Senior DevOps Engineer

As a Sr. Linux engineer you would be :
● Auditing, monitoring and improving existing infrastructure components of highly available and scaled
product on cloud with Ubuntu servers
● Running daily maintenance tasks and improving it with possible automation
● Deploying new components, server and other infrastructure when needed
● Coming up with innovative ways to automate tasks
● Working with telecom carriers and getting rates and destinations and update regularly on the system
● Working with Docker containers, Tinc, Iptables, HAproxy, ETCD, mySQL, mongoDB, CouchDB and
ansible
You would be bringing below skills to our team :
● Expertise with Docker containers and its networking, Tinc, Iptables, HAproxy, ETCD, and ansible
● Extensive experience with setup, maintenance, monitoring, backup and replication with mySQL
● Expertise with the Ubuntu servers and its OS and server level networking
● Good experience of working with mongoDB, CouchDB
● Good with the networking tools
● Open Source server monitoring solutions like nagios, Zabbix etc.
● Worked on highly scaled, distributed applications running on the Datacenter Ubuntu VPS instances
● Innovative and out of box thinker with multitasking skills working in a small team efficiently
● Working Knowledge of any scripting languages like bash, node or python
● It would be an advantage if have experience with the calling platforms like FreeSWITCH, OpenSIPS or
Kamailio and have basic knowledge of SIP protocol

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

 

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

 

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities:
The DevOps Engineer's core responsibilities include automated configuration and management
of infrastructure, continuous integration and delivery of distributed systems at scale in a Hybrid
environment.

Must-Have:
● You have 4-10 years of experience in DevOps
● You have experience in managing IT infrastructure at scale
● You have experience in automation of deployment of distributed systems and in
infrastructure provisioning at scale.
● You have in-depth hands-on experience on Linux and Linux-based systems, Linux
scripting
● You have experience in Server hardware, Networking, firewalls
● You have experience in source code management, configuration management,
continuous integration, continuous testing, continuous monitoring
● You have experience with CI/CD and related tools
* You have experience with Monitoring tools like ELK, Grafana, Prometheus
● You have experience with containerization, container orchestration, management
● Have a penchant for solving complex and interesting problems.
● Worked in startup-like environments with high levels of ownership and commitment.
● BTech, MTech or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related Technical Discipline

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.

Role Purpose:

As a DevOps ,  You should be strong in both the Dev and Ops part of DevOps. We are looking for someone who has a deep understanding of systems architecture, understands core CS concepts well, and is able to reason about system behaviour rather than merely working with the toolset of the day. We believe that only such a person will be able to set a compelling direction for the team and excite those around them. 

If you are someone who fits the description above, you will find that the rewards are well worth the high bar. Being one of the early hires of the Bangalore office, you will have a significant impact on the culture and the team; you will work with a set of energetic and hungry peers who will challenge you, and you will have considerable international exposure and opportunity for impact across departments.

Responsibilities

1. Deployment, management, and administration of web services in a public cloud environment
2. Design and develop solutions for deploying highly secure, highly available, performant and scalable services in elastically provisioned environments
3. Design and develop continuous integration and continuous deployment solutions from development through production
4. Own all operational aspects of running web services including automation, monitoring and alerting, reliability and performance
5. Have direct impact on running a business by thinking about innovative solutions to operational problems
6. Drive solutions and communication for production impacting incidents
7. Running technical projects and being responsible for project-level deliveries
8. Partner well with engineering and business teams across continents

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science or closely related field
2. 4 - 6 years professional experience in DevOps, with at least 1/2 years in Linux / Unix
3. Very strong in core CS concepts around operating systems, networks, and systems architecture including web services
4. Strong scripting experience in Python and Bash
5. Deep experience administering, running and deploying AWS based services
6. Solid experience with Terraform, Packer and Docker or their equivalents
7. Knowledge of security protocols and certificate infrastructure.
8. Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills 
9. Broad experience with cloud hosted applications including virtualization platforms, relational and non relational data stores, reverse proxies, and orchestration platforms
10. Curiosity, continuous learning and drive to continually raise the bar
11. Strong partnering and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

1. Past experience as a senior developer or application architect strongly preferred.
2. Experience building continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
3. Experience with Zookeeper, Consul, HAProxy, ELK-Stack, Kafka, PostgreSQL.
4. Experience working with, and preferably designing, a system compliant to any security framework (PCI DSS, ISO 27000, HIPPA, SOC 2, ...)
5. Experience with AWS orchestration services such as ECS and EKS.
6. Experience working with AWS ML pipeline services like AWS Sagemak

