
Head Kubernetes
Docker, Kubernetes Engineer – Remote (Pan India)
ABOUT US
Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open-source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open-source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.
THE POSITION
Ashnik is looking for talented and passionate Technical consultant to be part of the training team and work with customers on DevOps Solution. You will be responsible for implementation and consultations related work for customers across SEA and India. We are looking for personnel with personal qualities like -
- Passion for working for different customers and different environments.
- Excellent communication and articulation skills
- Aptitude for learning new technology and willingness to understand technologies which he/she is not directly working on.
- Willingness to travel within and outside the country.
- Ability to independently work at the customer site and navigate through different teams.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
- 3+ years of experience with B.E/ B.Tech, MCA, Graduation Degree with higher education in the technical field.
- Must have prior experience with docker containers, swarm and/or Kubernetes.
- Understanding of Operating System, processes, networking, and containers.
- Experience/exposure in writing and managing Dockerfile or creating container images.
- Experience of working on Linux platform.
- Ability to perform installations and system/software configuration on Linux.
- Should be aware of networking and SSL/TLS basics.
- Should be aware of tools used in complex enterprise IT infra e.g. LDAP, AD, Centralized Logging solution etc.
A preferred candidate will have
- Prior experience with open source Kubernetes or another container management platform like OpenShift, EKS, ECS etc.
- CNCF Kubernetes Certified Administrator/Developer
- Experience in container monitoring using Prometheus, Datadog etc.
- Experience with CI/CD tools and their usage
- Knowledge of scripting language e.g., shell scripting
RESPONSIBILITIES
First 2 months:
- Get an in-depth understanding of containers, Docker Engine and runtime, Swarm and Kubernetes.
- Get hands-on experience with various features of Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, and Mirantis Secure Registry
After 2 months:
- Work with Ashnik’s pre-sales and solution architects to deploy Mirantis Kubernetes Engine for customers
- Work with customer teams and provide them guidance on how Kubernetes Platform can be integrated with other tools in their environment (CI/CD, identity management, storage etc)
- Work with customers to containerize their applications.
- Write Dockerfile for customers during the implementation phase.
- Help customers design their network and security policy for effective management of applications deployed using Swarm and/or Kubernetes.
- Help customer design their deployments either with Swarm services or Kubernetes Deployments.
- Work with pre-sales and sales team to help customers during their evaluation of Mirantis Kubernetes platform
- Conduct workshops for customers as needed for technical hand-holding and technical handover.
Package: upto30 L
Office: Mumbai

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POSITION SUMMARY:
We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.
EXPERIENCE
7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.
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Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.
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Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.
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Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time
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Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.
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Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.
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Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.
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Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies
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Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services
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Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.
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Migration and consolidations of infrastructure
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Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.
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Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.
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Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.
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Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.
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Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.
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Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.
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On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones
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Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
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Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.
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Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations
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IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service
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Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies
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Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)
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DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms
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Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment
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Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.
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Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect
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Networking Skills – Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)
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Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)
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Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.
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A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies
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SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies
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Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .
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A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions
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Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.
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A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies
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Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.
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Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.
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Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.
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A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.
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A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..
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A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.
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A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.
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A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)
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A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration
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A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
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A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
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A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories
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Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.
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Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.
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Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services
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SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
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Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.
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Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.
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Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.
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Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.
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Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles
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Working experience with ServiceNow
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Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.
Job Description:
Responsibilities
· Having E2E responsibility for Azure landscape of our customers
· Managing to code release and operational tasks within a global team with a focus on automation, maintainability, security and customer satisfaction
· Make usage of CI/CD framework to rapidly support lifecycle management of the platform
· Acting as L2-L3 support for incidents, problems and service request
· Work with various Atos and 3rd party teams to resolve incidents and implement changes
· Implement and drive automation and self-healing solutions to reduce toil
· Enhance error budgets and hands on design and development of solutions to address reliability issues and/or risks
· Support ITSM processes and collaborate with service management representatives
Job Requirements
· Azure Associate certification or equivalent knowledge level
· 5+ years of professional experience
· Experience with Terraform and/or native Azure automation
· Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and toolset (i.e. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Git)
· Must be adaptable to work in a varied, fast paced exciting, ever changing environment
· Good analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve technical issues
· Understanding of Agile development and SCRUM concepts a plus
· Experience with Kubernetes architecture and tools a plus
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4+ years of experience in IT and infrastructure
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2+ years of experience in Azure Devops
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Experience with Azure DevOps using both as CI / CD tool and Agile framework
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Practical experience building and maintaining automated operational infrastructure
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Experience in building React or Angular applications, .NET is must.
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Practical experience using version control systems with Azure Repo
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Developed and maintained scripts using Power Shell, ARM templates/ Terraform scripts for Infrastructure as a Code.
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Experience in Linux shell scripting (Ubuntu) is must
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Hands on experience with release automation, configuration and debugging.
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Should have good knowledge of branching and merging
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Integration of tools like static code analysis tools like SonarCube and Snky or static code analyser tools is a must.
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
- Own & Improve state of build process to reduce manual intervention
- Own & Improve state of deployment to make it 100% automated
- 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
- Define and enforce logging standard
- Define metrics applications should track and provide support to application teams visualise same on Grafana (or similar tools)
- Define alerts for application health monitoring in Production
- Tooling like APM, E2E, etc
- 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.
Stay connected with us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueoptima">LinkedIn or keep an eye on our https://www.blueoptima.com/careers">career page for future opportunities!
Searce is a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech
to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering,
AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We
are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with
over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.
What we believe?
1. Best practices are overrated
○ Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .
2. Honesty and Transparency
○ We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.
3. Client Partnership
○ Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead.
○ And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.
How we work?
It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by
HAPPIER.
1. Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to
respond.
2. Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As
that’s what life's about.
3. Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and
forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.
4. Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the
street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and
makes us deliver the quality we deliver.
5. Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.
6. Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.
7. Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would
‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did
the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on
vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations
across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak,
people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can
attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions
to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from
one public cloud to the other.
1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best
practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution
visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs
evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build
hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project
deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met;
deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access
management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
● Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing
interest and credibility
● Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a
willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
● Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
● Highly organised and efficient.
● Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Education, Experience, etc.
1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you
otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's
degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from
12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some
manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the
new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives
those fancy degrees!
3. 1 - 5 years of experience with at least 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud
Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise
environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platf
Minimum 4 years exp
Skillsets:
- Build automation/CI: Jenkins
- Secure repositories: Artifactory, Nexus
- Build technologies: Maven, Gradle
- Development Languages: Python, Java, C#, Node, Angular, React/Redux
- SCM systems: Git, Github, Bitbucket
- Code Quality: Fisheye, Crucible, SonarQube
- Configuration Management: Packer, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
- Deployment: uDeploy, XLDeploy
- Containerization: Kubernetes, Docker, PCF, OpenShift
- Automation frameworks: Selenium, TestNG, Robot
- Work Management: JAMA, Jira
- Strong problem solving skills, Good verbal and written communication skills
- Good knowledge of Linux environment: RedHat etc.
- Good in shell scripting
- Good to have Cloud Technology : AWS, GCP and Azure
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.
- Expertise in Infrastructure & Application design & architecture
- Expertise in AWS, OS & networking
- Having good exposure on Infra & Application security
- Expertise in Python, Shell scripting
- Proficient with Devops tools Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, GIT
- Solid background in systems engineering and operations
- Strong in Devops methodologies and processes
- Strong in CI/CD pipeline & SDLC.










