
Kubernetes Engineer - Freelancer
Responsibility :
- Install, configure, and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
- Develop Kubernetes-based solutions.
- Improve Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Work with other engineers to troubleshoot Kubernetes issues.
Kubernetes Engineer Requirements & Skills
- Kubernetes administration experience, including installation, configuration, and troubleshooting
- Kubernetes development experience
- Linux/Unix experience
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

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- Must have experience in GIT (BitBucket, GitHub, GitLab)
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BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before.
We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 250+ employees (and increasing every day) from 34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.
We promote an open-minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high-performance environment.
Location: Bangalore
Department: DevOps
Job Summary:
We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Platform team and directly contribute to Continuous Delivery, and improve the state of art in CI/CD and Observability within BlueOptima.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will define and outline CI/CD related aspects and collaborate with application teams on imparting training and enforcing best practices to follow for CI/CD and also directly implement, maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders.
Your team: The Platform team in BlueOptima works across Product lines and is responsible for providing a scalable technology platform which is used by the Product team to build their application, improve performance of it, or even improve the SDLC by improving the application delivery pipeline, etc.
Platform team is also responsible for driving technology adoption across the product development team. The team works on components that are common across product lines like IAM (Identity & Access Management), Auto Scaling, APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and CI/CD, etc
Responsibilities and tasks:
- Define & Outline of CI/CD and related aspects
- Own & Improve state of build process to reduce manual intervention
- Own & Improve state of deployment to make it 100% automated
- Define guidelines and standards of automated testing required for a good CI/CD pipeline, ensures alignment on an ongoing basis (includes artifacts generation, promotions, etc)
- Automating Deployment and Roll back into Production Environment.
- Collaborate with engineering teams, application developers, management and infrastructure teams to assess near- and long-term monitoring needs and provide them with Tooling to improve observability of application in production.
- Keep an eye on the emerging observability tools, trends and methodologies, and continuously enhance our existing systems and processes.
- Ability to choose the right set of tools for a given problem and apply that to all the applications which are available
- Collaborate with the application team for following
- Define and enforce logging standard
- Define metrics applications should track and provide support to application teams visualise same on Grafana (or similar tools)
- Define alerts for application health monitoring in Production
- Tooling like APM, E2E, etc
- Continuously improve the state of the art on above
- Assist in scheduling and hosting regular tool training sessions to better enable tool adoption and best practices, also making sure training materials are maintained.
Qualifications
What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:
- Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- Demonstrable years of experience with implementation, operations, maintenance of IT systems and/or administration of software functions in multi-platform and multi-system environments.
- At least 1 year of experience leading or mentoring a small team.
- Demonstrable experience having developed containerized application components, using docker or similar solutions in previous roles
- Have extensive experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools.
- Experience in defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards
- 2+ Years of Experience with CI tools and building pipelines using Jenkins.
- 2 + Years of Experience with monitoring and observability tools and methodology of products such as; Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Nagios, Graphite ,Datadog etc.
- Ability to write and read simple scripts using Python / Shell Scripts.
- Familiarity with configuration languages such as Ansible.
- Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skill
Additional information
Why join our team?
Culture and Growth:
- Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
- Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
- Freedom to create your own success story in a high-performance environment.
- Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee
Benefits:
- 32 days of holidays - this includes public and religious holidays
- Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
- Private Medical Insurance provided by the company
- Gratuity payments
- Claim Mobile/Internet expenses and Professional Development costs
- Leave Travel Allowance
- Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
- International travel opportunities
- Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India Thailand, Oct 2022.
- High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)
- Pet friendly offices
- Creche Policy for working parents.
- Paternity and Maternity leave.
Stay connected with us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueoptima">LinkedIn or keep an eye on our https://www.blueoptima.com/careers">career page for future opportunities!
Requirements
This role requires a balance between hands-on infrastructure-as-code deployments as well as involvement in operational architecture and technology advocacy initiatives across the Numerator portfolio.
Responsibilities
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Technical Skills
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The brand is associated with some of the major icons across categories and tie-ups with industries covering fashion, sports, and music, of course. The founders are Marketing grads, with vast experience in the consumer lifestyle products and other major brands. With their vigorous efforts toward quality and marketing, they have been able to strike a chord with major E-commerce brands and even consumers.
What you will do:
- Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
- Providing guidance, thought leadership and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
- Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
- Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
- Developing and implementing technical efforts to design, build and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling and advanced analytics
- Participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
- Troubleshooting incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems and implementing preventive measures
- Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required
Desired Candidate Profile
What you need to have:- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology
- 2+ years of experience as architect, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
- Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytic
- Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists and subject matter experts
- Self-motivation with the ability to drive features to delivery
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
- AWS certifications are a plus
- Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC

We are looking for people with programming skills in Python, SQL, Cloud Computing. Candidate should have experience in at least one of the major cloud-computing platforms - AWS/Azure/GCP. He should professioanl experience in handling applications and databases in the cloud using VMs and Docker images. He should have ability to design and develop applications for the cloud.
You will be responsible for
- Leading the DevOps strategy and development of SAAS Product Deployments
- Leading and mentoring other computer programmers.
- Evaluating student work and providing guidance in the online courses in programming and cloud computing.
Desired experience/skills
Qualifications: Graduate degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Skills:
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL,
- Cloud Computing
Experience:
2+ years of programming experience including Python, SQL, and Cloud Computing. Familiarity with command line working environment.
