Senior DevOps Engineer

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

LOCATION: Remote/Hybrid.

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ROLE:

As a DevOps Engineer with 1-2 years of experience, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the seamless development, deployment, and maintenance of software applications. Your responsibilities will include automating processes, managing source control, collaborating with project teams, and contributing to the continuous improvement of our development and deployment pipelines.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING:

• Develop and maintain automation scripts to facilitate application testing and deployment.
• Manage source control systems to track changes in automation scripts and code.
• Collaborate with project teams to understand test objectives and provide input on testability of requirements.
• Design and implement automation test strategies and testing frameworks.
• Create and execute test cases, writing automation scripts to validate software functionality.
• Work closely with project teams to gather automation requirements and troubleshoot issues.
• Contribute to the setup and enhancement of continuous integration (CI) environments.
• Participate in project meetings to define and agree on automation testing approaches.
• Perform manual testing when required.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BE GREAT IN THIS ROLE:

• 1-2 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools such as Jenkins, Git, or equivalent.
• Experience in Automated API Testing, Performance Testing, and Security Testing.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• ISTQB Certificate or equivalent certification.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Collaboration - Ability to work in teams across the world
• Adaptability - situations are unexpected and need to be quick to adapt
• Open-mindedness - Expect to see things outside the ordinary

LIFE AT FOUNTANE:

• Fountane offers an environment where all members are supported, challenged, recognized & given opportunities to grow to their fullest potential.
• Competitive pay
• Health insurance for spouses, kids, and parents.
• PF/ESI or equivalent
• Individual/team bonuses
• Employee stock ownership plan
• Fun/challenging variety of projects/industries
• Flexible workplace policy - remote/physical
• Flat organization - no micromanagement
• Individual contribution - set your deadlines
• Above all - culture that helps you grow exponentially!

Qualifications - No bachelor's degree required. Good communication skills are a must!

A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Established in 2017, Fountane Inc is a Ventures Lab incubating and investing in new competitive technology businesses from scratch. Thus far, we’ve created half a dozen multi-million valuation companies in the US and a handful of sister ventures for large corporations, including Target, US Ventures, and Imprint Engine.

We’re a team of 80 strong from around the world that are radically open-minded and believes in excellence, respecting one another, and pushing our boundaries to the furthest it's ever been.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills

Key Skills Required:

·         You will be part of the DevOps engineering team, configuring project environments, troubleshooting integration issues in different systems also be involved in building new features for next generation of cloud recovery services and managed services. 

·         You will directly guide the technical strategy for our clients and build out a new capability within the company for DevOps to improve our business relevance for customers. 

·         You will be coordinating with Cloud and Data team for their requirements and verify the configurations required for each production server and come with Scalable solutions.

·         You will be responsible to review infrastructure and configuration of micro services and packaging and deployment of application

To be the right fit, you'll need:

·         Expert in Cloud Services like AWS.

·         Experience in Terraform Scripting.

·         Experience in container technology like Docker and orchestration like Kubernetes.

·         Good knowledge of frameworks such as Jenkins, CI/CD pipeline, Bamboo Etc.

·         Experience with various version control system like GIT, build tools (Mavan, ANT, Gradle ) and cloud automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

Task:

• Need to run our software products in different international environments (on premise and cloud providers)
• Support the developers while debugging issues
• Analyse and monitor software during runtime to find bugs, performance issues and plan growth of the system
• Integrate new technologies to support our products while growing in the market
• Develop Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Pipelines
• Maintain our on premise hosted servers and applications, like operating system upgrades, software upgrades, introducing new database versions etc.
• Automation of task to reduce amount of human errors and parallelize work

We wish:

• Basic OS knowledge (Debian, CentOS, Suse Enterprise Linux)
• Webserver administration and optimization (Apache, Traefik)
• Database administration and optimization (Mysql/MariaDB, Oracle, Elasticsearch)
• jvm administration and optimization application server administration and optimization (Servicemix, Karaf, Glassfish, Springboot)
• Scripting experience (Perl, Python, PHP, Java)
• Monitoring experience (Icinga/Nagios, Appdynamics, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Knowledge container management (Docker/ContainerD, DC/OS, Kubernetes)
• Experience with automatic deployment processes (Ansible, Gitlab-CI, Helm)
• Define and optimize processes for system maintenance, continuous integration, and continuous delivery
• Excellent communication skill & proficiency in English is necessary
• Leadership skill with team motivational approach
• Good Team player

We Offer:

• Freedom to realise your own ideas & individual career & development opportunity.
• A motivating work environment, flat hierarchical structure, numerous company events which cannot be forgotten and fun at work place with flexibilities.
• Professional challenges and career development opportunities.

