Devops Engineer

Experience :
● 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
● Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
● Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure ● Hands on
experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine)
● Experience with one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java,
.Net)
● Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
● Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
● DevOps Technologies
● Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet,
Chef
● Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker,
Kubernetes, Mesos)

• Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
• Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
• Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
• Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
• Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
• Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
• Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
• Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
• Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
• Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
• Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
• Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
• Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
• AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
• Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
• Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
• Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
• Monthly SLA Performance reports

As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need…. 

• 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
• 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
• 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
• 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
• Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
• Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
• Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
• Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
• Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
• Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
• Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting

Why you should join us

 

- You will join the mission to create positive impact on millions of peoples lives

- You get to work on the latest technologies in a culture which encourages experimentation - You get to work with super humans (Psst: Look up these super human1, super human2, super human3, super human4)

- You get to work in an accelerated learning environment

 

 

What you will do

 

- You will provide deep technical expertise to your team in building future ready systems.

- You will help develop a robust roadmap for ensuring operational excellence

- You will setup infrastructure on AWS that will be represented as code

- You will work on several automation projects that provide great developer experience

- You will setup secure, fault tolerant, reliable and performant systems

- You will establish clean and optimised coding standards for your team that are well documented

- You will set up systems in a way that are easy to maintain and provide a great developer experience

- You will actively mentor and participate in knowledge sharing forums

- You will work in an exciting startup environment where you can be ambitious and try new things :)

 

 

You should apply if

 

- You have a strong foundation in Computer Science concepts and programming fundamentals

- You have been working on cloud infrastructure setup, especially on AWS since 8+ years

- You have set up and maintained reliable systems that operate at high scale

- You have experience in hardening and securing cloud infrastructures

- You have a solid understanding of computer networking, network security and CDNs

- Extensive experience in AWS, Kubernetes and optionally Terraform

- Experience in building automation tools for code build and deployment (preferably in JS)

- You understand the hustle of a startup and are good with handling ambiguity

- You are curious, a quick learner and someone who loves to experiment

- You insist on highest standards of quality, maintainability and performance

- You work well in a team to enhance your impact

About the Role

Requirements:

● Knowledge of building micro-services.
● Experience in managing cloud infrastructure with disaster recovery and security in
mind (AWS, GCP, Azure).
● Experience with High Availability clusters setup.
● Experience in creating alerting and monitoring strategies.
● Strong debugging skills.
● Experience with 0 downtime Continuous Delivery setup (Jenkins, AWS Code
Deploy, Team City, Go CD etc).
● Experience with Infrastructure as Code & Automation tools (Bash, Ansible,
Puppet, Chef, Terraform etc).
● Master of *nix systems, including working with docker, process & network
monitoring tools.
● Knowledge of monitoring tools like New Relic, App Dynamics etc.
● Experience with Messaging systems (RMQ, Kafka etc. ).
● Knowledge of DevOps Intelligence.
● Experience in setting up & driving DevOps initiatives in side the org Excellen.
● Good team player.
● Good to have experience in Kubernetes cluster management.

• You have experience of 2-4 years in building high-performance consumer-facing mobile applications at Product companies of a decent scale.
• You can write code preferably in Golang and Python.
• You have experience with debugging production issues and writing RCAs.
• You have demonstrable stories of being on-call and how outages have been handled.
• You have experience developing products on Kubernetes and cloud providers like GCP and AWS.
• You have worked with Cloud Native (CNCF) technologies.
• You have experience automating CI/CD pipelines.
• You are an excellent collaborator & communicator. You know that start-ups are a team sport.
• You listen to others, aren’t afraid to speak your mind and always try to ask the right questions.
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company

 

 

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.

Amazon has built a reputation for excellence with recent examples of being named #1 in customer service, #1 most trusted, and #2 most innovative. Amazon has a fast-paced environment where we - Work Hard, Have Fun, Make History.-

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is carrying on that tradition while leading the world in Cloud technologies. As a member of the AWS Professional Services team you will be at the forefront of this transformational technology assisting a global list of companies that are taking advantage of a growing set of services and features to run their mission-critical applications.

Professional Services engage in a wide variety of projects for customers and partners, providing collective experience from across the AWS customer base and are obsessed about strong success for the Customer. Our team collaborates across the entire AWS organization to bring access to product and service teams, to get the right solution delivered and drive feature innovation based upon customer needs. You will collaborate with our customers and/or partners on key engagements and will develop and deliver proof-of-concept projects, technical workshops, feature comparisons, and execute migration projects.

You will be based in Hyderabad and might have to travel globally to ensure customer success.

Responsibilities :

- Employ customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with technical and business teams.

- As a key member of the team, ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform

- Participate in architectural discussions and design exercises to create large scale solutions built on AWS and also be part of the development lifecycle.

- Identity workarounds for specific issues and corner scenarios observed during migration

- Automate solutions for repeatable problems

- Develop test plan and testcases to demonstrate application/database readiness post migration

- Work closely with application teams to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met

- Consult for optimal design of database environments, analyzing complex distributed production deployments, and making recommendations to optimize performance

- Develop innovative solutions to complex business and technology problems

- Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and AWS services

- Partner with the sales team to design solutions for customers that drive AWS adoption and revenue

- Conduct technical sessions for internal teams, partners and customers

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS :

- 12+ years of experience in a technical position.

- 4+ years on any Cloud Platform (AWS, Azure, Google etc).

- Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

- Strong programming skills in Java and/or Python.

- Strong hands-on experience in integrating multiple databases like Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL etc.

- Deep hands-on experience in the design, development and deployment of business software at scale.

- Customer facing skills to represent AWS well within the customer's environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation

- Leading/Involved in highly-available and fault-tolerant enterprise and web-scale software applications.

- Experience in performance optimization techniques.

- High end Troubleshooting and Communication skills.

- Proven experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative methodologies required

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS :

- Implementing experience with primary AWS services (EC2, ELB, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway Route53 & S3).

- AWS Solutions Architect Certified

- Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell, Perl)

- Configuration management using CloudFormation and/or Chef/Puppet

- Experience in database programming like PL/SQL etc.

- Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

- Integration of AWS cloud services with on-premise technologies from Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, SAP etc.

- Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.).

- Extended travel to customer locations may be required to sell and deliver professional services as needed



Amazon is an equal opportunity employer. Amazon or its Recruitment Partners do not charge any fee or security deposit from the candidate for offering employment.

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