Responsibilities –

• Independent contributor with Minimum 3 +Years of Experience.
• Subject Matter Expert of the Software Development Life Cycle process
• Should have strong expertise in Kubernetes
• sound knowledge on DevOps – cx
• Good knowledge of Linux
• Working knowledge of Eclipse or any relevant IDE
• Proficient with bug tracking and test management tool like JIRA to support development processes.
• Expertise in Communication skills to interact with client on daily basis.
• Research, recommend and implement tools as needed with the goal of increasing Performance.
• Proactively bringing issues and problems to the attention of the team; generating, proposing and implementing innovative solutions to solve them.
• Experience in services meshes like Linkerd or Istio is a bonus.
• Proficiency in setting up K8 clusters between datacenters. (HA, Cross Cluster, Hybrid Cloud etc)


Location : Hyderabad

Employment Type

Full-time

Job Title:	Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (AWS)
Department & Team	Technology	Location:	India /UK / Ukraine
Reporting To:	Infrastructure Services Manager

 

Role Purpose:

The purpose of the role is to ensure high systems availability across a multi-cloud environment, enabling the business to continue meeting its objectives.   This role will be mostly AWS / Linux focused but will include a requirement to understand comparative solutions in Azure.   Desire to maintain full hands-on status but to add Team Lead responsibilities in future   Client’s cloud strategy is based around a dual vendor solutioning model, utilising AWS and Azure services.  This enables us to access more technologies and helps mitigate risks across our infrastructure.   The Infrastructure Services Team is responsible for the delivery and support of all infrastructure used by Client twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.  The team’s primary function is to install, maintain, and implement all infrastructure-based systems, both On Premise and Cloud Hosted. The Infrastructure Services group already consists of three teams:   1. Network Services Team – Responsible for IP Network and its associated components 2. Platform Services Team – Responsible for Server and Storage systems 3. Database Services Team – Responsible for all Databases   This role will report directly into the Infrastructure Services Manager and will have responsibility for the day to day running of the multi-cloud environment, as well as playing a key part in designing best practise solutions. It will enable the Client business to achieve its stated objectives by playing a key role in the Infrastructure Services Team to achieve world class benchmarks of customer service and support.

Responsibilities:

Operations · Deliver end to end technical and user support across all platforms (On-premise, Azure, AWS) · Day to day, fully hands-on OS management responsibilities (Windows and Linux operating systems) · Ensure robust server patching schedules are in place and meticulously followed to help reduce security related incidents. · Contribute to continuous improvement efforts around cost optimisation, security enhancement, performance optimisation, operational efficiency and innovation. · Take an ownership role in delivering technical projects, ensuring best practise methods are followed. · Design and deliver solutions around the concept of “Planning for Failure”. Ensure all solutions are deployed to withstand system / AZ failure. · Work closely with Cloud Architects / Infrastructure Services Manager to identify and eliminate “waste” across cloud platforms. · Assist several internal DevOps teams with day to day running of pipeline management and drive standardisation where possible. · Ensure all Client data in all forms are backed up in a cost-efficient way. · Use the appropriate monitoring tools to ensure all cloud / on-premise services are continuously monitored. · Drive utilisation of most efficient methods of resource deployment (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bootstrap) · Drive the adoption, across the business, of serverless / open source / cloud native technologies where applicable. · Ensure system documentation remains up to date and designed according to AWS/Azure best practise templates. · Participate in detailed architectural discussions, calling on internal/external subject matter experts as needed, to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment. · Take part in regular discussions with business executives to translate their needs into technical and operational plans. · Engaging with vendors regularly in terms of verifying solutions and troubleshooting issues. · Designing and delivering technology workshops to other departments in the business. · Takes initiatives for improvement of service delivery. · Ensure that Client delivers a service that resonates with customer’s expectations, which sets Client apart from its competitors. · Help design necessary infrastructure and processes to support the recovery of critical technology and systems in line with contingency plans for the business. · Continually assess working practices and review these with a view to improving quality and reducing costs. · Champions the new technology case and ensure new technologies are investigated and proposals put forward regarding suitability and benefit. · Motivate and inspire the rest of the infrastructure team and undertake necessary steps to raise competence and capability as required. · Help develop a culture of ownership and quality throughout the Infrastructure Services team.

Skills & Experience:

· AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional - REQUIRED · Microsoft Azure Fundamentals AZ-900 – REQUIRED AS MINIMUM AZURE CERT · Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE ) - REQUIRED · Must be able to demonstrate working knowledge of designing, implementing and maintaining best practise AWS solutions. (To lesser extend Azure) · Proven examples of ownership of large AWS project implementations in Enterprise settings. · Experience managing the monitoring of infrastructure / applications using tools including CloudWatch, Solarwinds, New Relic, etc. · Must have practical working knowledge of driving cost optimisation, security enhancement and performance optimisation. · Solid understanding and experience of transitioning IaaS solutions to serverless technology · Must have working production knowledge of deploying infrastructure as code using Terraform. · Need to be able to demonstrate security best-practise when designing solutions in AWS. · Working knowledge around optimising network traffic performance an delivering high availability while keeping a check on costs.  · Working experience of ‘On Premise to Cloud’ migrations · Experience of Data Centre technology infrastructure development and management · Must have experience working in a DevOps environment · Good working knowledge around WAN connectivity and how this interacts with the various entry point options into AWS, Azure, etc.  · Working knowledge of Server and Storage Devices · Working knowledge of MySQL and SQL Server / Cloud native databases (RDS / Aurora) · Experience of Carrier Grade Networking - On Prem and Cloud · Experience in virtualisation technologies · Experience in ITIL and Project management · Providing senior support to the Service Delivery team. · Good understanding of new and emerging technologies · Excellent presentation skills to both an internal and external audience · The ability to share your specific expertise to the rest of the Technology group · Experience with MVNO or Network Operations background from within the Telecoms industry. (Optional) · Working knowledge of one or more European languages (Optional)

Behavioural Fit:

· Professional appearance and manner · High personal drive; results oriented; makes things happen; “can do attitude” · Can work and adapt within a highly dynamic and growing environment · Team Player; effective at building close working relationships with others · Effectively manages diversity within the workplace · Strong focus on service delivery and the needs and satisfaction of internal clients · Able to see issues from a global, regional and corporate perspective · Able to effectively plan and manage large projects · Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills at all levels · Strong analytical, presentation and training skills · Innovative and creative · Demonstrates technical leadership · Visionary and strategic view of technology enablers (creative and innovative) · High verbal and written communication ability, able to influence effectively at all levels · Possesses technical expertise and knowledge to lead by example and input into technical debates · Depth and breadth of experience in infrastructure technologies · Enterprise mentality and global mindset · Sense of humour

Role Key Performance Indicators:

· Design and deliver repeatable, best in class, cloud solutions. · Pro-actively monitor service quality and take action to scale operational services, in line with business growth. · Generate operating efficiencies, to be agreed with Infrastructure Services Manager. · Establish a “best in sector” level of operational service delivery and insight. · Help create an effective team.

• Design and develop software tools related to tracking, implementing, managing and presenting data. • Develop and maintain Cipher’s website. • Develop software tools which will automate various manual processes. • Develop and design dashboard and UI related tools. • Build, optimize, and maintain an easy-to-use, powerful web application. • Craft elegant solutions to challenging problems and actively look for ways to improve Cipher software tools and website. • Deliver reliable software through continuous integration, automated testing, and in-depth code reviews. • Work on a fast-moving team that delivers on shared commitments. • Work at all levels of the web stack. • Work closely with technical consultant, designers, other developers. • Innovate on new products and features that can reach millions of users.

We are hiring for Sr.IT Engineer Certifications : AWS Certified. Exp:3-5 years’ experience Skill Set: • Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS • Selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements • Identifying AWS operational best practices • Estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms • Should have exp in Implementing and managing IT infrastructure on AWS • Scripting knowledge (PowerShell/Python) and/or ability to automate routing operations through scripts or tool sets. • Efficient in writing AWS cloud formation scripts/templates and is a mandatory requirement. • 3+ years of hands-on exp operating AWS-based applications • Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS• Capabilities to provide AWS operations & deployment guidance and best practices • 3+ years of System Administration, Good exp in Windows&Linux admin • 2+exp with administrating Cloud environments&tuning • Strong knowledge of Linux, shell scripts, Apache, MySQL, Development Operations, Configuration management, monitoring and TCP/IP protocols • Knowledge MYSQL&MSSQL