DevOps Engineer

About us

 

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.

 

Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

 

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

 

 

What will you do?

 

· Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

 

· Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

 

· Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

 

· Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

 

· Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

 

· Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

 

 

You should apply, if you

 

 

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

 

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

 

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

 

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

 

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

 

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

 

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

 

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

 

 

Being Part of the Clan

 

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

 

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

 

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

DevOps Systems Engineer with experience in Docker Containers, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Ansible, Jenkins and other tools. As part of this role she/he must work with the container best practices in design, development and implementation.

 

At Least 4 Years of experience in DevOps with knowledge of:

• Docker
• Docker Cloud / Containerization
• DevOps Best Practices
• Distributed Applications
• Deployment Architecture
• Atleast AWS Experience
• Exposure to Kubernetes / Serverless Architecture

Skills:

• 3-7+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering
• Strong experience with Docker Containers, Implementing Docker Containers, Container Clustering
• Experience with Docker Swarm, Docker Compose, Docker Engine
• Experience with Provisioning and managing VM's - Virtual Machines
• Experience / strong knowledge with Network Topologies, Network Research,
• Jenkins, BitBucket, Jira
• Ansible or other Automation Configuration Management System tools
• Scripting & Programming using languages such as BASH, Perl, Python, AWK, SED, PHP, Shell
• Linux Systems Administration -: Redhat

Additional Preference:

Security, SSL configuration, Best Practices

Skills We Require:- Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

 

SUMMARY:-

 

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• 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

Have good hands on experience on Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

Have knowledge on EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Centos, Server Hardening

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

A knack for benchmarking and optimization

About the company :

- Provides free and subscription-based website and email services hosted and operated at data centres in Mumbai and Hyderabad.

- Serve global audience and customers through sophisticated content delivery networks.

- Operate a service infrastructure using the latest technologies for web services and a very large storage infrastructure.

- Provides virtualized infrastructure, allows seamless migration and the addition of services for scalability.

- Pioneers and earliest adopters of public cloud and NoSQL big data store - since more than a decade.

- Provide innovative internet services with work on multiple technologies like php, java, nodejs, python and c++ to scale our services as per need.

- Has Internet infrastructure peering arrangements with all the major and minor ISPs and telecom service providers.

- Have mail traffic exchange agreements with major Internet services.

Job Details :

- This job position provides competitive professional opportunity both to experienced and aspiring engineers. The company's technology and operations groups are managed by senior professionals with deep subject matter expertise.

- The company believes having an open work environment offering mentoring and learning opportunities with an informal and flexible work culture, which allows professionals to actively participate and contribute to the success of our services and business.

- You will be part of a team that keeps the business running for cloud products and services that are used 24- 7 by the company's consumers and enterprise customers around the world. You will be asked to contribute to operate, maintain and provide escalation support for the company's cloud infrastructure that powers all of cloud offerings.

Job Role : 

- As a senior engineer, your role grows as you gain experience in our operations. We facilitate a hands-on learning experience after an induction program, to get you into the role as quickly as possible.

- The systems engineer role also requires candidates to research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks.

- The work culture allows a seamless integration with different product engineering teams. The teams work together and share responsibility to triage in complex operational situations. The candidate is expected to stay updated on best practices and help evolve processes both for resilience of services and compliance.

- You will be required to provide support for both, production and non-production environments to ensure system updates and expected service levels. You will be required to specifically handle 24/7 L2 and L3 oversight for incident responses and have an excellent understanding of the end-to-end support process from client to different support escalation levels.

- The role also requires a discipline to create, update and maintain process documents, based on operation incidents, technologies and tools used in the processes to resolve issues.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE :

- A graduate degree or senior diploma in engineering or technology with some or all of the following:

- Knowledge and work experience with KVM, AWS (Glacier, S3, EC2), RabbitMQ, Fluentd, Syslog, Nginx is preferred

- Installation and tuning of Web Servers, PHP, Java servlets, memory-based databases for scalability and performance

- Knowledge of email related protocols such as SMTP, POP3, IMAP along with experience in maintenance and administration of MTAs such as postfix, qmail, etc will be an added advantage

- Must have knowledge on monitoring tools, trend analysis, networking technologies, security tools and troubleshooting aspects.

- Knowledge of analyzing and mitigating security related issues and threats is certainly desirable.

- Knowledge of agile development/SDLC processes and hands-on participation in planning sprints and managing daily scrum is desirable.

- Preferably, programming experience in Shell, Python, Perl or C.

We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers. We are looking to expand our team capabilities on the DevOps front and are on a lookout for 4 DevOps professionals having relevant hands on technical experience of 4-8 years. 

We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adopted. We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As a DevOps Engineer, you :

- Will work collaboratively with the engineering and customer support teams to deploy and operate our systems. 

- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

- Help automate and streamline our operations and processes. 

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our test and production environments. 

- Take control of various mandates and change management processes to ensure compliance for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular) 

- Monitor and optimize the usage of various cloud services. 

- Setup and enforce CI/CD processes and practices

Skills required :

- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SES, to name a few)

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and hardening 

- Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent 

- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (Jenkins) 

- Experience with container related technologies (docker, lxc, rkt, docker swarm, kubernetes)

 

- Working understanding of code and script (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java)

- Working understanding of SQL and databases 

- Working understanding of version control system (GIT is preferred) 

- Managing IT operations, setting up best practices and tuning them from time-totime. 

