Mainframe operator, "mainframe Operations Expert"

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

Requirement
- 1 to 7 years of experience with relative experience in managing development operations
- Hands-on experience with AWS
- Thorough knowledge of setting up release pipelines, and managing multiple environments like Beta, Staging, UAT, and Production
- Thorough knowledge of best cloud practices and architecture
- Hands-on with benchmarking and performance monitoring
- Identifying various bottlenecks and taking pre-emptive measures to avoid downtime
- Hands-on knowledge with at least one toolset Chef/Puppet/Ansible
- Hands-on with CloudFormation / Terraform or other Infrastructure as code is a plus.  
- Thorough experience with Shell Scripting and should not know to shy away from learning new technologies or programming languages
- Experience with other cloud providers like Azure and GCP is a plus
- Should be open to R&D for creative ways to improve performance while keeping costs low

What do we want the person to do?

- Manage, Monitor and Provision Infrastructure - Majorly on AWS
- Will be responsible for maintaining 100% uptime on production servers (Site Reliability)
- Setting up a release pipeline for current releases. Automating releases for Beta, Staging & Production
- Maintaining near-production replica environments on Beta and Staging
- Automating Releases and Versioning of Static Assets (Experience with Chef/Puppet/Ansible)
- Should have hands-on experience with Build Tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, AWS CodeBuild etc
- Identify performance gaps and ways to fix them.
- Weekly meetings with Engineering Team to discuss the changes/upgrades. Can be related to code issues/architecture bottlenecks.
- Creative Ways of Reducing Costs of Cloud Computing
- Convert Infrastructure Deployment / Provision to Infrastructure as Code for reusability and scaling.

You need to drive automation for implementing scalable and robust applications. You would indulge your dedication and passion to build server-side optimization ensuring low-latency and high-end performance for the cloud deployed within datacentre. You should have sound knowledge of Open stack and Kubernetes domain.

YOUR ‘OKR’ SUMMARY

OKR means Objective and Key Results.

As a DevOps Engineer, you will understand the overall movement of data in the entire platform, find bottlenecks,define solutions, develop key pieces, write APIs and own deployment of those. You will work with internal and external development teams to discover these opportunities and to solve hard problems. You will also guide engineers in solving the complex problems, developing your acceptance tests for those and reviewing the work and

the test results.

What you will do

• As a DevOps Engineer responsible for systems being used by customer across the globe.
• Set the goals for overall system and divide into goals for the sub-system.
• Guide/motivate/convince/mentor the architects on sub-systems and help them achieving improvements with agility and speed.

• Identify the performance bottleneck and come up with the solution to optimize time and cost taken by build/test system.

• Be a thought leader to contribute to the capacity planning for software/hardware, spanning internal and public cloud, solving the trade-off between turnaround time and utilization.

• Bring in technologies enabling massively parallel systems to improve turnaround time by an order of magnitude.

What you will need

A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive. As an integral part of the development team, you will need the following skills to succeed.

• BS or BE/B.Tech or equivalent experience in EE/CS with 10+ years of experience.
• Strong background of Architecting and shipping distributed scalable software product with good understanding of system programming.

• Excellent background of Cloud technologies like: OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Ceph is must.
• Excellent understanding of hybrid, multi-cloud architecture and edge computing concepts.
• Ability to identify the bottleneck and come up with solution to optimize it.
• Programming and software development skills in Python, Shell-script along with good understanding of distributed systems and REST APIs.

• Experience in working with SQL/NoSQL database systems such as MySQL, MongoDB or Elasticsearch.
• Excellent knowledge and working experience with Docker containers and Virtual Machines.
• Ability to effectively work across organizational boundaries to maximize alignment and productivity between teams.

• Ability and flexibility to work and communicate effectively in a multi-national, multi-time-zone corporate.

• Deep understanding of technology and passionate about what you do.
• Background in designing high performant scalable software systems with strong focus to optimizehardware cost.

• Solid collaborative and interpersonal skills, specifically a proven ability to effectively guide andinfluence within a dynamic environment.

• Strong commitment to get the most performance out of a system being worked on.
• Prior development of a large software project using service-oriented architecture operating with real time constraints.

What's In It for You?

• You will get a chance to work on cloud-native and hyper-scale products
• You will be working with industry leaders in cloud.
• You can expect a steep learning curve.
• You will get the experience of solving real time problems, eventually you become a problem solver.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive Salary
• Health Insurance
• Open Learning - 100% Reimbursement for online technical courses.
• Fast Growth - opportunities to grow quickly and surely
• Creative Freedom + Flat hierarchy
• Sponsorship to all those employees who represent company in events and meet ups.
• Flexible working hours
• 5 days week
• Hybrid Working model (Office and WFH)

Our Hiring Process:

Candidates for this position can expect the hiring process as follows (subject to successful clearing of every round)

• Initial Resume screening call with our Recruiting team
• Next, candidates will be invited to solve coding exercises.
• Next, candidates will be invited for first technical interview
• Next, candidates will be invited for final technical interview
• Finally, candidates will be invited for Culture Plus interview with HR
• Candidates may be asked to interview with the Leadership team
• Successful candidates will subsequently be made an offer via email

As always, the interviews and screening call will be conducted via a mix of telephonic and video call.

