Senior Devops Engineer

Job Title: Lead DevOps Engineer

Experience Required: 8+ years in DevOps or related fields

Employment Type: Full-time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Lead DevOps Engineer. This role will focus on driving the design, implementation, and optimization of our CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and operational processes. As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the scalability, reliability, and security of our systems while mentoring a team of DevOps engineers to achieve operational excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Infrastructure Management: Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP).

CI/CD Pipelines: Design and optimize CI/CD pipelines, to improve development velocity and deployment quality.

Automation: Automate repetitive tasks and workflows, such as provisioning cloud resources, configuring servers, managing deployments, and implementing infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible.

Monitoring & Logging: Implement robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems for enterprise and cloud-native environments using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, NewRelic or Datadog.

Security: Ensure the infrastructure adheres to security best practices, including vulnerability assessments and incident response processes.

Collaboration: Work closely with development, QA, and IT teams to align DevOps strategies with project goals.

Mentorship: Lead, mentor, and train a team of DevOps engineers to foster growth and technical expertise.

Incident Management: Oversee production system reliability, including root cause analysis and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

Technical Expertise:

Strong proficiency in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Advanced knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Expertise in IaC tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi.

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools, particularly Bitbucket Pipelines, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Github Actions or CircleCI.

Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell).

Soft Skills:

Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

Proven ability to manage and lead a team effectively.

Experience:

8+ years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

3+ years in a leadership or team lead role, with proven experience managing distributed teams, mentoring team members, and driving cross-functional collaboration.

Strong understanding of microservices, APIs, and serverless architectures.

Nice to Have:

Certifications like AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Kubernetes Administrator, or similar.

Experience with GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux.

Knowledge of compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Perks & Benefits:

Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family.

Professional development opportunities and certifications, including sponsored certifications and access to training programs to help you grow your skills and expertise.

Flexible working hours and remote work options.

Collaborative and inclusive work culture.

Join us to build and scale world-class systems that empower innovation and deliver exceptional user experiences.

GCP Cloud Engineer:

• Proficiency in infrastructure as code (Terraform).
• Scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python, Shell). Knowing python is must.
• Collaborate with teams across the company (i.e., network, security, operations) to build complete cloud offerings.
• Design Disaster Recovery and backup strategies to meet application objectives.
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools(IaS) like Terraform and Cloud Formation.
• Proficiency in cloud-native technologies and architectures (Docker/ Kubernetes), Ci/CD pipelines.
• Good experience in Javascript.
• Expertise in Linux / Windows environment.
• Good Experience in Scripting languages like PowerShell / Bash/ Python.
• Proficiency in revision control and DevOps best practices like Git

Required Skills:

• Experience in systems administration, SRE or DevOps focused role
• Experience in handling production support (on-call)
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda.
• Experience with Docker containers and containerization concepts
• Experience with managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience building scalable infrastructure in AWS with Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of Protocol-level such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, DNS, and LDAP
• Experience monitoring production systems
• Expertise in leveraging Automation / DevOps principles, experience with operational tools, and able to apply best practices for infrastructure and software deployment (Ansible).
• HAProxy, Nginx, SSH, MySQL configuration and operation experience
• Ability to work seamlessly with software developers, QA, project managers, and business development
• Ability to produce and maintain written documentation

Job Overview:

You will work in engineering and development teams to integrate and develop cloud solutions and virtualized deployment of software as a service product. This will require understanding the software system architecture function as well as performance and security requirements. The DevOps Engineer is also expected to have expertise in available cloud solutions and services, administration of virtual machine clusters, performance tuning and configuration of cloud computing resources, the configuration of security, scripting and automation of monitoring functions. This position requires the deployment and management of multiple virtual clusters and working with compliance organizations to support security audits. The design and selection of cloud computing solutions that are reliable, robust, extensible, and easy to migrate are also important.

Experience:

• Experience working on billing and budgets for a GCP project - MUST
• Experience working on optimizations on GCP based on vendor recommendations - NICE TO HAVE
• Experience in implementing the recommendations on GCP
• Architect Certifications on GCP - MUST
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal & written) - MUST
• Excellent documentation skills on processes and steps and instructions- MUST
• At least 2 years of experience on GCP.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Engineering OR Equivalent.
• Extensive scripting or programming experience (Shell Script, Python).
• Extensive experience working with CI/CD (e.g. Jenkins).
• Extensive experience working with GCP, Azure, or Cloud Foundry.
• Experience working with databases (PostgreSQL, elastic search).
• Must have 2 years of minimum experience with GCP certification.

Benefits :

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including top-up insurance for COVID).

Location :

Remote - work from anywhere.

Ideal joining preferences:
Immediate or 15 days

POSITION SUMMARY:

We are looking for a passionate, high energy individual to help build and manage the infrastructure network that powers the Product Development Labs for F5 Inc. The F5 Infra Engineer plays a critical role to our Product Development team by providing valuable services and tools for the F5 Hyderabad Product Development Lab. The Infra team supports both production systems and customized/flexible testing environments used by Test and Product Development teams. As an Infra Engineer, you ’ll have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and work with talented individuals. The ideal candidate will have experience in Private and Public Cloud – AWS-AZURE-GCP, OpenStack, storage, Backup, VMware, KVM, XEN, HYPER-V Hypervisor Server Administration, Networking and Automation in Data Center Operations environment at a global enterprise scale with Kubernetes, OpenShift Container Flatforms.

EXPERIENCE

7- 9+ Years – Software Engineer III

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive the design, Project Build, Infrastructure setup, monitoring, measurements, and improvements around the quality of services Provided, Network and Virtual Instances service from OpenStack, VMware VIO, Public and private cloud and DevOps environments.

• Work closely with the customers and understand the requirements and get it done on timelines.

• Work closely with F5 architects and vendors to understand emerging technologies and F5 Product Roadmap and how they would benefit the Infra team and its users.

• Work closely with the Team and complete the deliverables on-time

• Consult with testers, application, and service owners to design scalable, supportable network infrastructure to meet usage requirements.

• Assume ownership for large/complex systems projects; mentor Lab Network Engineers in the best practices for ongoing maintenance and scaling of large/complex systems.

• Drive automation efforts for the configuration and maintainability of the public/private Cloud.  

• Lead product selection for replacement or new technologies

• Address user tickets in a timely manner for the covered services

• Responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting production and pre-production environments for our core systems and services.

• Migration and consolidations of infrastructure

• Design and implement major service and infrastructure components.

• Research, investigate and define new areas of technology to enhance existing service or new service directions.

• Evaluate performance of services and infrastructure; tune, re-evaluate the design and implementation of current source code and system configuration.

• Create and maintain scripts and tools to automate the configuration, usability and troubleshooting of the supported applications and services.

• Ability to take ownership on activities and new initiatives.

• Infra Global Support from India towards product Development teams.

• On-call support on a rotational basis for a global turn-around time-zones

• Vendor Management for all latest hardware and software evaluations keep the system up-to-date.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Have an in-depth multi-disciplined knowledge of Storage, Compute, Network, DevOps technologies and latest cutting-edge technologies.

• Multi-cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack, DevOps Operations

• IaaS- Infrastructure as a service, Metal as service, Platform service

• Storage – Dell EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, Qumulo and Other storage technologies

• Hypervisors – (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen and AHV)

• DevOps – Kubernetes, OpenShift, docker, other container and orchestration flatforms

• Automation – Scripting experience python/shell/golan , Full Stack development and Application Deployment

• Tools - Jenkins, splunk, kibana, Terraform, Bitbucket, Git, CI/CD configuration.

• Datacenter Operations – Racking, stacking, cable matrix, Solution Design and Solutions Architect 

• Networking Skills –   Cisco/Arista Switches, Routers, Experience on Cable matrix design and pathing (Fiber/copper)

• Experience in SAN/NAS storage – (EMC/Qumulo/NetApp & others)

• Experience with Red Hat Ceph storage.

• A working knowledge of Linux, Windows, and Hypervisor Operating Systems and virtual machine technologies

• SME - subject matter expert for all cutting-edge technologies

• Data center architect professional & Storage Expert level Certified professional experience .

