About Databook
Databook is the world’s first AI-powered enterprise customer intelligence platform, founded in 2017 to empower enterprise sales teams with a distinct advantage. Leading companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, and Databricks rely on Databook to enhance customer engagement and accelerate revenue acquisition. Backed by Bessemer Ventures, DFJ Growth, M12 (Microsoft’s Venture fund), Salesforce Ventures, and Threshold Ventures, we operate as a customer-focused, innovative organization headquartered in Palo Alto, CA, with a global distributed team.
About Our Technology Team
The Engineering team at Databook brings together collaborative and technically passionate individuals to deliver innovative customer intelligence solutions. Led by former Google and Salesforce engineers, this group explores the full engineering lifecycle, driving impactful outcomes and offering opportunities for leadership and growth in a hyper-growth context.
The Opportunity
We're seeking a proactive and skilled Platform Engineer to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of our platform. This role offers the chance to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, integrate new technologies, and advance our DevOps and SRE practices. If you're passionate about driving excellence, building robust systems, and contributing to the evolution of an AI-driven platform, join our dynamic team!
Responsibilities
- Promote best practices and standards across engineering teams to ensure platform reliability and performance.
- Collaborate with product management and engineering to enhance platform scalability and align with business goals.
- Develop and optimize backend systems and infrastructure to support platform growth.
- Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, monitoring, and alerting systems.
- Document system performance, incidents, and resolutions, producing detailed technical reports.
- Formulate backend architecture plans and provide guidance on deployment strategies and reliability improvements.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure 24/7 platform reliability and rapid incident response.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Platform or Infrastructure Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or similar roles.
- Strong backend development experience using Python, JavaScript/Typescript.
- Solid understanding of API design and implementation.
- Proficiency in SQL.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI.
- Hands-on experience with IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Datadog, Splunk, New Relic, Prometheus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on long-term solutions.
- Excellent communication skills for collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.
Working Arrangements
This position offers a hybrid work mode, combining remote and in-office work as mutually agreed upon.
Ideal Candidates Will Also Have
- Interest or experience in Machine Learning and Generative AI.
- Exposure to performance, load, and stress testing frameworks.
- Familiarity with security best practices and tools in cloud environments.
Join Us and Enjoy These Perks!
- Competitive salary with bonus
- Medical insurance coverage
- Generous leave and public holidays
- Employee referral bonus program
- Annual learning stipend for professional development
- Complimentary subscription to Masterclass
About Databook
About
Great salespeople let their customers’ strategies do the talking.
Databook’s award-winning Strategic Relationship Management (SRM) platform uses advanced AI and NLP to empower the world’s largest B2B sales teams to create, manage, and maintain strategic relationships at scale. The platform ingests and interprets billions of financial and market data signals to generate actionable sales strategies that connect the seller’s solutions to a buyer’s financial pain and urgency.
About our Technology Team-
The Engineering team at Databook brings together collaborative and technically passionate individuals to deliver innovative customer intelligence solutions that drive real value for our clients. Led by past Google and Salesforce engineers, this group offers an opportunity to explore all aspects of the engineering lifecycle, to be close to the client, and to make a real difference. We give our engineers a lot of autonomy to own and solve complex, novel problems - from system design to natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML). The Engineering team offers a place where engineers can collect an abundance of experience and practice their leadership skills; all in a hyper-growth context.
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Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.
Position Overview:
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Key Responsibilities:
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- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
- Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
- Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
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- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
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- Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
- Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
- Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
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- Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
- A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.
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POSITION SUMMARY:
We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.
EXPERIENCE
7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
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Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.
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Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.
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Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.
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Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time
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Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.
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Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.
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Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.
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Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies
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Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services
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Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.
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Migration and consolidations of infrastructure
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Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.
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Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.
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Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.
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Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.
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Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.
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Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.
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On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones
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Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:
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Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.
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Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations
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IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service
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Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies
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Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)
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DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms
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Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment
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Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.
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Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect
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Networking Skills – Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)
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Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)
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Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.
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A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies
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SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies
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Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .
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Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.
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A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.
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A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..
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A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.
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A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.
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A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)
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A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration
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A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL
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A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent
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A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories
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Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.
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Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.
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Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services
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SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
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Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.
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Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.
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Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.
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Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.
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Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles
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Working experience with ServiceNow
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Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.
Job Description
• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
• Strong AWS knowledge and experience
• Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
• Experience with IAC tools Terraform
• Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
• Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
• Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
• Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
• Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills
• Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision
Excellent understanding of SDLC patching, releases and software development at scale.
Excellent knowledge of Git.
Excellent knowledge of Docker.
Good understanding of enterprise standards ond enterprise building principles,
In-depth knowledge in Windows OS
Knowledge of Linux os
Theoretical and practical skills in Web-environments based on .Net technologies, e.g. Ils,
Kestrel, .Net Core, C#.
Strong scripting skills in one or any combination of CMD Shell,Bash, PowerShell. Python.
Good understanding of the mechanisms of Web-environment architectures approaches.
Strong knowledge of cloud providers offering, Azure or AWS.
Good knowledge of a configuration management tools, Ansible, Chef, Salt stack, Puppet.
(Good to have)
Good knowledge of cloud infrastructure orchestration tools like kubemetes or cloud based orchestration.
Good knowledge in one or any combination of cloud infrastructure provisioning tools like
ARM Templates, Terraform, Pulumi.
In-depth knowledge in one or any combination of software delivery orchestration tools like Azure Pipelines, Jenkins Pipelines, Octopus Deploy, etc.
Strong practical knowledge of CI Tools, ie, Azure Devops, Jenkins Excellent knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery approaches
Good knowledge on integration of Code Quality tools like SonarQube, Application or Container Security tool like Vera Code, Checksum, Chekov, Trivy.
In-depth knowledge on Azure DevOps Build infrastructure setup, Azure DevOps
Administration and Access management
Searce is a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech
to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering,
AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We
are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with
over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.
What we believe?
1. Best practices are overrated
○ Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .
2. Honesty and Transparency
○ We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.
3. Client Partnership
○ Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead.
○ And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.
How we work?
It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by
HAPPIER.
1. Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to
respond.
2. Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As
that’s what life's about.
3. Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and
forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.
4. Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the
street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and
makes us deliver the quality we deliver.
5. Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.
6. Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.
7. Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.
Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:
1. Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would
‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did
the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on
vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations
across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak. When you do speak,
people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can
attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?
Your bucket of undertakings:
This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions
to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from
one public cloud to the other.
1. Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best
practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution
visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs
evolve
3. Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build
hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project
deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met;
deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access
management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas.
Accomplishment Set
● Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing
interest and credibility
● Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a
willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
● Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
● Highly organised and efficient.
● Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.
Education, Experience, etc.
1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you
otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's
degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from
12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some
manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the
new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives
those fancy degrees!
3. 1 - 5 years of experience with at least 2 - 3 years of hands-on experience in Cloud
Computing (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise
environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platf
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