ketteQ is a supply chain planning and automation platform. We are looking for an experienced AWS Devops Engineer to help manage AWS infrastructure and automation. This job comes with a attractive compensation package, work-from-home and flex-time benefits. You will get to work on projects for large global brands with a highly experienced team based in US and India. If you are high-energy, motivated, and initiative-taking individual then this could be a fantastic opportunity for you. Candidates must meet the following requirements:
Duties & Responsibilities
- Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system
- Build a deployment pipeline for AWS and Salesforce
- Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as cloud formation template
- Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, Fargate, S3, Cloud Formation)
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
- Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
- Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Cloud Formation and deploying applications on AWS
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Database experience to help with monitoring and performance; PostgreSql experience preferred
- AWS certification preferred
Education
- Bachelors in Engineering or related field
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About Company:
The company is a global leader in secure payments and trusted transactions. They are at the forefront of the digital revolution that is shaping new ways of paying, living, doing business and building relationships that pass on trust along the entire payments value chain, enabling sustainable economic growth. Their innovative solutions, rooted in a rock-solid technological base, are environmentally friendly, widely accessible and support social transformation.
- Role Overview
- Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.
- Key Knowledge
- 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
- Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
- Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
- Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
- Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience
About the role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in backend development to join our rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 4 years of experience and has have extensive experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployment processes, and optimizing infrastructure on Azure. Additionally, expertise in backend technologies and development frameworks is required to collaborate effectively with the development team in delivering scalable and efficient solutions.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to implement continuous integration and deployment processes.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using tools such as Ansible, and Jenkins.
- Design, implement, and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)
- Develop and maintain build and deployment pipelines, ensuring that they are scalable, secure, and reliable.
- Monitor and maintain the health of the production infrastructure, including load balancers, databases, and application servers.
- Automate the software development and delivery lifecycle, including code building, testing, deployment, and release.
- Familiarity with Azure CLI, Azure REST APIs, Azure Resource Manager template, Azure billing/cost management and the Azure Management Console
- Must have experience of any one of the programming language (Java, .Net, Python )
- Ensure high availability of the production environment by implementing disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
- Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and trending operational tools (CloudWatch, New Relic, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios).
- Stay up to date with new technologies and trends in DevOps and make recommendations for improvements to existing processes and infrastructure.
- ontribute to backend development projects, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
- Work closely with the development team to understand application requirements and provide technical expertise in backend architecture.
- Design and implement database schemas.
- Identify and implement opportunities for performance optimization and scalability of backend systems.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and sprint planning sessions.
- Stay updated with the latest Azure technologies, tools, and best practices to continuously improve our development and deployment processes.
- Mentor junior team members and provide guidance and training on best practices in DevOps.
Required Qualifications
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 4+ years of experience as an Azure DevOps Engineer (or similar role) with experience in backed development.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.
- Expertise in Azure DevOps services, including Azure Pipelines, Azure Repos, and Azure Boards.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or Ansible.
- Proficient in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python.
- Experience with Linux and Windows server administration.
- Strong understanding of backend development principles and technologies.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Experience with industry frameworks and methodologies: ITIL/Agile/Scrum/DevOps
- Excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.
- Have worked in a product based company.
What we offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunity for growth and advancement within the company
- Collaborative, dynamic, and fun work environment
- Possibility to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative projects
Required Skills
• Automation is a part of your daily functions, so thorough familiarity with Unix Bourne shell scripting and Python is a critical survival skill.
• Integration and maintenance of automated tools
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Working experience in source control tools such as GIT/Github/Gitlab/TFS
• Have experience with modern virtualization technologies (Docker, KVM, AWS, OpenStack, or any orchestration platforms)
• Automation of deployment, customization, upgrades, and monitoring through modern DevOps tools (Ansible, Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc) • Advanced Linux admin experience
• Using Jenkins or similar tools
• Deep understanding of Container orchestration(Preferably Kubernetes )
• Strong knowledge of Object Storage(Preferably Cept on Rook)
• Experience in installing, managing & tuning microservices environments using Kubernetes & Docker both on-premise and on the cloud.
• Experience in deploying and managing spring boot applications.
• Experience in deploying and managing Python applications using Django, FastAPI, Flask.
• Experience in deploying machine learning pipelines/data pipelines using Airflow/Kubeflow /Mlflow.
• Experience in web server and reverse Proxy like Nginx, Apache Server, HAproxy
• Experience in monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana.
