Senior DevOps Engineer -I

Role: DevOps engineer

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will work closely with our client’s team to establish DevOps practice. 

Your role will include establishing configuration management, automating the infrastructure, implementing continuous integration, and training the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.

You will be part of a continually growing team. You will have the chance to be creative and think of new ideas. You might also get the opportunity to work on some open-source projects, ranging from small to large.

Required Skills & Experience

• Degree in IT/Software Engineering or similar, or equivalent practical experience
• 1yr+ experience in DevOps supporting cloud environments, specifically in AWS or GCP
• 1yr+ experience with automation tools and performing refactorisation
• Excellent technical problem-solving skills which you can quickly draw on in unfamiliar situations
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and get things done in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to take instructions and constructive guidance
• Exposure to Agile/DevOps principles and CI/CD tools
• Good written skills and demonstrated experience in documentation of work
• Excellent collaboration skills with a positive and helpful attitude towards your coworkers
• Good capabilities in source control technologies such as Git
• Good capabilities with Python/Bash/PowerShell
• Familiarity with multiple operating systems, particularly Linux

Desired

• AWS certification or similar Cloud certification and working cloud support experience
• Experience with Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Terraform
• Experience with CDN tools
• Experience with using cloud security tools
• Experience with multiple public cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Experience with SQL / MongoDB / PostgreSQL / GraphQL
• Experience with Content Mgmt tools and Front End applications

What you’ll be doing – your role

Key Responsibilities

1. To support the DevOps process for web-based products hosted on cloud infrastructure, specifically:

• To respond and complete tickets, meet SLAs, and manage Reporter expectations.
• To collaborate with assigned tribe change streams to deliver project/change objectives:

a. Understand requirements, and support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.

b. Build software and systems to manage infrastructure and applications through automation deployment.

c. Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve performance, reliability, scalability, security, and velocity.

• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
• To monitor and respond to alerts, issues, and incidents about cloud infrastructure (and corporate infrastructure as required).
• Practice sustainable incident response and provide appropriate communications and blameless post-mortems.

2. To drive DevOps process and Cloud infrastructure improvements as part of service and security improvement roadmap, specifically:

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• To support training and learning by sharing knowledge with the Tech team and taking responsibility for own professional development.
• Explore and evaluate new technologies and solutions to push our capabilities forward.
• To articulate and escalate risks and issues, provide recommended solutions to problems, and implement them.
• Document procedures, configuration changes, and guidelines.

3. To maintain cloud infrastructure and networking as per Cloud policy, standards, and governance requirements.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time without notice.

After-hours support, as agreed, for eg, on-call support, releases that need to be done out of business hours due to potential risk of disruption to the business, incidents work that needs to be resolved as a priority.

Responsibilities

 Provisioning and de-provisioning AWS accounts for internal customers

 Work alongside systems and development teams to support the transition and operation of client websites/applications in and out of AWS.

 Deploying, managing, and operating AWS environments

 Identifying appropriate use of AWS operational best practices

 Estimating AWS costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms

 Keep technical documentation up to date

 Proactively keep up to date on AWS services and developments

 Create (where appropriate) automation, in order to streamline provisioning and de-provisioning processes

 Lead certain data/service migration projects

Job Requirements

 Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS

 Experience with Azure/AWS.

 Capabilities to provide AWS operations and deployment guidance and best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project

 Experience with application/data migration to/from AWS

 Experience with NGINX and the HTTP protocol.

 Experience with configuration and management software such as GIT  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

 Deployment experience using common AWS technologies like VPC, and regionally distributed EC2 instances, Docker, and more.

 Ability to work in a collaborative environment

 Detail-oriented, strong work ethic and high standard of excellence

 A fast learner, the Achiever, sets high personal goals

 Must be able to work on multiple projects and consistently meet project deadlines

• Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform.
• The devops engineer  needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests.
• Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure. 
• To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms.
• VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed.
• Good hands on experience of Networking on Cloud is required.
• Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services.
• Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking(load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential. 
• Requirement is  to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue-green/canary deployment models etc).
• The experience in AWS is desirable 
• Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory
• Know-how on the use of GitHub

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.

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

What you need to have:

Below is the Job Description for the position of DevOps Azure Engineer in Xceedance co.

Qualifications BE/ B.Tech/ MCA in computer science

Key Requirement for the Position Develop Azure application design and connectivity patterns, Azure networking topologies, and Azure storage facilities.
• Run code conformance tools as part of releases.
• Design Azure app service web app by using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and other tools.
• Implement containerized solution using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Automating the build and deployment process through Azure DevOps approach and tools from development to production
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Script and update build and deployments.
• Coordinate environment usage and alignment.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated deployments code for development, test, staging and production environments.
• Configure the application and container platform with proactive monitoring tools and trigger alerts through communication channels
• Develop infrastructure and platform code
• Effectively contribute to building the overall knowledge and expertise of the technical team
• Provide Level 2/3 technical support
Location Noida or Gurgaon

We are hiring candidates who are looking to work in a cloud environment and ready to learn and adapt to the evolving technologies.

Linux Administrator Roles &  Responsibilities:

• 5+ or more years of professional experience with strong working expertise in Agile environments
• Deep knowledge in managing Linux servers.
• Managing Windows servers(Not Mandatory).
• Manage Web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Manage Application servers.
• Strong background & experience in any one scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Manage firewall rules.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL.
• Ready to learn and adapt to business requirements.
• Manage information security controls with best practises and processes.
• Support business requirements beyond working hours.
• Ensuring highest uptimes of the services.
• Monitoring resource usages.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• Knowledge in managing databases such as My SQL, MS SQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and cloud services like AWS, Azure is a plus. Candidates willing to learn will be preferred.
• Experience in managing web applications.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• 5+ years experience in the IT industry.