MLOps Lead Engineer

Role : Senior Engineer Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities:

● Infrastructure Development and Management: Design, implement, and manage robust and scalable infrastructure solutions, ensuring optimal performance,security, and availability. Lead transition and migration projects, moving legacy systemsto cloud-based solutions.

● Develop and maintain applications and services using Golang.

● Automation and Optimization: Implement automation tools and frameworksto optimize operational processes. Monitorsystem performance, optimizing and modifying systems as necessary.

● Security and Compliance: Ensure infrastructure security by implementing industry best practices and compliance requirements. Respond to and mitigate security incidents and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● Good understanding of prominent backend languageslike Golang, Python, Node.js, or others.

● In-depth knowledge of network architecture,system security, infrastructure scalability.

● Proficiency with development tools,server management, and database systems.

● Strong experience with cloud services(AWS.), deployment,scaling, and management.

● Knowledge of Azure is a plus

● Familiarity with containers and orchestration services,such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

● Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

● Genuine passion for backend development and keen interest in scalable systems. 

• Job Title - DevOps Engineer

• Reports Into - Lead DevOps Engineer

• Location - India

A Little Bit about Kwalee….

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game developers and publishers, with well over 900 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Airport Security and Makeover Studio 3D. We also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS!, Eternal Hope, Die by the Blade and Scathe.

What’s In It For You?

• Hybrid working - 3 days in the office, 2 days remote/ WFH is the norm

• Flexible working hours - we trust you to choose how and when you work best

• Profit sharing scheme - we win, you win 

• Private medical cover - delivered through BUPA

• Life Assurance - for long term peace of mind

• On site gym - take care of yourself

• Relocation support - available

• Quarterly Team Building days - we’ve done Paintballing, Go Karting & even Robot Wars

• Pitch and make your own games on https://www.kwalee.com/blog/inside-kwalee/what-are-creative-wednesdays/">Creative Wednesdays! 

Are You Up To The Challenge?

As a DevOps Engineer you have a passion for automation, security and building reliable expandable systems. You develop scripts and tools to automate deployment tasks and monitor critical aspects of the operation, resolve engineering problems and incidents. Collaborate with architects and developers to help create platforms for the future.

Your Team Mates

The DevOps team works closely with game developers, front-end and back-end server developers making, updating and monitoring application stacks in the cloud.Each team member has specific responsibilities with their own projects to manage and bring their own ideas to how the projects should work.  Everyone strives for the most efficient, secure and automated delivery of application code and supporting infrastructure.

What Does The Job Actually Involve?

• Find ways to automate tasks and monitoring systems to continuously  improve our systems.

• Develop scripts and tools to make our infrastructure resilient and efficient.

• Understand our applications and services and keep them running smoothly.

Your Hard Skills

• Minimum 1 years of experience on a dev ops engineering role

• Deep experience with Linux and Unix systems

• Networking basics knowledge (named, nginx, etc)

• Some coding experience  (Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

• Experience with common automation tools (Ex. Chef, Terraform, etc)

• AWS experience is a plus

• A creative mindset motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best 

Your Soft Skills

Kwalee has grown fast in recent years but we’re very much a family of colleagues. We welcome people of all ages, races, colours, beliefs, sexual orientations, genders and circumstances, and all we ask is that you collaborate, work hard, ask questions and have fun with your team and colleagues. 

We don’t like egos or arrogance and we love playing games and celebrating success together. If that sounds like you, then please apply.

A Little More About Kwalee

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

Everyone contributes creatively to Kwalee’s success, with all employees eligible to pitch their own game ideas on Creative Wednesdays, and we’re proud to have built our success on this inclusive principle.

We have an amazing team of experts collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Lisbon, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, Cyprus, the Philippines and many more places around the world. We’ve recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales, which is based in France. 

We have a truly global team making games for a global audience, and it’s paying off: - Kwalee has been voted the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership Team at the TIGA Awards (Independent Game Developers’ Association) and our games have been downloaded in every country on earth - including Antarctica!

Key Responsibilities

• As a part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for the configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the CI/CD components.

• Creating and managing build and release pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins.

• Assist in planning and reviewing application architecture and design to promote an efficient deployment process.

• Troubleshoot server performance issues & handle the continuous integration system.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using ARM Templates and Terraform.

• Monitor and Support deployment, Cloud-based and On-premises Infrastructure.

• Diagnose and develop root-cause solutions for failures and performance issues in the production environment.

• Deploy and manage Infrastructure for production applications

• Configure security best practices for application and infrastructure

Essential Requirements

• Good hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS & GCP. (Preferably Azure)

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles.

• Strong work experience with CI/CD implementation tools like Azure DevOps, Team City, Octopus Deploy, AWS Code Deploy, and Jenkins.

• Experience of writing automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and Continuous Integration (CI) system.

• Understanding of secure DevOps practices

Good to Have -

•Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash

• Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc.

• Experience with Build technologies and cloud services. (Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS Code Deploy)

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.

• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

• Must have a good understanding of SDLC.

• Knowledge of Linux, Windows server, Monitoring tools, and Shell scripting.

