Senior DevOps Engineer

(Candidates from Service based Companies apply-Looking for automation(shell or python scripting))

SHIFT- Shift time either US East coast or west coast (2:30 PM to 10:30 PM India time or 5 to 2 am india time)

Exp- 5 to 8 years

Salary- Upto 25 LPA

Hyderabad based candidates preferred!

Immediate joiners would be preferred!!

Role Objective:

• Ability to identify processes where efficiency could be improved via automation
• Ability to research, prototype, iterate and test automation solutions
• Good Technical understanding of Cloud service offering, with a sound appreciation of the associated business processes.
• Ability to build & maintain a strong working relationship with other Technical teams using the agile methodology (internal and external), Infrastructure Partners and Service Engagement Managers.
• Ability to shape and co-ordinate delivery of key initiatives to deliver improvements in stability
• Good understanding of the cost of the e2e service provision, and delivery of associated savings.
• Knowledge of web security principals
• Strong Linux experience – comfortable working from command line
• Some networking knowledge (routing, DNS)
• Knowledge of HA and DR concepts and experience implementing them
• Working with team to analyse and design infrastructure with 99.99% up-time.

Qualifications:

• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (Eg Python, Ruby, PowerShell, Java, shell) or previous software development experience
• Experience in building and managing production cloud environments from the ground up.
• Hands-on, working experience with primary AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, Route53, S3)
• Knowledge on repository management (GitHub, SVN)
• Solid understanding of web application architecture and RDBMS (SQL Server preferred).
• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements is a bonus. (Eg Security, Privacy, HIPAA, SOX, etc)
• Strong logical, analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent communication skills.
• Should have degree in computer science, MIS, engineering or equivalent with 5+ years of experience.
• Should be willing to work in rotational shifts (including the nights)

Perks and benefits:

• Health & Wellness
• Paid time off
• Learning at work
• Fun at work
• Night shift allowance
• Comp off
• Pick and drop facility available to certain distance

About us:

HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.

We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.

To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/

Responsibilities:

• Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
• Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Patch production systems to fix security/performance issues
• Actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers or the support team
• Mentor other Infrastructure engineers, review their work and continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Participate in infrastructure security audits

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 2 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS fundamentals.
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
• Proficient in writing automation scripts using any scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Bash etc.,
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
• Bonus points – if you have experience with Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Mongo systems in production.

As a DevOps Engineer, you are responsible for setting up and maintaining the GIT repository, DevOps tools like Jenkins, UCD, Docker, Kubernetes, Jfrog Artifactory, Cloud monitoring tools, and Cloud security.

• Set up, configure, and maintain GIT repos, Jenkins, UCD, etc. for multi-hosting cloud environments.
• Architect and maintain the server infrastructure in AWS. Build highly resilient infrastructure following industry best practices.
• Work on Docker images and maintain Kubernetes clusters.
• Develop and maintain the automation scripts using Ansible or other available tools.
• Maintain and monitor cloud Kubernetes Clusters and patching when necessary.
• Work on Cloud security tools to keep applications secured.
• Participate in software development lifecycle, specifically infra design, execution, and debugging required to achieve a successful implementation of integrated solutions within the portfolio.
• Have the necessary technical and professional expertise.

• Minimum 5-12 years of experience in the IT industry.
• Expertise in implementing and managing DevOps CI/CD pipeline.
• Experience in DevOps automation tools. Well versed with DevOps Frameworks, and Agile.
• Working knowledge of scripting using Shell, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or chef.
• Experience and good understanding of any Cloud like AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes is required.
• Proficient in troubleshooting skills with proven abilities in resolving complex technical issues.
• Experience working with ticketing tools.
• Middleware technologies knowledge or database knowledge is desirable.
• Experience with Jira is a plus.

A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment that will enable you to juggle between concepts, yet maintain the quality of content, interact, and share your ideas and have loads of learning while at work. Work with a team of highly talented young professionals and enjoy the benefits of being here.

It  is a rapidly growing fintech SaaS firm that propels business growth while focusing on human motivation. Backed by Giift and Apis Partners Growth Fund II,offers a suite of three products - Plum, Empuls, and Compass. Works with more than 2000 clients across 10+ countries and over 2.5 million users. Headquartered in Bengaluru, It  is a 300+ strong team with four global offices in San Francisco, Dublin, Singapore, New Delhi.

We look forward to connecting with you. As you may take time to review this opportunity, we will wait for a reasonable time of around 3-5 days before we screen the collected applications and start lining up job discussions with the hiring manager. We however assure you that we will attempt to maintain a reasonable time window for successfully closing this requirement. The candidates will be kept informed and updated on the feedback and application status.

Hammoq is an exponentially growing Startup in US and UK. 

Design and implement secure automation solutions for development, testing, and production environments

• Build and deploy automation, monitoring, and analysis solutions

• Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency

• Implement industry best practices for system hardening and configuration management

• Secure, scale, and manage Linux virtual environments

• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery, and security/performance monitoring

• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement

Desired Skills & Experiences

• Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• Understanding of system administration in Linux environments

• Strong knowledge of configuration management tools

• Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Travis CI, Circle CI

• Proficiency in scripting languages including Bash, Python, and JavaScript

• Strong communication and documentation skills

• An ability to drive to goals and milestones while valuing and maintaining a strong attention to detail

• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Full understanding of software development lifecycle best practices

• Self-motivated individual that possesses excellent time management and organizational skills
  
  In PM's Words 
  Bash scripting, Containerd(or docker), Linux Operating system basics, kubernetes, git, Jenkins ( or any pipeline management), GCP ( or idea on any cloud technology)
  
  Linux is major..most of the people are coming from Windows.. we need Linux.. and if windows is also there it will be added advantage
  
  There is utmost certainilty that you will be working with an amazing team...

Job Description:

Mandatory Skills:

Should have strong working experience with Cloud technologies like AWS and Azure.

Should have strong working experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and Rundeck.

Must have experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.

Must have working knowledge on tools like Terraform.

Must be good at Scripting Languages like shell scripting and python.

Should be expertise in DevOps practices and should have demonstrated the ability to apply that knowledge across diverse projects and teams.

Preferable skills:

Experience with tools like Docker, Kubernetes, Puppet, JIRA, gitlab and Jfrog.

Experience in scripting languages like groovy.

Experience with GCP

Summary & Responsibilities:

 Write build pipelines and IaaC (ARM templates, terraform or cloud formation).

 Develop ansible playbooks to install and configure various products.

 Implement Jenkins and Rundeck jobs( and pipelines).

 Must be a self-starter and be able to work well in a fast paced, dynamic environment

 Work independently and resolve issues with minimal supervision.

 Strong desire to learn new technologies and techniques

 Strong communication (written / verbal ) skills

Qualification:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

4+ years of experience in DevOps and AWS.

2+ years of experience in Python, Shell scripting and Azure.

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform