Lead DevOps Engineer

CoinCROWD is a cutting-edge platform in the digital finance space, focused on delivering innovative solutions that empower individuals and businesses in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. We are passionate about creating seamless, secure, and scalable solutions to simplify the way people interact with digital currencies. As we continue to grow, we're looking for skilled backend developers to join our dynamic engineering team. 

Position overview:

We're seeking a detail-oriented and proactive DevOps Engineer who has a strong background in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) environments. The ideal candidate will be comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic startup environment, where they will have the opportunity to make substantial contributions.

Key Responsibilities :

• Develop, test, and maintain infrastructure on GCP.
• Automate infrastructure, application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes and other similar tools.
• Collaborate with our software development team to ensure seamless deployment of software updates and enhancements.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues.
• Ensure high levels of performance, availability, sustainability, and security.
• Implement DevOps best practices, such as IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

Qualifications :

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role in software development and system administration.
• Strong experience with GCP (Google Cloud Platform), including Compute Engine, Cloud Functions, Cloud Storage, and other relevant GCP services.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with network protocols, firewalls, and VPN.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, etc.
• Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools, like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in a team.

What We Offer :

In recognition of your valuable contributions, you will receive an equity-based compensation package. Join our dynamic and innovative team in the rapidly evolving fintech industry and play a key role in shaping the future of CoinCROWD's success.

If you're ready to be at the forefront of the Payment Technology revolution and have the vision and experience to drive sales growth in the crypto space, please join us in our mission to redefine fintech at CoinCROWD.

Job description

Problem Statement-Solution

Only 10% of India speaks English and 90% speak over 25 languages and 1000s of dialects. The internet has largely been in English. A good part of India is now getting internet connectivity thanks to cheap smartphones and Jio. The non-English speaking internet users will balloon to about 600 million users out of the total 750 million internet users in India by 2020. This will make the vernacular segment one of the largest segments in the world - almost 2x the size of the US population. The vernacular segment has very few products that they can use on the internet.

One large human need is that of sharing thoughts and connecting with people of the same community on the basis of language and common interests. Twitter serves this need globally but the experience is mostly in English. There’s a large unaddressed need for these vernacular users to express themselves in their mother tongue and connect with others from their community. Koo is a solution to this problem.

About Koo

Koo was founded in March 2020, as a micro-blogging platform in both Indian languages and English, which gives a voice to the millions of Indians who communicate in Indian languages.

Currently available in Assamese, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu, Koo enables people from across India to express themselves online in their mother tongues. In a country where under 10% of the population speaks English as a native language, Koo meets the need for a social media platform that can deliver an immersive language experience to an Indian user, thereby enabling them to connect and interact with each other. The recently introduced ‘Talk to Type’ enables users to leverage the voice assistant to share their thoughts without having to type. In August 2021, Koo crossed 10 million downloads, in just 16 months of launch.

Since June 2021, Koo is available in Nigeria.

1. 
   Founding Team

Koo is founded by veteran internet entrepreneurs - Aprameya Radhakrishna (CEO, Taxiforsure) and Mayank Bidawatka (Co-founder, Goodbox & Coreteam, redBus).

Technology Team & Culture

The technology team comprises sharp coders, technology geeks and guys who have been entrepreneurs or are entrepreneurial and extremely passionate towards technology. Talent is coming from the likes of Google, Walmart, Redbus, Dailyhunt. Anyone being part of a technology team will have a lot to learn from their peers and mentors. Download our android app and take a look at what we’ve built. Technology stack compromises of a wide variety of cutting-edge technologies like Kotlin, Java 15, Reactive Programming, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kubernetes, AWS, NodeJS, Python, ReactJS, Redis, Aerospike, ML, Deep learning etc. We believe in giving a lot of independence and autonomy to ownership-driven individuals.

Technology skill sets required for a matching profile 

• Experience between 3 to 7 years in a devops role with mandatory one or more stints at a fast paced startup.
• Mandatory experience with containers, kubernetes (EKS) (setting up from scratch), istio and microservices.
• Sound knowledge of technologies like Terraform, Automation Scripts, Cron jobs etc. Must have worked with goals of putting infra as code like setting up new environments with code.
• Knowledge of industry standards around monitoring, alerting, self healing, high availability, auto scaling etc.
• Exhaustive experience with various cloud technologies (especially on AWS) like SQS, SNS, Elastic Search, Elastic Cache, Elastic Transcoder, VPC, Subnets, Security groups etc.
• Must have set up stable CI-CD pipelines with capabilities to do zero downtime deployments on any one of rolling updates, blue green or canary modes.
• Experience with VPN and LDAP solutions for securely login to infrastructure and proving SSO. 8. Master of deploying and troubleshooting all layers of application from network, frontend, backend and databases (MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, Cassandra, ElasticSearch, Aerospike etc).

