DevOps Lead

Role : Principal Devops Engineer

About the Client

It is a Product base company that has to build a platform using AI and ML technology for their transportation and logiticsThey also have a presence in the global market

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios

• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skill

What we look for:

As a DevOps Developer, you will contribute to a thriving and growing AIGovernance Engineering team. You will work in a Kubernetes-based microservices environment to support our bleeding-edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to deploy software using orchestrators /scripts/Automation on Hybrid and Public clouds like AWS
• Ability to write shell/python/ or any unix scripts
• Working Knowledge on Docker & Kubernetes
• Ability to create pipelines using Jenkins or any CI/CD tool and GitOps tool like ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of Git as a source control system and defect tracking system
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot deployment issues
• Ability to use tools for faster resolution of issues
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Passionate and ability work and deliver in a multi-team environment
• Good team player
• Flexible and quick learner
• Ability to write docker files, Kubernetes yaml files / Helm charts
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Prometheus and visualisation tools such as Grafana.
• Ability to write Ansible, terraform scripts
• Linux System experience and Administration
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

Job Description :

• Extensive exp. with K8s (EKS/GKE) and k8s eco-system tooling e,g., Prometheus, ArgoCD, Grafana, Istio etc.
• Extensive AWS/GCP Core Infrastructure skills
• Infrastructure/ IAC Automation, Integration - Terraform
• Kubernetes resources engineering and management
• Experience with DevOps tools, CICD pipelines and release management
• Good at creating documentation(runbooks, design documents, implementation plans )

Linux Experience :

1. Namespace
2. Virtualization
3. Containers

Networking Experience

1. Virtual networking
2. Overlay networks
3. Vxlans, GRE

Kubernetes Experience :

Should have experience in bringing up the Kubernetes cluster manually without using kubeadm tool.

Observability                              

Experience in observability is a plus

Cloud automation :

Familiarity with cloud platforms exclusively AWS, DevOps tools like Jenkins, terraform etc.

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

About Us:

Varivas is a community that allows users to create, support, and recommend content. The mission of Varivas is to give community freedom, ease, and complete control of their content.

Varivas is an early-stage startup looking for its first few members.

 https://www.varivas.community/

Become part of a core team of an upcoming startup building an exciting product from scratch.

Your Responsibilities:

• Write scalable backend code and audit existing backend code for sanity, performance and security
• Design and implementation of on-demand scalable, and performant applications.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools for various test automation frameworks
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Achieve repeatability, fast recovery, best practices, and delegate proper ownership permissions to teams
• Analyzes the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion for better cost and efficiency
• Collaborate with and assist QA in performing load tests and assessing performance optimization
• writing and maintaining the DevOps processes in tools such as confluence

We are looking for someone who is:

• Ready to take complete ownership of the whole infra at Varivas
• Has previous experience in building and maintaining live production app
• You have an eye for detail.
• You’re a problem solver and a perpetual learner.
• You possess a positive and solution-oriented mindset.
• Good Problem-solving skills and troubleshooting
• Build high-performing web and native applications that are robust and easy to maintain

Our Current DevOps stack:

• Github/bitbucket
• Azure cloud storage
• MongoDB Atlas
• JIRA
• Selenium, cypress test automation
• Heroku/digital ocean
• GoDaddy
• Google Analytics/search console
• SendGrid
• sentry.io
• hotjar

What we can offer:

• Payment for work done (of course 🙂)
• Remote work from anywhere
• part time or full time engagement
• Complete flexibility of working hours
• Complete freedom and ownership of your work
• No meetings, standups, or daily status group calls. (We prefer asynchronous communication like slack)

• Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deal with challenges associated with scale.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship

• Terraform o Ansible
• *nix and shell scripting
• Elasticsearch
• Circle CI
• CloudFormation
• Python
• Packer
• Docker
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Challenges of scale
• Production support
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.