Senior DevOps Front-End Developer

Requirements:

• Overall 7 years of experience

• Strong knowledge of ASP.NET Web Forms, Windows services, C# and SQL Server 2008.

• Hands-on experience on Azure DevOps, CICD Pipeline and working with DevOps based deployments.

• Very strong fundamentals on .Net Framework 4.x and above Strong understanding and application in C#

and .Net enterprise patterns and usage of Microsoft Enterprise Library

• Experience on WebAPI, WCF, Microsoft reporting tool (RDL) SSRS

• Basic knowledge of HTML, CSS3

• Good understanding of IIS configuration

• Good expertise in SQL design (normalization, index design, data modeling) and programming (stored

procs, functions), with development

• Good debugging/troubleshooting skill on both front end and back end

• Experience of writing & optimizing queries that access/process millions of records

• Good communication skills – verbal/written

• Designing and implementing DevSecOps tests: SAST, DAST

• Supporting DevOps operations by integrating developed SAST and DAST tests into CI/CD pipeline builds

• Creating and managing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

• Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment with Security mindset and focus.

• Leveraging DevSecOps principles, designs and implementing Security solutions based on these

• Performing DevSecOps maturity assessments

• Working as security champion for application development teams.

• Nice to Have

• Exposure to Agile methodology

• Exposure to Banking domain

• Exposure to Build and Release/Deployment

• Minimum 3+ yrs of Experience in DevOps with AWS Platform
•     • Strong AWS knowledge and experience
•     • Experience in using CI/CD automation tools (Git, Jenkins, Configuration deployment tools ( Puppet/Chef/Ansible)
•     • Experience with IAC tools  Terraform
•     • Excellent experience in operating a container orchestration cluster (Kubernetes, Docker)
•     • Significant experience with Linux operating system environments
•     • Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Python/Shell scripting
•     • Must have experience in designing Infrastructure automation framework.
•     • Good experience in any of the Setting up Monitoring tools and Dashboards ( Grafana/kafka)
•     • Excellent problem-solving, Log Analysis and troubleshooting skills
•     • Experience in setting up centralized logging for system (EKS, EC2) and application
•     • Process-oriented with great documentation skills
•     • Ability to work effectively within a team and with minimal supervision

Location: Remote (India only)

About Certa At Certa, we’re revolutionizing process automation for top-tier companies, including Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 leaders, from the heart of Silicon Valley. Our mission? Simplifying complexity through cutting-edge SaaS solutions. Join our thriving, global team and become a key player in a startup environment that champions innovation, continuous learning, and unlimited growth. We offer a fully remote, flexible workspace that empowers you to excel.

Role Overview

Ready to elevate your DevOps career by shaping the backbone of a fast-growing SaaS platform? As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Certa, you’ll lead the charge in building, automating, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure. Beyond infrastructure management, you’ll actively contribute with a product-focused mindset, understanding customer requirements, collaborating closely with product and engineering teams, and ensuring our AWS-based platform consistently meets user needs and business goals.

What You’ll Do

• Own SaaS Infrastructure: Design, architect, and maintain robust, scalable AWS infrastructure, enhancing platform stability, security, and performance.
• Orchestrate with Kubernetes: Utilize your advanced Kubernetes expertise to manage and scale containerized deployments efficiently and reliably.
• Collaborate on Enterprise Architecture: Align infrastructure strategies with enterprise architectural standards, partnering closely with architects to build integrated solutions.
• Drive Observability: Implement and evolve sophisticated monitoring and observability solutions (DataDog, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch) to proactively detect, troubleshoot, and resolve system anomalies.
• Lead Automation Initiatives: Champion an automation-first mindset across the organization, streamlining development, deployment, and operational workflows.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Master Terraform to build repeatable, maintainable cloud infrastructure automation.
• Optimize CI/CD Pipelines: Refine and manage continuous integration and deployment processes (currently GitHub Actions, transitioning to CircleCI), enhancing efficiency and reliability.
• Enable GitOps with ArgoCD: Deliver seamless GitOps-driven application deployments, ensuring accuracy and consistency in Kubernetes environments.
• Advocate for Best Practices: Continuously promote and enforce industry-standard DevOps practices, ensuring consistent, secure, and efficient operational outcomes.
• Innovate and Improve: Constantly evaluate and enhance current DevOps processes, tooling, and methodologies to maintain cutting-edge efficiency.
• Product Mindset: Actively engage with product and engineering teams, bringing infrastructure expertise to product discussions, understanding customer needs, and helping prioritize infrastructure improvements that directly benefit users and business objectives.

What You Bring

1. Hands-On Experience: 3-5 years in DevOps roles, ideally within fast-paced SaaS environments.
2. Kubernetes Mastery: Advanced knowledge and practical experience managing Kubernetes clusters and container orchestration.
3. AWS Excellence: Comprehensive expertise across AWS services, infrastructure management, and security.
4. IaC Competence: Demonstrated skill in Terraform for infrastructure automation and management.
5. CI/CD Acumen: Proven proficiency managing pipelines with GitHub Actions; familiarity with CircleCI highly advantageous.
6. GitOps Knowledge: Experience with ArgoCD for effective continuous deployment and operations.
7. Observability Skills: Strong capabilities deploying and managing monitoring solutions such as DataDog, ELK, and AWS CloudWatch.
8. Python Automation: Solid scripting and automation skills using Python.
9. Architectural Awareness: Understanding of enterprise architecture frameworks and alignment practices.
10. Proactive Problem-Solving: Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, adept at swiftly addressing complex technical challenges.
11. Effective Communication: Strong interpersonal and collaborative skills, essential for remote, distributed teamwork.
12. Product Focus: Ability and willingness to understand customer requirements, prioritize tasks that enhance product value, and proactively suggest infrastructure improvements driven by user needs.
13. Startup Mindset (Bonus): Prior experience or enthusiasm for dynamic startup cultures is a distinct advantage.

