies - We won’t ever expect you to do the same thing day in day out; we want to
• give you the chance to explore the latest techniques to solve challenging technical problems and help
• you become the best developer you can be.
• Join a growing agile team that are consistently delivering.
• Technical Development Program

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
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• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

• 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