DevOps Lead

Hiring for the below position with one of our premium client

Role: Senior DevOps Engineer

Exp:7+ years

Location: Chennai

Key skills: DevOps, Cloud, Python scripting

Description:

 Strong analytical and problem-solving skills 

Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive

 7-9 years overall and at least 3-4 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 

If interested kindly apply!

• Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop Kubernetes-based solutions.
• Improve Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Work with other engineers to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.

• Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Kubernetes development experience
• Linux/Unix experience
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test 

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
• A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
• An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
• Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
• Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe

• As a DevOps engineer, you will be responsible for
• Automated provisioning of infrastructure in AWS/Azure/OpenStack environments.
• Creation of CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth delivery of projects.
• Proactive Monitoring of overall infrastructure (Logs/Resources etc)
• Deployment of application to various cloud environments.
• Should be able to lead/guide a team towards achieving goals and meeting the milestones defined.
• Practice and implement best practices in every aspect of project deliverable.
• Keeping yourself up to date with new frameworks and tools and enabling the team to use them.

Skills Required

• Experience in Automation of CI/CD processes using tools such as GIT, Gerrit, Jenkins, CircleCI, Azure Pipeline, Gitlab
• Experience in working with AWS and Azure platforms and Cloud-Native automation tools such as AWS cloud formation and Azure Resource Manager.
• Experience in monitoring solutions such as ELK Stack, Splunk, Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus
• Web Server/Application Server deployments and administration.
• Good Communication, Team Handling, Problem-solving, Work Ethic, and Creativity.
• Work experience of at least 1 year in the following are mandatory.

If you do not have the relevant experience, please do not apply.

• Any cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack)
• Any of the configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform, Powershell DSC)
• Scripting languages (PHP, Python, Shell, Bash, etc.?
• Docker or Kubernetes
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them

- You will manage all elements of the post-sale program relationship with your customers, starting with customer on-boarding and continuing throughout the customer relationship. 

- As the primary customer interface, you engage with customer teams to educate, identify needs, develop designs, set goals, manage and execute on plans that unlock continuous, incremental value from their investments in the CloudPassage Halo platform.

- You are hands-on during execution and thoroughly enjoy seeing your security projects come to life and supporting them afterwards. You are a trusted adviser.

Responsibilities :

- Manage a portfolio of 5+ Enterprise customer accounts with complex needs (typical enterprise customers invest between $500k and $4m+ per year with CloudPassage, have hundreds to tens of thousands of individual public cloud infrastructure deployments, and protect hundreds of thousands of cloud infrastructure assets with Halo).

- Provide level-3 technical support on your customer's most complex issues

- Lead implementation of low-level security controls in Cloud environments, for services, server and containers

- Remotely diagnose & resolve DevSecOps issues in customer environments - able to resolve their DevOps issues that may be interfering with CloudPassage processing.

- Interact with CloudPassage Engineering team by providing customer issue reproduction and data capture, technical diagnostics and validating fixes. QA experience preferred.

- Establish and program manage proactive, value-driven, high-touch relationships with your customers to understand, document and align customer strategies, business objectives, designs, processes and projects with Halo platform capabilities and broader CloudPassage services.

- Develop a trusted advisor relationship by building and maintaining appropriate relationships at all levels with your customer accounts, creating a premium and high-caliber experience.

- Ensure continued satisfaction, identify & confirm unaddressed customer needs that can be value-add opportunities for up-sell and cross-sell, and communicate those needs to the CloudPassage sales team. Identify any early CSAT issues and renewal risks and work with the internal team to remediate and ensure strong CSAT and a successful renewal.

- Be a strong customer advocate within CloudPassage and identify and support areas for improvement in the customer experience, both in our product and processes.

- Be team-oriented, but with a bias towards action to get things done for your customers.

Requirements : Strong cloud security knowledge & experience including :

- End-to-end enterprise security processes

- Cloud security - cloud migrations & shift in security requirements, tooling & approach

- Hands-on DevOps, DevSecOps architecture & automation (critical)

- 4+ years experience in security consulting and project/program management serving cybersecurity customers.

- Complex, level 3 technical support

- Remotely diagnosing & resolving DevSecOps issues in customer environments

- Interacting with CloudPassage Engineering team with customer issue reproduction

- Experience working in a security SaaS company in a startup environment.
 
- Experience working with Executive and C-Level teams.

- Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external constituents.

- Excellent organization, project management, time management, and communication skills.

- Understand and document customer requirements, map to product, track & report metrics, identify up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
 
- Analytical both quantitatively and qualitatively.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
 
- Security certifications (Security +, CISSP, etc.).

Expert Technical Skills :

- Consulting and project management : documenting project charters, project plans, executing delivery management, status reporting. Executive-level presentation skills.

- Security best practices expertise : software vulnerabilities, configuration management, intrusion detection, file integrity.

- System administration (including Linux and Windows) of cloud environments : AWS, Azure, GCP; strong networking/proxy skills.

Proficient Technical Skills :

- Configuration/Orchestration (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, CloudFormation, Terraform).

- CI/CD processes and environments.

Familiar Technical Skills & Knowledge : Python scripting & REST API's, Docker containers, Zendesk & JIRA.