IOT Cloud Architect

About us

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.
Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

What will you do?

• Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

• Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

• Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

• Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

• Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

• Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

You should apply, if you

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

Being Part of the Clan

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

Hi 

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or higher-level education equivalent

 4 – 6 years of application development with design, development, implementation, and
support experience, including the following:
o C#
o JavaScript
o HTML
o SQL
o Messaging/RabbitMQ
o Asynchronous communication patterns
 Experience with Visual Studio and Git
 A working understanding of build and release automation, preferably with Azure DevOps
 Excellent understanding of object-oriented concepts and .Net framework
 Experience in creating reusable libraries in C#
 Ability to troubleshoot and isolate/solve complex bugs, connectivity issues, or OS related
issues
 Ability to write complex SQL queries and stored procedures in Oracle and/or MS SQL
 Proven ability to use design patterns to accomplish scalable architecture
 Understanding of event-driven architecture
 Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ
 Experience in the development of REST APIs
 Understanding of basic steps of an Agile SDLC
 Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and interpersonal skills
 Demonstrated accountability and ownership of assigned tasks
 Demonstrated leadership and ability to work as a leader on large and complex tasks

DevOps Architect 

Experience:  10 - 12+ year relevant experience on DevOps
Locations : Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Jaipur.

Qualification:
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer science, Software engineering or equivalent is required.
• Certifications in specific areas are desired

Technical Skillset: Skills Proficiency level

• Build tools (Ant or Maven) - Expert
• CI/CD tool (Jenkins or Github CI/CD) - Expert
• Cloud DevOps (AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Code Pipeline etc) or Azure DevOps. - Expert
• Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Helm charts etc.) - Expert
• Containerization (Docker, Docker Registry) - Expert
• Scripting (linux) - Expert
• Cluster deployment (Kubernetes) & maintenance - Expert
• Programming (Java) - Intermediate
• Application Types for DevOps (Streaming like Spark, Kafka, Big data like Hadoop etc) - Expert
• Artifactory (JFrog) - Expert
• Monitoring & Reporting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty etc.) - Expert
• Ansible, MySQL, PostgreSQL - Intermediate

• Source Control (like Git, Bitbucket, Svn, VSTS etc)
• Continuous Integration (like Jenkins, Bamboo, VSTS )
• Infrastructure Automation (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Deployment Automation & Orchestration (like Jenkins, VSTS, Octopus Deploy)
• Container Concepts (Docker)
• Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
• Cloud (like AWS, Azure, GoogleCloud, Openstack)

Roles and Responsibilities

• DevOps architect should automate the process with proper tools.
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels throughout the organization.
• Evaluating, implementing and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Engineering general and effective processes.
• Helping operation and developers teams to solve their problems.
• Supervising, Examining and Handling technical operations.
• Providing a DevOps Process and Operations.
• Capacity to handle teams with leadership attitude.
• Must possess excellent automation skills and the ability to drive initiatives to automate processes.
• Building strong cross-functional leadership skills and working together with the operations and engineering teams to make sure that systems are scalable and secure.
• Excellent knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies along with configuration management practices in Unix and Linux-based environment.
• Possess sound knowledge of cloud-based environments.
• Experience in handling automated deployment CI/CD tools.
• Must possess excellent knowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Chef, and Puppet).
• Hand on experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Must have strong expertise in operating Linux/Unix environments and scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Shell.
• Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines i.e., implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Previous experience in implementing continuous delivery and DevOps solutions.
• Experience in designing and building solutions to move data and process it.
• Must possess expertise in any of the coding languages depending on the nature of the job.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools (AKS, EKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience with version control systems a must (GIT an advantage)
• Belief in "Infrastructure as a Code"(IaaC), including experience with open-source tools such as terraform
• Treats best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
• Extensive experience with version control systems like GitLab and their use in release management, branching, merging, and integration strategies
• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies
• Proven ability to work on cross-functional Agile teams
• Mentor other engineers in best practices to improve their skills
• Creating suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
• Designing efficient practices.
• Delivering comprehensive best practices.
• Managing and reviewing technical operations.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Exceptional communication skills, be knowledgeable about the latest industry trends, and highly innovative

Key Responsibilities
● Building and managing multiple application environments on AWS using automation tools like Terraform or
Cloudformation etc.
● Deploy applications with zero downtime via automation with configuration management tools such as Ansible.
● Setting up Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana
● Setting up centralised logging using tools such as ELK.
● Containerisation of applications/microservices.
● Ensure application availability to 99.9% with highly available infrastructure.
● Monitoring performance of applications and databases.
● Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cyber security threats.
● Working with software developers to ensure that release cycle and deployment processes are followed.
● Evaluating existing applications and platforms, give recommendations for enhancing performance via gap analysis,
identifying the most practical alternative solutions and assisting with modifications.
Skills -
● Strong knowledge of AWS Managed Services such as EC2, RDS, ECS, ECR, S3, Cloudfront, SES, Redshift, Elastic Cache,
AMQP etc.
● Experience in handling production workloads.
● Experience with Nginx web server.
● Experience with NoSql and Sql Databases such as MongoDB, Postgresql etc.
● Experience with Containerisation of applications/micro services using Docker.
● Understanding of system administration in Linux environments.
● Strong Knowledge of Infrastructure as a Code such as Terraform, Cloudformation etc.
● Strong knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef etc.
● Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Vercel, JIRA etc.
● Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python etc.
● Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices and agile methodology
● Strong communication and documentation skills.
● An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail
● Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
● Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills

Sr Cloud & DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a self motivated and goal oriented candidate to lead in architecting, developing, deploying, and maintaining first class, highly scalable, highly available SaaS platforms.

This is a very hands-on role.  You will have a significant impact on Wenable's success.

Technical Requirements:

    8+ years SaaS and Cloud Architecture and Development with frameworks such as:
        - AWS, GoogleCloud, Azure, and/or other
        - Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, ElasticSearch
        - Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Mesos, VMs, and/or similar orchestration, scaling, and deployment frameworks
        - ProtoBufs, JSON modeling
        - CI/CD utilities like Jenkins, CircleCi, etc.. 
        - Log aggregation systems like Graylog or ELK
        - Additional development tools typically used in orchestration and automation like Python, Shell, etc...
        - Strong security best practices background
        - Strong software development a plus

Leadership Requirements:
    
    - Strong written and verbal skills.  This role will entail significant coordination both internally and externally.
    - Ability to lead projects of blended teams, on/offshore, of various sizes.
    - Ability to report to executive and leadership teams.
    - Must be data driven, and objective/goal oriented.