Devops Engineer

Job Description

Position - SRE developer / DevOps Engineer

Location - Mumbai

Experience- 3- 10 years

About HaystackAnalytics:

HaystackAnalytics is a company working in deep technology of genomics, computing and data science for creating the first of its kind clinical reporting engine in Healthcare. We are a new but well funded company with a tremendous amount of pedigree in the team (IIT Founders, IIT & IIM core team). Some of the technologies we have created are a global first in infectious disease and chronic diagnostics. As a product company creating a huge amount of IP, our Technology and R&D team are our crown jewels. With early success of our products in India, we are now expanding to take our products to international shores. 

Inviting Passionate Engineers to join a new age enterprise:  

At HaystackAnalytics, we rely on our dynamic team of engineers to solve the many challenges and puzzles that come with our rapidly evolving stack that deals with Healthcare and Genomics.

We’re looking for full stack engineers who are passionate problem solvers, ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. 

Our ideal candidate has experience building enterprise products and has understanding and experience of working with new age front end technologies, web frameworks, APIs, databases, distributed computing,back end languages, caching, security, message based architectures et al.

You’ll be joining a small team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front end and back end architecture, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Objectives of this Role:

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ideate and develop new product features in collaboration with domain experts in healthcare and genomics 
• Develop state of the art enterprise standard front-end and backend services
• Develop cloud platform services based on container orchestration platform 
• Continuously embrace automation for repetitive tasks
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality by using clean coding principles and solid design patterns 
• Build robust tech modules that are Unit Testable, Automating recurring tasks and processes  
• Engage effectively with team members and collaborate to upskill and unblock each other

Frontend Skills 

• HTML 5  
• CSS framework ( LESS/ SASS ) 
• Es6 / Typescript 
• Electron app / TAURI
• Component library ( Webcomponents / radix / material ) 
• CSS ( tailwind) 
• State management --> Redux / Zustand / Recoil 
• Build tools - > (webpack/vite/Parcel/turborepo)
• Frameworks -- > Next JS / 
• Design patterns 
• Test Automation Frameworks (cypress playwright etc )
• Functional Programming concepts  
• Scripting ( bash , python )

Backend Skills 

1. Node / Deno / bun - Express / NEST JS 
2. Language : Typescript / Python / Rust / 
3. REST / GRAPHQL 
4. SOLID Design Principles
5. Storage (mongodb/ Object Storage / postgres ) 
6. Caching ( Redis / In memory Data grid )
7. Pub sub (KAFKA / SQS / SNS / Event bridge / RabbitMQ) 
8. Container Technology ( Docker / Kubernetes )  
9. Cloud ( azure , aws , openshift ) 
10. GITOPS 
11. Automation ( terraform , Serverless ) 

Other Skills 

• Innovation and thought leadership
• UI - UX design skills  
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies to grow
• Communication 

1. Bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline
2. About 5 years of professional experience supporting AWS cloud environments
3. Certified Amazon Architect Associate or Architect
4. Experience serving as lead (shift management, reporting) will be a plus
5. AWS Architect Certified Solution Architect Professional (Must have)
6. Minimum 4yrs experience, maximum 8 years’ experience.

1. 100% work from office in Hyderabad
2. Very fluent in English

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for https://www.simplilearn.com/top-benefits-of-learning-devops-article" target="_blank">DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate https://www.simplilearn.com/best-ci-cd-tools-article" target="_blank">CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (https://www.simplilearn.com/open-source-pipeline-tools-for-devops-article" target="_blank">CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems like Kafka, Yarn, Elastic Search, etc..
• Familiarity with Python-related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls, etc) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies, and hardware, SDN, etc)
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructures - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Source code management and Implementation of security best practices.
• Experienced in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
• Good understanding & implementation experience using 12-factor App principles
• Awareness of Cloud Security concepts
• Awareness of Information Security concepts and Best Practices

Required Skills and Experience 

• 4+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 4+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

Good to have:

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.
• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.