SRE - DevOps Technical Lead

We are a digital B2B platform that offers loans, working capital, and payment services to small businesses.

Candidate MUST HAVE product-based company experience and a minimum of 3years of experience in DevOps.

What you will do (or learn) : 
1. Build our application stack on AWS. Infrastructure as code (read Terraform)
2. Build state-of-the-art CI/CD pipelines.
3. Manage data warehouses and data pipelines.
4. Work on infrastructure and data security.
5. State-of-the-art log management system and tooling around them.
6. Monitoring and alerting system.

What do we expect from you?
1. 3 to 10 years of experience with DevOps or SRE principles.
2. Good fundamentals of database management and other distributed systems management.
3. Experience in infrastructure as code or other configuration management systems.
4. Experience in scripting languages (like bash, python, go lang etc.)
5. Good understanding of Linux systems
6. Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
7. Experience in tooling around monitoring, CI/CD, log management systems. 

Responsibilities:
Servers and company services:
• Install required servers for company needs
• Maintain existing servers and keep them up-to-date by applying timely patches
• Facilitate infrastructure for running and keeping company services up and running
• Maintain the computation cluster
• Make sure the development and release docker images are working and that the latest builds are passing
• Keep the distributed compilation servers running
• Suggest resource reuse and expansion when needed
• Propose timely changes to the infrastructure when needed
Network maintenance
• Maintain company network
• Implement connectivity services between required end-points
• Implement monitoring and alerting systems for the entire network
• Make sure all networking diagrams exist and are up-to-date
• Assists in diagnosing and solving production issues related to infrastructure
• Be aware of any security risks, internal or external
• Manage the company remote access VPN’s
• Coordinate connectivity between Marvelsoft end points and client sites
Cloud management
• Fully manage company infrastructure in the cloud based on company needs
• Be able to approximate running cost for existing and new setup
• Make sure the entire cloud setup is clearly documented (readable and understandable by technical staff)
Operations
• Assist the development team to establish and maintain automated pipelines for development, testing, delivery and deployment.
Help maintain the documentation pipeline (Gitlab pages)
• Manage office workstations – help employees get the resources (workstations, network access etc.) they need to work
• Setup automated processes to keep critical production information backed-up (logs, historical data and persisted data)
• Maintain existing technical monitoring systems
• Implement new technical monitoring systems for all newly created services
Requirements
• Analytical thinking
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly
• Good time management skills
• Ability to follow processes
• Strong documentation skills
• Good communication skills – both written and verbal
• Commercial and business awareness
• Deep understanding of computer networks
• Profound knowledge of operating systems and system administration
• Due to the nature of work, availability to work on-site, in our office in Tuzla, or hybrid.
Requirements
• Docker and container orchestration tools
• Python
• Ansible
• Bash
• OPNSense management
• Proxmox management

• A Sr. SRE will have all the skills, knowledge, and dimension progression of an SRE and will be contributing at a higher level. 
• Respected as a technical leader, provides mentorship to many others across team boundaries.
• A Sr. SRE can work independently while providing mentorship and guidance to the company in multiple areas of technology.
• A Sr. SRE will typically have > 5 years of experience as a professional SRE or software developer.
• Sets the bar in all forms of communication and collaboration.
• Contribute significant software architecture, strategy, design and code to the current (or future) version (or multiple concurrently developed versions) of a component, subsystem, system, application, or underlying technologies.
• Evaluates new technologies and software products to determine the feasibility and desirability of incorporating their capabilities within the company's software systems and applications.

• A Sr. SRE will typically have > 5 years of experience as a professional software developer and/or experience as an SRE.
• Expert knowledge of Kubernetes at scale (e.g., GKE, EKS) and containerisation technologies in general (e.g., Docker/CRI-O).
• Strong programming ability in OOP languages (e.g., C#, Java) and ability to write PowerShell/Python scripts.
• Expert experience with IaC tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform).
• Expert and up-to-date knowledge of security best practices across all disciplines (e.g., networking, software).
• Expert experience with cloud technologies in general. (AWS & GCP).
• Strong knowledge of networking (e.g., load balancing, routing, DNS). Understanding of TCP/IP.
• Strong experience with Nginx, HAproxy or similar technologies.
• Strong Linux experience.
• Exposure to a flavour of Git, including common branching strategies.
• Experience with metrics/monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana or similar.

