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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About Kiru:
Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.
Position Overview:
We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.
Key Responsibilities:
- Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
- Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
- Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
- Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
- Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
- Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
- Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
- Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
- Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
- Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.
About Kiru:
At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.
We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.
Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.
Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:
Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.
Type, Location
Full Time @ Anywhere in India
Desired Experience
2+ years
Job Description
What You’ll Do
● Deploy, automate and maintain web-scale infrastructure with leading public cloud vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Digital Ocean & Google Cloud Platform.
● Take charge of DevOps activities for CI/CD with the latest tech stacks.
● Acquire industry-recognized, professional cloud certifications (AWS/Google) in the capacity of developer or architect Devise multi-region technical solutions.
● Implementing the DevOps philosophy and strategy across different domains in organisation.
● Build automation at various levels, including code deployment to streamline release process
● Will be responsible for architecture of cloud services
● 24*7 monitoring of the infrastructure
● Use programming/scripting in your day-to-day work
● Have shell experience - for example Powershell on Windows, or BASH on *nix
● Use a Version Control System, preferably git
● Hands on at least one CLI/SDK/API of at least one public cloud ( GCP, AWS, DO)
● Scalability, HA and troubleshooting of web-scale applications.
● Infrastructure-As-Code tools like Terraform, CloudFormation
● CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, CircleCI
● Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift
● Monitoring and alerting systems: e.g. NewRelic, AWS CloudWatch, Google StackDriver, Graphite, Nagios/ICINGA
What you bring to the table
● Hands on experience in Cloud compute services, Cloud Function, Networking, Load balancing, Autoscaling.
● Hands on with GCP/AWS Compute & Networking services i.e. Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Function, Networking (VPC, Firewall, Load Balancer), Cloud SQL, Datastore.
● DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Elastic Search, Redis, kafka, MongoDB or other NoSQL systems
● Configuration management tools such as Ansible/Chef/Puppet
Bonus if you have…
● Basic understanding of Networking(routing, switching, dns) and Storage
● Basic understanding of Protocol such as UDP/TCP
● Basic understanding of Cloud computing
● Basic understanding of Cloud computing models like SaaS, PaaS
● Basic understanding of git or any other source code repo
● Basic understanding of Databases(sql/no sql)
● Great problem solving skills
● Good in communication
● Adaptive to learning
- 7-10 years’ total experience, including 6+ years in a production 24/7 high-availability
- multi-site Cloud environment, including application hosting, CDN Networks, security and information protection.
- Experience of leading overall infrastructure for a complex organization and network, including 24x7 monitoring of a media website & digital properties.
- Experience in hosting and managing video streaming applications, React & Node JS based applications.
- Experience with regulatory compliance issues, as well best practices in application and network security.
- Experience in hosting services on Amazon Cloud & Google Cloud.
- Experience in performing Vulnerability Assessment at server & application level
- Experience in managing Live Streaming on digital platforms.
- Experience in managing SVN, Git code repository & Code release management.
- Partners with Technology head lead the technology infrastructure strategy and execution for the enterprise
- Planning, project management and implementation leadership, identifying opportunities for automation, cost savings, and service quality improvement.
- Provides infrastructure services vision, enables innovation and seeks to leverage market trends that can create business value consistent with the company’s requirements and expectations.
- Participate in the formulation of the company's enterprise architecture and business system plans; assessing cost and feasibility, and ensuring the plan is aligned with and supports the strategic goals of the business
- Hands-on technical depth enables direct oversight, problem-solving leadership and participation for complex infrastructure implementation, system upgrades and operational troubleshooting.
- Experience with comprehensive disaster recovery architecture and operations, including storage area network and redundant, highly-available server and network architectures.
- Leadership for delivery of 24/7 service operations and KPI compliance.
- Ensure best practices are followed for code release management & monitoring of traffic on websites & other applications.
- Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
- Understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
- Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
- Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
- Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and 'fixes'
- Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Daily and Monthly Responsibilities :
- Deploy updates and fixes
- Provide Level 2 technical support
- Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Develop software to integrate with internal back end systems
- Perform root cause analysis for production errors
- Investigate and resolve technical issues
- Develop scripts to automate visualization
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
Skills and Qualifications :
- Bachelors in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
- Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
- Proficient with git and git workflows
- Good knowledge of Python
- Working knowledge of databases such as Mysql,Postgres and SQL
- Problem solving attitude
- Collaborative team spirit
- Detail knowledge of Linux systems (Ubuntu)
- Proficient in AWS console and should have handled the infrastructure of any product (Including dev and prod environments)
Mandatory hands on experience in the following :
- Python based application deployment and maintenance
- NGINX web server
- AWS modules EC2, VPC, EBS, S3
- IAM setup
- Database configurations MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Linux flavoured OS
- Instance/Disaster management
Job Description
• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
• Strong AWS knowledge and experience
• Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
• Experience with IAC tools Terraform
• Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
• Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
• Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
• Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision
CI/CD tools Jenkins/Bamboo/Teamcity/CircleCI, DevSecOps Pipeline, Cloud Services (AWS/Azure/GCP), Ansible, Terraform, Docker, Helm, Cloud formation template, Webserver deployment & config, Databases(SQL/NoSQL) deployment & config, Git, Artifactory, Monitoring tools (Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus etc), Application logs (ELK/EFK, Splunk etc.), API Gateways, Security tools, Vault. |
Our Client is an IT infrastructure services company, focused and specialized in delivering solutions and services on Microsoft products and technologies. They are a Microsoft partner and cloud solution provider. Our Client's objective is to help small, mid-sized as well as global enterprises to transform their business by using innovation in IT, adapting to the latest technologies and using IT as an enabler for business to meet business goals and continuous growth.
