Senior DevOps Engineer

Position- Cloud and Infrastructure Automation Consultant

Location- India(Pan India)-Work from Home

The position:

This exciting role in Ashnik’s consulting team brings great opportunity to design and deploy automation solutions for Ashnik’s enterprise customers spread across SEA and India. This role takes a lead in consulting the customers for automation of cloud and datacentre based resources. You will work hands-on with your team focusing on infrastructure solutions and to automate infrastructure deployments that are secure and compliant. You will provide implementation oversight of solutions to over the challenges of technology and business.

Responsibilities:

· To lead the consultative discussions to identify challenges for the customers and suggest right fit open source tools

· Independently determine the needs of the customer and create solution frameworks

· Design and develop moderately complex software solutions to meet needs

· Use a process-driven approach in designing and developing solutions.

· To create consulting work packages, detailed SOWs and assist sales team to position them to enterprise customers

· To be responsible for implementation of automation recipes (Ansible/CHEF) and scripts (Ruby, PowerShell, Python) as part of an automated installation/deployment process

Experience and skills required :

· 8 to 10 year of experience in IT infrastructure

· Proven technical skill in designing and delivering of enterprise level solution involving integration of complex technologies

· 6+ years of experience with RHEL/windows system automation

· 4+ years of experience using Python and/or Bash scripting to solve and automate common system tasks

· Strong understanding and knowledge of networking architecture

· Experience with Sentinel Policy as Code

· Strong understanding of AWS and Azure infrastructure

· Experience deploying and utilizing automation tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Github Actions

· Experience with Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) for module & policy development

· Knowledge of cloud tools including CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Control Tower, CloudTrail and IAM is desirable

This role requires high degree of self-initiative, working with diversified teams and working with customers spread across Southeast Asia and India region. This role requires you to be pro-active in communicating with customers and internal teams about industry trends, technology development and creating thought leadership.

About Us

Ashnik is a leading enterprise open-source solutions company in Southeast Asia and India, enabling organizations to adopt open source for their digital transformation goals. Founded in 2009, it offers a full-fledged Open-Source Marketplace, Solutions, and Services – Consulting, Managed, Technical, Training. Over 200 leading enterprises so far have leveraged Ashnik’s offerings in the space of Database platforms, DevOps & Microservices, Kubernetes, Cloud, and Analytics.

As a team culture, Ashnik is a family for its team members. Each member brings in a different perspective, new ideas and diverse background. Yet we all together strive for one goal – to deliver the best solutions to our customers using open-source software. We passionately believe in the power of collaboration. Through an open platform of idea exchange, we create a vibrant environment for growth and excellence.

Package : upto 20L

Experience: 8 yrs

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 250+ employees (and increasing every day) from 34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open-minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high-performance environment.

Location: Bangalore
Department: DevOps

Job Summary:

We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Platform team and directly contribute to Continuous Delivery, and improve the state of art in CI/CD and Observability within BlueOptima.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will define and outline CI/CD related aspects and collaborate with application teams on imparting training and enforcing best practices to follow for CI/CD and also directly implement, maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders. 

Your team: The Platform team in BlueOptima works across Product lines and is responsible for providing a scalable technology platform which is used by the Product team to build their application, improve performance of it, or even improve the SDLC by improving the application delivery pipeline, etc. 

Platform team is also responsible for driving technology adoption across the product development team. The team works on components that are common across product lines like IAM (Identity & Access Management), Auto Scaling, APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and CI/CD, etc

Responsibilities and tasks: 

• Define & Outline of CI/CD and related aspects

1. Own & Improve state of build process to reduce manual intervention
2. Own & Improve state of deployment to make it 100% automated
3. Define guidelines and standards of automated testing required for a good CI/CD pipeline, ensures alignment on an ongoing basis (includes artifacts generation, promotions, etc)

• Automating Deployment and Roll back into Production Environment.
• Collaborate with engineering teams, application developers, management and infrastructure teams to assess near- and long-term monitoring needs and provide them with Tooling to improve observability of application in production.
• Keep an eye on the emerging observability tools, trends and methodologies, and continuously enhance our existing systems and processes.
• Ability to choose the right set of tools for a given problem and apply that to all the applications which are available 
• Collaborate with the application team for following 

1. Define and enforce logging standard
2. Define metrics applications should track and provide support to application teams visualise same on Grafana (or similar tools)
3. Define alerts for application health monitoring in Production
4. Tooling like APM, E2E, etc
5. Continuously improve the state of the art on above

• Assist in scheduling and hosting regular tool training sessions to better enable tool adoption and best practices, also making sure training materials are maintained. 

Qualifications

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:  

• Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Demonstrable years of experience with implementation, operations, maintenance of IT systems and/or administration of software functions in multi-platform and multi-system environments.
• At least 1 year of experience leading or mentoring a small team.
• Demonstrable experience having developed containerized application components, using docker or similar solutions in previous roles
• Have extensive experience with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis and visualization tools.
• Experience in defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards
• 2+ Years of Experience with CI tools and building pipelines using Jenkins.
• 2 + Years of Experience with monitoring and observability tools and methodology of products such as;  Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch, Splunk, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, Nagios, Graphite ,Datadog etc.
• Ability to write and read simple scripts using Python / Shell Scripts.
• Familiarity with configuration languages such as Ansible.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skill

Additional information

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth: 

• Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset.
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success.
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high-performance environment.
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits: 

• 32 days of holidays - this includes public and religious holidays
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company
• Gratuity payments
• Claim Mobile/Internet expenses and Professional Development costs
• Leave Travel Allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• International travel opportunities
• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India  Thailand, Oct 2022. 
• High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32’ screens)
• Pet friendly offices
• Creche Policy for working parents.
• Paternity and Maternity leave. 

Stay connected with us on https://www.linkedin.com/company/blueoptima">LinkedIn or keep an eye on our https://www.blueoptima.com/careers">career page for future opportunities!