Senior Devops Engineer

Job Description

We are seeking a seasoned DevOps Architect to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate should possess a deep understanding of DevOps principles, system design, and architecture, with a focus on creating robust and scalable infrastructure solutions through automation. This role requires a candidate with hands-on experience in development, testing, and deployment processes. Additionally, the candidate should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps operations and should be proficient in team management, coordination, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and technical expertise.

About the company:

A rapidly growing omni-channel luxury retailer with eight stores across Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata and a global e-commerce platform servicing 65+ countries worldwide. The 18-year-old company is an established market leader with considerable brand equity.

Location: Prabhadevi, Mumbai

Key Responsibilities:

• System Design and Architecture: Develop robust and scalable system designs that align with business requirements and industry best practices.
• Automation: Implement automation solutions to streamline processes and enhance system reliability.
• Development, Testing, and Deployment: Oversee the entire software development lifecycle, from code creation to testing and deployment.
• Coordination and Issue Resolution: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, resolve technical issues, and ensure smooth project execution.
• Troubleshooting: Apply your technical expertise to diagnose and resolve complex system issues efficiently.
• Interpersonal Skills: Communicate effectively with team members, stakeholders, and management to ensure project success.
• Ecommerce (B2C) Expertise: Bring in-depth knowledge of Ecommerce (B2C) operations to tailor DevOps solutions to our specific needs.
• Infrastructure Automation: Design and implement infrastructure automation tools and workflows to support CI/CD initiatives.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build and operate complex CI/CD pipelines at scale, ensuring efficient software delivery.
• Cloud Expertise: Possess knowledge of handling GCP/AWS clouds, optimizing cloud resources, and managing cloud-based applications.
• Cybersecurity: Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats, implementing best practices for data protection and compliance.

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field (Master's preferred).
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps operations.
• Has worked to ensure system reliability, scale & performance in high growth environments.
• Experienced in designing and implementing scalable and robust IT solutions.
• Strong technical background and proficiency in DevOps tools and practices.
• Experience with Ecommerce (B2C) platforms is mandatory.
• Excellent team management, coordination, and interpersonal skills.
• Proficiency in troubleshooting and issue resolution.
• Familiarity with the latest open-source technologies.
• Expertise in CI/CD pipeline management.
• Knowledge of GCP/AWS cloud services.
• Understanding cybersecurity best practices.

Benefits

• Group Mediclaim cover 2.5 L sum assured (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children) & Group Personal Accident – 5 L sum assured.
• Rewards & Recognition programmes

This company is a network of the world's best developers - full-time, long-term remote software jobs with better compensation and career growth.  We enable our clients to accelerate their Cloud Offering, and Capitalize on Cloud.  We have our own IOT/AI platform and we provide professional services on that platform to build custom clouds for their IOT devices.  We also build mobile apps, run 24x7 devops/site reliability engineering for our clients.

We are looking for very hands-on SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) engineers with 3 to 6 years of experience. The person will be part of 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 which 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 SRE automation engineer building, 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 which 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.

Role : SRE

Experience : 4 - 8 Years

• Experience in building, deploying and operating cloud solutions on Kubernetes
• Strong expertise administrating and scaling Kubernetes on bare metal and CKA preferred
• Expertise on K8s Interfaces CNI, CSI, CRI and Service meshe
• Hands-on experience as a DevOps or Automation development
• Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, Linux operating system internals, filesystems, disk/storage technologies and storage protocols.
• Experience working with Helm Charts and building out Infrastructure As Code (IaC)
• Experience in writing software to automate orchestration tasks at scale; we commonly use Python, Go, and Shell scripting
• Knowledge of systems (Linux, GNU tooling), networking (OSI model, DNS, routing) and virtualization vs containerization
• Expertise in CI/CD tooling for cloud-based applications specifically Terraform / CloudFormation, Jenkins and Git
• Architected CNF Orchestration with Kubernetes
• Strong understanding of the principles of 12-factor apps and modern containerized microservices
• Plan for reliability by designing systems to work across our multi-region and multi-cloud environments
• Experience developing and using Application & Integration stacks/tools such as Kafka, Spring Cloud, Apache Camel, Kubernetes, Docker, Redis, Knative, and NoSQL