With focused and experienced management and a strong team of IT Infrastructure professionals, they are adding value by making IT Infrastructure a robust, agile, secure and cost-effective service to the business. As an independent IT Infrastructure company, they provide their clients with unbiased advice on how to successfully implement and manage technology to complement their business requirements.
- Providing on-call support within a high availability production environment
- Logging issues
- Providing Complex problem analysis and resolution for technical and application issues
- Supporting and collaborating with team members
- Running system updates
- Monitoring and responding to system alerts
- Developing and running system health checks
- Applying industry standard practices across the technology estate
- Performing system reviews
- Reviewing and maintaining infrastructure configuration
- Diagnosing performance issues and network bottlenecks
- Collaborating within geographically distributed teams
- Supporting software development infrastructure by continuous integration and delivery standards
- Working closely with developers and QA teams as part of a customer support centre
- Projecting delivery work, either individually or in conjunction with other teams, external suppliers or contractors
- Ensuring maintenance of the technical environments to meet current standards
- Ensuring compliance with appropriate industry and security regulations
- Providing support to Development and Customer Support teams
- Managing the hosted infrastructure through vendor engagement
- Managing 3rd party software licensing ensuring compliance
- Delivering new technologies as agreed by the business
What you need to have:
- Experience working within a technical operations environment relevant to associated skills stated.
- Be proficient in:
- Linux, zsh/ bash/ similar
- ssh, tmux/ screen/ similar
- vim/ emacs/ similar
- Computer networking
- Have a reasonable working knowledge of:
- Cloud infrastructure, Preferably GCP
- One or more programming/ scripting languages
- Git
- Docker
- Web services and web servers
- Databases, relational and NoSQL
- Some familiarity with:
- Puppet, ansible
- Terraform
- GitHub, CircleCI , Kubernetes
- Scripting language- Shell
- Databases: Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL or CloudSQL
- Agile working practices including scrum and Kanban
- Private & public cloud hosting environments
- Strong technology interests with a positive ‘can do’ attitude
- Be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
- Be good at planning and organising their own time and able to meet targets and deadlines without supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Approachable with both colleagues and team members
- Be resourceful and practical with an ability to respond positively and quickly to technical and business challenges
- Be persuasive, articulate and influential, but down to earth and friendly with own team and colleagues
- Have an ability to establish relationships quickly and to work effectively either as part of a team or singularly
- Be customer focused with both internal and external customers
- Be capable of remaining calm under pressure
- Technically minded with good problem resolution skills and systematic manner
- Excellent documentation skills
- Prepared to participate in out of hours support rota
About the company:
Tathastu, the next-generation innovation labs is Future Group’s initiative to provide a new-age retail experience - combining the physical with digital and enhancing it with data. We are creating next-generation consumer interactions by combining AI/ML, Data Science, and emerging technologies with consumer platforms.
The E-Commerce vertical under Tathastu has developed online consumer platforms for Future Group’s portfolio of retail brands -Easy day, Big Bazaar, Central, Brand factory, aLL, Clarks, Coverstory. Backed by our network of offline stores we have built a new retail platform that merges our Online & Offline retail streams. We use data to power all our decisions across our products and build internal tools to help us scale our impact with a small closely-knit team.
Our widespread store network, robust logistics, and technology capabilities have made it possible to launch a ‘2-Hour Delivery Promise’ on every product across fashion, food, FMCG, and home products for orders placed online through the Big Bazaar mobile app and portal. This makes Big Bazaar the first retailer in the country to offer instant home delivery on almost every consumer product ordered online.
Job Responsibilities:
- You’ll streamline and automate the software development and infrastructure management processes and play a crucial role in executing high-impact initiatives and continuously improving processes to increase the effectiveness of our platforms.
- You’ll translate complex use cases into discrete technical solutions in platform architecture, design and coding, functionality, usability, and optimization.
- You will drive automation in repetitive tasks, configuration management, and deliver comprehensive automated tests to debug/troubleshoot Cloud AWS-based systems and BigData applications.
- You’ll continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize the development and operational efficiency of the platforms.
- You’ll determine the metrics that will define technical and operational success and constantly track such metrics to fine-tune the technology stack of the organization.
Experience: 4 to 8 Yrs
Qualification: B.Tech / MCA
Required Skills:
- Experience with Linux/UNIX systems administration and Amazon Web Services (AWS).
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Kubernetes and container orchestration, Web servers (Nginx, Apache), Application Servers(Tomcat,Node.js,..), document stores and relational databases (AWS RDS-MySQL).
- Site Reliability Engineering patterns and visibility /performance/availability monitoring (Cloudwatch, Prometheus)
- Background in and happy to work hands-on with technical troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Supportive and collaborative personality - ability to influence and drive progress with your peers
Our Technology Stack:
- Docker/Kubernetes
- Cloud (AWS)
- Python/GoLang Programming
- Microservices
- Automation Tools
- Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
- Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
- Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
- Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
- Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
- Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
- Set up a monitoring stack.
- Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
- Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
- Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
- Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
- Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
- First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
- Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
- In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.
Skills:
- Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
- Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
- Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
- Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
- Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
- Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
- Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
- Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
- Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
- Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
- Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
- Good analytical and communication skills
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline