Lead DevOps Engineer

Job Sector: IT , Software

Job Type: Permanent

Location: Sholinganallur (Chennai)

Experience: 6 -8 Years

Salary: 11 – 13 LPA

Education: Any Graduate

Notice Period: Immediate

Key Skills: CI/CD Tools –Maven, Gradle, Fastlane, Jenkins, Travis

CV submission closing date: 22/07/2021

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Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, ship, and motivate the creation of software and systems to increase product reliability and organizational efficiency.
• Guide reliability practices through the entire software development lifecycle through activities like architecture reviews, code reviews, creating platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and chaos testing.
• Maintain service health through monitoring and incident response.
• Improve service reliability through blameless post-incident reviews and using code to prevent or respond to problem recurrence.

Required Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience writing code in Java, Go, Shell, Perl, Python, or a similar language.
• Ability to debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
• Strong interest in SRE topics like SLOs, resilience, scaling, performance, and more.
• We get excited about engineers who:
• have previous experience with public clouds and enabling technology (AWS & Terraform preferred or other similar technologies)
• Familiar on one or more CI/CD Tools – Maven, Gradle, Fastlane, Jenkins, Travis/CircleCI
• Experience designing using asynchronous messaging patterns

Job Description: DevOps Engineer 

About Hyno:

Hyno Technologies is a unique blend of top-notch designers and world-class developers for new-age product development. Within the last 2 years we have collaborated with 32 young startups from India, US and EU to to find the optimum solution to their complex business problems. We have helped them to address the issues of scalability and optimisation through the use of technology and minimal cost. To us any new challenge is an opportunity.

As part of Hyno’s expansion plans,Hyno, in partnership with Sparity, is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a DevOps Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enhancing our software development processes, optimising system infrastructure, and ensuring the seamless deployment of applications. If you are passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies to drive efficiency, reliability, and scalability in software development, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Position: DevOps Engineer

Experience: 5-7 years

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment, testing, and monitoring.
• Manage and maintain cloud infrastructure using tools like AWS, Azure, or GCP, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability.
• Develop and implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate the provisioning and management of resources.
• Constantly evaluate continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions as the industry evolves, and develop standardised best practices.
• Work closely with development teams to provide support and guidance in building applications with a focus on scalability, reliability, and security.
• Perform regular security assessments and implement best practices for securing the entire development and deployment pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and application performance in a timely manner.
• Follow regulatory and ISO 13485 requirements.
• Stay updated with industry trends and emerging technologies in the DevOps and cloud space, and proactively suggest improvements to current processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, system administration, or related roles.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools
• Strong experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, including services like ECS, S3, RDS, and more.
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell..
• Demonstrated experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI.
• Familiarity with configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience with container (Docker, ECS, EKS), serverless (Lambda), and Virtual Machine (VMware, KVM) architectures.
• Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, ELK stack, or Splunk.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work independently as well as in a team.

Nice to Have:

• Relevant certifications such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), etc.
• Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.

Soft Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage conflict effectively.
• Ability to adapt and be productive in a dynamic environment.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills supporting multiple stakeholders and business operations.
• Self-starter, self-managed, and a team player.

Join us in shaping the future of DevOps at Hyno in collaboration with Sparity. If you are a highly motivated and skilled DevOps Engineer, eager to make an impact in a remote setting, we'd love to hear from you.

Description

DevOps Engineer / SRE

• Understanding of maintenance of existing systems (Virtual machines), Linux stack
• Experience running, operating and maintainence of Kubernetes pods
• Strong Scripting skills
• Experience in AWS
• Knowledge of configuring/optimizing open source tools like Kafka, etc.
• Strong automation maintenance - ability to identify opportunities to speed up build and deploy process with strong validation and automation
• Optimizing and standardizing monitoring, alerting.
• Experience in Google cloud platform
• Experience/ Knowledge  in Python will be an added advantage
• Experience on Monitoring Tools like Jenkins, Kubernetes ,Nagios,Terraform  etc

Key Sills Required for Lead DevOps Engineer

Containerization Technologies

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Cloud Technologies

AWS/Azure, GCP

CI/CD Pipeline Tools

Jenkins, Azure Devops

Configuration Management Tools

Ansible, Chef,

SCM Tools

Git, GitHub, Bitbucket

Monitoring Tools

New Relic, Nagios, Prometheus

Cloud Infra Automation

Terraform

Scripting Languages

Python, Shell, Groovy

·       Ability to decide the Architecture for the project and tools as per the availability

·       Sound knowledge required in the deployment strategies and able to define the timelines

·       Team handling skills are a must

·       Debugging skills are an advantage

·       Good to have knowledge of Databases like Mysql, Postgresql

It is advantageous to be familiar with Kafka. RabbitMQ

·       Good to have knowledge of Web servers to deploy web applications

·       Good to have knowledge of Code quality checking tools like SonarQube and Vulnerability scanning

·       Advantage to having experience in DevSecOps

Note: Tools mentioned in bold are a must and others are added advantage

As a DevOps Engineer with experience in Kubernetes, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of DevOps engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure. You will work closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure that the organization's systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable. 

Specific responsibilities will include: 

• Leading the team in the development and implementation of automation and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible. 
• Managing the organization's infrastructure using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications. 

• Ensuring that the organization's systems are secure and compliant with industry standards. 
• Collaborating with software developers to design and implement infrastructure as code. 
• Providing mentorship and technical guidance to team members. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in collaboration with other IT professionals. 
• Participating in the development and maintenance of the organization's disaster recovery and incident response plans. 

To be successful in this role, you should have strong leadership skills and experience with a variety of DevOps and infrastructure tools and technologies. You should also have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment. 

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

• Strong Systems Experience- Linux, networking, cloud, APIs
• Scripting language Programming - Shell, Python
• Strong Debugging Capability
• AWS Platform -IAM, Network,EC2, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch
• Knowledge on Terraform, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins
• Observability - Prometheus, InfluxDB, Dynatrace,
• Grafana, Splunk • DevSecOps-CI/CD - Jenkins
• Microservices
• Security & Access Management
• Container Orchestration a plus - Kubernetes, Docker etc.
• Big Data Platforms knowledge EMR, Databricks. Cloudera a plus

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

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 or Build & Deploy..

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.