DevOps Engineer

Mactores is a trusted leader among businesses in providing modern data platform solutions. Since 2008, Mactores have been enabling businesses to accelerate their value through automation by providing End-to-End Data Solutions that are automated, agile, and secure. We collaborate with customers to strategize, navigate, and accelerate an ideal path forward with a digital transformation via assessments, migration, or modernization.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer with expertise in infrastructure as a code, configuration management, continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated monitoring for big data workloads, large enterprise applications, customer applications, and databases.

You will have hands-on technology expertise coupled with a background in professional services and client-facing skills. You are passionate about the best practices of cloud deployment and ensuring the customer expectation is set and met appropriately. If you love to solve problems using your skills, then join the Team Mactores. We have a casual and fun office environment that actively steers clear of rigid "corporate" culture, focuses on productivity and creativity, and allows you to be part of a world-class team while still being yourself.

What you will do?

• Automate infrastructure creation using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
• Perform application configuration management and enable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) through deployment tools.
• Own and manage the build and release cycle for customer projects.
• Share responsibilities for deploying releases and other operations and maintenance activities.
• Enhance operations infrastructure such as Jenkins clusters, Bitbucket, monitoring tools (Consul), and metrics tools like Graphite and Grafana.
• Provide operational support for the engineering team and help migrate legacy infrastructure to the cloud.
• Establish and enforce operational best practices.
• Actively participate in hiring culturally aligned engineers and mentoring them in their career growth.
• Collaborate with founders to design team strategy and contribute to long-term technical planning.
• Work across distributed teams (US & India) and collaborate with customer SMEs to ensure business logic alignment.

What are we looking for?

• 4+ years of experience with Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• 4+ years of experience in configuration management and systems engineering, supporting large-scale Agile environments.
• 4+ years of Linux or Windows administration experience.
• 4+ years of working with Git and solid understanding of branching and merging strategies.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with AWS infrastructure and platform services.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud automation tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• 2+ years of experience with container orchestration tools like Kubernetes (EKS), AWS ECS, and Docker.
• You are proactive and solutions-oriented, with a strong drive to improve reliability and scalability.

You will be preferred if

• Expertise with multiple cloud service providers: AWS, Azure, GCP.
• AWS Certifications: Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional) or DevOps Professional.
• Hands-on experience with data pipelines, big data processing, or machine learning workflows on cloud platforms.

Role: Senior Platform Engineer (GCP Cloud)

Experience Level: 3 to 6 Years

Work location: Mumbai

Mode : Hybrid

Role & Responsibilities:

• Build automation software for cloud platforms and applications
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption
• Design self-service, self-healing monitoring and alerting tools
• Automate CI/CD pipelines (Git, Jenkins, SonarQube, Docker)
• Build Kubernetes container platforms
• Introduce new cloud technologies for business innovation

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience with GCP Cloud
• Knowledge of cloud services (compute, storage, network, messaging)
• IaC tools experience (Terraform/CloudFormation)
• SQL & NoSQL databases (Postgres, Cassandra)
• Automation tools (Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
• Strong Linux administration skills
• Programming: Bash/Python/Java/Scala
• CI/CD pipeline expertise (Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Multi-region deployment experience
• Agile/Scrum/DevOps methodology

DevOps Engineer (Automation) 

ABOUT US

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

LOCATION:  Mumbai

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate Technical consultant to be part of the training team and work with customers on DevOps Solution. You will be responsible for implementation and consultations related work for customers across SEA and India. We are looking for personnel with personal qualities like -

• Passion for working for different customers and different environments.
• Excellent communication and articulation skills
• Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
• Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES

                     First 2 months:

• Get an in-depth understanding of Containers, Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC.
• Get hands-on experience with various technologies of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, Vault, Sysdig

After 2 months: The ideal candidate can will ensure the following outcomes from every client deployment:

• Utilize various open source technologies and tools to orchestrate solutions.
• Write scripts and automation using Perl/Python/Groovy/Java/Bash
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Will be involved in automation using CI/CD/DevOps concepts.
• Be able to document procedures for building and deploying.
• Build independent tools and solutions to effectively scale the infrastructure.
• Work on a cloud-based infrastructure spanning Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure
• Work with pre-sales and sales team to help customers during their evaluation of Terraform, Vault and other open source technologies.
• Conduct workshops for customers as needed for technical hand-holding and technical handover.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Graduate/Post Graduate in any technology.
• Hands on experience in Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, Jenkins, Docker, Git, Jira etc
• Hands on experience at least in one scripting language like Perl/Python/Groovy/Bash
• Knowledge of Java/JVM based languages.
• Experience in Jenkins maintenance and scalability, designing and implementing advanced automation pipelines with Jenkins.
• Experience with a repository manager like JFrog Artifactory
• Strong background in git, Github/Bitbucket, and code branching/merging strategies
• Ability to understand and make trade-offs among different DevOps tools.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud and/or Azure is a strong plus
• Some experience with secrets/key management preferably with HashiCorp Vault
• Experience using monitoring solutions, i.e. Datadog, Prometheus, ELK Stack, NewRelic, Nagios etc