Why Join Us

• Compensation: Top-tier salary and exceptional benefits.
• Work-Life Flexibility: Fully remote, flexible scheduling.
• Growth Opportunities: Accelerate your career in a company poised for significant growth.
• Innovative Culture: Engineering-centric, innovation-driven work environment.
• Team Events: Annual offsites and quarterly Hackerhouse.
• Wellness & Family: Comprehensive healthcare and parental leave.
• Workspace: Premium workstation setup allowance, providing the tech you need to succeed.

Role & Responsiblities

• DevOps Engineer will be working with implementation and management of DevOps tools and technologies.
• Create and support advanced pipelines using Gitlab.
• Create and support advanced container and serverless environments.
• Deploy Cloud infrastructure using Terraform and cloud formation templates.
• Implement deployments to OpenShift Container Platform, Amazon ECS and EKS
• Troubleshoot containerized builds and deployments
• Implement processes and automations for migrating between OpenShift, AKS and EKS
• Implement CI/CD automations.
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Required Skillsets

• 3-5 years of cloud-based architecture software engineering experience.
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes and its architecture.
• Mastery of cloud security engineering tools, techniques, and procedures.
• Experience with AWS services such as Amazon S3, EKS, ECS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, API Gateway, etc.
• Experience with designing and supporting infrastructure via Infrastructure-as-Code in AWS, via CDK, CloudFormation Templates, Terraform or other toolset.
• Experienced with tools like Jenkins, Github, Puppet or other similar toolset.
• Experienced with monitoring functions like cloudwatch, newrelic, graphana, splunk, etc,
• Excellence in verbal and written communication, and in working collaboratively with a variety of colleagues and clients in a remote development environment.
• Proven track record in cloud computing systems and enterprise architecture and security

• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning of AWS services like EC2, S3,EBS, AMI, VPC, ELB, RDS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Formation.
• Good experience on Build and release process and extensively involved in the CICD using

Jenkins

• Experienced on configuration management tools like Ansible.
• Designing, implementing and supporting fully automated Jenkins CI/CD
• Extensively worked on Jenkins for continuous Integration and for end to end Automation for all Builds and Deployments.
• Proficient with Docker based container deployments to create shelf environments for dev teams and containerization of environment delivery for releases.
• Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Good knowledge in version control system in Git and GitHub.
• Good experience in build tools
• Implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes ,YAML and Manifest

• Develop and Maintain IAC using Terraform and Ansible
• Draft design documents that translate requirements into code.
• Deal with challenges associated with scale.
• Assume responsibilities from technical design through technical client support.
• Manage expectations with internal stakeholders and context-switch in a fast paced environment.
• Thrive in an environment that uses Elasticsearch extensively.
• Keep abreast of technology and contribute to the engineering strategy.
• Champion best development practices and provide mentorship

• Terraform o Ansible
• *nix and shell scripting
• Elasticsearch
• Circle CI
• CloudFormation
• Python
• Packer
• Docker
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Challenges of scale
• Production support
• Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong sense of ownership.
• Demonstrable desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Mature collaboration and mentoring abilities.

We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.

moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).

This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.

Website: https://moneyhop.co/">https://moneyhop.co/

About Individual

Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.

The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.

Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.

General Skills

• 3-4 years of experience in DevOps.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Good time management and organizational skills.
• Dependability
• Accountability and Ownership
• Right attitude and growth mindset
• Trust-worthiness
• Ability to embrace new technologies
• Ability to get work done
• Should have excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Technical Skills

• Work with developer teams with a focus on automating build and deployment using tools such as Jenkins.
• Implement CI/CD in projects (GitLabCI preferred).
• Enable software build and deploy.
• Provisioning both day to day operations and automation using tools, e. g. Ansible, Bash.
• Write, plan, create infra as a code using Terraform.
• Monitoring, ITSM automation incident creation from alerts using licensed and open source tools.
• Manage credentials for AWS cloud servers, github repos, Atlassian Cloud services, Jenkins, OpenVPN, and the developers environment.
• Building environments for unit tests, integration tests, system tests, and acceptance tests using Jenkins.
• Create and spin off resource instances.
• Experience implementing CI/CD.
• Experience with infrastructure automation solutions (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc. ).
• Experience with AWS.
• Should have expert Linux and Network administration skills to troubleshoot and trace symptoms back to the root cause.
• Knowledge of application clustering / load balancing concepts and technologies.
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about developing solution strategies, and deliver results.
• Good understanding of design of native Cloud applications Cloud application design patterns and practices in AWS.

• Work with the developer team to enhance the existing CI/CD pipeline.
• Adopt industry best practices to set up a UAT and prod environment for scalability.
• Manage the AWS resources including IAM users, access control, billing etc.
• Work with the test automation engineer to establish a CI/CD pipeline.
• Work on replication of environments easy to implement.
• Enable efficient software deployment.