Your Contact for this position is Janki Raval .

Would you like to become part of this highly innovative, dynamic, and exciting world?

We look forward to your expressive Resume.

We are looking for an experienced DevOps (Development and Operations) professional to join our growing organization. In this position, you will be responsible for finding and reporting bugs in web and mobile apps & assist Sr DevOps to manage infrastructure projects and processes. Keen attention to detail, problem-solving abilities, and a solid knowledge base are essential.

As a DevOps, you will work in a Kubernetes based microservices environment. 

Experience in Microsoft Azure cloud and Kubernetes is preferred, not mandatory.

Ultimately, you will ensure that our products, applications and systems work correctly.  

Responsibilities:

• Detect and track software defects and inconsistencies
• Apply quality engineering principals throughout the Agile product lifecycle
• Handle code deployments in all environments
• Monitor metrics and develop ways to improve
• Consult with peers for feedback during testing stages
• Build, maintain, and monitor configuration standards
• Maintain day-to-day management and administration of projects
• Manage CI and CD tools with team
• Follow all best practices and procedures as established by the company
• Provide support and documentation  

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Minimum 2+ years if DevOps
• Have experience in SaaS infrastructure development and Web Apps
• Experience in delivering microservices at scale; designing microservices solutions
• Proven Cloud experience/delivery of applications on Azure
• Proficient in configuration Management tools such as Ansible or any of Terraform Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc
• Hands-on experience in Networking/network configuration, Application performance monitoring, Container performance, and security.
• Understanding of Kubernetes, Python along with scripting languages like bash/shell
• Good to have experience in Linux internals, Linux packaging, Release Engineering (Branching, versioning, tagging), Artifact repository, Artifactory, Nexus, and CI/CD tooling (Concourse CI, Travis, Jenkins)
• Must be a proactive person  
• You love collaborative environments that use agile methodologies to encourage creative design thinking and find innovative ways to develop with cutting edge technologies
• An ambitious individual who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals and with a creative approach to work.
• An intuitive individual with an ability to manage change and proven time management
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

You will work on: 

Your primary work involves developing and maintaining tools for build, release, deployment, monitoring and operations both on cloud as well as on-premises infrastructure. You are required to work closely with Developers and Cloud Architects and own infrastructure automation, CI/CD processes and support operations. 

 
What you will do (Responsibilities):

•  Day-to-day operational support of CI/CD infrastructure relied upon by teams deploying software to the cloud  or on-premise
•  Write Code to develop deployment of various services to private or public cloud/on-premise environments. 
•  Participate in cloud projects to implement new technology solutions, Proof of concepts to improve cloud technology offerings.               
• Work with developers to deploy to private or public cloud/on-premise services, debug and resolve issues. 
• On call responsibilities to respond to emergency situations and scheduled maintenance. 
• Contribute to and maintain documentation for systems, processes, procedures and infrastructure configuration 

What you bring (Skills):
 

•  Strong Linux System skills 
  • Scripting in bash, python 
  • Basic file handling & networking 
• Comfortable in Git repositories specifically on GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Gerrit 
• Comfortable in interfacing with SQL and No-SQL databases like MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis 

Great if you know (Skills):

• Understanding various build and CI/CD systems – Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Spinnaker or Cloud based build systems 
• Exposure to deploying and automating on any public cloud – GCP, Azure or AWS 
• Private cloud experience – VMWare or OpenStack 
• Big DataOps experience – managing infrastructure and processes for Apache Airflow, Beam, Hadoop clusters 
• Containerized applications – Docker based image builds and maintainenace. 
• Kubernetes applications – deploy and develop operators, helm charts, manifests among other artifacts. 

Advantage Cognologix:

•  Higher degree of autonomy, startup culture & small teams 
•  Opportunities to become expert in emerging technologies 
•  Remote working options for the right maturity level 
•  Competitive salary & family benefits 
•  Performance based career advancement 

About Cognologix: 

Cognologix helps companies disrupt by reimagining their business models and innovate like a Startup. We are at the forefront of digital disruption and take a business first approach to help meet our client’s strategic goals.

We are DevOps focused organization helping our clients focus on their core product activities by handling all aspects of their infrastructure, integration and delivery.

Benefits Working With Us:

• Health & Wellbeing
• Learn & Grow
• Evangelize 
• Celebrate Achievements
• Financial Wellbeing
• Medical and Accidental cover.
• Flexible Working Hours.
• Sports Club & much more.