Kubernetes Admin-Security

Key Responsibilities:

1. Cloud Infrastructure Management: Oversee the deployment, scaling, and management of cloud infrastructure across platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. Ensure optimal configuration, security, and cost-effectiveness.
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3. Application Deployment and Maintenance: Responsible for deploying and maintaining web applications, particularly those built on Django and the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express.js, React, Node.js). This includes setting up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring performance, and troubleshooting.
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5. Automation and Optimization: Develop scripts and automation tools to streamline operations. Continuously seek ways to improve system efficiency and reduce downtime.
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7. Security Compliance: Ensure that all cloud deployments comply with relevant security standards and practices. Regularly conduct security audits and coordinate with security teams to address vulnerabilities.
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9. Collaboration and Support: Work closely with development teams to understand their needs and provide technical support. Act as a liaison between developers, IT staff, and management to ensure smooth operation and implementation of cloud solutions.
10. Disaster Recovery and Backup: Implement and manage disaster recovery plans and backup strategies to ensure data integrity and availability.
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12. Performance Monitoring: Regularly monitor and report on the performance of cloud services and applications. Use data to make informed decisions about upgrades, scaling, and other changes.
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Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Strong background in deploying and maintaining Django-based and MERN stack web applications.
• Expertise in automation tools and scripting languages.
• Solid understanding of network architecture and security protocols.
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and a proactive approach to system optimization.
• Good communication skills for effective collaboration with various teams.

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications in AWS, GCP, or Azure are highly desirable.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, with a focus on cloud computing and web application deployment.

Job Description

We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure while ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our applications. You will be responsible for deploying and maintaining cloud environments, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring optimal performance through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure or AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancement: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and build robust development and production environments.
• Application Deployment: Manage application deployments, ensuring high reliability and minimal downtime.
• Monitoring: Monitor infrastructure health and perform application log analysis to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and debug incidents, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code: Enhance Ansible roles and Terraform modules, maintaining best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Tool Development: Write tools and utilities to streamline and improve infrastructure operations.
• SDLC Practices: Establish and uphold industry-standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices with a strong focus on quality.
• On-call Support: Be available 24/7 for on-call incident management for production environments.

Requirements:

• Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience deploying and provisioning virtual machines on Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
• Linux Administration: Proficient with Linux systems and basic system administration tasks.
• Networking Knowledge: Working knowledge of network fundamentals (Ethernet, TCP/IP, WAF, DNS, etc.).
• Scripting Skills: Proficient in BASH and at least one high-level scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Tools Proficiency: Familiarity with tools such as Git, Nagios, Snort, and OpenVPN.
• Containerization: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes is mandatory.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to engage with peers, customers, vendors, and partners across all levels of the organization.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyse cloud infrastructure requirements

• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Shell/Python/Ruby

preferred), with configuration management tools (Ansible/ Puppet/Chef), service registry and

discovery tools (Consul and Vault, etc), infrastructure orchestration tools (Terraform,

CloudFormation), and automated imaging tools (Packer)

• Support existing infrastructure, analyse problem areas and come up with solutions

• An eye for monitoring – the candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be

able to figure out what to monitor and how.

• Work along with the Engineering team to help out with Infrastructure / Network automation needs.

• Deploy infrastructure as code and automate as much as possible

• Manage a team of DevOps

Desired Profile:

• Understanding of provisioning of Bare Metal and Virtual Machines

• Working knowledge of Configuration management tools like Ansible/ Chef/ Puppet, Redfish.

• Experience in scripting languages like Ruby/ Python/ Shell Scripting

• Working knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, firewalling & IPS concepts

• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.

• Self-starter who can implement with minimal guidance

• Hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins

• Experience with Managing K8s infrastructure

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

This person MUST have:

• Min of 3-5 prior experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline maintenance and enhancement specifically Jenkins based pipelines.
• Working experience with engineering tools like git, git work flow, bitbucket, JIRA etc
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure
• Hands on experience of Linux administration.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration
• Works closely with engineering team for day to day activities
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On Prem or  AWS) for engineering team (Build servers/Jenkin nodes etc.)
• Works with engineering team for new config required for infra like replicating the setups, adding new resources etc.
• Works closely with engineering team for improving existing pipelines for build .
• Troubleshoots problems across infrastructure/services

Experience:

• Min 5-7  year experience

Location

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• 40 hours a week (11 AM to 7 PM).

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.

Job Description:

Mandatory Skills:

Should have strong working experience with Cloud technologies like AWS and Azure.

Should have strong working experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Rundeck.

Must have experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.

Must have working knowledge on tools like Terraform.

Must be good at Scripting Languages like shell scripting and python.

Should be expertise in DevOps practices and should have demonstrated the ability to apply that knowledge across diverse projects and teams.

Preferable skills:

Experience with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, JIRA, gitlab and Jfrog.

Experience in scripting languages like groovy.

Experience with GCP

Summary & Responsibilities:

 Write build pipelines and IaaC (ARM templates, terraform or cloud formation).

 Develop ansible playbooks to install and configure various products.

 Implement Jenkins and Rundeck jobs( and pipelines).

 Must be a self-starter and be able to work well in a fast paced, dynamic environment

 Work independently and resolve issues with minimal supervision.

 Strong desire to learn new technologies and techniques

 Strong communication (written / verbal ) skills

Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

4+ years of experience in DevOps and AWS.

2+ years of experience in Python, Shell scripting and Azure.

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.

• 5+ years hands-on experience with designing, deploying and managing core AWS services and infrastructure
• Proficiency in scripting using Bash, Python, Ruby, Groovy, or similar languages 
• Experience in source control management, specifically with Git
• Hands-on experience in Unix/Linux and bash scripting
• Experience building, managing Helm-based build and release CI-CD pipelines for Kubernetes platforms (EKS, Openshift, GKE) 
• Strong experience with orchestration and config management tools such as Terraform, Ansible or Cloudformation  
• Ability to debug, analyze issues leveraging tools like App Dynamics, New Relic and Sumologic 
• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies and principles 
• Good writing and documentation skills
• Strong collaborator with the ability to work well with core teammates and our colleagues across STS