Kubernetes Engineer - Freelancer

Infra360 Solutions is a services company specializing in Cloud, DevSecOps, Security, and Observability solutions. We help technology companies adapt DevOps culture in their organization by focusing on long-term DevOps roadmap. We focus on identifying technical and cultural issues in the journey of successfully implementing the DevOps practices in the organization and work with respective teams to fix issues to increase overall productivity. We also do training sessions for the developers and make them realize the importance of DevOps. We provide these services - DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, Cost Optimizations, CI/CD, Observability, Cloud Security, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Site Reliability, Performance Optimizations, SIEM and SecOps, Serverless automation, Well-Architected Review, MLOps, Governance, Risk & Compliance. We do assessments of technology architecture, security, governance, compliance, and DevOps maturity model for any technology company and help them optimize their cloud cost, streamline their technology architecture, and set up processes to improve the availability and reliability of their website and applications. We set up tools for monitoring, logging, and observability. We focus on bringing the DevOps culture to the organization to improve its efficiency and delivery.

Job Description

Our Mission 

Our mission is to help customers achieve their business objectives by providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services and to make it a joy for all stakeholders to work with us. We function as a full stakeholder in business, offering a consulting-led approach with an integrated portfolio of technology-led solutions that encompass the entire Enterprise value chain.

Our Customer-centric Engagement Model defines how we engage with you, offering specialized services and solutions that meet the distinct needs of your business.

Our Culture 

Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace has resulted in Infra360 Solution Pvt Ltd.

Our Tech-Stack:

• Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, Active Directory (Microsoft Entra)
• Azure IAM and managed identity, Virtual network, VM Scale Set, App Service, Cosmos
• Azure, MySQL Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), 
• Azure Security, Security Documentation, Security Compliance, 
• AKS, Blob Storage, Azure functions, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL
• AWS - IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, ECS, Route53, Cloud formation, Cloud front, S3
• GCP - GKE, Compute Engine, App Engine, SCC
• Kubernetes, Linux, Docker & Microservices Architecture
• Terraform & Terragrunt
• Jenkins & Argocd
• Ansible, Vault, Vagrant, SaltStack
• CloudFront, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Akamai
• Mysql, Aurora, Postgres, AWS RedShift, MongoDB
• ElasticSearch, Redis, Aerospike, Memcache, Solr
• ELK, Fluentd, Elastic APM & Prometheus Grafana Stack
• Java (Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), Nodejs, Ruby, Rails, Erlang, Python

What does this role hold for you…??

• Infrastructure as a code (IaC)
• CI/CD and configuration management
• Managing Azure Active Directory (Entra)
• Keeping the cost of the infrastructure to the minimum
• Doing RCA of production issues and providing resolution
• Setting up failover, DR, backups, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Containerizing different applications on the Kubernetes platform
• Capacity planning of different environments infrastructure
• Ensuring zero outages of critical services
• Database administration of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Setting up the right set of security measures

Requirements

Apply if you have… 

• A graduation/post-graduation degree in Computer Science and related fields
• 2-4 years of strong DevOps experience in Azure with the Linux environment.
• Strong interest in working in our tech stack
• Excellent communication skills
• Worked with minimal supervision and love to work as a self-starter
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the scripting languages - Bash, Python, Go etc
• Experience with version control systems like Git
• Understanding of Azure cloud computing services and cloud computing delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Strong scripting or programming skills for automating tasks (PowerShell/Bash)
• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
• Knowledge and experience in IaC at least one (ARM Templates/ Terraform)
• Strong experience with managing the Production Systems day in and day out
• Experience in finding issues in different layers of architecture in a production environment and fixing them
• Experience in automation tools like Ansible/SaltStack and Jenkins
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes platform and managing OpenStack (desirable)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools i.e. Vault, Vagrant, Terraform, Consul, VirtualBox etc. (desirable)
• Experience in Monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana/Elastic APM.
• Experience in logging tools Like ELK/Loki.
• Experience in using Microsoft Azure Cloud services

If you are passionate about infrastructure, and cloud technologies, and want to contribute to innovative projects, we encourage you to apply. Infra360 offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth. 

Interview Process

Application Screening=>Test/Assessment=>2 Rounds of Tech Interview=>CEO Round=>Final Discussion

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LOCATION: - Remote (India) 

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE - 

Degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field - 

At least 3-5 years of professional work experience as a 

DevOps / test automation / deployment engineer -

 Experience in agile software development methodologies 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES: -

 Design and development of scalable software test framework to automate test procedures - Perform health checks of existing sites periodically (manually and also developing a automation pipeline) - Manage per site software releases - 

Generate release notes, user guides, technical documentation -

 Perform upgrades/ downgrades (patch management) - 

Generate and Manage configurations - 

Suggest process improvements by interfacing with product owner - 

File process/installation/deployment related issues & tracking them - 

Verify customer-reported issues and translate them into technical tasks for development 

REQUIREMENTS:

 Following are must to have requirements, - 

Automation frameworks like Selenium etc. - 

Scripting languages like Perl, Python etc. - 

Linux systems - 

Version control system like git -

 Issue tracking system like Jira -

 Networking protocols -

 Cloud infrastructure - 

Ability to work individually and as part of a team with a sense of urgency -

 Excellent communication skills in written and verbal English - 

Great attention to detail 

PREFERRED: 

Following are good to have requirements, - 

Knowledge in any of the programming languages like C, C++ etc. 