• Experience in provisioning & maintaining SQL/NoSQL databases.
Desired Skills
• Configuration software: Ansible
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Good experience on Networking Technologies like a Load balancer, ACL, Firewall, VIP, DNS
• Programmatic experience with AWS, DO, or GCP storage & machine images
• Experience on various Linux distributions
• Knowledge of Azure DevOps Server
• Docker management and troubleshooting
• Familiarity with micro-services and RESTful systems
• AWS / GCP / Azure certification
• Interact with the Engineering for supporting/maintaining/designing backend infrastructure for product support
• Create fully automated global cloud infrastructure that spans multiple regions.
• Great learning attitude to the newest technology and a Team player
- Hands-on knowledge on various CI-CD tools (Jenkins/TeamCity, Artifactory, UCD, Bitbucket/Github, SonarQube) including setting up of build-deployment automated pipelines.
- Very good knowledge in scripting tools and languages such as Shell, Perl or Python , YAML/Groovy, build tools such as Maven/Gradle.
- Hands-on knowledge in containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, OpenShift and Kubernetes.
- Good knowledge in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet/Chef and have worked on setting up of monitoring tools (Splunk/Geneos/New Relic/Elk).
- Expertise in job schedulers/workload automation tools such as Control-M or AutoSys is good to have.
- Hands-on knowledge on Cloud technology (preferably GCP) including various computing services and infrastructure setup using Terraform.
- Should have basic understanding on networking, certificate management, Identity and Access Management and Information security/encryption concepts.
- • Should support day-to-day tasks related to platform and environments upkeep such as upgrades, patching, migration and system/interfaces integration.
- • Should have experience in working in Agile based SDLC delivery model, multi-task and support multiple systems/apps.
- • Big-data and Hadoop ecosystem knowledge is good to have but not mandatory.
- Should have worked on standard release, change and incident management tools such as ServiceNow/Remedy or similar
Numerator is a data and technology company reinventing market research. Headquartered in Chicago, IL, Numerator has 1,600 employees worldwide. The company blends proprietary data with advanced technology to create unique insights for the market research industry that has been slow to change. The majority of Fortune 100 companies are Numerator clients.
Job Description
What We Do and How?
We are a market research company, revolutionizing how it's done! We mix fast paced development and unique approaches to bring best practices and strategy to our technology. Our tech stack is deep, leveraging several languages and frameworks including Python, C#, Java, Kotlin, React, Angular, and Django among others. Our engineering hurdles sit at the intersection of technologies ranging from mobile, computer vision and crowdsourcing, to machine learning and big data analytics.
Our Team
From San Francisco to Chicago to Ottawa, our R&D team is comprised of talented individuals spanning across a robust tech stack. The R&D team is comprised of product, data analytics, engineers across Front End, Back End, DevOps, Business Intelligence, ETL, Data Science, Mobile Apps, and much more. Across these different groups we work towards one common goal: To build products into efficient and seamless user experiences that help our clients succeed.
Numerator is looking for a Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team. This is a unique opportunity where you will get a chance to work with an established and rapidly evolving platforms that handles millions of requests and massive amounts of data. In this position, you will be responsible for taking on new initiatives to automate, enhance, maintain, and scale services in a rapidly-scaling SaaS environment.
As a member of our team, you will make an immediate impact as you help build out and expand our technology platforms across several software products. This is a fast-paced role with high growth, visibility, impact, and where many of the decisions for new projects will be driven by you and your team from inception through production.
Some of the technologies we frequently use include: Terraform, Ansible, SumoLogic, Kubernetes, and many AWS-native services.
• Develop and test the cloud infrastructure to scale a rapidly growing ecosystem.
• Monitor and improve DevOps tools and processes, automate mundane tasks, and improve system reliability.
• Provide deep expertise to help steer scalability and stability improvements early in the life-cycle of development while working with the rest of the team to automate existing processes that deploy, test, and lead our production environments.
• Train teams to improve self-healing and self-service cloud-based ecosystems in an evolving AWS infrastructure.
• Build internal tools to demonstrate performance and operational efficiency.
• Develop comprehensive monitoring solutions to provide full visibility to the different platform components using tools and services like Kubernetes, Sumologic, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Identify and troubleshoot any availability and performance issues at multiple layers of deployment, from hardware, operating environment, network, and application.
• Work cross-functionally with various teams to improve Numerator’s infrastructure through automation.
• Work with other teams to assist with issue resolutions related to application configuration, deployment, or debugging.
• Lead by example and evangelize DevOps best practice within other engineering teams at Numerator.
Skills & Requirements
What you bring
• A minimum of 3 years of work experience in backend software, DevOps, or a related field.
• A passion for software engineering, automation and operations and are excited about reliability, availability and performance.
• Availability to participate in after-hours on-call support with your fellow engineers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset combined with experience troubleshooting large scale systems.
• Fundamental knowledge in networking; operating systems; package build system (IP subnets and routing, ACL’s, Core Ubuntu, PIP and NPM).
• Experience with automation technologies to build, deploy and integrate both infrastructure and applications (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Experience using scripting languages like Python and *nix tools (Bash, sed/awk, Make).
• You enjoy developing and managing real-time distributed platforms and services that scale billions of requests.
• Have the ability to manage multiple systems across stratified environments.
• A deep enthusiasm for the Cloud and DevOps and keen to get other people involved.
• Experience with scaling and operationalizing distributed data stores, file systems and services.
• Running services in AWS or other cloud platforms, strong experience with Linux systems.
• Experience in modern software paradigms including cloud applications and serverless architectures.
• You look ahead to identify opportunities and foster a culture of innovation.
• BS, MS or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to haves
• Previous experience working with a geographically distributed software engineering team.
• Experience working with Jenkins or Circle-CI
• Experience with storage optimizations and management
• Solid understanding of building scalable, highly performant systems and services
• Expertise with big data, analytics, machine learning, and personalization.
• Start-up or CPG industry experience
If this sounds like something you would like to be part of, we’d love for you to apply! Don't worry if you think that you don't meet all the qualifications here. The tools, technology, and methodologies we use are constantly changing and we value talent and interest over specific experience.
Disclaimer: We do not charge any fee for employment and the same applies to the Recruitment Partners who we work with. Numerator is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit. Additionally, we do not ask for any refundable security deposit to be paid in bank accounts for employment purposes. We request candidates to be cautious of misleading communications and not pay any fee/ deposit to individuals/ agencies/ employment portals on the pretext of attending Numerator interview process or seeking employment with us. These would be fraudulent in nature. Anyone dealing with such individuals/agencies/
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Experience and Education
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
Work experience
• 4+ years of infrastructure and operations management
Experience at a global scale.
• 4+ years of experience in operations management, including monitoring, configuration management, automation, backup, and recovery.
• Broad experience in the data center, networking, storage, server, Linux, and cloud technologies.
• Broad knowledge of release engineering: build, integration, deployment, and provisioning, including familiarity with different upgrade models.
• Demonstratable experience with executing, or being involved of, a complete end-to-end project lifecycle.
Skills
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills – both oral and written.
• Skilled at collaborating effectively with both Operations and Engineering teams.
• Process and documentation oriented.
• Attention to details. Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Ability to simplify complex situations and lead calmly through periods of crisis.
• Experience implementing and optimizing operational processes.
• Ability to lead small teams: provide technical direction, prioritize tasks to achieve goals, identify dependencies, report on progress.
Technical Skills
• Strong fluency in Linux environments is a must.
• Good SQL skills.
• Demonstratable scripting/programming skills (bash, python, ruby, or go) and the ability to develop custom tool integrations between multiple systems using their published API’s / CLI’s.
• L3, load balancer, routing, and VPN configuration.
• Kubernetes configuration and management.
• Expertise using version control systems such as Git.
• Configuration and maintenance of database technologies such as Cassandra, MariaDB, Elastic.
• Designing and configuration of open-source monitoring systems such as Nagios, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Designing and configuration of log pipeline technologies such as ELK (Elastic Search Logstash Kibana), FluentD, GROK, rsyslog, Google Stackdriver.
• Using and writing modules for Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, helm, customize.
• Strong understanding of virtualization and containerization technologies such as VMware, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Specific experience with Google Cloud Platform or Amazon EC2 deployments and virtual machines.c
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
• Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Qualifications:
• 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
• Expertise on configuration management
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
• Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
• Experience with Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
• Strong bias for action and ownership
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
What will you do?
- Setup, manage Applications with automation, DevOps, and CI/CD tools.
- Deploy, Maintain and Monitor Infrastructure and Services.
- Automate code and Infra Deployments.
- Tune, optimize and keep systems up to date.
- Design and implement deployment strategies.
- Setup infrastructure in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM cloud, Digital Ocean etc as per requirement.