Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Position - SRE developer / DevOps Engineer

Location - Mumbai

Experience- 3- 10 years

About HaystackAnalytics:

HaystackAnalytics is a company working in deep technology of genomics, computing and data science for creating the first of its kind clinical reporting engine in Healthcare. We are a new but well funded company with a tremendous amount of pedigree in the team (IIT Founders, IIT & IIM core team). Some of the technologies we have created are a global first in infectious disease and chronic diagnostics. As a product company creating a huge amount of IP, our Technology and R&D team are our crown jewels. With early success of our products in India, we are now expanding to take our products to international shores. 

Inviting Passionate Engineers to join a new age enterprise:  

At HaystackAnalytics, we rely on our dynamic team of engineers to solve the many challenges and puzzles that come with our rapidly evolving stack that deals with Healthcare and Genomics.

We’re looking for full stack engineers who are passionate problem solvers, ready to work with new technologies and architectures in a forward-thinking organization that’s always pushing boundaries. Here, you will take complete, end-to-end ownership of projects across the entire stack. 

Our ideal candidate has experience building enterprise products and has understanding and experience of working with new age front end technologies, web frameworks, APIs, databases, distributed computing,back end languages, caching, security, message based architectures et al.

You’ll be joining a small team working at the forefront of new technology, solving the challenges that impact both the front end and back end architecture, and ultimately, delivering amazing global user experiences.

Objectives of this Role:

• Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences and measurable business growth
• Ideate and develop new product features in collaboration with domain experts in healthcare and genomics 
• Develop state of the art enterprise standard front-end and backend services
• Develop cloud platform services based on container orchestration platform 
• Continuously embrace automation for repetitive tasks
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality by using clean coding principles and solid design patterns 
• Build robust tech modules that are Unit Testable, Automating recurring tasks and processes  
• Engage effectively with team members and collaborate to upskill and unblock each other

Frontend Skills 

• HTML 5  
• CSS framework ( LESS/ SASS ) 
• Es6 / Typescript 
• Electron app / TAURI
• Component library ( Webcomponents / radix / material ) 
• CSS ( tailwind) 
• State management --> Redux / Zustand / Recoil 
• Build tools - > (webpack/vite/Parcel/turborepo)
• Frameworks -- > Next JS / 
• Design patterns 
• Test Automation Frameworks (cypress playwright etc )
• Functional Programming concepts  
• Scripting ( bash , python )

Backend Skills 

1. Node / Deno / bun - Express / NEST JS 
2. Language : Typescript / Python / Rust / 
3. REST / GRAPHQL 
4. SOLID Design Principles
5. Storage (mongodb/ Object Storage / postgres ) 
6. Caching ( Redis / In memory Data grid )
7. Pub sub (KAFKA / SQS / SNS / Event bridge / RabbitMQ) 
8. Container Technology ( Docker / Kubernetes )  
9. Cloud ( azure , aws , openshift ) 
10. GITOPS 
11. Automation ( terraform , Serverless ) 

Other Skills 

• Innovation and thought leadership
• UI - UX design skills  
• Interest in learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies to grow
• Communication 

Job Summary:

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Engineer who will be responsible for the deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting of various infrastructure and application environments. The candidate must have a proficient understanding of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and cloud services, with experience in AWS services like EKS, EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment. The DevOps Engineer will be responsible for monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, security, user management, reporting, migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and infrastructure restoration, among other tasks. They will also work with application teams on infrastructure design and issues, and architect solutions to optimally meet business needs.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, configure, and troubleshoot various infrastructure and application environments
• Work with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc., in a highly available and scalable production environment
• Monitor, automate, troubleshoot, secure, maintain users, and report on infrastructure and applications
• Collaborate with application teams on infrastructure design and issues
• Architect solutions that optimally meet business needs
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes
• Disaster recovery and infrastructure restoration
• Restore/Recovery operations from backups
• Automate routine tasks
• Execute company initiatives in the infrastructure space
• Expertise with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana , Loki

Qualifications:

• Proficient understanding of CI/CD pipelines, container orchestration, and various cloud services
• Experience with AWS services like EC2, ECS, EBS, ELB, S3, Route 53, RDS, ALB, etc.
• Experience in monitoring, automation, troubleshooting, security, user management, reporting, migrations, upgrades, disaster recovery, and infrastructure restoration
• Experience in architecting solutions that optimally meet business needs
• Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Shell, Python) and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Strong understanding of system concepts like high availability, scalability, and redundancy
• Ability to work with application teams on infrastructure design and issues
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Experience with automation of routine tasks
• Good communication and interpersonal skills

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 5 to 10 years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a related role
• Experience with observability tools like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana

Working Conditions:

The DevOps Engineer will work in a fast-paced environment, collaborating with various application teams, stakeholders, and management. They will work both independently and in teams, and they may need to work extended hours or be on call to handle infrastructure emergencies.

Note: This is a remote role. The team member is expected to be in the Bangalore office for one week each quarter.