Experience managing cloud-based (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) and in-house server infrastructure - 

Familiarity with machine learning / artificial intelligence infrastructure - 

Experience in data visualization and statistics - 

Basic knowledge of hardware infrastructure containing routers, switches and others -

 Familiarity with web & data securityDesign and development of scalable software test framework to automate test 

We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers. We are looking to expand our team capabilities on the DevOps front and are on a lookout for 4 DevOps professionals having relevant hands on technical experience of 4-8 years. 

We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adopted. We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As a DevOps Engineer, you :

- Will work collaboratively with the engineering and customer support teams to deploy and operate our systems. 

- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

- Help automate and streamline our operations and processes. 

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our test and production environments. 

- Take control of various mandates and change management processes to ensure compliance for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular) 

- Monitor and optimize the usage of various cloud services. 

- Setup and enforce CI/CD processes and practices

Skills required :

- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SES, to name a few)

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and hardening 

- Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent 

- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (Jenkins) 

- Experience with container related technologies (docker, lxc, rkt, docker swarm, kubernetes)

- Working understanding of code and script (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java)

- Working understanding of SQL and databases 

- Working understanding of version control system (GIT is preferred) 

- Managing IT operations, setting up best practices and tuning them from time-totime. 

- Ensuring that process overheads do not reduce the productivity and effectiveness of small team. - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies and continuously refactor thetools and processes.

The expectation is to set up complete automation of CI/CD pipeline & monitoring and ensure high availability of the pipeline. The automated deployment environment can be on-prem or cloud (virtual instances, containerized and serverless). Complete test automation and ensure Security of Application as well as Infrastructure.

ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Configure Jenkins with load distribution between master/slave Setting up the CI pipeline with Jenkins and Cloud(AWS or Azure) Code Build Static test (Quality & Security) Setting up Dynamic Test configuration with selenium and other tools Setting up Application and Infrastructure scanning for security. Post-deployment security plan including PEN test. Usage of RASP tool. Configure and ensure HA of the pipeline and monitoring Setting up composition analysis in the pipeline Setting up the SCM and Artifacts repository and management for branching, merging and archiving Must work in Agile environment using ALM tool like Jira DESIRED SKILLS

Extensive hands-on Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technology experience of .Net, Node, Java and C++ based projects(Web, mobile and Standalone). Experience configuring and managing

• ALM tools like Jira, TFS, etc.
• SCM such as GitHub, GitLab, CodeCommit
• Automation tools such as Terraform, CHEF, or Ansible
• Package repo configuration(Artifactory / Nexus), Package managers like Nuget & Chocholatey
• Database Configuration (sql & nosql), Web/Proxy Setup(IIS, Nginx, Varnish, Apache).

Deep knowledge of multiple monitoring tools and how to mine them for advanced data Prior work with Helm, Postgres, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, microservices, message queues and related technologies Test Automation with Selenium / CuCumber; Setting up of test Simulators. AWS Certified Architect and/or Developer; Associate considered, Professional preferred Proficient in: Bash, Powershell, Groovy, YAML, Python, NodeJS, Web concepts such as REST APIs and Aware of MVC and SPA application design. TTD experience and quality control with Sonarqube or Checkmarx, Tics Tiobe and Coverity Thorough with Linux(Ubuntu, Debian CentOS), Docker(File/compose/volume), Kubernetes cluster setup Expert in Workflow tools: Jenkins(declarative, plugins)/TeamCity and Build Servers configuration Experience with AWS CloudFormation / CDK and delivery automation Ensure end-to-end deployments succeed and resources come up in an automated fashion Good to have ServiceNow configuration experience for collaboration

What you will get:

1. To be a part of the Core-Team 💪
2. A Chunk of ESOPs 🚀
3. Creating High Impact by Solving a Problem at Large (No one in the World has a similar product) 💥
4. High Growth Work Environment ⚙️

What we are looking for:

1. An 'Exceptional Executioner' -> Leader -> Create an Impact & Value 💰
2. Ability to take Ownership of your work
3. Past experience in leading a team

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the 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: When was the last time you went to 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 the 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 practice 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 the 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 the 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.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

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. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) 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 Platform and lean development methodologies.