• Self-motivated; demonstrating the ability to achieve in technologies with minimal supervision.

• Organized, flexible, and analytical ability to solve problems creatively

Company Introduction :

My Next Developer is a global network of top talent in business, design, and technology that enables companies to scale their teams, on-demand.

We take the best elements of virtual teams and combine them with a support structure that encourages innovation, social interaction, and fun. We see no borders, move at a fast pace, and are never afraid to break the mold.

Job Responsibilities

- Ensure security in the development activities.

- Implement risk management techniques and threat modeling.

- Implement infrastructure automation, monitoring and alerts as part of ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications.

- Collaborate with internal teams to produce the best security solutions

Minimum requirements :

- Bachelor's/Master's degree in degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, or equivalent degree.

- 3+ years of experience as a DevSecOps engineer.

- Proficiency in back-end technologies such as NodeJs or Python.

- Expertise in using DevOps tools like GitHub, dependency management, and CI/CD.

- Profound knowledge of AWS cloud, DevOps culture and automation tools.

- Fluent in both spoken and written English communication.

- Ability to work full-time (40 hours/week) with a 2-3 hour overlap with European time zone.

- Stay up-to-date on cybersecurity threats and follow the best practices.

- Previous project experience related to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications.

Role Summary

In this role, you will lead the DevOps function at the organisation and work through all

facets of software development: design, prototype, implementation, testing and

documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, implement, test and troubleshoot deployment strategies
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent. MS or higher degree
• preferred.
• Design continuous integration and delivery pipelines using latest tools and platformsv
• Demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience in Kubernetes, K8s-Ingress,
• Docker, AWS EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB, RDS, MongoDB, Helm, Rancher, Jenkins,
• VPN, GKE.
• Create high level deployment design (HLSD) documents and outline software solutions
• Strong DevOps Management experience with focus on server-side development and
• database design
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Strong understanding of web technologies, web services, communication protocols,
• (REST, SOAP API’s) and a proven track record in developing communication between
• desktop applications and web services
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Qualification

• Experience with working on code enhancements within a large, complex software
• system
• Create server side deployment primarily in the Cloud, Collaboration space
• 10+ years of relevant experience in developing and managing web/app products.
• Experience with a few of these languages: Shell, Ruby/ JRuby, Python, PowerShell, Java,
• Go
• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing highly scalable cloud applications
• using AWS,Google Cloud
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Basic understanding of cloud security and hands on experience in building secure
• systems.
• Prepare accurate implementation task lists / time estimates and deliver assignments as
• per functional specifications, quality standards and project schedulesvvvv

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

• 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

At Karza technologies, we take pride in building one of the most comprehensive digital onboarding & due-diligence platforms by profiling millions of entities and trillions of associations amongst them using data collated from more than 700 publicly available government sources. Primarily in the B2B Fintech Enterprise space, we are headquartered in Mumbai in Lower Parel with 100+ strong workforce. We are truly furthering the cause of Digital India by providing the entire BFSI ecosystem with tech products and services that aid onboarding customers, automating processes and mitigating risks seamlessly, in real-time and at fraction of the current cost.

A few recognitions:

• Recognized as Top25 startups in India to work with 2019 by LinkedIn
• Winner of HDFC Bank's Digital Innovation Summit 2020
• Super Winners (Won every category) at Tecnoviti 2020 by Banking Frontiers
• Winner of Amazon AI Award 2019 for Fintech
• Winner of FinTech Spot Pitches at Fintegrate Zone 2018 held at BSE
• Winner of FinShare 2018 challenge held by ShareKhan
• Only startup in Yes Bank Global Fintech Accelerator to win the account during the Cohort
• 2nd place Citi India FinTech Challenge 2018 by Citibank
• Top 3 in Viacom18's Startup Engagement Programme VStEP

What your average day would look like:

• Deploy and maintain mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems
• Manage low cost, scalable streaming data pipelines
• Provide direct and responsive support for urgent production issues
• Contribute ideas towards secure and reliable Cloud architecture
• Use open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
• Use coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve automation problems
• Collaborate with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex infrastructure, security, or deployment problem
• Identify processes and practices to streamline development & deployment to minimize downtime and maximize turnaround time

What you need to work with us:

• Proficiency in at least one of the general-purpose programming languages like Python, Java, etc.
• Experience in managing the IAAS and PAAS components on popular public Cloud Service Providers like AWS, Azure, GCP etc.
• Proficiency in Unix Operating systems and comfortable with Networking concepts
• Experience with developing/deploying a scalable system
• Experience with the Distributed Database & Message Queues (like Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB, Kafka, etc.)
• Experience in managing Hadoop clusters
• Understanding of containers and have managed them in production using container orchestration services.
• Solid understanding of data structures and algorithms.
• Applied exposure to continuous delivery pipelines (CI/CD).
• Keen interest and proven track record in automation and cost optimization.

Experience:

• 1-4 years of relevant experience
• BE in Computer Science / Information Technology 

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company.
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry events.
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening.
• Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Requirements:

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements.
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
• Experience managing complex systems at scale.
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers.
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage.
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.

Good to have:

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka, Elasticsearch.