Devops Engineer

Job Description

Role Overview:

We're looking for a passionate DevOps engineer with a minimum of 10 years’ experience across all levels, who will work closely with the development teams in Agile setup to continuously improve, support, secure, and operate our production and test environments. We believe in automating our infrastructure as much as possible and pursuing challenging problems in a sustainable and repeatable way.

Our Toolchain

• Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Gitlab, Jenkins, Fastlane, New Relic, Datadog, SonarQube, IaC
• Apache, Nginx, Linux, Ubuntu, Microservices, Python, Shell, Bash, Helm
• Selenium, Jmeter, Slack, Jira, SAST, OSSEC, OWASP
• Node.JS, PHP, Golang, MySQL, MongoDB, Firebase, Redis, Elastic search,
• VPC, API Gateway, Cognito, DocumentDB, ECS, Lambda, Route53, ACM, S3, EC2, IAM

You'll need:

• Production experience with distributed/scalable systems consisting of multiple microservices and/or high-traffic web applications
• Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Extensive knowledge of the Linux operating system
• Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosis to solution for Dev team issues
• Knowledge of how the web works and HTTP fundamentals
• Knowledge of IP networking, DNS, load balancing, and firewalling

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience in agile development and delivery process.
• Good knowledge of at least one programming language. TecStub uses e.g. Nodes, PHP
• Experience in containerizing applications and deployment to production (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience in building modern Terraform infrastructures in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, etc...)
• Experience in analysis of application and database performance monitoring tools (Newrelic, datalog, cluster control, etc..)
• Experience with SQL databases like MySQL, NoSQL, Realtime database stores like Redis, or anything in between.
• Experience being part of the engineering team that built the platform.
• Knowledge of good security practices, including network security, system hardening, secure software, and compliance.
• Familiarity with automated build pipeline / continuous integration using Gitlab and Jenkins and Kubernetes/Docker with this setup, we're deploying to production 2 times per day!

Interview Process:

The entire interview process would take approximately 10 Days.

1. HR Screening Call (15 minutes)
2. Technical Interview Round Level 1 (30 Minutes)
3. Technical Interview Round Level 2 (60 minutes)
4. Final Interview Round (60 minutes)
5. Offer

About Tecstub:

Tecstub is a renowned global provider of comprehensive digital commerce solutions for some of the world's largest enterprises. With offices in North America and Asia-Pacific, our team offers end-to-end solutions such as strategic Solution Consulting, eCommerce website and application development, and support & maintenance services that are tailored to meet our clients' unique business goals. We are dedicated to delivering excellence by working as an extended partner, providing next-generation solutions that are sustainable, scalable, and future-proof. Our passionate and driven team of professionals has over a decade of experience in the industry and is committed to helping our clients stay ahead of the competition.

We value our employees and strive to create a positive work environment that promotes work-life balance and personal growth. As part of our commitment to our team, we offer a range of benefits to ensure our employees are supported and motivated.

• A 5-day work week that promotes work-life balance and allows our employees to take care of personal responsibilities while excelling in their professional roles.
• 30 annual paid leaves that can be utilized for various personal reasons, such as regional holidays, sick leaves, or any other personal needs. We believe that taking time off is essential for overall well-being and productivity.
• Additional special leaves for birthdays, maternity and paternity events to ensure that our employees can prioritize their personal milestones without any added stress.
• Health insurance coverage of 3 lakhs sum insured for our employees, spouse, and children, to provide peace of mind and security for their health needs.
• Vouchers and gifts for important life events such as birthdays and anniversaries, to celebrate our employees' milestones and show appreciation for their contributions to the company.
• A dedicated learning and growth budget for courses and certifications, to support our employees' career aspirations and encourage professional development.
• Company outings to celebrate our successes together and promote a sense of camaraderie among our team members. We believe that celebrating achievements is an important part of building a positive work culture.

Skills

AWS, Terraform, KUBERNETES, GITHUB, APACHE, BASH, DOCKER, ANSIBLE, GIT, Microservices, UBUNTU, GITLAB, CI/CD, APACHE SERVER, NGINX, NODEJS

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer (individual contributor) to maintain and build upon our next-generation infrastructure. We aim to ensure that our systems are secure, reliable and high-performing by constantly striving to achieve best-in-class infrastructure and security by:

• Leveraging a variety of tools to ensure all configuration is codified (using tools like Terraform and Flux) and applied in a secure, repeatable way (via CI)
• Routinely identifying new technologies and processes that enable us to streamline our operations and improve overall security
• Holistically monitoring our overall DevOps setup and health to ensure our roadmap constantly delivers high-impact improvements
• Eliminating toil by automating as many operational aspects of our day-to-day work as possible using internally created, third party and/or open-source tools
• Maintain a culture of empowerment and self-service by minimizing friction for developers to understand and use our infrastructure through a combination of innovative tools, excellent documentation and teamwork

Tech stack: Microservices primarily written in JavaScript, Kotlin, Scala, and Python. The majority of our infrastructure sits within EKS on AWS, using Istio. We use Terraform and Helm/Flux when working with AWS and EKS (k8s). Deployments are managed with a combination of Jenkins and Flux. We rely heavily on Kafka, Cassandra, Mongo and Postgres and are increasingly leveraging AWS-managed services (e.g. RDS, lambda).

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. 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.

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 or Build & Deploy..

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.

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