THE POSITION

Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in pre-sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution.

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
• Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg.  Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tenders

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

You would be adding a great experience of working with a leading open source solutions company in South East Asia region to your career. You would get to learn from the leaders and grow in the industry. This would be a great opportunity for you to grow in your career through continuous learning, adding depth and breadth of technologies. Since we work with leading open source technologies and engage with large enterprises, it creates enormous possibilities for career growth for our team. Not to mention that our people find the journey with Ashnik to be exciting and a fulfilling experience.

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

Responsibilities

- Building and maintenance of resilient and scalable production infrastructure 

- Improvement of monitoring systems

- Creation and support of development automation processes (CI / CD)

- Participation in infrastructure development 

- Detection of problems in architecture and proposing of solutions for solving them 

- Creation of tasks for system improvements for system scalability, performance and monitoring

- Analysis of product requirements in the aspect of devops 

- Managing a team of DevOps, control of task deliveries 

- Incident analysis and fixing 

Technology stack

Linux, Bash, Salt/Ansible, LXC, libvirt, IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch, OpenVPN, OSPF, BIRD, Cisco NX-OS, Multicast, PIM, LVM, software RAID, LUKS, PostgreSQL, nginx, haproxy, Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix, GitLab, Capistrano

Skills and Experience

- Understanding of the distributed systems principles 

- Understanding of principles for building a resistant network infrastructure 

- Experience of Ubuntu Linux administration (Debian-like will be a plus)

- Strong knowledge of Bash

- Experience of working with LXC-containers 

- Understanding and experience with infrastructure as a code approach 

- Experience of development idempotent Ansible roles

- Experience with relational databases (PostgeSQL), ability to create simple SQL queries 

- Experience with git

- Experience with monitoring and metric collect systems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

- Understanding of dynamic routing (OSPF)  

Preferred experience

- Experience of working with highload zero-downtown environments 

- Experience of coding on Python

- Experience of working with IPsec, VXLAN, Open vSwitch

- Knowledge and experience of working with network equipment Cisco

- Experience of working with Cisco NX-OS

- Knowledge of principles of multicast protocols IGMP, PIM

- Experience of setting multicast on Cisco equipment

- Experience of working with Solarflare Onload

- Experience administering Atlassian products

We are looking for a Sr. Engineer DevOps and SysOps, who is responsible for managing AWS and Azure cloud computing.  Your primary focus would be to help multiple projects with various cloud service implementation, create and manage CI/CD pipelines for deployment, explore new services on cloud and help projects to implement them.

Technical Requirements & Responsibilities

1. Have 4+ years’ experience as a DevOps and SysOps Engineer.
2. Apply cloud computing skills to deploy upgrades and fixes on AWS and Azure (GCP is optional / Good to have).
3. Design, develop, and implement software integrations based on user feedback.
4. Troubleshoot production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
5. Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines).
6. Analyze code and communicate detailed reviews to development teams to ensure a marked improvement in applications and the timely completion of projects.
7. Collaborate with team members to improve the company’s engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security.
8. Optimize the company’s computing architecture.
9. Conduct systems tests for security, performance, and availability.
10. Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation.
11. Expert in code deployment tools (Puppet, Ansible, and Chef).
12. Can maintain Java / PHP / Ruby on Rail / DotNet web applications.
13. Experience in network, server, and application-status monitoring.
14. Possess a strong command of software-automation production systems (Jenkins and Selenium).
15. Expertise in software development methodologies.
16. You have working knowledge of known DevOps tools like Git and GitHub.
17. Possess a problem-solving attitude.
18. Can work independently and as part of a team.

Soft Skills Requirements

1. Strong communication skills
2. Agility and quick learner
3. Attention to detail
4. Organizational skills
5. Understanding of the Software development life cycle
6. Good Analytical and problem-solving skills
7. Self-motivated with the ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities
8. Should have a high level of energy working as an individual contributor and as a part of team.
9. Good command over verbal and written English communication