
Greetings!
Wissen Technology is hiring for Kubernetes Lead/Admin.
Required:
- 7+ years of relevant experience in Kubernetes
- Must have hands on experience on Implementation, CI/CD pipeline, EKS architecture, ArgoCD & Statefulset services.
- Good to have exposure on scripting languages
- Should be open to work from Chennai
- Work mode will be Hybrid
Company profile:
Company Name : Wissen Technology
Group of companies in India : Wissen Technology & Wissen Infotech
Work Location - Bangalore
Website : www.wissen.com
Wissen Thought leadership : https://www.wissen.com/articles/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wissen-technology

About Wissen Technology
About
The Wissen Group was founded in the year 2000. Wissen Technology, a part of Wissen Group, was established in the year 2015. Wissen Technology is a specialized technology company that delivers high-end consulting for organizations in the Banking & Finance, Telecom, and Healthcare domains.
With offices in US, India, UK, Australia, Mexico, and Canada, we offer an array of services including Application Development, Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Big Data & Analytics, Visualization & Business Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation, Cloud, Mobility, Agile & DevOps, Quality Assurance & Test Automation.
Leveraging our multi-site operations in the USA and India and availability of world-class infrastructure, we offer a combination of on-site, off-site and offshore service models. Our technical competencies, proactive management approach, proven methodologies, committed support and the ability to quickly react to urgent needs make us a valued partner for any kind of Digital Enablement Services, Managed Services, or Business Services.
We believe that the technology and thought leadership that we command in the industry is the direct result of the kind of people we have been able to attract, to form this organization (you are one of them!).
Our workforce consists of 1000+ highly skilled professionals, with leadership and senior management executives who have graduated from Ivy League Universities like MIT, Wharton, IITs, IIMs, and BITS and with rich work experience in some of the biggest companies in the world.
Wissen Technology has been certified as a Great Place to Work®. The technology and thought leadership that the company commands in the industry is the direct result of the kind of people Wissen has been able to attract. Wissen is committed to providing them the best possible opportunities and careers, which extends to providing the best possible experience and value to our clients.
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DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to work independently, learn quickly and be proactive
3-5 years overall and at least 1-2 years of hands-on experience in designing and managing DevOps Cloud infrastructure
Experience must include a combination of:
o Experience working with configuration management tools – Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack (expertise in at least one tool is a must)
o Ability to write and maintain code in at least one scripting language (Python preferred)
o Practical knowledge of shell scripting
o Cloud knowledge – AWS, VMware vSphere o Good understanding and familiarity with Linux
o Networking knowledge – Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers
o Web/Application servers, Nginx, JVM environments
o Virtualization and containers - Xen, KVM, Qemu, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
o Familiarity with logging systems - Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana
o Git, Jenkins, Jira
Requirements
Core skills:
● Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration and
troubleshooting
● Experience with AWS (ideally including some of the following:
VPC, Lambda, EC2, Elastic Cache, Route53, SNS, Cloudwatch,
Cloudfront, Redshift, Open search, ELK etc.)
● Experience with Infra Automation and Orchestration tools
including Terraform, Packer, Helm, Ansible.
● Hands on Experience on container technologies like Docker,
Kubernetes/EKS, Gitlab and Jenkins as Pipeline.
● Experience in one or more of Groovy, Perl, Python, Go or
scripting experience in Shell.
● Good understanding of with Continuous Integration(CI) and
Continuous Deployment(CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins,
FlexCD, ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc
● Working knowledge of key value stores, database technologies
(SQL and NoSQL), Mongo, mySQL
● Experience with application monitoring tools like Prometheus,
Grafana, APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Pinpoint
● Good exposure on middleware components like ELK, Redis, Kafka
and IOT based systems including Redis, NewRelic, Akamai,
Apache / Nginx, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc
Good to have:
● Prior experience in Logistics, Payment and IOT based applications
● Experience in unmanaged mongoDB cluster, automations &
operations, analytics
● Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery
Core Experience
● 3-5 years of hands-on DevOps experience
● 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience
● 3+ years of Cloud Platform experience with special focus on
Lambda, R53, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk,
RDS, Open Search, EC2, Security tools
● 2+ years of scripting experience in Python/Go, shell
● 2+ years of familiarity with CI/CD, Git, IaC, Monitoring, and
Logging tools
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps including automated system configuration, application deployment, and infrastructure-as-code.
- Advanced Linux system administration abilities.
- Real-world experience managing large-scale AWS or GCP environments. Multi-account management a plus.