• A solid understanding of high availability systems, redundant networking and multipathing solutions

• Proven problem resolution related to network infrastructure, judgment, negotiating and decision-making skills along with excellent written and oral communication skills.

• A Working experience in Object – Block – File storage Technologies

• Experience in Backup Technologies and backup administration.

• Dell/HP/Cisco UCS server’s administration is an additional advantage.

• Ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies.

• A very very story experience and exposure towards open-source flatforms.

• A working experience on monitoring tools Zabbix, nagios , Datadog etc ..

• A working experience on and BareMetal services and OS administration.

• A working experience on the cloud like AWS- ipsec, Azure - express route, GCP – Vpn tunnel etc.

• A working experience in working using software define network like (VMware NSX, SDN, Openvswitch etc ..)

• A working experience with systems engineering and Linux /Unix administration

• A working experience with Database administration experience with PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL

• A working experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef or an equivalent

• A working experience with DevOps Operations Kubernetes, container, Docker, and git repositories

• Experience in Build system process and Code-inspect and delivery methodologies.

• Knowledge on creating Operational Dashboards and execution lane.

• Experience and knowledge on DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD, Domain-controller services and PXE Services

• SRE experience in responsible for availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.

• Vendor support – OEM upgrades, coordinating technical support and troubleshooting experience.

• Experience in handling On-call Support and hierarchy process.

• Knowledge on scale-out and scale-in architecture.

• Working experience in ITSM / process Management tools like ServiceNow, Jira, Jira Align.

• Knowledge on Agile and Scrum principles

• Working experience with ServiceNow

• Knowledge sharing, transition experience and self-learning Behavioral.

Introduction

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Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyse medical images and create v2.0 of advanced radiology reporting.  We are backed by IvyCap, Endia Partners, YCombinator and other investors from India, US, and Japan. We are proud to have GE and The Spinal Kinetics as our partners. Here’s a small sample of what we’re building: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6a94Tqqls">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR6a94Tqqls

Your Roles and Responsibilities

The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the management, monitoring and operation of our applications and services in production. The DevOps Engineer will be a hands-on person who can work independently or with minimal guidance and has the ability to drive the team’s deliverables by mentoring and guiding junior team members. You will work with the existing teams very closely and build on top of tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform and support our numerous polyglot services.

Introducing a strong DevOps ethic into the rest of the team is crucial, and we expect you to lead the team on best practices in deployment, monitoring, and tooling. You'll work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate our systems, help automate and streamline our operations and processes, build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments. The position is based in our Bangalore office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Providing strategies and creating pathways in support of product initiatives in DevOps and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.
• Optimizations and execution of the CI/CD pipelines of multiple products and timely promotion of the releases to production environments
• Ensuring that mission critical applications are deployed and optimised for high availability, security & privacy compliance and disaster recovery.
• Strategize, implement and verify secure coding techniques, integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration
• Ensure analysis, efficiency, responsiveness, scalability and cross-platform compatibility of applications through captured  metrics, testing frameworks, and debugging methodologies.
• Technical documentation through all stages of development
• Establish strong relationships, and proactively communicate, with team members as well as individuals across the organisation

Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience on Devops tools.
• Working experience with Linux, container orchestration and management technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS …).
• Hands-on experience with "infrastructure as code" solutions (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc).
• Background of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab-CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Github actions etc).
• Experience with the Hashicorp stack (Vault, Packer, Nomad etc).
• Hands-on experience in building and maintaining monitoring/logging/alerting stacks (ELK stack, Prometheus stack, Grafana etc).
• Devops mindset and experience with Agile / SCRUM Methodology
• Basic knowledge of Storage , Databases (SQL and noSQL)
• Good understanding of networking technologies, HAProxy, firewalling and security.
• Experience in Security vulnerability scans and remediation
• Experience in API security and credentials management
• Worked on Microservice configurations across dev/test/prod environments
• Ability to quickly adapt new languages and technologies
• A strong team player attitude with excellent communication skills.
• Very high sense of ownership.
• Deep interest and passion for technology
• Ability to plan projects, execute them and meet the deadline
• Excellent verbal and written English communication.