Mainframe ZOS System Programmer

We are looking for very hands-on DevOps engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of a team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. 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 that will rotate every month.

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 DevOps automation engineer buildingg, 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 that 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.

Skills We Require:- Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

SUMMARY:-

• Implement integrations requested by customers
• Deploy updates and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support
• Build tools to reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
• Develop software to integrate with internal back-end systems
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors
• Investigate and resolve technical issues
• Develop scripts to automate visualization
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance

Have good hands on experience on Dev Ops, AWS Admin, terraform, Infrastructure as a Code

Have knowledge on EC2, Lambda, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, Centos, Server Hardening

Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer to join our team at Infomance. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in developing and managing WordPress websites, deploying sites on AWS, and managing servers through cPanel. This role is critical in ensuring the seamless performance, security, and scalability of our web platform.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain the server end of our WordPress website.
• Manage and optimize the AWS server environment to ensure high performance and reliability.
• Deploy and manage WordPress sites on AWS.
• Utilize cPanel for server management, including setting up and configuring domains, email accounts, databases, and other hosting features.
• Collaborate with front-end developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.
• Ensure the security and integrity of the website and server infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and resolve website and server issues promptly.
• Implement and maintain automated backup and disaster recovery solutions.
• Monitor server performance and optimize for speed and efficiency.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our platform remains at the cutting edge.

Required Skills:

1.. WordPress Development:

• Proficient in PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience in developing custom WordPress themes and plugins.
• Understanding of WordPress core and architecture.

2.. AWS (Amazon Web Services):

• Extensive experience with EC2, S3, RDS, and other relevant AWS services.
• Expertise in deploying and managing WordPress sites on AWS.
• Knowledge of AWS security best practices.

3.. Server Management:

• Proficiency with cPanel for server management.
• Experience in setting up and configuring domains, email accounts, and databases using cPanel.
• Ability to optimize server performance and ensure reliability.

4.. Version Control Systems:

• Experience with Git for version control and collaboration.
• Understanding of best practices for code management and deployment.

5.. API Integration:

• Familiarity with RESTful APIs and third-party integrations.
• Ability to implement and manage API connections effectively.

6.. Security:

• Strong understanding of web and server security practices.
• Experience in implementing security measures to protect the website and server infrastructure.

7.. Problem-Solving:

• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to diagnose and resolve website and server issues promptly.

8.. Performance Optimization:

• Knowledge of techniques to optimize website speed and efficiency.
• Experience with caching, load balancing, and other performance-enhancing practices.

9.. Backup and Recovery:

• Experience in implementing automated backup solutions.
• Ability to manage disaster recovery processes effectively.

10.. Collaboration and Communication:

• Strong communication skills for working with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with front-end developers and other stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with full-stack development on WordPress.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures and microservices.
• Experience with other cloud platforms like Google Cloud or Azure.
• Understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.

At Egnyte we build and maintain our flagship software: a secure content platform used by companies like Red Bull and Yamaha.

We store, analyze, organize, and secure billions of files and petabytes of data with millions of users. We observe more than 1M API requests per minute on average. To make that possible and to provide the best possible experience, we rely on great engineers. For us, people who own their work from start to finish are integral. Our Engineers are part of the process from design to code, to test, to deployment, and back again for further iterations.  

We have 300+ engineers spread across the US, Poland, and India.

You will be part of the Site Reliability Engineering Team. This role involves the design, scale, performance tuning, monitoring, and administration activities on the various databases (majority on MySQL).

Your day-to-day at Egnyte:

• Build, scale, and administer a large fleet of MySQL servers spread over multiple data centers with a focus on performance, scale, and high availability.
• Monitor and troubleshoot critical performance bottlenecks for MySQL databases before it causes downtime.
• Review and assess the impact of database schema design, topology changes prior to their implementation
• Ensure that databases are secured, maintained, backed up, and highly available.
• Review stress testing results and provide recommendations to development teams
• Automate anomaly detection to surface databases with failures, IOPS, deadlocks, and other failure reasons.
• Automate management tasks, streamline processes, and perform standard administrative functions

About you:

• Understanding of MySQL’s (5.7+) underlying storage engines
• Knowledge of Performance and scalability issues with MySQL
• Strong experience with MySQL HA using Orchestrator/ProxySQL/Consul/Pacemaker
• Experience with configuration management like Puppet/Ansible
• Knowledge of limitations in MySQL and their workarounds in contrast to other popular relational databases
• Automation experience with ‘Python/Ruby/Perl’ and ‘SQL’ scripting
• Analytical skills necessary to perform troubleshooting of errors and performance issues on a large array of Mysql cluster spread over multiple data centers.

Due to the nature of the role, it would be nice if you have also:

• Experience in other distributed systems like Redis, Elasticsearch, Memcached.
• Experience in managing a large fleet of database servers.
• Knowledge of HA and scalability issues with PostgreSQL

Responsibilities:

- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure solutions on Microsoft Azure, with a focus on scalability, security, and cost optimization.

- Collaborate with development teams to streamline the deployment process, ensuring smooth and efficient delivery of software applications.

- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI to automate build, test, and deployment processes.

- Utilize infrastructure-as-code (IaC) principles to create and manage infrastructure deployments using Terraform, ARM templates, or similar tools.

