Electrical Engineer

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 250+ employees (and increasing every day) from 34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open-minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high-performance environment.

Location: Bangalore
Department: DevOps

Job Summary:

We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Platform team and directly contribute to Continuous Delivery, and improve the state of art in CI/CD and Observability within BlueOptima.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will define and outline CI/CD related aspects and collaborate with application teams on imparting training and enforcing best practices to follow for CI/CD and also directly implement, maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders. 

Your team: The Platform team in BlueOptima works across Product lines and is responsible for providing a scalable technology platform which is used by the Product team to build their application, improve performance of it, or even improve the SDLC by improving the application delivery pipeline, etc. 

Platform team is also responsible for driving technology adoption across the product development team. The team works on components that are common across product lines like IAM (Identity & Access Management), Auto Scaling, APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and CI/CD, etc

Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Define & Outline of CI/CD and related aspects

1. Own & Improve state of build process to reduce manual intervention
2. Own & Improve state of deployment to make it 100% automated
3. Define guidelines and standards of automated testing required for a good CI/CD pipeline, ensures alignment on an ongoing basis (includes artifacts generation, promotions, etc)

• Automating Deployment and Roll back into Production Environment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, application developers, management and infrastructure teams to assess near- and long-term monitoring needs and provide them with Tooling to improve observability of application in production.
• Keep an eye on the emerging observability tools, trends and methodologies, and continuously enhance our existing systems and processes.
• Ability to choose the right set of tools for a given problem and apply that to all the applications which are available 
• Collaborate with the application team for following 

1. Define and enforce logging standard
2. Define metrics applications should track and provide support to application teams visualise same on Grafana (or similar tools)
3. Define alerts for application health monitoring in Production
4. Tooling like APM, E2E, etc
5. Continuously improve the state of the art on above

• Assist in scheduling and hosting regular tool training sessions to better enable tool adoption and best practices, also making sure training materials are maintained. 

Qualifications

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:  

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Demonstrable years of experience with implementation, operations, maintenance of IT systems and/or administration of software functions in multi-platform and multi-system environments.
• At least 1 year of experience leading or mentoring a small team.
• Demonstrable experience having developed containerized application components, using docker or similar solutions in previous roles
• Have extensive experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools.
• Experience in defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards
• 2+ Years of Experience with CI tools and building pipelines using Jenkins.
• 2 + Years of Experience with monitoring and observability tools and methodology of products such as;  Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Nagios, Graphite ,Datadog etc.
• Ability to write and read simple scripts using Python / Shell Scripts.
• Familiarity with configuration languages such as Ansible.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skill

Additional information

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth: 

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high-performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays - this includes public and religious holidays
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company
• Gratuity payments
• Claim Mobile/Internet expenses and Professional Development costs
• Leave Travel Allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• International travel opportunities
• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India  Thailand, Oct 2022. 
• High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)
• Pet friendly offices
• Creche Policy for working parents.
• Paternity and Maternity leave. 

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• Handling escalations from employees in an efficient and friendly manner
• Ensuring Policy creation and management for IT operations and Network management
• Firewall handling – Sophos preferred – Master/ Slave configuration, setting up from scratch
• Setting up wifi access network (Ruckus ZoneDirector preferred)
• Managing Servers, PCs and Laptops (setup, configuration, maintenance) running Microsoft Windows, MacOS and Ubuntu Unix
• Setting up and configuring peripherals like Printers and Scanners
• Basic troubleshooting of computers and peripherals
• Google Suite / Workplace - Managing an organization in GSuite
• Managing internet connections including DSL and Leased Lines.
• Setting up downtime alerts, backup configurations
• Managing network infrastructure like cabling, connection points, adding routers and/ or switches as needed
• Creating OS images

• A Bachelor’s Degree with relevant experience is a must
• You should have 3 - 5 years professional work experience in managing IT infrastructure
• Well versed with setting up and maintaining cloud based solutions for following

1. Data Loss Prevention (McAfee preferred)
2. End Point Protection (McAfee preferred)
3. End point management (Intune preferred)
4. Active Directory (Azure AD preferred)
5. Unix based anti-virus software (Sophos preferred)

• Good understanding of image creation of Windows, Mac and Unix machines with pre-configured software
• Experience with PAM (Privileged Access Management) tools
• Well versed with audits and compliance (ISO 27001 or similar)
• Good experience of Asset Management
• Hands on experience on creating reports using excel sheets (Google Sheet/ Microsoft Excel), pivot tables, vlookups
• Familiarity with Shell Scripting/ Windows Automation via task scheduler etc.