So, if you are looking at an opportunity to really make a difference- make it with us…

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Our Ideal Candidate

We are looking for a Senior DevOps engineer to join the engineering team and help us automate the build, release, packaging and infrastructure provisioning and support processes. The candidate is expected to own the full life-cycle of provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, maintenance and support for cloud as well as on-premise deployments.

Requirements

• 5-plus years of DevOps experience managing the Big Data application stack including HDFS, YARN, Spark, Hive and Hbase
• Deeper understanding of all the configurations required for installing and maintaining the infrastructure in the long run
• Experience setting up high availability, configuring resource allocation, setting up capacity schedulers, handling data recovery tasks
• Experience with middle-layer technologies including web servers (httpd, ningx), application servers (Jboss, Tomcat) and database systems (postgres, mysql)
• Experience setting up enterprise security solutions including setting up active directories, firewalls, SSL certificates, Kerberos KDC servers, etc.
• Experience maintaining and hardening the infrastructure by regularly applying required security packages and patches
• Experience supporting on-premise solutions as well as on AWS cloud
• Experience working with and supporting Spark-based applications on YARN
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Teraform, etc
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and various test report and coverage plugins
• Experience defining and automating the build, versioning and release processes for complex enterprise products
• Experience supporting clients remotely and on-site
• Experience working with and supporting Java- and Python-based tech stacks would be a plus

Desired Non-technical Requirements

• Very strong communication skills both written and verbal
• Strong desire to work with start-ups
• Must be a team player

Job Perks

• Attractive variable compensation package
• Flexible working hours – everything is results-oriented
• Opportunity to work with an award-winning organization in the hottest space in tech – artificial intelligence and advanced machine learning

Designation : DevOp Engineer

Location : HSR, Bangalore

About the Company

Making impact driven by Data. 

Vumonic Datalabs is a data-driven startup providing business insights to e-commerce & e-tail companies to help them make data-driven decisions to scale up their business and understand their competition better. As one of the EU's fastest growing (and coolest) data companies, we believe in revolutionizing the way businesses make their most important business decisions by providing first-hand transaction based insights in real-time.. 

About the Role

We are looking for an experienced and ambitious DevOps engineer who will be responsible for deploying product updates, identifying production issues and implementing integrations that meet our customers' needs. As a DevOps engineer at Vumonic Datalabs, you will have the opportunity to work with a thriving global team to help us build functional systems that improve customer experience. If you have a strong background in software engineering, are hungry to learn, compassionate about your work and are familiar with the mentioned technical skills, we’d love to speak with you.

What you’ll do

• Optimize and engineer the Devops infrastructure for high availability, scalability and reliability.
• Monitor Logs on servers & Cloud management
• Build and set up new development tools and infrastructure to reduce occurrences of errors 
• Understand the needs of stakeholders and convey this to developers
• Design scripts to automate and improve development and release processes
• Test and examine codes written by others and analyze results
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identify technical problems, perform root cause analysis for production errors and develop software updates and ‘fixes’
• Work with software developers, engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and actively communicates with the operations team.
• Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.

What you need to have

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Experience working with the following tools : Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Docker, Elastic Search, Terraform, Redis

• Experience working with following tools preferred : Python, Node JS, Mongo-DB, Rancher, Cassandra
• Experience with real-time monitoring of cloud infrastructure using publicly available tools and servers
• 2 or more years of experience as a DevOp (startup/technical experience preferred)

You are

• Excited to learn, are a hustler and “Do-er”
• Passionate about building products that create impact.
• Updated with the latest technological developments & enjoy upskilling yourself with market trends.
• Willing to experiment with novel ideas & take calculated risks.
• Someone with a problem-solving attitude with the ability to handle multiple tasks while meeting expected deadlines.
• Interested to work as part of a supportive, highly motivated and fun team.

Rules & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
• Should be able to work on 24 X 7 shifts for support of infrastructure.
• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability and security
• Manage the production deployment and deployment automation
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation
• Institute infrastructure as code, security automation and automation or routine maintenance tasks
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like docker, Kubernetes
• Build, Deploy and Manage Kubernetes clusters thru automation
• Create and deliver knowledge sharing presentations and documentation for support teams
• Learning on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision
• Work effectively with onsite/offshore teams

Qualifications:

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of experience in IT
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining all AWS infrastructure and services
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security
• Hands-on technical expertise in Security Architecture, automation, integration, and deployment
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and AWS(IAM, Route53, SSM, S3, EFS, EBS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM Roles and Policies
• Solid Linux experience with a focus on web (Apache Tomcat/Nginx)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Terraform\Chef\Ansible or similar.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like Microservices, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, LDAP, JDBC, SQL, HTML
• Experience in managing and working with the offshore teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, etc.)
• AWS, Kubernetes Certification is preferred
• Ability to work with and influence Engineering teams