Devops Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

The DevOps Engineer is a key position to strengthen the security automation capabilities which have been identified as a critical area for growth and specialization within Global IT’s scope. As part of the Cyber Intelligence Operation’s DevOps Team, you will be helping shape our automation efforts by building, maintaining and supporting our security infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to understand and evaluate business requirements.
• Implement modern engineering practices to ensure product quality.
• Provide designs, prototypes and implementations incorporating software engineering best practices, tools and monitoring according to industry standards.
• Write well-designed, testable and efficient code using full-stack engineering capability.
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Proficiency in at least one configuration management or orchestration tool, such as Ansible.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging services.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent exp
• Knowledge of public cloud services & application programming interfaces
• Working exp with continuous integration and delivery practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant exp whether in IT, IS, or software development
• Exp in:
•  Code repositories such as Git
• Scripting languages (Python & PowerShell)
• Using Windows, Linux, Unix, and mobile platforms within cloud services such as AWS
• Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) / platform as a service (PaaS), microservices, Docker containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins
• Databases such as Postgres, SQL, Elastic

• Good knowledge of at least one language (C#, Java, Python, Go, PHP, Node.js)
• Have enough experience on application and infrastructure architectures
• Design and plan cloud solution architecture
• Design for security, network, and compliances
• Analyze and optimize technical and business processes
• Ensure solution and operational reliability
• Manage and provision cloud infrastructure
• Manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions
• Design strategies around cloud governance, migration, Cloud operations and DevOps
• Design highly scalable, available, and reliable cloud applications
• Build and test applications
• Deploy applications on cloud
• Integration with cloud services

Certification:

• Architect level certificate of any cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Responsibilities

● Be a hands-on engineer, ensure frameworks/infrastructure built is well designed,

scalable & are of high quality.

● Build and/or operate platforms that are highly available, elastic, scalable, operable and

observable.

● Build/Adapt and implement tools that empower the TI AI engineering teams to

self-manage the infrastructure and services owned by them.

● You will identify, articulate, and lead various long-term tech vision, strategies,

cross-cutting initiatives and architecture redesigns.

● Design systems and make decisions that will keep pace with the rapid growth of TI AI.

● Document your work and decision-making processes, and lead presentations and

discussions in a way that is easy for others to understand.

● Available for on-call during emergencies to handle and resolve problems in a quick and

efficient manner.

Requirements

● 2+ years of Hands-on experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with AWS and

Kubernetes or similar infrastructure platforms. (preferably AWS)

● Hands-on with DevOps principles and practices ( Everything-as-a-code, CI/CD, Test

everything, proactive monitoring etc).

● Experience in building and operating distributed systems.

● Understanding of operating systems, virtualization, containerization and networks

preferable

● Hands-on coding on any of the languages like Python or GoLang.

● Familiarity with software engineering practices including unit testing, code reviews, and

design documentation.

● Strong debugging and problem-solving skills Curiosity about how things work and love to

share that knowledge with others.

Benefits :

● Work with a world class team working on a very forward looking problem

● Competitive Pay

● Flat hierarchy

● Health insurance for the family

• 3 - 6 years of software development, and operations experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications at scale.
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Experience managing any distributed NoSQL system (Kafka/Cassandra/etc.)
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, deployment and service orchestration using Kubernetes, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Strong scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

Striim (pronounced “stream” with two i’s for integration and intelligence) was founded in 2012 with a simple goal of helping companies make data useful the instant it’s born.

Striim’s enterprise-grade, streaming integration with intelligence platform makes it easy to build continuous, streaming data pipelines – including change data capture (CDC) – to power real-time cloud integration, log correlation, edge processing, and streaming analytics

2 - 5 Years of Experience in any Programming any language (Polyglot Preferred ) & System Operations • Awareness of Devops & Agile Methodologies • Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment . • Experience in working in an agile and fast paced environment . • Hands on knowledge of at least one cloud platform (AWS / GCP / Azure). • Cloud networking knowledge: should understand VPC, NATs, and routers. • Contributions to open source is a plus. • Good written communication skills are a must. Contributions to technical blogs / whitepapers will be an added advantage.

What you need to have:

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)

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.

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.