Requirements:

• Previously help a DevOps Engineer or System Engineer role

• 4+ years of production Linux system admin experience in high traffic environment

• 1+ years of experience with Amazon AWS and related services (instances, ELB,

   EBS, S3, etc.) and abstractions on top of AWS.

• Strong understanding of network fundamentals, IP and related services (DNS, VPN, firewalls, etc.) and    

   security concerns.

• Experience in running Docker and Kubernetes clusters in production.

• Love automating mundane tasks and make developers life easy

• Must be able to code in, at a minimum, Python (or Ruby) and Bash.

• Non-trivial production experience with Saltstack and/or Puppet, Composer,Jenkins, GIT

• Agile software development best practices - continuous integration, releases,branches, etc.

• Experience with modern monitoring tools; capacity planning.

• Some experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Node.js, and PHP is a plus.

• Self-motivated, fast learner, detail-oriented, team player with a sense of humor

Experience in managing CI/CD using Jenkins.

Role – Sr. Devops Engineer

Location - Bangalore

Experience 5+ Years

Responsibilities

• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Incidence management and root cause analysis.
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members 
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs

Requirements

• 5-6 years of relevant experience in a Devops role.
• Good knowledge in cloud technologies such as AWS/Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes experience (Mandatory) and good knowledge in Docker.
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins.
• Good knowledge in complex Debugging mechanisms (especially JVM) and Java programming experience (Mandatory)
• Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• A team player with excellent communication skills.

What we look for:

As a DevOps Developer, you will contribute to a thriving and growing AIGovernance Engineering team. You will work in a Kubernetes-based microservices environment to support our bleeding-edge cloud services. This will include custom solutions, as well as open source DevOps tools (build and deploy automation, monitoring and data gathering for our software delivery pipeline). You will also be contributing to our continuous improvement and continuous delivery while increasing maturity of DevOps and agile adoption practices.

Responsibilities:

• Ability to deploy software using orchestrators /scripts/Automation on Hybrid and Public clouds like AWS
• Ability to write shell/python/ or any unix scripts
• Working Knowledge on Docker & Kubernetes
• Ability to create pipelines using Jenkins or any CI/CD tool and GitOps tool like ArgoCD
• Working knowledge of Git as a source control system and defect tracking system
• Ability to debug and troubleshoot deployment issues
• Ability to use tools for faster resolution of issues
• Excellent communication and soft skills
• Passionate and ability work and deliver in a multi-team environment
• Good team player
• Flexible and quick learner
• Ability to write docker files, Kubernetes yaml files / Helm charts
• Experience with monitoring tools like Nagios, Prometheus and visualisation tools such as Grafana.
• Ability to write Ansible, terraform scripts
• Linux System experience and Administration
• Effective cross-functional leadership skills: working with engineering and operational teams to ensure systems are secure, scalable, and reliable.
• Ability to review deployment and operational environments, i.e., execute initiatives to reduce failure, troubleshoot issues across the entire infrastructure stack, expand monitoring capabilities, and manage technical operations.

• 3 - 6 years of software development, and operations experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications at scale.
• Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
• Experience managing any distributed NoSQL system (Kafka/Cassandra/etc.)
• Experience with Containers, Microservices, deployment and service orchestration using Kubernetes, EKS (preferred), AKS or GKE.
• Strong scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell
• Experience and a deep understanding of Kubernetes.
• Experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Work collaboratively with software engineers to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
• Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure
• 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

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for design, implementation, and continuous improvement on automated CI/CD infrastructure
• Displays technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions
• Responsible for designing topology to meet requirements for uptime, availability, scalability, robustness, fault tolerance & security
• Implement proactive measures for automated detection and resolution of recurring operational issues
• Lead operational support team manage incidents, document root cause and tracking preventive measures
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously validating/fixing vulnerability assessment reports and risk management
• Responsible for the design and development of tools, installation procedures
• Develops and maintains accurate estimates, timelines, project plans, and status reports
• Organize and maintain packaging and deployment of various internal modules and third-party vendor libraries
• Responsible for the employment, timely performance evaluation, counselling, employee development, and discipline of assigned employees.
• Participates in calls and meetings with customers, vendors, and internal teams on regular basis.
• Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience with good technical knowledge regarding build, release, and systems engineering

Technical Skills:

• Experience with DevOps toolchains such as Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes, Bitbucket
• Experience with Apache, Nginx, Tomcat, Prometheus ,Grafana
• Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies preferably AWS technologies
• Linux, Windows, Scripting, Configuration Management, Build and Release Engineering
• 6 years of experience in DevOps practices, with a good understanding of DevOps and Agile principles
• Good scripting skills (Python/Perl/Ruby/Bash)
• Experience with standard continuous integration tools Jenkins/Bitbucket Pipelines
• Work on software configuration management systems (Puppet/Chef/Salt/Ansible)
• Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Outlook) and other business productivity tools
• Working knowledge on HSM and PKI (Good to have)

Location:

• Bangalore

Experience:

• 10 + Years.

This company is 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 very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate every month.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.
• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.
• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.
• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred
• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as SRE automation engineer building, running, and maintaining production sites. Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy..

Location:

• Remotely, anywhere in India

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 Hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts which will rotate 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 dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.