Experience in Kubernetes as a systems engineer
(deployment, troubleshooting, maintenance,
Helm charts) and Deployment and administration
of one or more of: ELK stack, Kafka, Prometheus
or Grafana with Working knowledge of at least
one cloud platform (GCP, AWS or Azure) & some
configuration management system (such as Salt
or Ansible).Good understanding of networking
concepts (architecture, components, protocols)
& Solid understanding of OS concepts and
internals of Linux is a must.

A network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IoT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IoT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 DevOps/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for a friendly, very hands-on technical, and dependable professional with plenty of experience as a backend & cloud engineer to provide site reliability services to our internal teams and end customers. We expect you to deliver with TOP quality & high speed. You must have experience developing and designing amazing UI screens.

 

This person MUST have:

• BE Computer Science or equivalent
• Cloud app development experience.
• Strong Troubleshooting and debugging skills
• A strong passion for writing simple, clean, and efficient code.

• 3 years of experience with the Django framework and other backend technologies.
• Knowledge of NodeJS
• Experience with building, modifying, and extending API endpoints (REST or GraphQL) for data retrieval and persistence.
• Understand how to use a database like Postgres (preferred choice), SQLite, MongoDB, MySQL.
• Experience creating high-performance applications.
• Experience with messaging and broker tools - Rabbitmq, MQTT
• Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with the full software development life cycle, including requirements collection, design, implementation, testing, and operational support.
• Knowledge of web services
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Git.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with CloudFormation/Terraform
• Experience managing AWS infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience in Linux environment.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes/Docker orchestration.
• Manges existing infrastructure/Pipelines/Engineering tools (On-Prem or  AWS) for the engineering team (Build servers/Jenkins nodes etc.)
• Experience with scrum or other agile software development methodology.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, teamwork, decision making and influencing skills.
• Handle customer calls/emails regarding technical issues for end-users.
• Strong communication skills
• Attention to detail.

 

 

Experience:

• Min 3 year experience

 

Location:

• Ahmedabad Office Or,
• Work from home

Timings:

• 40 hours a week with a rotational shift 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 don't believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 30 days notice period

Who You Are

• Creative thinker and strong problem solver with meticulous attention to detail
• Highly organized, creative, motivated, and passionate about achieving results
• Able to balance multiple tasks and projects effectively and quickly adapt to new situations and technologies
• Able to work both independently and as part of a team
• Systematic problem-solver, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive

 

What you need

• 3-7 years of experience as a Site Reliability Engineer or a mix of a software engineer and DevOps.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of Linux fundamentals, System administration scripting, performance tuning/scalability, troubleshooting.
• Write great quality code using SOLID principles including unit and integration tests.
• Hands-on development experience in an object-orientated programming language like Python.
• Hands-on experience developing task automations
• Experience using tools to create and manage CI (continuous integration) and CD (continuous delivery) pipelines.
• Familiarity with software development tools: source code management (SCM systems), code review systems, issue tracking tools, build tools, test frameworks, code quality tools.
• Experience implementing open-source observability and alerting tools, like Prometheus, Grafana, Cortex, Thanos, Alertmanager etc
• Have decent knowledge on networking (VPC, VNet, DNS etc) and of the TCP/IP stack, internet routing and load balancing.
• Worked with log and configuration management tool
• Prior experience of working with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
• Prior experience of working with Kubernetes, Docker and containers is plus
• Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, Engineers, Product Managers, etc.
• Documenting your work should be in your DNA

 

What you get

• A chance to develop and build something (probably from scratch) which you can be proud of
• Build and Implement modern systems observability solutions including monitoring, alerting, metrics, logging, and APM & distributed tracing.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Maintain business continuity by identifying and driving opportunities to make systems highly resilient and human-free.
• Closely work with the software engineering team to ensure accurate monitoring and metrics are being built into applications before going to production.
• Develop and maintain software modules for use and re-use in cloud and on-premise systems automation.
• Identify process gaps and implement process improvements to increase operational reliability
• Drive standardization efforts across the services, infrastructure, systems, and practices
• Develop Systems & Tools to help with Development team to uphold the Reliability principles

