DevOps - Kubernetes Engineer for Desktop and Cloud

About CoverSelf:

We are an InsurTech start-up based out of Bangalore, with a focus on Healthcare. CoverSelf empowers healthcare insurance companies with a truly NEXT-GEN cloud-native, holistic & customizable platform preventing and adapting to the ever-evolving claims & payment inaccuracies. Reduce complexity and administrative costs with a unified healthcare dedicated platform.

Overview about the role:

We are looking for a Junior DevOps Engineer who would be working on the bleeding edge of technologies. The role would be primarily to achieve various functions like maintaining, monitoring, securing and automating our cloud infrastructure and applications. If you have a solid background in kubernetes and terraform, we’d love to speak with you.

Responsibilities:

➔Implement, and maintain application infrastructure, databases, and networks.

➔Develop and implement automation scripts using Terraform for infrastructure deployment.

➔Implement and maintain containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes.

➔Work with other DevOps Engineers in the team on deploying applications, provisioning infrastructure, Automation, routine audits, upgrading systems, capacity planning, and benchmarking.

➔Work closely with our Engineering Team to ensure seamless integration of new tools and perform day-to-day activities which can help developers deploy and release their code seamlessly.

➔Respond to service outages/incidents and ensure system uptime requirements are met.

➔Ensure the security and compliance of our applications and infrastructure.

Requirements:

➔Must have a B.Tech degree

➔Must have at least 2 years experience as a devops engineer

➔Operating Systems: Good understanding in any of the UNIX/Linux platforms and good to have windows.

➔Source Code Management: Expertise in GIT for version control and managing branching strategies.

➔Networking: Basic understanding of network fundamentals like Networks, DNS, PORTS, ROUTES,NAT GATEWAYS and VPN.

➔Cloud Platforms: Should have minimum 2 years of experience in working with AWS and good to have understanding of other cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

➔Infrastructure Automation: Experience with Terraform to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.

➔Container Orchestration: Must have at least 1 year of experience in managing Kubernetes clusters.

➔Containerization: Experience in containerization of applications using Docker.

➔CI/CD and Scripting: Experience with CI/CD concepts and tools (e.g., Gitlab CI) and scripting languages like Python or Shell for automation.

➔Monitoring and Observability: Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and troubleshooting using logs and metrics analysis.

➔Security Practices: Basic understanding of security best practices in a DevOps environment and Integration of security into the CI/CD pipeline (DevSecOps).

➔Databases: Good to have knowledge on one of the databases like MySQL, Postgres, mongo.

➔Problem Solving and Troubleshooting: Debugging and troubleshooting skills for resolving issues in development, testing, and production environments.

Work Location: Jayanagar - Bangalore.

Work Mode: Work from Office.

Benefits: Best in the Industry Compensation, Friendly & Flexible Leave Policy, Health Benefits, Certifications & Courses Reimbursements, Chance to be part of rapidly growing start-up & the next success story, and many more.

Additional Information:

At CoverSelf, we are creating a global workplace that enables everyone to find their true potential, purpose, and passion irrespective of their background, gender, race, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity. We are committed to providing equal opportunity for all and believe that diversity in the workplace creates a more vibrant, richer work environment that advances the goals of our employees, communities and the business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate and streamline deployment processes.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) to ensure scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
• Implement and monitor system performance, ensuring high availability and uptime of services.
• Collaborate with software developers to ensure code is efficiently deployed and integrated into production systems.
• Automate routine tasks and processes to increase productivity and reduce errors.
• Build and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure proactive issue resolution.
• Develop and maintain system configurations, security settings, and deployment scripts.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with application performance, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Ensure that systems are compliant with security best practices and regulatory standards.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps tools, trends, and technologies to continually improve operations.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure

 Experience must include a combination of:

o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)

o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)

o Practical knowledge of shell scripting

o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux

o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers

o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments

o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana

o Git, Jenkins, Jira

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
•     • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
•     • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
•     • Experience with IAC tools  Terraform
•     • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
•     • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
•     • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
•     • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
•     • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
•     • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
•     • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
•     • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
•     • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

1. Develop and Deploy Software:
1. Architect and create an effective build and release process using industry best practices and tools
2. Create and manage build scripts to deploy software in a multi-cloud environment
3. Look for opportunities to automate as much of the deployment process as possible to provide for repeatability, auditability, scalability and build in process enforcement
2. Manage Release Schedule:
1. Act as a “gate keeper” for all releases into production
2. Work closely with business stakeholders, development managers and developers to prepare a release schedule
3. Help prioritize deployment requests for version upgrades, patches and hot-fixes
3. Continuous Delivery of Software:
1. Implement Continuous Integration (CI) practices to drive development teams to implement smaller changes and commit code to the version control repo frequently
2. Implement Continuous Development (CD) practices that automates deployment of the application to several environments – Dev, Test and Production
3. Implement Continuous Testing (functional and non-functional) to execute tests in the CI/CD pipeline
4. Manage Version Control:
1. Define and implement branching policies to efficiently manage source-code
2. Implement business rules as a part of source control standards
5. Resolve Software Issues:
1. Assist technical support and development teams to troubleshoot issues and identify areas that need improvement
2. Address deployment related issues
6. Maintain Release Documentation:
1. Maintain release notes (features available in stable versions and known issues) and other documents for both internal and external end users

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

Oddr is looking for a skilled backend engineer to help us build scalable multi-tenanted enterprise Cloud applications. The ideal candidate should be able to bring new ideas to the table and design and develop distributed microservices with a strong emphasis on security, resiliency, scalability, performance, and quality. The candidate should have a solid understanding of CI/CD concepts and familiarity with building deployment pipelines. The candidate should be a self-motivated team player and take pride in what they deliver.

The candidate should be interested in a long-term stable career to grow with our company. The candidate will need to work late night hours because of the geographic distribution of the team.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience building deployment pipelines
• Strong knowledge of working with a CI/CD automation server like Jenkins
• Experience working with Docker containers and Kubernetes
• Familiarity working with Azure tools and services
• Good working knowledge of .NET Core and C#
• Familiarity with Cloud development concepts
• Experience with API-driven development and developing RESTful APIs
• Ability to write clean, well-structured code with adequate test coverage, proper abstraction, and reusability
• Ability to work to tight deadlines, manage priorities, and take responsibility for delivering to time and quality requirements
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent problem-solving skills

Minimum qualifications required:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant certification from a reputable institute
• 3-5 years of experience.

As an Infrastructure Engineer at Navi, you will be building a resilient infrastructure platform, using modern Infrastructure engineering practices.

You will be responsible for the availability, scaling, security, performance and monitoring of the navi Cloud platform. You’ll be joining a team that follows best practices in infrastructure as code

• Build out the Infrastructure components like API Gateway, Service Mesh, Service Discovery, container orchestration platform like kubernetes.
• Developing reusable Infrastructure code and testing frameworks
• Build meaningful abstractions to hide the complexities of provisioning modern infrastructure components
• Design a scalable Centralized Logging and Metrics platform
• Drive solutions to reduce Mean Time To Recovery(MTTR), enable High Availability.

• Good to have experience in managing large scale cloud infrastructure, preferable AWS and Kubernetes
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages like Java, Python and Go
• Experience in handling logs and metrics at a high scale.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• 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