DevOps

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

• Pixuate is a deep-tech AI start-up enabling businesses make smarter decisions with our edge-based video analytics platform and offer innovative solutions across traffic management, industrial digital transformation, and smart surveillance. We aim to serve enterprises globally as a preferred partner for digitization of visual information.

  Job Description

  We at Pixuate are looking for highly motivated and talented Senior DevOps Engineers to support building the next generation, innovative, deep-tech AI based products. If you are someone who has a passion for building a great software, has analytical mindset and enjoys solving complex problems, thrives in a challenging environment, self-driven, constantly exploring & learning new technologies, have ability to succeed on one’s own merits and fast-track your career growth we would love to talk!

  What do we expect from this role?

  • This role’s key area of focus is to co-ordinate and manage the product from development through deployment, working with rest of the engineering team to ensure smooth functioning.
  • Work closely with the Head of Engineering in building out the infrastructure required to deploy, monitor and scale the services and systems.
  • Act as the technical expert, innovator, and strategic thought leader within the Cloud Native Development, DevOps and CI/CD pipeline technology engineering discipline.
  • Should be able to understand how technology works and how various structures fall in place, with a high-level understanding of working with various operating systems and their implications.
  • Troubleshoots basic software or DevOps stack issues

  You would be great at this job, if you have below mentioned competencies

  • Tech /M.Tech/MCA/ BSc / MSc/ BCA preferably in Computer Science
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience
  • https://www.edureka.co/blog/devops-skills#knowledge">Knowledge on Various DevOps Tools and Technologies
  • Should have worked on tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible in a production environment for data intensive systems.
  • Experience in developing https://www.edureka.co/blog/continuous-delivery/">Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/ CD) preferably using Jenkins, scripting (Shell / Python) and https://www.edureka.co/blog/what-is-git/">Git and Git workflows
  • Experience implementing role based security, including AD integration, security policies, and auditing in a Linux/Hadoop/AWS environment.
  • Experience with the design and implementation of big data backup/recovery solutions.
  • Strong Linux fundamentals and scripting; experience as Linux Admin is good to have.
  • Working knowledge in Python is a plus
  • Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking, SMTP, HTTP, load-balancers (ELB, HAProxy) and high availability architecture is a plus
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope and timeline
  • Willingness to travel within India and internationally whenever required
  • Demonstrated leadership qualities in past roles

  More about Pixuate:

  Pixuate, owned by Cocoslabs Innovative Solutions Pvt. Ltd., is a leading AI startup building the most advanced Edge-based video analytics products. We are recognized for our cutting-edge R&D in deep learning, computer vision and AI and we are solving some of the most challenging problems faced by enterprises. Pixuate’s plug-and-play platform revolutionizes monitoring, compliance to safety, and efficiency improvement for Industries, Banks & Enterprises by providing actionable real-time insights leveraging CCTV cameras.

  We have enabled our customers such as Hindustan Unilever, Godrej, Secuira, L&T, Bigbasket, Microlabs, Karnataka Bank etc and rapidly expanding our business to cater to the needs of Manufacturing & Logistics, Oil and Gas sector.

  Rewards & Recognitions:

  • Winner of Elevate by Startup Karnataka (https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/">https://pixuate.ai/thermal-analytics/).
  • Winner of Manufacturing Innovation Challenge in the 2nd edition of Fusion 4.0’s MIC2020 organized by the NASSCOM Centre of Excellence in IoT & AI in 2021
  • Winner of SASACT program organized by MEITY in 2021

  Why join us?

  You will get an opportunity to work with the founders and be part of 0 to 1 journey& get coached and guided. You will also get an opportunity to excel your skills by being innovative and contributing to the area of your personal interest. Our culture encourages innovation, freedom and rewards high performers with faster growth and recognition.   

  Where to find us?

  Website: http://pixuate.com/">http://pixuate.com/                            

  Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pixuate-ai     

   

  Place of Work:

  Work from Office – Bengaluru

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

Position:

• Full time/Direct
• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.
• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Role and responsibilities

• Expertise in AWS (Most typical Services),Docker & Kubernetes.
• Strong Scripting knowledge, Strong Devops Automation, Good at Linux
• Hands on with CI/CD (CircleCI preferred but any CI/CD tool will do). Strong Understanding of GitHub
• Strong understanding of AWS networking and. Strong with Security & Certificates.

Nice-to-have skills

• Involved in Product Engineering

• Experience working in advanced iterative methodologies such as Agile and Safe.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working in complex and demanding environments with high degree of change.
• Ability to view system perspective and to perform thorough investigations.
• Experience in frequent delivery to production.
• Microservice-based architecture (Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD, ELK)
• Experience with modern software components (Mongo, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Expertise in software development methodologies.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SSH, SAML, etc.
• Possession of a deep knowledge of development workflows with Git.
• Experience with MySQL or another relational database Environment.
• Automation testing (component, integration and end2end)

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.