• We are looking for a Senior SRE with a proven track record of success leading complex cloud-hybrid environments. You will have:
• Strong sense of Being an Owner, Wearing the Customer Shoes, with the ability to Empower Others demonstrated through clear
• communication and collaboration.
• Skills to work independently with multiple global teams, developing, configuring, deploying, and operating our global infrastructure on AWS and on-prem.
• Operational experience in complex distributed and real-time systems, including experience with SLO/SLAs towards high availability,reliability and DR goals.
• DevOps experience in building tools and frameworks, with an understanding of continuous deployment processes.
• Ability to think at scale, bringing a focus on continuous delivery methodologies from design through deployment and operations.
• Experience building and managing systems with tools including Kubernetes, Chef/Ansible/Puppet, Kafka, Docker, and Terraform.

• 5+ years experience in a Software and/or Site Reliability Engineering role
• Experience writing automation code in GoLang, Python or Java
• Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience in running real time and low latency high available applications (Kafka, gRPC, RTP)
• Experience running public cloud environments on AWS
• Experience running hybrid clouds and on-prem infrastructures on Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS
• Bachelor degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
• The ability to lead, partner, and collaborate cross functionally across an engineering organization

What are we looking for:
● Research, propose and evaluate with a 5-year vision, the architecture, design, technologies,
processes and profiles related to Telco Cloud.
● Participate in the creation of a realistic technical-strategic roadmap of the network to transform
it to Telco Cloud and be prepared for 5G.
● Using your deep technical expertise, you will provide detailed feedback to Product Management
and Engineering, as well as contribute directly to the platform code base to enhance both the
Customer experience of the service, as well as the SRE quality of life.
● The individual must be aware of trends in network infrastructure as well as within the network
engineering and OSS community. What technologies are being developed or launched?
● The individual should stay current with infrastructure trends in the telco network cloud domain.
● Be responsible for the Engineering of Lab and Production Telco Cloud environments, including
patches, upgrades, and reliability and performance improvements.
Required Minimum Qualifications: (Education and Technical Skills/Knowledge)
● Software Engineering degree, MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
● Years of experiences as an SRE, DevOps, Development and/or Support related role
● 0-5 years of professional experience for a junior position
● At least 8 years of professional experience for a senior position
● Unix server administration and tuning : Linux / RedHat / CentOS / Ubuntu
● You have deep knowledge in Networking Layers 1-4
● Cloud / Virtualization (at least two): Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud,
OpenStack, OpenShift, VMware vSphere / Tanzu
● You have in-depth knowledge of cloud storage solutions on top of AWS, GCP, Azure and/or
on-prem private cloud, such as Ceph, CephFS, GlusterFS
● DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform
● Backend Knowledge Bash, Python, Go (other knowledge of Scripting Language is a plus).
● PaaS Level solutions such as Keycloak for IAM, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, DBaaS (such as MySQL,
Cassandra)
About the Organisation:
The team at Coredge.io is a combination of experienced and young professionals alike having
many years of experience in working with Edge computing, Telecom application development
and Kubernetes. The company has continuously collaborated with the open source community,
universities and major industry players in furthering its goal of providing the industry with an
indispensable tool to offer improved services to its customers. Coredge.io has a global market
presence with its offices in US and New Delhi, India.

About the Role

Dremio’s SREs ensure that our internal and externally visible services have reliability and uptime appropriate to users' needs and a fast rate of improvement. You will be joining a newly formed team that will spearhead our efforts to launch a cloud service. This is an opportunity to join a very fast growth startup and help build a cloud service from the ground up.

Responsibilities and Ownership

• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• Evangelize and advocate for reliability practices across our organization.
• Collaborate with other Engineering teams to support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, monitoring/alerting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
• Analyze and optimize our core product by developing and implementing reliability and performance practices.
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Be on-call for services that the SRE team owns.
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant experience in the following areas: SRE, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Systems Engineering, or Software Engineering.
• Excellent command of cloud services on AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Have moderate-advanced experience in Java, C, C++, Python, Go or other object-oriented programming languages.
• You are Interested in designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• You have a systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills and a sense of ownership and drive.
• You have a great ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.
• You have a solid background in software development and architecting resilient and reliable applications.