- Manage and monitor containerized applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or other container orchestration platforms.

- Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for cloud-based infrastructure and applications.

- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues, working closely with development and operations teams.

- Ensure high availability, performance, and security of cloud infrastructure and applications.

- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and best practices in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and automation.

Requirements:

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

- Minimum of four years of proven experience working as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on cloud infrastructure and deployment automation.

- Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure services, including but not limited to Azure Virtual Machines, Azure App Service, Azure Storage, Azure Networking, Azure Security, and Azure Monitor.

- Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

- Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration platforms, preferably Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker Swarm.

- Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and experience with relevant tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.

- Experience with scripting languages like PowerShell, Bash, or Python for automation tasks.

- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a proactive and analytical mindset.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

- Azure certifications (e.g., Azure Administrator, Azure DevOps Engineer, Azure Solutions Architect) are a plus.

About Quantela

We are a technology company that offers outcomes business models. We empower our customers with the right digital infrastructure to deliver greater economic, social, and environmental outcomes for their constituents.

When the company was founded in 2015, we specialized in smart cities technology alone. Today, working with cities and towns; utilities, and public venues, our team of 280+ experts offer a vast array of outcomes business models through technologies like digital advertising, smart lighting, smart traffic, and digitized citizen services.

We pride ourselves on our agility, innovation, and passion to use technology for a higher purpose. Unlike other technology companies, we tailor our offerings (what we can digitize) and the business model (how we partner with our customer to deliver that digitization) to drive measurable impact where our customers need it most. Over the last several months alone, we have served customers to deliver outcomes like increased medical response times to save lives; reduced traffic congestion to keep cities moving and created new revenue streams to tackle societal issues like homelessness.

We are headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts in the United States with offices across Europe, and Asia.

The company has been recognized with the World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ award in 2019 and CRN’s IoT Innovation Award in 2020.

For latest news and updates please visit us at www.quantela.com

Overview of the Role

The ideal candidate should have automation skills to automate Infrastructure, microservices deployment through automation tools. Should be handling Kubernetes cluster in Production, both cloud and on-premise

Key Responsibilities

• Overall 6+ Years of experience and should have handled Production Kubernetes Cluster both on Cloud and On-premises environments.
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
• Should migrate VM based applications to Kubernetes cluster.
• Automate Infrastructure component provision.
• Document every task, your findings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Follow the Agile process and plan the work accordingly.

Must have Skills

• Knowledge on container solutions like Docker, Kubernetes and understanding of Virtualization concepts.
• Experience in Configuration Management Tools like Ansible, Chef.
• Experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation or other infrastructure as code tools.
• Experience with CI/CD in Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of AWS/Azure cloud environments.
• Good hands-on experience on webservers like Nginx, Apache, tomcat configuration, and administration.
• Experience working with and maintaining package management systems (e.g., Artifactory, APT).
• Knowledge of scripting in PowerShell/Python/Bash/
• Experience building automation and pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Docker containers (images and registry management).
• Understanding of metrics collectors such as Metricbeat, Heartbeat or Prometheus is good to have.
• Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels
• Ability to analyze existing services and identify technical debt to work.

Desired Background

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Applications

Job Summary

You'd be meticulously analyzing project requirements and carry forward the development of highly robust, scalable and easily maintainable backend applications, work independently, and you'll have the support & opportunity to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• understanding the needs of stakeholders and conveying this to developers
• working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• testing and examining code written by others and analysing results
• ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• planning out projects and being involved in project management decisions

Skill Requirements:

1. Managing GitHub (example: - creating branches for test, QA, development and production, creating Release tags, resolve merge conflict)
2. Setting up of the servers based on the projects in either AWS or Azure (test, development, QA, staging and production)
3. AWS S3 configuring and s3 web hosting, Archiving data from s3 to s3-glacier
4. Deploying the build(application) to the servers using AWS CI/CD and Jenkins (Automated and manual)
5. AWS Networking and Content delivery (VPC, Route 53 and CloudFront)
6. Managing databases like RDS, Snowflake, Athena, Redis and Elasticsearch
7. Managing IAM roles and policies for the functions like Lambda, SNS, aws cognito, secret manager, certificate manager, Guard Duty, Inspector EC2 and S3.
8. AWS Analytics (Elasticsearch, Athena, Glue and kinesis).
9. AWS containers (elastic container registry, elastic container service, elastic Kubernetes service, Docker Hub and Docker compose
10. AWS Auto scaling group (launch configuration, launch template) and load balancer
11. EBS (snapshots, volumes and AMI.)
12. AWS CI/CD build spec scripting, Jenkins groovy scripting, shell scripting and python scripting.
13. Sagemaker, Textract, forecast, LightSail
14. Android and IOS automation building
15. Monitoring tools like cloudwatch, cloudwatch log group, Alarm, metric dashboard, SNS(simple notification service), SES(simple email service)
16. Amazon MQ
17. Operating system Linux and windows
18. X-Ray, Cloud9, Codestar
19. Fluent Shell Scripting
20. Soft Skills
21. Scripting Skills , Good to have knowledge (Python, Javascript, Java,Node.js)
22. Knowledge On Various DevOps Tools And Technologies

Qualifications and Skills

Job Type: Full-time

Experience: 4 - 7 yrs

Qualification: BE/ BTech/MCA.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka