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

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to join our team.

Responsibilities

• A technology Professional who understands software development and can solve IT Operational and deployment challenges using software engineering tools and processes. This position requires an understanding of both Software development (Dev) and deployment

Operations (Ops)

• Identity manual processes and automate them using various DevOps automation tools

• Maintain the organization’s growing cloud infrastructure

• Monitor and maintain DevOps environment stability

• Collaborate with distributed Agile teams to define technical requirements and resolve technical design issues

• Orchestrating builds and test setups using Docker and Kubernetes.

• Participate in designing and building Kubernetes, Cloud, and on-prem environments for maximum performance, reliability and scalability

• Share business and technical learnings with the broader engineering and product organization, while adapting approaches for different audiences

Requirements

• Candidates working for this position should possess at least 5 years of work experience as a DevOps Engineer.

• Candidate should have experience in ELK stack, Kubernetes, and Docker.

• Solid experience in the AWS environment.

• Should have experience in monitoring tools like DataDog or Newrelic.

• Minimum of 5 years experience with code repository management, code merge and quality checks, continuous integration, and automated deployment & management using tools like Jenkins, SVN, Git, Sonar, and Selenium.

• Candidates must possess ample knowledge and experience in system automation, deployment, and implementation.

• Candidates must possess experience in using Linux, Jenkins, and ample experience in configuring and automating the monitoring tools.

• The candidates should also possess experience in the software development process and tools and languages like SaaS, Python, Java, MongoDB, Shell scripting, Python, PostgreSQL, and Git.

• Candidates should demonstrate knowledge in handling distributed data systems.

Examples: Elastisearch, Cassandra, Hadoop, and others.

• Should have experience in GitLab- CIRoles and Responsibilities

We are looking for very hands-on DevOps engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of a team that is responsible for designing & implementing automation from scratch for medium to large scale cloud infrastructure and providing 24x7 services to our North American / European customers. This also includes ensuring ~100% uptime for almost 50+ internal sites. The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts that will rotate every month.

This person MUST have:

• B.E Computer Science or equivalent

• 2+ Years of hands-on experience troubleshooting/setting up of the Linux environment, who can write shell scripts for any given requirement.

• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring AWS or GCP services from SCRATCH and maintaining them.

• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up/configuring Kubernetes & EKS and ensuring high availability of container orchestration.

• 1+ Years of hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins & Gitlab.

• Experience configuring/maintaining one monitoring tool.

• Excellent verbal & written communication skills.

• Candidates with certifications - AWS, GCP, CKA, etc will be preferred

• Hands-on experience with databases (Cassandra, MongoDB, MySQL, RDS).

Experience:

• Min 3 years of experience as DevOps automation engineer buildingg, running, and maintaining production sites.

• Not looking for candidates who have experience only as L1/L2 or Build & Deploy.
  
  

Location: Remotely, anywhere in India.

Timings:

• The person is expected to deliver with both high speed and high quality as well as work for 40 hours per week (~6.5 hours per day, 6 days per week) in shifts that will rotate every month.
  
  

Position:

• Full time/Direct

• We have great benefits such as PF, medical insurance, 12 annual company holidays, 12 PTO leaves per year, annual increments, Diwali bonus, spot bonuses and other incentives etc.

• We dont believe in locking in people with large notice periods.  You will stay here because you love the company.  We have only a 15 days notice period.

Title: Cloud DevOps Engineer 

Role: Individual Contributor (4-8 yrs)  

Requirements: 

• Energetic self-starter, a fast learner, with a desire to work in a startup environment  
• Experience working with Public Clouds like AWS 

• Operating and Monitoring cloud infrastructure on AWS. 
• Primary focus on building, implementing and managing operational support 
• Design, Develop and Troubleshoot Automation scripts (Configuration/Infrastructure as code or others) for Managing Infrastructure. 
• Expert at one of the scripting languages – Python, shell, etc  
• Experience with Nginx/HAProxy, ELK Stack, Ansible, Terraform, Prometheus-Grafana stack, etc 

• Handling load monitoring, capacity planning, and services monitoring. 
• Proven experience With CICD Pipelines and Handling Database Upgrade Related Issues. 
• Good Understanding and experience in working with Containerized environments like Kubernetes and Datastores like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, etc

Q2 is seeking a team-focused Lead Release Engineer with a passion for managing releases to ensure we release quality software developed using Agile Scrum methodology.  Working within the Development team, the Release Manager will work in a fast-paced environment with Development, Test Engineering, IT, Product Management, Design, Implementations, Support and other internal teams to drive efficiencies, transparency, quality and predictability in our software delivery pipeline.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide leadership on cross-functional development focused software release process.
• Management of the product release cycle to new and existing clients including the build release process and any hotfix releases
• Support end-to-end process for production issue resolution including impact analysis of the issue, identifying the client impacts, tracking the fix through dev/testing and deploying the fix in various production branches.
• Work with engineering team to understand impacts of branches and code merges.
• Identify, communicate, and mitigate release delivery risks.
• Measure and monitor progress to ensure product features are delivered on time.
• Lead recurring release reporting/status meetings to include discussion around release scope, risks and challenges.
• Responsible for planning, monitoring, executing, and implementing the software release strategy.
• Establish completeness criteria for release of successfully tested software component and their dependencies to gate the delivery of releases to Implementation groups
• Serve as a liaison between business units to guarantee smooth and timely delivery of software packages to our Implementations and Support teams
• Create and analyze operational trends and data used for decision making, root cause analysis and performance measurement.
• Build partnerships, work collaboratively, and communicate effectively to achieve shared objectives.
• Make Improvements to processes to improve the experience and delivery for internal and external customers.
• Responsible for ensuring that all security, availability, confidentiality and privacy policies and controls are adhered to.

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 4 years related experience in product release management role.
• Excellent understanding of software delivery lifecycle.
• Technical Background with experience in common Scrum and Agile practices preferred.
• Deep knowledge of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and Agile Methodology
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with enterprise software deployment architecture and methodologies.
• Proven ability in building effective partnership with diverse groups in multiple locations/environments 
• Ability to convey technical concepts to business-oriented teams.
• Capable of assessing and communicating risks and mitigations while managing ambiguity.
• Experience managing customer and internal expectations while understanding the organizational and customer impact.
• Strong organizational, process, leadership, and collaboration skills.
• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities:

• Writing and maintaining the automation for deployments across various cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Bring a passion to stay on top of DevOps trends, experiment, and learn new CI/CD technologies.
• Creating the Architecture Diagrams and documentation for various pieces
• Build tools and automation to improve the system's observability, availability, reliability, performance/latency, monitoring, emergency response

Requirements:

• 3 - 5 years of professional experience as a DevOps / System Engineer.
• Strong knowledge in Systems Administration & troubleshooting skills with Linux.
• Experience with CI/CD best practices and tooling, preferably Jenkins, Circle CI.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Experience and understanding of modern container orchestration, Well-versed with the containerised applications (Docker, Docker-compose, Docker-swarm, Kubernetes).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code development using Terraform.
• Basic Networking knowledge VLAN, Subnet, VPC, Webserver like Nginx, Apache.
• Experience in handling different SQL and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Mongo).
• Experience with GIT Version Control Software.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language such as Shell Script, Python, Golang.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.

• AWS / Kubernetes Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect / CKA.
• Setup and management of a Kubernetes cluster, including writing Docker files.
• Experience working in and advocating for agile environments.
• Knowledge in Microservice architecture.

JD for Devops

Experience: 5+ years

• Experience working in advanced iterative methodologies such as Agile and Safe.
• Experience with containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Comfortable working in complex and demanding environments with high degree of change.
• Ability to view system perspective and to perform thorough investigations.
• Experience in frequent delivery to production.
• Microservice-based architecture (Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD, ELK)
• Experience with modern software components (Mongo, Elasticsearch, Kafka).
• Expertise in software development methodologies.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, SSH, SAML, etc.
• Possession of a deep knowledge of development workflows with Git.
• Experience with MySQL or another relational database Environment.
• Automation testing (component, integration and end2end)

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.