Kubernetes and Cloud Engineer

About The Role:

The products/services of Eclat Engineering Pvt. Ltd. are being used by some of the leading institutions in India and abroad. Our services/Products are rapidly growing in demand. We are looking for a capable and dynamic Senior DevOps engineer to help setup, maintain and scale the infrastructure operations. This Individual will have the challenging responsibility of channelling our IT infrastructure and offering customer services with stringent international standard levels of service quality. This individual will leverage the latest IT tools to automate and streamline the delivery of our services while implementing industry-standard processes and knowledge management.

Roles & Responsibilities:

- Infrastructure and Deployment Automation: Design, implement, and maintain automation for infrastructure

provisioning and application deployment. Own the CI/CD pipelines and ensure they are efficient, reliable, and

scalable.

- System Monitoring and Performance: -Take ownership of monitoring systems and ensure the health and

performance of the infrastructure. Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks and system issues.

- Cloud Infrastructure Management: Manage cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and optimize resource

usage. Implement cost-saving measures while maintaining scalability and reliability.

- Configuration Management: Manage configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef) to ensure

consistency across environments. Automate configuration changes and updates.

- Security and Compliance: Own security policies, implement best practices, and ensure compliance with industry

standards. Lead efforts to secure infrastructure and applications, including patch management and access controls.

- Collaboration with Development and Operations Teams: Foster collaboration between development and

operations teams, promoting a DevOps culture. Be the go-to person for resolving cross-functional infrastructure

issues and improving the development process.

- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans and procedures. Ensure

business continuity in the event of system failures or other disruptions.

- Documentation and Knowledge Sharing: Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations,

processes, and best practices. Share knowledge and mentor junior team members.

- Technical Leadership and Innovation: Stay up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies. Lead efforts

to introduce new tools and technologies that enhance DevOps practices.

- Problem Resolution and Troubleshooting: Be responsible for diagnosing and resolving complex issues related to

infrastructure and deployments. Implement preventive measures to reduce recurring problems.

Requirements:

● B.E / B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech / MCA / M.Sc.IT (if not should be able to demonstrate required skills)

● Overall 3+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud operations specifically in AWS.

● Experience with Linux Administrator

● Experience with microservice architecture, containers, Kubernetes, and Helm is a must

● Experience in Configuration Management preferably Ansible

● Experience in Shell Scripting is a must

● Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Gitlab, Jenkins

● Experience in logging, monitoring and analytics

● An Understanding of writing Infrastructure as a Code using tools like Terraform

● Preferences - AWS, Kubernetes, Ansible

Must Have:

● Knowledge of AWS Cloud Platform.

● Good experience with microservice architecture, Kubernetes, helm and container-based technologies

● Hands-on experience with Ansible.

● Should have experience in working and maintaining CI/CD Processes.

● Hands-on experience in version control tools like GIT.

● Experience with monitoring tools such as Cloudwatch/Sysdig etc.

● Sound experience in administering Linux servers and Shell Scripting.

● Should have a good understanding of IT security and have the knowledge to secure production environments (OS and server software).

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

Intuitive is the fastest growing top-tier Cloud Solutions and Services company supporting Global Enterprise Customer across Americas, Europe and Middle East.

Excellent communication skills

Open to work on EST time zone(6pm to 3am)

Technical Skills: 

·        In depth understanding of DevSecOps process and governance 

·        Understanding of various branching strategies 

·        Hands on experience working with various testing and scanning tools (ex. SonarQube, Snyk, Blackduck, etc.) 

·        Expertise working with one or more CICD platforms (ex. Azure DevOps, GitLab, GitHub Actions, etc) 

·        Expertise within one CSP and experience/working knowledge of a second CSP (Azure, AWS, GCP) 

·        Proficient with Terraform 

·        Hands on experience working with Kubernetes 

·        Proficient working with GIT version control 

·        Hands on experience working with monitoring/observability tool(s) (Splunk, Data Dog, Dynatrace, etc) 

·        Hands on experience working with Configuration Management platform(s) (Chef, Saltstack, Ansible, etc) 

·        Hands on experience with GitOps 

Job Responsibilities:

Work & Deploy updates and fixes Provide Level 2 technical support Support implementation of fully automated CI/CD pipelines as per dev requirement Follow the escalation process through issue completion, including providing documentation after resolution Follow regular Operations procedures and complete all assigned tasks during the shift. Assist in root cause analysis of production issues and help write a report which includes details about the failure, the relevant log entries, and likely root cause Setup of CICD frameworks (Jenkins / Azure DevOps Server), Containerization using Docker, etc Implement continuous testing, Code Quality, Security using DevOps tooling Build a knowledge base by creating and updating documentation for support

Skills Required:

DevOps, Linux, AWS, Ansible, Jenkins, GIT, Terraform, CI, CD, Cloudformation, Typescript

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

1. Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS, Azure and GCP
2. Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
3. Provision, configure and maintain AWS, Azure, GCP cloud infrastructure defined as code
4. Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
5. Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
6. Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
7. Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS, Azure Infrastructure and systems
8. Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2.

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

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.