DevOps Lead

We seek a skilled and motivated Azure DevOps engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and optimize cloud infrastructure using Azure DevOps tools and services. You will collaborate closely with development and IT teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software solutions in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, ARM templates, or Azure CLI.
• Monitor and optimize Azure environments to ensure high availability, performance, and security.
• Collaborate with development, QA, and IT teams to streamline the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to build, deployment, and infrastructure.
• Implement and manage version control systems, primarily using Git.
• Manage containerization and orchestration using tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and best practices for security, scalability, and reliability.

• Seeking an Individual carrying around 5+ yrs of experience.
• Must have skills - Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Python, Linux Admin
• Terraform, AWS deep knowledge to automate and provision EC2, EBS, SQL Server, cost optimization, CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Server less automation is plus.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English. Enjoy writing crisp and understandable documentation
• Comfortable programming in one or more scripting languages
• Enjoys tinkering with tooling. Find easier ways to handle systems by doing some research. Strong awareness around build vs buy.

Job Description :

Acceldata is creating the Data observability space. We make it possible for data-driven enterprises to effectively monitor, discover, and validate Data pipelines at Petabyte scale. Our customers include a Fortune 500 company, one of Asia's largest telecom companies, and a unicorn fintech startup. We are lean, hungry, customer-obsessed, and growing fast. Our Engineering team values productivity, integrity, and pragmatism. We provide a flexible, remote-friendly work environment.

Roles & responsibilities:

• Champion engineering and operational excellence.
• Establish a solid infrastructure framework and excellent development and deployment processes.
• Provide technical guidance to both your team members and your peers from the development team.
• Work with the development teams closely to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored fly, performant and secure systems.
• Be part of and help create a positive work environment based on accountability.
• Communicate across functions and drive engineering initiatives.
• Initiate cross team collaboration with product development teams to develop high quality, polished products and services.

Must haves:

• 5+ years of professional experience developing, and launching software products on Cloud.
• Basic understanding Java/Go Programming
• Good Understanding of Container Technologies/Orchestration platforms (e. g Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of AWS or Any Cloud.
• Good understanding of data stores like Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Good Understanding of Operating systems
• Strong technical background with track record of individual technical accomplishments
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast paced environment
• Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly.
• Most importantly, ability to learn and urge to learn new things.
• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Good to Have:

• Hands-on knowledge of Configuration Management and Deployment tools like – Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Proficient in scripting, and Git and Git workflows
• Experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines
• Knowledge of Big Data systems.

• Collaborate with Dev, QA and Data Science teams on environment maintenance, monitoring (ELK, Prometheus or equivalent), deployments and diagnostics
• Administer a hybrid datacenter, including AWS and EC2 cloud assets
• Administer, automate and troubleshoot container based solutions deployed on AWS ECS
• Be able to troubleshoot problems and provide feedback to engineering on issues
• Automate deployment (Ansible, Python), build (Git, Maven. Make, or equivalent) and integration (Jenkins, Nexus) processes
• Learn and administer technologies such as ELK, Hadoop etc.
• A self-starter and enthusiasm to learn and pick up new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Need to have

• Hands-on Experience in Cloud based DevOps
• Experience working in AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ECR, ECS etc)
• Experience with any programming language.
• Experience using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Experience in Python.
• Should be very comfortable working in Linux/Unix environment.
• Exposure to Shell Scripting.
• Solid troubleshooting skills

Role:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS

Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing

• ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
• SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
• Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
• Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
• Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).

Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration

What you will get:

1. To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
2. A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
3. Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
4. High Growth Work Environment ⚙️

What we are looking for:

1. An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
2. Ability to take Ownership of your work
3. Past experience in leading a team

What will you do?  

• Setup, manage Applications with automation, DevOps, and CI/CD tools. 
• Deploy, Maintain and Monitor Infrastructure and Services. 
• Automate code and Infra Deployments. 
• Tune, optimize and keep systems up to date. 
• Design and implement deployment strategies. 
• Setup infrastructure in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM cloud, Digital Ocean etc as per requirement. 

• 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