Devops Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Type: Full-time

About Us:

At Tese, we are committed to advancing sustainability through innovative technology solutions. Our platform empowers SMEs, financial institutions, and enterprises to achieve their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. We are looking for a skilled and passionate DevOps Engineer to join our team and help us build and maintain scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure.

Role Overview:

As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the infrastructure that supports our applications and services. You will work closely with our development, QA, and data science teams to ensure smooth deployment, continuous integration, and continuous delivery of our products. Your role will be critical in automating processes, enhancing system performance, and maintaining high availability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management:
• Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Manage server environments, including provisioning, monitoring, and maintenance.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development:
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Automate deployment processes to ensure quick and reliable releases.
• Configuration Management and Automation:
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Automate system configurations and deployments to improve efficiency and reduce manual errors.
• Monitoring and Logging:
• Set up and manage monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack) to track system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Implement logging solutions to ensure effective incident response and system analysis.
• Security and Compliance:
• Ensure systems are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations.
• Implement security best practices, including identity and access management, network security, and vulnerability assessments.
• Collaboration and Support:
• Work closely with development and QA teams to support application deployments and troubleshoot issues.
• Provide support for infrastructure-related inquiries and incidents.

Qualifications:

• Education:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience:
• 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, system administration, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
• Technical Skills:
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Ruby.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack).
• Understanding of networking concepts and security best practices.
• Soft Skills:
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple tasks.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with database administration (SQL and NoSQL databases).
• Experience with Agile methodologies and working in a Scrum or Kanban environment.
• Passion for sustainability and interest in ESG initiatives.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package,and performance bonuses.
• Flexible working hours and remote work options.
• Opportunity to work on impactful projects that promote sustainability.
• Professional development opportunities, including access to training and conferences.

As a SaaS DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for providing automated tooling and process enhancements for SaaS deployment, application and infrastructure upgrades and production monitoring.

• Development of automation scripts and pipelines for deployment and monitoring of new production environments.

• Development of automation scripts for upgrades, hotfixes deployments and maintenance.

• Work closely with Scrum teams and product groups to support the quality and growth of the SaaS services.

• Collaborate closely with SaaS Operations team to handle day-to-day production activities - handling alerts and incidents.

• Assist SaaS Operations team to handle customers focus projects: migrations, features enablement.

• Write Knowledge articles to document known issues and best practices.

• Conduct regression tests to validate solutions or workarounds.

• Work in a globally distributed team.

What achievements should you have so far?

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.

• Experience with containerization, deployment, and operations.

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD processes (Git, Jenkins, Pipelines).

• Good experience with Linux systems and Shell scripting.

• Basic cloud experience, preferably oriented on MS Azure.

• Basic knowledge of containerized solutions (Helm, Kubernetes, Docker).

• Good Networking skills and experience.

• Having Terraform or CloudFormation knowledge will be considered a plus.

• Ability to analyze a task from a system perspective.

• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.

• Must be organized, thorough, autonomous, committed, flexible, customer-focused and productive.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyse cloud infrastructure requirements

• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Shell/Python/Ruby

preferred), with configuration management tools (Ansible/ Puppet/Chef), service registry and

discovery tools (Consul and Vault, etc), infrastructure orchestration tools (Terraform,

CloudFormation), and automated imaging tools (Packer)

• Support existing infrastructure, analyse problem areas and come up with solutions

• An eye for monitoring – the candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be

able to figure out what to monitor and how.

• Work along with the Engineering team to help out with Infrastructure / Network automation needs.

• Deploy infrastructure as code and automate as much as possible

• Manage a team of DevOps

Desired Profile:

• Understanding of provisioning of Bare Metal and Virtual Machines

• Working knowledge of Configuration management tools like Ansible/ Chef/ Puppet, Redfish.

• Experience in scripting languages like Ruby/ Python/ Shell Scripting

• Working knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, firewalling & IPS concepts

• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.

• Self-starter who can implement with minimal guidance

• Hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins

• Experience with Managing K8s infrastructure

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.