FK0615 (1)- Sr. Devops Engineer

Location: Malleshwaram/MG Road

Work: Initially Onsite and later Hybrid

We are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help. The role will

require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of

current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rotationally

will be required. You will be shaping the way that we use our DevOps tools and

innovating to deliver business value and improve the cadence of the entire dev team.

Required Skills:

Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC,

S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)

• Hands on knowledge on container orchestration tools – Must have: AWS ECS and Good to have: AWS EKS

• Good knowledge on creating and maintaining the infrastructure as code using Terraform

• Solid experience with CI-CD tools like Jenkins, git and Ansible

• Working experience on supporting Microservices (Deploying, maintaining and

monitoring Java web-based production applications using docker container)

• Strong knowledge on debugging production issues across the services and

technology stack and application monitoring (we use Splunk & Cloudwatch)

• Experience with software build tools (maven, and node)

• Experience with scripting and automation languages (Bash, groovy,

JavaScript, python)

• Experience with Linux administration and CVEs scan - Amz Linux, Ubuntu

• 4+ years in AWS DevOps Engineer

Optional skills:

• Oracle/SQL database maintenance experience

• Elastic Search

• Serverless/container based approach

• Automated testing of infrastructure deployments

• Experience of performance testing & JVM tuning

• Experience of a high-volume distributed eCommerce environment

• Experience working closely with Agile development teams

• Familiarity with load testing tools & process

• Experience with nginx, tomcat and apache

• Experience with Cloudflare

Personal attributes

The successful candidate will be comfortable working autonomously and

independently.

They will be keen to bring an entire team to the next level of delivering business value.

A proactive approach to problem

We are looking for very hands-on DevOps engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of a 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 that 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 DevOps automation engineer buildingg, 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 that 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.

• 3+ years of relevant experience
• 2+ years experience with AWS (EC2, ECS, RDS, Elastic Cache, etc)
• Well versed with maintaining infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloudformation, etc)
• Experience in setting CI/CD pipelines from scratch
• Knowledge of setting up and securing networks (VPN, Intranet, VPC, Peering, etc)
• Understanding of common security issues

5 to 10 years of software development & coding experience

Experience with Infrastructure as Code development (Automation, CICD) AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy are a must have. 

Experience troubleshooting AWS policy or permissions related errors during resource deployments \

Programming experience; preferred Python, PowerShell, bash development experience \

Have Experience with application build automation tools like Apache Maven, Jenkins, Concourse, and Git supporting continuous integration / continuous deployment capabilities (CI/CD) à GitHub and GitHub actions for deployments are must-have skills (Maven, Jenkins, etc. are nice to have)

Have configuration management experience (Chef, Puppet, or Ansible)

Worked in a Development Shop or have SDLC hands on Experience

Familiar with how to write software, test plans, automate and release using modern development methods

AWS certified at an appropriate level

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Intuitive is looking for highly talented hands-on Cloud Infrastructure Architects to help accelerate our growing Professional Services consulting Cloud & DevOps practice. This is an excellent opportunity to join Intuitive’ s global world class technology teams, working with some of the best and brightest engineers while also developing your skills and furthering your career working with some of the largest customers.

JD:

Lead the pre-sales (25%) to post-sales (75%) efforts building Public/Hybrid Cloud solutions working collaboratively with Intuitive and client technical and business stakeholders

Be a customer advocate with obsession for excellence delivering measurable success for Intuitive’s customers with secure, scalable, highly available cloud architecture that leverage AWS Cloud services

Experience in analyzing customer's business and technical requirements, assessing existing environment for Cloud enablement, advising on Cloud models, technologies, and risk management strategies

Apply creative thinking/approach to determine technical solutions that further business goals and align with corporate technology strategies

Extensive experience building Well Architected solutions in-line with AWS cloud adoption framework (DevOps/DevSecOps, Database/Data Warehouse/Data Lake, App Modernization/Containers, Security, Governance, Risk, Compliance, Cost Management and Operational Excellence)

Experience with application discovery prefera bly with tools like Cloudscape, to discover application configurations , databases, filesystems, and application dependencies

Experience with Well Architected Review, Cloud Readiness Assessments and defining migration patterns (MRA/MRP) for application migration e.g. Re-host, Re-platform, Re-architect etc

Experience in architecting and deploying AWS Landing Zone architecture with CI/CD pipeline

Experience on architecture, design of AWS cloud services to address scalability, performance, HA, security, availability, compliance, backup and DR, automation, alerting and monitoring and cost

Hands-on experience in migrating applications to AWS leveraging proven tools and processes including migration, implementation, cutover and rollback plans and execution

Hands-on experience in deploying various AWS services e.g. EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, Security Groups etc. using either manual or IaC, IaC is preferred

Hands-on Experience in writing cloud automation scripts/code such as Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation Template (AWS CFT) etc.

Hands-on Experience with application build/release processes CI/CD pipelines

Deep understanding of Agile processes (planning/stand-ups/retros etc), and interact with cross-functional teams i.e. Development, Infrastructure, Security, Performance Engineering, and QA

Additional Requirements:

Work with Technology leadership to grow the Cloud & DevOps practice. Create cloud practice collateral

Work directly with sales teams to improve and help them drive the sales for Cloud & DevOps practice

Assist Sales and Marketing team in creating sales and marketing collateral

Write whitepapers and technology blogs to be published on social media and Intuitive website

Create case studies for projects successfully executed by Intuitive delivery team

Conduct sales enablement sessions to coach sales team on new offerings

Flexibility with work hours supporting customer’s requirement and collaboration with global delivery teams

Flexibility with Travel as required for Pre-sales/Post-sales, Design workshops, War-room Migration events and customer meetings

Strong passion for modern technology exploration and development

Excellent written, verbal communication skills, presentation, and collaboration skills - Team leadership skills

Experience with Multi-cloud (Azure, GCP, OCI) is a big plus

Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation as well as Advanced Windows and Linux Engineering is a big plus

Experience with On-prem Data Engineering (Database, Data Warehouse, Data Lake) is a big plus

• 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

• 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