- Ensuring that process overheads do not reduce the productivity and effectiveness of small team. - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies and continuously refactor thetools and processes.

Work on the toughest problems in stock markets. Lead our efforts to reach 99.999% availability for 25+ services across 200+ servers.

Summary

We are building the fastest, most reliable & intelligent trading platform. That requires highly available, scalable & performant systems. And you will be playing one of the most crucial roles in making this happen.

You will be leading our efforts in designing, automating, deploying, scaling and monitoring all our core products.

Tech Facts so Far
1. 8+ services deployed on 50+ servers
2. 35K+ concurrent users on average
3. 1M+ algorithms run every min
4. 100M+ messages/min
We are a 4-member backend team with 1 Devops Engineer. Yes! this is all done by this incredible lean team.

Big Challenges for You
1. Manage 25+ services on 200+ servers
2. Achieve 99.999% (5 Nines) availability
3. Make 1-minute automated deployments possible

If you like to work on extreme scale, complexity & availability, then you will love it here.

Who are we

We are on a mission to help retail traders prosper in the stock market. In just 3 years, we have the 3rd most popular app for the stock markets in India. And we are aiming to be the de-facto trading app in the next 2 years.

We are a young, lean team of ordinary people that is building exceptional products, that solve real problems. We love to innovate, thrill customers and work with brilliant & humble humans.


Key Objectives for You
• Spearhead system & network architecture
• CI, CD & Automated Deployments
• Achieve 99.999% availability
• Ensure in-depth & real-time monitoring, alerting & analytics
• Enable faster root cause analysis with improved visibility
• Ensure a high level of security

Possible Growth Paths for You
• Be our Lead DevOps Engineer
• Be a Performance & Security Expert

Perks
• Challenges that will push you beyond your limits
• A democratic place where everyone is heard & aware

We are a team of SysOps/DevOps engineers

with one goal in mind -to keep your online business up and running 24/7.Solving problems is

our thing, but we believe that dealing with the same issues over and over again is

unnecessary and counterproductive. Our objective is to find the ultimate solution for each

and every problem! Though, each one of us is different, we have the same goal: to make

our customer's life easier and enjoy it at the same time.

Scope & Responsibilities

As a Department Leader, you will be responsible for managing and mentoring the team of

Linux systems administrators on a daily basis. You will help build and grow the sys admins

team and lead them to success. As Systems Management Department Leader, you will work

both as a People Manager and a Senior Systems Administrator.

As Manager you will recruit and retain a high motivated and professional team of

administrators. Together with our CTO and HR team, youre going to define recruitment

needs in your team and participate in the recruitment process. You will also work on

improving the onboarding process for new employees.

More tech part of the job contains designing and managing systems, tools, and infrastructure

to match our customers needs and provide them with outstanding, safe and reliable

solutions.

This position requires you to be able to devise proactive solutions to project-related issues

and inspire trust in teammates. Are you a team player who is ready to work with our team to

find solutions and are AWS Certified ? We await your CV

Skills & Certifications

- Proven team building and management background (2+ years)

- Strong project, process and people management skills

- Excellent communication skills in English

- Strong background in Linux administration (4+ years experience)

- Amazon AWS certification preferred (EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, IAM, KMS)

- Automation (we use Ansible)

- Infrastructure as code (we use Terraform)

- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and best practices

- Comfort with collaboration across multiple projects

- Ability to lead and coordinate team of professionals on daily basis

This position also requires you to be able to participate in on-call

schedules.Roles and Responsibilities

Devops Engineer

What we are looking for

 Work closely with product & engineering groups to identify and document

infrastructure requirements.

 Design infrastructure solutions balancing requirements, operational

constraints and architecture guidelines.

 Implement infrastructure including network connectivity, virtual machines

and monitoring.

 Implement and follow security guidelines, both policy and technical to

protect our customers.

 Resolve incidents as escalated from monitoring solutions and lower tiers.

 Identify root cause for issues and develop long term solutions to fix recurring

issues.

 Ability to automate recurring tasks to increase velocity and quality.

 Partner with the engineering team to build software tolerance for

infrastructure failure or issues.

 Research emerging technologies, trends and methodologies and enhance

existing systems and processes.

Qualifications

 Master’s/Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering,

Electrical Engineering, or related technical field, and two years of experience

in software/systems or related.

 5+ years overall experience.

Work experience must have included:

 Proven track record in deploying, configuring and maintaining Ubuntu server

systems on premise and in the cloud.

 Minimum of 4 years’ experience designing, implementing and troubleshooting

TCP/IP networks, VPN, Load Balancers & Firewalls.

 Minimum 3 years of experience working in public clouds like AWS & Azure.

 Hands on experience in any of the configuration management tools like Anisble,

Chef & Puppet.

 Strong in performing production operation activities.

 Experience with Container & Container Orchestrator tools like Kubernetes, Docker

Swarm is plus.

 Good at source code management tools like Bitbucket, GIT.

 Configuring and utilizing monitoring and alerting tools.

 Scripting to automate infrastructure and operational processes.

 Hands on work to secure networks and systems.

 Sound problem resolution, judgment, negotiating and decision making skills

 Ability to manage and deliver multiple project phases at the same time

 Strong analytical and organizational skills

 Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Interview focus areas

 Networks, systems, monitoring

 AWS (EC2, S3, VPC)

 Problem solving, scripting, network design, systems administration and

troubleshooting scenarios

 Culture fit, agility, bias for action, ownership, communication

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