Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Purpose and Impact

The DevOps Engineer is a key position to strengthen the security automation capabilities which have been identified as a critical area for growth and specialization within Global IT’s scope. As part of the Cyber Intelligence Operation’s DevOps Team, you will be helping shape our automation efforts by building, maintaining and supporting our security infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to understand and evaluate business requirements.
• Implement modern engineering practices to ensure product quality.
• Provide designs, prototypes and implementations incorporating software engineering best practices, tools and monitoring according to industry standards.
• Write well-designed, testable and efficient code using full-stack engineering capability.
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Proficiency in at least one configuration management or orchestration tool, such as Ansible.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging services.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent exp
• Knowledge of public cloud services & application programming interfaces
• Working exp with continuous integration and delivery practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant exp whether in IT, IS, or software development
• Exp in:
•  Code repositories such as Git
• Scripting languages (Python & PowerShell)
• Using Windows, Linux, Unix, and mobile platforms within cloud services such as AWS
• Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) / platform as a service (PaaS), microservices, Docker containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins
• Databases such as Postgres, SQL, Elastic

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.

What you’ll be doing – your role

Duties and tasks are varied and complex, and may require independent judgement; you should be fully competent in your own area of expertise. Some of the responsibilities associated with the role include:

• Improve CI/CD tooling
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
• Help support daily operations through the use of automation and assist in building a DevOps culture with our engineers for a better all-around software development and deployment experience
• Develop and maintain solutions for highly resilient services and infrastructure
• Implement automation to help deploy our services and maintain their operational health
• Contribute to the understanding of how our services are being used and help plan the capacity needs for future growth

 What do we expect – experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, involving coding
• 3+ years of experience running large-scale customer-facing services
• 2-3 years of DevOps experience
• A strong desire and aptitude for system automation defines success in this role
• Linux experience, including expertise in system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting
• Experience with cloud-based providers such as AWS
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with web-based API/restful service
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code platforms (Terraform)
• Experience with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, JavaScript)
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting and documenting issues
• Experience in Docker orchestration and management
• Experience with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (mainly GitHub Actions and ArgoCD)
• Experience in implementing comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.

Responsibilities

• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Design, build and automate the AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Networking, EMR, RDS, S3, ALB, Cloud Front, etc.) using Terraform
• Manage end-to-end production workloads hosted on Docker and AWS
• Automate CI pipeline using Groovy DSL
• Deploy and configure Kubernetes clusters (EKS)
• Design and build a CI/CD Pipeline to deploy applications using Jenkins and Docker

Eligibility

• At least 8 years of proven experience in AWS-based DevOps/cloud engineering and implementations
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud services like EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Redis, etc.
• Experience in deploying and managing production environments in Amazon AWS
• Strong experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Knowledge of application build, deployment, and configuration using one of the tools: Jenkins

About the Company

• 💰 Early-stage, ed-tech, funded, growing, growing fast
• 🎯 Mission Driven: Make Indonesia competitive on a global scale
• 🥅 Build the best educational content and technology to advance STEM education
• 🥇 Students-First approach
• 🇮🇩 🇮🇳 Teams in India and Indonesia

Skillset 🧗🏼‍♀️

• You primarily identify as a DevOps/Infrastructure engineer and are comfortable working with systems and cloud-native services on AWS
• You can design, implement, and maintain secure and scalable infrastructure delivering cloud-based services
• You have experience operating and maintaining production systems in a Linux based public cloud environment
• You are familiar with cloud-native concepts - Containers, Lambdas, Orchestration (ECS, Kubernetes)
• You’re in love with system metrics and strive to help deliver improvements to systems all the time
• You can think in terms of Infrastructure as Code to build tools for automating deployment, monitoring, and operations of the platform
• You can be on-call once every few weeks to provide application support, incident management, and troubleshooting
• You’re fairly comfortable with GIT, AWS CLI, python, docker CLI, in general, all things CLI. Oh! Bash scripting too!
• You have high integrity, and you are reliable

What you can expect from us 👌🏼

☮️ Mentorship, growth, great work culture

• Mentorship and continuous improvement are a part of the team’s DNA. We have a battle-tested robust growth framework. You will have people to look up to and people looking up to you
• We are a people-first, high-trust, high-autonomy team
• We live in the TDD, Pair Programming, First Principles world

🌏 Remote done right

• Distributed does not mean working in isolation, feeling alone, being buried in Zoom calls
• Our leadership team has been WFH for 10+ years now and we know how remote teams work. This will be a place to belong
• A good balance between deep focussed work and collaborative work ⚖️

🖥️ Friendly, humane interview process

• 30-minute alignment check and screening call
• A short take-home coding assignment, no more than 2-3 hours. Time is precious
• Pair programming interview. Collaborate, work together. No sitting behind a desk and judging
• In-depth engineering discussion around your skills and career so far
• System design and architecture interview for seniors

What we ask from you👇🏼

• Bring your software engineering — both individual brilliance and collaborative skills
• Bring your good nature — we're building a team that supports each other
• Be vested or interested in the company vision

Job Dsecription:

○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture

○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards

○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution

○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity

Required Experience and Expertise

○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.

○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.

○ Hands-on experience of GCP  and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.

○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals

NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one n ‘average’ .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How we work?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

• Love for cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
• Passion for sales: When was the last time you went at a remote gas station while on vacation, and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
• Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
• Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on cloud ?

Your bucket of undertakings:

• This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other
• Be the first one to experiment on new age cloud offerings, help define the best practise as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
• Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Use your experience in Google cloud platform, AWS or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
• Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud based technology and methods.
• Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
• Define optimal design patterns and solutions for high availability and disaster recovery for applications
• Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code and other artifacts Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in AWS
• Security, Risk and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance and related areas
• Develop solutions architecture and evaluate architectural alternatives for private, public and hybrid cloud models, including IaaS, PaaS, and other cloud services
• Demonstrate leadership ability to back decisions with research and the “why,” and articulate several options, the pros and cons for each, and a recommendation • Maintain overall industry knowledge on latest trends, technology, etc. • • Contribute to DevOps development activities and complex development tasks
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on cloud end-to-end architecture, including AWS and future providers, networking, provisioning, and management

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality. Highly organised and efficient. Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Education, Experience, etc.

• To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
• 6 - 10 years of experience with at least 5 - 6 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Computing
• (AWS/GCP/Azure) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
• Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
• Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as AWS and lean development methodologies.