SAP S/4HANA MM Consultant (S2P)

Location: Remote (India only)

About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.

Role Overview

Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
• Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
• Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
• Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
• Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
• Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.

What You Bring

1. Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
2. Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
3. AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
4. IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
5. CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
6. GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
7. Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
8. Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
9. Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
10. Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
11. Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
12. Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
13. Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.

Why Join Us

• Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
• Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
• Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
• Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
• Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
• Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

Description

Do you dream about code every night? If so, we’d love to talk to you about a new product that we’re making to enable delightful testing experiences at scale for development teams who build modern software solutions.

What You'll Do

 Troubleshooting and analyzing technical issues raised by internal and external users.

 Working with Monitoring tools like Prometheus / Nagios / Zabbix.

 Developing automation in one or more technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Puppet, Chef will be preferred.

 Monitor infrastructure alerts and take proactive action to avoid downtime and customer impacts.

 Working closely with the cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

 Test, build, design, deployment, and ability to maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery process using tools like Jenkins, maven Git, etc.

 Work in close coordination with the development and operations team such that the application is in line with performance according to the customer's expectations.

What you should have

 Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science or any related field.

 3 - 6 years of experience in Linux / Unix, cloud computing techniques.

 Familiar with working on cloud and datacenter for enterprise customers.

 Hands-on experience on Linux / Windows / Mac OS’s and Batch/Apple/Bash scripting.

 Experience with various databases such as MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL.

 Familiar with AWS technologies like EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM, etc.

 Must know how to choose the best tools and technologies which best fit the business needs.

 Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes using tools like Git, GitHub, Jenkins etc.

 Excellent organizational skills to adapt to a constantly changing technical environment

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

• Engineering in computer science
• 3-5 years of experience in setup and management of Kubernetes infrastructure
• Expert level skills in analytical & problem solving
• Ability to communicate clearly in English

• Microsoft Azure
• Kubernetes, AKS services as well as custom clusters on bare metal infrastructure
• Linux internals & services
• Docker, Docker Registry
• NGINX, Load Balancing, Firewall, Security, PKI
• Shell & Awk Script, Azure Templates & scripting, Python Scripting
• Knowledge of NoSQL Databases

What you do :

• Developing automation for the various deployments core to our business
• Documenting run books for various processes / improving knowledge bases
• Identifying technical issues, communicating and recommending solutions
• Miscellaneous support (user account, VPN, network, etc)
• Develop continuous integration / deployment strategies
• Production systems deployment/monitoring/optimization

• Management of staging/development environments

What you know :

• Ability to work with a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Ability to code/script (Python, Ruby, Bash)
• Experience with systems and IT operations
• Comfortable with frequent incremental code testing and deployment
• Strong grasp of automation tools (Chef, Packer, Ansible, or others)
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and bare-metal systems
• Experience optimizing infrastructure for high availability and low latencies
• Experience with instrumenting systems for monitoring and reporting purposes
• Well versed in software configuration management systems (git, others)
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS or other) and tailoring apps for cloud deployment

• Data management skills

Education :

• Degree in Computer Engineering or Computer Science
• 1-3 years of equivalent experience in DevOps roles.
• Work conducted is focused on business outcomes
• Can work in an environment with a high level of autonomy (at the individual and team level)

• Comfortable working in an open, collaborative environment, reaching across functional.

Our Offering :

• True start-up experience - no bureaucracy and a ton of tough decisions that have a real impact on the business from day one.

• The camaraderie of an amazingly talented team that is working tirelessly to build a great OS for India and surrounding markets.

Perks :

• Awesome benefits, social gatherings, etc.
• Work with intelligent, fun and interesting people in a dynamic start-up environment.

Job Description

• Experienced in Cloud (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google& Azure) development and System Operations.
• Cloud Storage Services and prior experience in designing and building infrastructure components in Amazon. DigitalOcean (or other cloud providers).
• Strong Linux experience (Red Hat 6.x/CentOS 5.x & 6.x, Debian).
• Expert Knowledge in - Git, Jenkins
• Should have experience in CI/CD Automation using tools like Jenkins, Ansible, puppet/Mcollective, Chef Docker, Kubernetes, GIT, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Hashicorp Vault Docker, Kubernetes, Python Scripting etc.
• Good working knowledge with scripting languages such as Python, php
• Good communications and Presentation Skills

Preferred Education:

Bachelor's Degree or global equivalent in Computer Science or related field