Role:

• Developing a good understanding of the solutions which Company delivers, and how these link to Company’s overall strategy.
• Making suggestions towards shaping the strategy for a feature and engineering design.
• Managing own workload and usually delivering unsupervised. Accountable for their own workstream or the work of a small team.  
• Understanding Engineering priorities and is able to focus on these, helping others to remain focussed too
• Acting as the Lead Engineer on a project. Helps ensure others follow Company processes, such as release and version control.
• An active member of the team, through useful contributions to projects and in team meetings.
• Supervising others. Deputising for a Lead and/or support them with tasks. Mentoring new joiners/interns and Masters students. Sharing knowledge and learnings with the team.

Requirements:

• Acquired strong proven professional programming experience.
• Strong command of Algorithms, Data structures, Design patterns, and Product Architectural Design.
• Good understanding of DevOps, Cloud technologies, CI/CD, Serverless and Docker, preferable AWS 
• Proven track record and expert in one of the field - DevOps/Frontend/Backend
• Excellent coding and debugging skills in any language with command on any one programming paradigm, preferred Javascript/Python/Go
• Experience with at least one of the Database systems - RDBMS and NoSQL
• Ability to document requirements and specifications.
• A naturally inquisitive and problem-solving mindset.
• Strong experience in using AGILE or SCRUM techniques to build quality software.
• Advantage: experience in React js, AWS, Nodejs, Golang, Apache Spark, ETL tool, data integration system, certification in AWS, worked in a Product company and involved in making it from scratch, Good communication skills, open-source contributions, proven competitive coding pro

Requirements:

• Experience of managing Engineering teams in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

• Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need:

• BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
• Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
• Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the 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.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. 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 the cloud?

So what are we looking for?

• Experience in On-premises to AWS cloud Migration. 
• Linux and Windows servers knowledge .
• Application knowledge like Java, .net, Python, Ruby.
• On-premises to Cloud migration assessment experience as a must .
• Able to provide a detailed migration analysis report and present it to the customer.
• Creative problem-solving skills and superb communication skills. 
• Respond to technical queries / requests from team members and customers. 
• Ambitious individuals who can work under their own direction towards agreed targets/goals. 
• Ability to handle change and be open to it along with good time management and being able to work under stress. 
• Proven interpersonal skills while contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed. 
• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing publications.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Managing  initiatives for migration and modernization in AWS cloud environment 
2. Leads and builds Modernization architecture solution from (on-prem or VMWare) into modern platform (Cloud AWS) through modular design by understanding application components 
3. Leads and SME in Modernization methodology and can lead the Design thinking workshop, method tailoring as Client environment and Client industry
4. The 6 most common application migration strategies below required
1. Re-host (Referred to as a “lift and shift.”)
2. Re-platform (Referred to as “lift, tinker, and shift.”)
3. Re-factor / Re-architect  
4. Re-purchase 
5. Retire
6. Retain ( Referred to as re-visit.)
5. Application migration analysis experience like application compatibility on the cloud, Network, security support on cloud.

Qualifications:

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. But there is no way to locate you otherwise. So we might look for at least a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. 
1. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just a degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too :)
2. Architects with 10+ total and 6+ years of experience on Modernization applications and led Architecture initiatives on AWS Modernization.
3. Managed and implemented at least 5 engagement modernizing client applications to AWS Cloud and on WebSphere and Java/J2EE or .NET.
4. Experience on using DevOps tools during Modernization.
5. Complete in-depth experience and knowledge of AWS as a product and its components.
6. AWS certification would be preferred.
7. Experience in Agile fundamentals and methodology.