• Cloud and virtualization-based technologies (Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMWare).
• Java Application Server Administration (Weblogic, WidlFfy, JBoss, Tomcat).
• Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)
• Linux/UNIX Administration (Amazon Linux and RedHat).
• Developing and supporting cloud infrastructure designs and implementations and guiding application development teams.
• Configuration Management tools (Chef or Puppet or ansible).
• Log aggregations tools such as Elastic and/or Splunk.
• Automate infrastructure and application deployment-related tasks using terraform.
• Automate repetitive tasks required to maintain a secure and up-to-date operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and support always-available private/public cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
• Build AWS or other public cloud infrastructure using Terraform.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes (EKS) based docker applications in AWS.
• Create custom OS images using Packer.
• Create and revise infrastructure and architectural designs and implementation plans and guide the implementation with operations.
• Liaison between application development, infrastructure support, and tools (IT Services) teams.
• Development and documentation of Chef recipes and/or ansible scripts. Support throughout the entire deployment lifecycle (development, quality assurance, and production).
• Help developers leverage infrastructure, application, and cloud platform features and functionality participate in code and design reviews, and support developers by building CI/CD pipelines using Bamboo, Jenkins, or Spinnaker.
• Create knowledge-sharing presentations and documentation to help developers and operations teams understand and leverage the system's capabilities.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• Leverage scripting (BASH, Perl, Ruby, Python) to build required automation and tools on an ad-hoc basis.

Who we have in mind:

• Solid experience in building a solution on AWS or other public cloud services using Terraform.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with a desire to take on responsibility.
• Extensive knowledge in containerized application and deployment in Kubernetes
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system, RHEL preferred.
• Proficiency with shell scripting.
• Experience with Java application servers.
• Experience with GiT and Subversion.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate technical issues to non-technical and technical audiences.
• Experience working in a large-scale operational environment.
• Internet and operating system security fundamentals.
• Extensive knowledge of massively scalable systems. Linux operating system/application development desirable.
• Programming in scripting languages such as Python. Other object-oriented languages (C++, Java) are a plus.
• Experience with Configuration Management Automation tools (chef or puppet).
• Experience with virtualization, preferably on multiple hypervisors.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Excellent written and verbal skills.

Education or Equivalent Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education in related fields
• Certificates of training in associated fields/equipment’s

Job Dsecription:

○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture

○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards

○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution

○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity

Required Experience and Expertise

○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.

○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.

○ Hands-on experience of GCP  and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.

○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals

NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline

Job Location: Jaipur

Experience Required: Minimum 3 years

About the role:

As a DevOps Engineer for Punchh, you will be working with our developers, SRE, and DevOps teams implementing our next generation infrastructure. We are looking for a self-motivated, responsible, team player who love designing systems that scale. Punchh provides a rich engineering environment where you can be creative, learn new technologies, solve engineering problems, all while delivering business objectives. The DevOps culture here is one with immense trust and responsibility. You will be given the opportunity to make an impact as there are no silos here. 

Responsibilities:

• Deliver SLA and business objectives through whole lifecycle design of services through inception to implementation.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems
• Scale our systems and services through continuous integration, infrastructure as code, and gradual refactoring in an agile environment. 
• Maintain services once a project is live by monitoring and measuring availability, latency, and overall system and application health.
• Write and maintain software that runs the infrastructure that powers the Loyalty and Data platform for some of the world’s largest brands.
• 24x7 in shifts on call for Level 2 and higher escalations
• Respond to incidents and write blameless RCA’s/postmortems
• Implement and practice proper security controls and processes
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on platform.

Must have:  

• Minimum 3 Years of Experience in DevOps.  
• BS degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong inter-personal skills.
• Must have experience in CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TravisCI
• Must have experience in Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon ECS or  Mesos
• Experience in code development in at least one high-level programming language fromthis list: python, ruby, golang, groovy
• Proficient in shell scripting, and most importantly, know when to stop scripting and start developing.
• Experience in creation of highly automated infrastructures with any Configuration Management tools like: Terraform, Cloudformation or Ansible.  
• In-depth knowledge of the Linux operating system and administration. 
• Production experience with a major cloud provider such Amazon AWS.
• Knowledge of web server technologies such as Nginx or Apache. 
• Knowledge of Redis, Memcache, or one of the many in-memory data stores.
• Experience with various load balancing technologies such as Amazon ALB/ELB, HA Proxy, F5. 
• Comfortable with large-scale, highly-available distributed systems.

Good to have:  

• Understanding of Web Standards (REST, SOAP APIs, OWASP, HTTP, TLS)
• Production experience with Hashicorp products such as Vault or Consul
• Expertise in designing, analyzing troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Experience in an PCI environment
• Experience with Big Data distributions from Cloudera, MapR, or Hortonworks
• Experience maintaining and scaling database applications
• Knowledge of fundamental systems engineering principles such as CAP Theorem, Concurrency Control, etc. 
• Understanding of the network fundamentals: OSI, TCI/IP, topologies, etc.
• Understanding of Auditing of Infrastructure and help org. to control Infrastructure costs. 
• Experience in Kafka, RabbitMQ or any messaging bus.