OpenStack Engineer

We are seeking a skilled and proactive Kubernetes Administrator with strong hands-on experience in managing Red Hat OpenShift environments. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in Kubernetes administration, ArgoCD, and Jenkins.

This role demands a self-motivated, quick learner who can confidently manage OpenShift-based infrastructure in production environments, communicate effectively with stakeholders, and escalate issues promptly when needed.

Key Skills & Qualifications

• Strong experience with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes administration (OpenShift or Kubernetes certification a plus).
• Proven expertise in managing containerized workloads on OpenShift platforms.
• Experience with ArgoCD, GitLab CI/CD, and Helm for deployment automation.
• Ability to troubleshoot issues in high-pressure production environments.
• Strong communication and customer-facing skills.
• Quick learner with a positive attitude toward problem-solving.

  Job Description:

We are looking to recruit engineers with zeal to learn cloud solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We\'ll prefer an engineer who is passionate about AWS Cloud technology, passionate about helping customers succeed, passionate about quality and truly enjoys what they do. The qualified candidate for AWS Cloud Engineer position is someone who has a can-do attitude and is an innovative thinker.

• Be a hands on with responsibilities for the installation, configuration, and ongoing management of Linux based solutions on AWS for our clients.
• Responsible for creating and managing Autoscaling EC2 instances using VPCs, Elastic Load Balancers, and other services across multiple availability zones to build resilient, scalable and failsafe cloud solutions.
• Familiarity with other AWS services such as CloudFront, ALB, EC2, RDS, Route 53 etc. desirable.
• Working Knowledge of RDS, Dynamo DB, Guard Duty, WAF, Multi tier architecture.
• Proficient in working on Git, CI CD Pipelined, AWS Devops, Git, Bit Bucket, Ansible.
• Proficient in working on Docker Engine, Containers, Kubernetes .
• Expertise in Migration workload to AWS from different cloud providers
• Should be versatile in problem solving and resolve complex issues ranging from OS and application faults to creatively improving solution design
• Should be ready to work in rotation on a 24x7 schedule, and be available on call at other times due to the critical nature of the role
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Pre-production acceptance testing for quality assurance.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

Desired Candidate Profile

o    Customer oriented personality with good communication skills, who is able to articulate and communicate very effectively verbally as well as in written communications.

o    Be a team player that collaborates and shares experience and expertise with the rest of the team.

o    Understands database system such as MSSQL, Mongo DB, MySQL, MariaDB, Dynamo DB, RDS.

o    Understands Web Servers such as Apache, Ningx.

o    Must be RHEL certified.

o    In depth knowledge of Linux Commands and Services.

o    Efficiency enough to manage all internet applications inclusive FTP, SFTP, Ningx Apache, MySQL, PHP.

o    Good communication skill.

o    Atleast 3-7 Years of experience in AWS and Devops.

  Company Profile:

i2k2 Networks is a trusted name in the IT cloud hosting services industry. We help enterprises with cloud migration, cost optimization, support, and fully managed services which helps them to move faster and scale with lower IT costs. i2k2 Networks offers a complete range of cutting-edge solution that drives the Internet-powered business modules. We excel in:

  - Managed IT Services

  - Dedicated Web Servers Hosting

  - Cloud Solutions

  - Email Solutions

  - Enterprise Services

  - Round the clock Technical Support

   https://www.i2k2.com/">https://www.i2k2.com/

   Regards

   Nidhi Kohli

   i2k2 Networks Pvt Ltd.

   AM - Talent Acquisition

Requirements

Core skills:

● Strong background in Linux / Unix Administration and

troubleshooting

● Experience with AWS (ideally including some of the following:

VPC, Lambda, EC2, Elastic Cache, Route53, SNS, Cloudwatch,

Cloudfront, Redshift, Open search, ELK etc.)

● Experience with Infra Automation and Orchestration tools

including Terraform, Packer, Helm, Ansible.

● Hands on Experience on container technologies like Docker,

Kubernetes/EKS, Gitlab and Jenkins as Pipeline.

● Experience in one or more of Groovy, Perl, Python, Go or

scripting experience in Shell.

● Good understanding of with Continuous Integration(CI) and

Continuous Deployment(CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins,

FlexCD, ArgoCD, Spinnaker etc

● Working knowledge of key value stores, database technologies

(SQL and NoSQL), Mongo, mySQL

● Experience with application monitoring tools like Prometheus,

Grafana, APM tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Pinpoint

● Good exposure on middleware components like ELK, Redis, Kafka

and IOT based systems including Redis, NewRelic, Akamai,

Apache / Nginx, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus etc

Good to have:

● Prior experience in Logistics, Payment and IOT based applications

● Experience in unmanaged mongoDB cluster, automations &

operations, analytics

● Write procedures for backup and disaster recovery

Core Experience

● 3-5 years of hands-on DevOps experience

● 2+ years of hands-on Kubernetes experience

● 3+ years of Cloud Platform experience with special focus on

Lambda, R53, SNS, Cloudfront, Cloudwatch, Elastic Beanstalk,

RDS, Open Search, EC2, Security tools

● 2+ years of scripting experience in Python/Go, shell

● 2+ years of familiarity with CI/CD, Git, IaC, Monitoring, and

Logging tools

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities

• A technology Professional who understands software development and can solve IT Operational and deployment challenges using software engineering tools and processes. This position requires an understanding of both Software development (Dev) and deployment

Operations (Ops)

• Identity manual processes and automate them using various DevOps automation tools

• Maintain the organization’s growing cloud infrastructure

• Monitor and maintain DevOps environment stability

• Collaborate with distributed Agile teams to define technical requirements and resolve technical design issues

• Orchestrating builds and test setups using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Participate in designing and building Kubernetes, Cloud, and on-prem environments for maximum performance, reliability and scalability

• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approaches for different audiences

Requirements

• Candidates working for this position should possess at least 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• Candidate should have experience in ELK stack, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Solid experience in the AWS environment.

• Should have experience in monitoring tools like DataDog or Newrelic.

• Minimum of 5 years experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment & management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, Git, Sonar, and Selenium.

• Candidates must possess ample knowledge and experience in system automation, deployment, and implementation.

• Candidates must possess experience in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in configuring and automating the monitoring tools.

• The candidates should also possess experience in the software development process and tools and languages like SaaS, Python, Java, MongoDB, Shell scripting, Python, PostgreSQL, and Git.

• Candidates should demonstrate knowledge in handling distributed data systems.

Examples: Elastisearch, Cassandra, Hadoop, and others.

• Should have experience in GitLab- CIRoles and Responsibilities

Required qualifications and must have skills  

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers 

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure 

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software 

• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers 

• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker 

Nice to have Skills   

• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto 

• Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices 

• Familiarity with reliability best practices 

Exposure to development and implementation practices in a modern systems environment together with exposure to working in a project team particularly with reference to industry methodologies, e.g. Agile, continuous delivery, etc

• At least 3-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
• Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
• Experience using DevOps methodology and Infrastructure as Code
• Automation / CI/CD tools – Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins
• Infrastructure as code – Terraform, Cloudformation, etc
• Strong experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Automated provisioning and configuration management – Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
• Improve CI/CD processes, support software builds and CI/CD of the development departments
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated deployment code for development, test, staging and production environments

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

• Health Memberships 
• Sports Subscriptions 
• Entertainment Subscriptions 
• Key Conferences and Event Passes
• Learning Stipend 
• Team Lunches and Parties 
• Travel Reimbursements 
• ESOPs