Devops Lead

Job Overview:

You will work in engineering and development teams to integrate and develop cloud solutions and virtualized deployment of software as a service product. This will require understanding the software system architecture function as well as performance and security requirements. The DevOps Engineer is also expected to have expertise in available cloud solutions and services, administration of virtual machine clusters, performance tuning and configuration of cloud computing resources, the configuration of security, scripting and automation of monitoring functions. This position requires the deployment and management of multiple virtual clusters and working with compliance organizations to support security audits. The design and selection of cloud computing solutions that are reliable, robust, extensible, and easy to migrate are also important.

Experience:

• Experience working on billing and budgets for a GCP project - MUST
• Experience working on optimizations on GCP based on vendor recommendations - NICE TO HAVE
• Experience in implementing the recommendations on GCP
• Architect Certifications on GCP - MUST
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal & written) - MUST
• Excellent documentation skills on processes and steps and instructions- MUST
• At least 2 years of experience on GCP.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering OR Equivalent.
• Extensive scripting or programming experience (Shell Script, Python).
• Extensive experience working with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins).
• Extensive experience working with GCP, Azure, or Cloud Foundry.
• Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, elastic search).
• Must have 2 years of minimum experience with GCP certification.

Benefits :

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).

Location :

Remote - work from anywhere.

Ideal joining preferences:
Immediate or 15 days

• Strong experience working with tools and platforms like Helm charts, Circle CI, Jenkins,
• and/or Codefresh
• Excellent knowledge of AWS offerings around Cloud and DevOps
• Strong expertise in containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes & Rancher
• Should be familiar with leading Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
• Strong experience in Python, Shell Scripting, Ansible, and Terraform
• Good command over monitoring tools like Datadog, Zabbix, Elk, Grafana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Prometheus, JFrog, Nagios, etc.
• Experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.

• Seeking an Individual carrying around 5+ yrs of experience.
• Must have skills - Jenkins, Groovy, Ansible, Shell Scripting, Python, Linux Admin
• Terraform, AWS deep knowledge to automate and provision EC2, EBS, SQL Server, cost optimization, CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Server less automation is plus.
• Excellent writing and communication skills in English. Enjoy writing crisp and understandable documentation
• Comfortable programming in one or more scripting languages
• Enjoys tinkering with tooling. Find easier ways to handle systems by doing some research. Strong awareness around build vs buy.

Hands on Experience with Linux administration

Experience using Python or Shell scripting (for Automation) 

Hands-on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes 

Experience working  with one cloud platforms (AWS or Azure or Google) 

Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible & Chef 

Experience working with  Containerization tool Docker.

Experience working with Container Orchestration tool Kubernetes.

Experience in source Control Management including SVN and/or Bitbucket

& GitHub

Experience with setup & management of monitoring tools like Nagios, Sensu & Prometheus or any other popular tools 

Hands-on experience in Linux, Scripting Language & AWS is mandatory

Troubleshoot and Triage development, Production issues

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

Website: https://moneyhop.co/">https://moneyhop.co/

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Should have excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Technical Skills

• Work with developer teams with a focus on automating build and deployment using tools such as Jenkins.
• Implement CI/CD in projects (GitLabCI preferred).
• Enable software build and deploy.
• Provisioning both day to day operations and automation using tools, e. g. Ansible, Bash.
• Write, plan, create infra as a code using Terraform.
• Monitoring, ITSM automation incident creation from alerts using licensed and open source tools.
• Manage credentials for AWS cloud servers, github repos, Atlassian Cloud services, Jenkins, OpenVPN, and the developers environment.
• Building environments for unit tests, integration tests, system tests, and acceptance tests using Jenkins.
• Create and spin off resource instances.
• Experience implementing CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure automation solutions (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. ).
• Experience with AWS.
• Should have expert Linux and Network administration skills to troubleshoot and trace symptoms back to the root cause.
• Knowledge of application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about developing solution strategies, and deliver results.
• Good understanding of design of native Cloud applications Cloud application design patterns and practices in AWS.

• Work with the developer team to enhance the existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Adopt industry best practices to set up a UAT and prod environment for scalability.
• Manage the AWS resources including IAM users, access control, billing etc.
• Work with the test automation engineer to establish a CI/CD pipeline.
• Work on replication of environments easy to implement.
• Enable efficient software deployment.

• Work with developers to build out CI/CD pipelines, enable self-service build tools and reusable deployment jobs. Find, explore, and advocate for new technologies for enterprise use.
• Automate the provisioning of environments
• Promote new DevOps tools to simplify the build process and entire Continuous Delivery.
• Manage a Continuous Integration and Deployment environment.
• Coordinate and scale the evolving build and cloud deployment systems across all product development teams.
• Work independently, with, and across teams. Establishing smooth running. environments are paramount to your success, and happiness
• Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the[1]box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity.

Technical Skills

• Experience with AWS multi-region/multi-AZ deployed systems, auto-scaling of EC2 instances, CloudFormation, ELBs, VPCs, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, S3, Route53, RDS, IAM roles, security groups, cloud watch
• Experience in Data Visualization and Monitoring tools such as Grafana and Kibana
• Experienced in Build and CI/CD/CT technologies like GitHub, Chef, Artifactory, Hudson/Jenkins
• Experience with log collection, filter creation, and analysis, builds, and performance monitoring/tuning of infrastructure.
• Automate the provisioning of environments pulling strings with Puppet, cooking up some recipes with Chef, or through Ansible, and the deployment of those environments using containers, like Docker or Rocket: (have at least some configuration management tool through some version control).

Qualifications:

• B.E/ B.Tech/ M.C.A in Computer Science, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Electronics and Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum 60% in Graduation and Post-Graduation.
• Good verbal and written communication skills