- Experience with managing production environments on AWS or GCP.
- Solid understanding CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, CircleCI/Jenkins, JFrog Artifactory/Nexus.
- Experience on any configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef is a must.
- Experience in any one of the scripting languages: Shell, Python, etc.
- Experience in containerization using Docker and orchestration using Kubernetes/EKS/GKE is a must.
- Solid understanding of SSL and DNS.
- Experience on deploying and running any open-source monitoring/graphing solution like Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
- Basic understanding of networking concepts.
- Always adhere to security best practices.
- Knowledge on Bigdata (Hadoop/Druid) systems administration will be a plus.
- Knowledge on managing and running DBs (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres) will be an added advantage.
What you get to do
- Work with development teams to build and maintain cloud environments to specifications developed closely with multiple teams. Support and automate the deployment of applications into those environments
- Diagnose and resolve occurring, latent and systemic reliability issues across entire stack: hardware, software, application and network. Work closely with development teams to troubleshoot and resolve application and service issues
- Continuously improve Conviva SaaS services and infrastructure for availability, performance and security
- Implement security best practices – primarily patching of operating systems and applications
- Automate everything. Build proactive monitoring and alerting tools. Provide standards, documentation, and coaching to developers.
- Participate in 12x7 on-call rotations
- Work with third party service/support providers for installations, support related calls, problem resolutions etc.
Responsibilities:
- Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
- Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
- Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response
Requirements:
- 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
- Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
- Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
- Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
- Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
- Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
- Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
- Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
- Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
- Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.
- AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
- Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
- Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
- Knowledge in Microservice architecture.
Experienced with Azure DevOps, CI/CD and Jenkins.
Experience is needed in Kubernetes (AKS), Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
Good understanding in Azure Networking, Azure Application Gateway, and other Azure components.
Experienced Azure DevOps Engineer ready for a Senior role or already at a Senior level.
Demonstrable experience with the following technologies:
Microsoft Azure Platform As A Service (PaaS) product such as Azure SQL, AppServices, Logic Apps, Functions and other Serverless services.
Understanding of Microsoft Identity and Access Management products such including Azure AD or AD B2C.
Microsoft Azure Operational and Monitoring tools, including Azure Monitor, App Insights and Log Analytics.
Knowledge of PowerShell, GitHub, ARM templates, version controls/hotfix strategy and deployment automation.
Ability and desire to quickly pick up new technologies, languages, and tools
Excellent communication skills and Good team player.
Passionate about code quality and best practices is an absolute must
Must show evidence of your passion for technology and continuous learning
- Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
- Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
- Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
- Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
- Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
- Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
- Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
- Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
- Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
- Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
- Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
- Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
- Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
- AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
- Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
- Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
- Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
- Monthly SLA Performance reports
As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need….
- 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
- 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
- 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
- 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
- Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
- Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
- Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
- Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
- Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
- Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
- Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting
- 3+ years experience leading a team of DevOps engineers
- 8+ years experience managing DevOps for large engineering teams developing cloud-native software
- Strong in networking concepts
- In-depth knowledge of AWS and cloud architectures/services.
- Experience within the container and container orchestration space (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Passion for CI/CD pipeline using tools such as Jenkins etc.
- Familiarity with config management tools like Ansible Terraform etc
- Proven record of measuring and improving DevOps metrics
- Familiarity with observability tools and experience setting them up
- Passion for building tools and productizing services that empower development teams.
- Excellent knowledge of Linux command-line tools and ability to write bash scripts.
- Strong in Unix / Linux administration and management,
KEY ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Own and manage the entire cloud infrastructure
- Create the entire CI/CD pipeline to build and release
- Explore new technologies and tools and recommend those that best fit the team and organization
- Own and manage the site reliability
- Strong decision-making skills and metric-driven approach
- Mentor and coach other team members
- Strong Understanding of Linux administration
- Good understanding of using Python or Shell scripting (Automation mindset is key in this role)
- Hands on experience with Implementation of CI/CD Processes
Experience working with one of these cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud) - Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef
Experience in Source Control Management including SVN, Bitbucket and GitHub
Experience with setup & management of monitoring tools like Nagios, Sensu & Prometheus
Troubleshoot and triage development and Production issues - Understanding of micro-services is a plus
Roles & Responsibilities
- Implementation and troubleshooting on Linux technologies related to OS, Virtualization, server and storage, backup, scripting / automation, Performance fine tuning
- LAMP stack skills
- Monitoring tools deployment / management (Nagios, New Relic, Zabbix, etc)
- Infra provisioning using Infra as code mindset
- CI/CD automation

