DevOps Engineer / leads

JOB DETAILS:

- Job Title: Senior Devops Engineer 2

- Industry: Ride-hailing

- Experience: 5-7 years

- Working Days: 5 days/week

- Work Mode: ONSITE

- Job Location: Bangalore

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Required Skills: Cloud & Infrastructure Operations, Kubernetes & Container Orchestration, Monitoring, Reliability & Observability, Proficiency with Terraform, Ansible etc., Strong problem-solving skills with scripting (Python/Go/Shell)

Criteria:

1.   Candidate must be from a product-based or scalable app-based start-ups company with experience handling large-scale production traffic.

2.   Minimum 5 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

3.   Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed

4.   Candidate must have experience in database migration from scratch 

5.   Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

6.   Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

7.   Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

8.   Working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

9.   Working experience on Cloud platform - AWS

10. Candidate should have Minimum 1.5 years stability per organization, and a clear reason for relocation.

Description 

Job Summary:

As a DevOps Engineer at company, you will be working on building and operating infrastructure at scale, designing and implementing a variety of tools to enable product teams to build and deploy their services independently, improving observability across the board, and designing for security, resiliency, availability, and stability. If the prospect of ensuring system reliability at scale and exploring cutting-edge technology to solve problems, excites you, then this is your fit.

Job Responsibilities:

● Own end-to-end infrastructure right from non-prod to prod environment including self-managed DBs

● Codify our infrastructure

● Do what it takes to keep the uptime above 99.99%

● Understand the bigger picture and sail through the ambiguities

● Scale technology considering cost and observability and manage end-to-end processes

● Understand DevOps philosophy and evangelize the principles across the organization

● Strong communication and collaboration skills to break down the silos

Job Requirements:

● B.Tech. / B.E. degree in Computer Science or equivalent software engineering degree/experience

● Minimum 5 yrs of experience working as a DevOps/Infrastructure Consultant

● Must have a firm hold on the container orchestration tool Kubernetes

● Must have expertise in configuration management tools like Ansible, Terraform, Chef / Puppet

● Strong problem-solving skills, and ability to write scripts using any scripting language

● Understanding programming languages like GO/Python, and Java

● Comfortable working on databases like Mongo/Redis/Cassandra/Elasticsearch/Kafka.

What’s there for you?

Company’s team handles everything – infra, tooling, and self-manages a bunch of databases, such as

● 150+ microservices with event-driven architecture across different tech stacks Golang/ java/ node

● More than 100,000 Request per second on our edge gateways

● ~20,000 events per second on self-managed Kafka

● 100s of TB of data on self-managed databases

● 100s of real-time continuous deployment to production

● Self-managed infra supporting

● 100% OSS

5 to 10 years of software development & coding experience

Experience with Infrastructure as Code development (Automation, CICD) AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy are a must have. 

Experience troubleshooting AWS policy or permissions related errors during resource deployments \

Programming experience; preferred Python, PowerShell, bash development experience \

Have Experience with application build automation tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins, Concourse, and Git supporting continuous integration / continuous deployment capabilities (CI/CD) à GitHub and GitHub actions for deployments are must-have skills (Maven, Jenkins, etc. are nice to have)

Have configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)

Worked in a Development Shop or have SDLC hands on Experience

Familiar with how to write software, test plans, automate and release using modern development methods

AWS certified at an appropriate level

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
• Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.  Includes:
  • Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
  • Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
  • Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
  • A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
  • Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
  • Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
  • Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
• Security and monitoring
  • Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
  • Using APM and logging tools:
    • Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
    • Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
    • Alert upon exception events
    • Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
• Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
• Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
• Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
• Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
• Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
• Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
• Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
• Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.

Skills Required:

• Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
• Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
• Experience with CI/CD and Release management
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
• Demonstrable expertise in Java
• Familiarity with REST APIs

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• AWS Certifications is added advantage

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

Improvement of monitoring systems

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops

- Incident analysis and fixing

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience of working with git

Preferred experience

 Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF) 

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience administering Atlassian products

• 5+ years hands-on experience with designing, deploying and managing core AWS services and infrastructure
• Proficiency in scripting using Bash, Python, Ruby, Groovy, or similar languages 
• Experience in source control management, specifically with Git
• Hands-on experience in Unix/Linux and bash scripting
• Experience building, managing Helm-based build and release CI-CD pipelines for Kubernetes platforms (EKS, Openshift, GKE) 
• Strong experience with orchestration and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Cloudformation  
• Ability to debug, analyze issues leveraging tools like App Dynamics, New Relic and Sumologic 
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and principles 
• Good writing and documentation skills
• Strong collaborator with the ability to work well with core teammates and our colleagues across STS

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.