IBM Sterling Integrator Developer

Job Title: DevOps SDE llI

Job Summary

Porter seeks an experienced cloud and DevOps engineer to join our infrastructure platform team. This team is responsible for the organization's cloud platform, CI/CD, and observability infrastructure. As part of this team, you will be responsible for providing a scalable, developer-friendly cloud environment by participating in the design, creation, and implementation of automated processes and architectures to achieve our vision of an ideal cloud platform.

Responsibilities and Duties

In this role, you will

• Own and operate our application stack and AWS infrastructure to orchestrate and manage our applications.
• Support our application teams using AWS by provisioning new infrastructure and contributing to the maintenance and enhancement of existing infrastructure.
• Build out and improve our observability infrastructure.
• Set up automated auditing processes and improve our applications' security posture.
• Participate in troubleshooting infrastructure issues and preparing root cause analysis reports.
• Develop and maintain our internal tooling and automation to manage the lifecycle of our applications, from provisioning to deployment, zero-downtime and canary updates, service discovery, container orchestration, and general operational health.
• Continuously improve our build pipelines, automated deployments, and automated testing.
• Propose, participate in, and document proof of concept projects to improve our infrastructure, security, and observability.

Qualifications and Skills

Hard requirements for this role:

• 5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer on AWS.
• Experience with git, CI / CD, and Docker. (We use GitHub, GitHub actions, Jenkins, ECS and Kubernetes).
• Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Linux and networking administration experience.
• Strong Linux Shell scripting experience.
• Experience with one programming language and cloud provider SDKs. (Python + boto3 is preferred)
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible and Packer.
• Experience with container orchestration tools. (Kubernetes/ECS).
• Database administration experience and the ability to write intermediate-level SQL queries. (We use Postgres)
• AWS SysOps administrator + Developer certification or equivalent knowledge

Good to have:

• Experience working with ELK stack.
• Experience supporting JVM applications.
• Experience working with APM tools is good to have. (We use datadog)
• Experience working in a XaaC environment. (Packer, Ansible/Chef, Terraform/Cloudformation, Helm/Kustomise, Open policy agent/Sentinel)
• Experience working with security tools. (AWS Security Hub/Inspector/GuardDuty)
• Experience with JIRA/Jira help desk.

ApnaComplex is one of India’s largest and fastest-growing PropTech disruptors within the Society & Apartment Management business.  The SaaS based B2C platform is headquartered out of India’s tech start-up hub, Bangalore, with branches in 6 other cities. It currently empowers 3,600 Societies, managing over 6 Lakh Households in over 80 Indian cities to effortlessly manage all aspects of running large complexes seamlessly.

ApnaComplex is part of ANAROCK Group. ANAROCK Group is India's leading specialized real estate services company having diversified interests across the real estate value chain.

If it excites you to - drive innovation, create industry-first solutions, build new capabilities ground-up, and work with multiple new technologies, ApnaComplex is the place for you.

Must have-

• Knowledge of Docker
• Knowledge of Terraforms
• Knowledge of AWS

Good to have -

• Kubernetes
• Scripting language: PHP/Go Lang and Python
• Webserver knowledge
• Logging and monitoring experience
• Test, build, design, deployment, and ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools like Jenkins, maven Git, etc. 
• Build and maintain highly available production systems.
• Must know how to choose the best tools and technologies which best fits the business needs. 
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems.
• Investigate and resolve technical issues.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• Ability to automate test and deploy the code and monitor. 
• Work in close coordination with the development and operations team such that the application is in line with performance according to the customer's expectation.
• Lead and guide the team in identifying and implementing new technologies.

Skills that will help you build a success story with us

• An ability to quickly understand and solve new problems
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent data interpretation
• Context-switching
• Intrinsically motivated
• A tactical and strategic track record for delivering research-driven results

Quick Glances:

• https://www.apnacomplex.com/why-apnacomplex">What to look for at ApnaComplex
• https://www.linkedin.com/company/1070467/admin/">Who are we A glimpse of ApnaComplex, know us better
• https://www.apnacomplex.com/media-buzz">ApnaComplex - Media – Visit our media page  

ANAROCK Ethos - Values Over Value:

Our assurance of consistent ethical dealing with clients and partners reflects our motto - Values Over Value.

We value diversity within ANAROCK Group and are committed to offering equal opportunities in employment. We do not discriminate against any team member or applicant for employment based on nationality, race, color, religion, caste, gender identity / expression, sexual orientation, disability, social origin and status, indigenous status, political opinion, age, marital status or any other personal characteristics or status. ANAROCK Group values all talent and will do its utmost to hire, nurture and grow them.

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of 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 which 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 SRE automation engineer building, 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 which 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.

Role 

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.

You will also help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

This would be a hybrid role and the person would be expected to also do some application level programming in their downtime.

Responsibilities

• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of production systems.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Manage the establishment and configuration of SaaS infrastructure in an agile way by storing infrastructure as code and employing automated configuration management tools with a goal to be able to re-provision environments at any point in time.
• Be accountable for proper backup and disaster recovery procedures.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.
• Have on call responsibilities.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.

Requirements

• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.

• Prior experience as a software developer in a couple of high level programming languages.

• Extensive experience in any Javascript based framework since we will be deploying services to NodeJS on AWS Lambda (Serverless)

• Extensive experience with web servers such as Nginx/Apache

• Strong Linux system administration background.
• Ability to present and communicate the architecture in a visual form.
• Strong knowledge of AWS (e.g. IAM, EC2, VPC, ELB, ALB, Autoscaling, Lambda, NAT gateway, DynamoDB)
• Experience maintaining and deploying highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale (~ 1 Lakh users a day)
• A drive towards automating repetitive tasks (e.g. scripting via Bash, Python, Ruby, etc)
• Expertise with Git
• Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI)
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis and/or Mongo.
• Stellar troubleshooting skills with the ability to spot issues before they become problems.
• Current with industry trends, IT ops and industry best practices, and able to identify the ones we should implement.
• Time and project management skills, with the capability to prioritize and multitask as needed.

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.

Job Description

• Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
• Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
• Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
• Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
• Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
• Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
• Good communications and Presentation Skills

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field

• 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
• 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
• Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
• Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
• Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
• Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
• Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.

• Health Memberships 
• Sports Subscriptions 
• Entertainment Subscriptions 
• Key Conferences and Event Passes
• Learning Stipend 
• Team Lunches and Parties 
• Travel Reimbursements 
• ESOPs