Note: A strong programming background, in any language and cloud computing platform is required. We are flexible about the degree of familiarity needed for the specific environments Python, SQL. If you have extensive experience in one of the cloud computing platforms and less in others you should still, consider applying.
Soft Skills:
- Good interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; including the ability to explain the concepts to others.
- A strong understanding of algorithms and data structures, and their performance characteristics.
- Awareness of and sensitivity to the educational goals of a multicultural population would also be desirable.
- Detail oriented and well organized.
DevOps Engineer responsibilities include deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations that meet customer needs. If you have a solid background in working with cloud technologies, set up efficient deployment processes, and are motivated to work with diverse and talented teams, we’d like to meet you.
Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes fast, accurately, and securely.
Skills and Experience
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4+ years of experience in building infrastructure experience with Cloud Providers ( AWS, Azure, GCP)
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Experience in deploying containerized applications build on NodeJS/PHP/Python to kubernetes cluster.
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Experience in monitoring production workload with relevant metrics and dashboards.
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Experience in writing automation scripts using Shell, Python, Terraform, etc.
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Experience in following security practices while setting up the infrastructure.
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Self-motivated, able, and willing to help where help is needed
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Able to build relationships, be culturally sensitive, have goal alignment, have learning agility
Roles and Responsibilities
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Manage various resources across different cloud providers. (Azure, AWS, and GCP)
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Monitor and optimize infrastructure cost.
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Manage various kubernetes clusters with appropriate monitoring and alerting setup.
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Build CI/CD pipelines to orchestrate provisioning and deployment of various services into kubernetes infrastructure.
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Work closely with the development team on upcoming features to determine the correct infrastructure and related tools.
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Assist the support team with escalated customer issues.
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Develop, improve, and thoroughly document operational practices and procedures.
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Responsible for setting up good security practices across various clouds.
Goodera is looking for an experienced and motivated DevOps professional to be an integral part of its core infrastructure team. As a DevOps Engineer, you must be able to troubleshoot production issues, design, implement, and deploy monitoring tools, collaborate with team members to improve the existing and develop new engineering tools, optimize company's computing architecture, design and conduct security, performance, availability and availability tests.
Responsibilities:
This is a highly accountable role and the candidate must meet the following professional expectations:
• Owning and improving the scalability and reliability of our products.
• Working directly with product engineering and infrastructure teams.
• Designing and developing various monitoring system tools.
• Accountable for developing deployment strategies and build configuration management.
• Deploying and updating system and application software.
• Ensure regular, effective communication with team members and cross-functional resources.
• Maintaining a positive and supportive work culture.
• First point of contact for handling customer (may be internal stakeholders) issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Develop tooling and processes to drive and improve customer experience, create playbooks.
• Eliminate manual tasks via configuration management.
• Intelligently migrate services from one AWS region to other AWS regions.
• Create, implement and maintain security policies to ensure ISO/ GDPR / SOC / PCI compliance.
• Verify infrastructure Automation meets compliance goals and is current with disaster recovery plan.
• Evangelize configuration management and automation to other product developers.
• Keep himself updated with upcoming technologies to maintain the state of the art infrastructure.
Required Candidate profile :
• 3+ years of proven experience working in a DevOps environment.
• 3+ years of proven experience working in AWS Cloud environments.
• Solid understanding of networking and security best practices.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, CFEngine, etc.
• Experience in scripting or programming languages (Bash, Python, PHP, Node.js, Perl, etc.)
• Experience designing and building web application environments on AWS, including services such as ECS, ECR, Foregate, Lambda, SNS / SQS, CloudFront, Code Build, Code pipeline, Configuring CloudWatch, WAF, Active Directories, Kubernetes (EKS), EC2, S3, ELB, RDS, Redshift etc.
• Hands on Experience in Docker is a big plus.
• Experience working in an Agile, fast paced, DevOps environment.
• Strong Knowledge in DB such as MongoDB / MySQL / DynamoDB / Redis / Cassandra.
• Experience with Open Source and tools such as Haproxy, Apache, Nginx and Nagios etc.
• Fluency with version control systems with a preference for Git *
• Strong Linux-based infrastructures, Linux administration
• Experience with installing and configuring application servers such as WebLogic, JBoss and Tomcat.
• Hands-on in logging, monitoring and alerting tools like ELK, Grafana, Metabase, Monit, Zbbix etc.
• A team player capable of high performance, flexibility in a dynamic working environment and the ability to lead.
d ability to rain others on technical and procedural topics.
THE OPPORTUNITY
A platform to learn and grow in a great working environment with cutting edge technologies. There is vast opportunity to showcase creative thinking which can be translated into a highly optimized tools/utilities.
KEY ACTIVITIES
- Code Integrations ( Compile, Build, Notify )
- Package creation ( Service Packs, Patches, Hotfixes )
- Environment Preparation ( With GOLD SCM technical stack )
- Environment & Infra management
- Package delivery ( Customer specific & Standard )
- Build & Deployment automation
- Tickets management
KEY CRITERIA
Primary Technical Skills
- Shell Scripting
- ORACLE DB Fundamentals
- Infra Monitoring & Diagnostics
- ClearCase / GIT
- DevOps concepts
- Basic Java
Other Required Skills
- Problem Solving
- Logical Reasoning
- Aptitude & Attitude
- Communication (Verbal & Written)

