Senior Devops Engineer

About us

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.
Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

What will you do?

• Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

• Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

• Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

• Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

• Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

• Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

You should apply, if you

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

Being Part of the Clan

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

Bachelor's degree in information security, computer science, or related.
 A Strong Devops experience of at least 4+ years
 Strong Experience in Unix/Linux/Python scripting
 Strong networking knowledge,vSphere networking stack knowledge desired.
 Experience on Docker and Kubernetes
 Experience with cloud technologies (AWS/Azure)
 Exposure to Continuous Development Tools such as Jenkins or Spinnaker
 Exposure to configuration management systems such as Ansible
 Knowledge of resource monitoring systems
 Ability to scope and estimate
 Strong verbal and communication skills
 Advanced knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
 Exposure to Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) like - Chainstack/IBM blockchain platform/Oracle Blockchain Cloud/Rubix/VMWare etc.
 Capable of provisioning and maintaining local enterprise blockchain platforms for Development and QA (Hyperledger fabric/Baas/Corda/ETH).

We are a self organized engineering team with a passion for programming and solving business problems for our customers. We are looking to expand our team capabilities on the DevOps front and are on a lookout for 4 DevOps professionals having relevant hands on technical experience of 4-8 years. 

We encourage our team to continuously learn new technologies and apply the learnings in the day to day work even if the new technologies are not adopted. We strive to continuously improve our DevOps practices and expertise to form a solid backbone for the product, customer relationships and sales teams which enables them to add new customers every week to our financing network.

As a DevOps Engineer, you :

- Will work collaboratively with the engineering and customer support teams to deploy and operate our systems. 

- Build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations.

- Help automate and streamline our operations and processes. 

- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our test and production environments. 

- Take control of various mandates and change management processes to ensure compliance for various certifications (PCI and ISO 27001 in particular) 

- Monitor and optimize the usage of various cloud services. 

- Setup and enforce CI/CD processes and practices

Skills required :

- Strong experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, ELB, S3, SES, to name a few)

- Strong background in Linux/Unix administration and hardening 

- Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform or equivalent 

- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment tools (Jenkins) 

- Experience with container related technologies (docker, lxc, rkt, docker swarm, kubernetes)

 

- Working understanding of code and script (Python, Perl, Ruby, Java)

- Working understanding of SQL and databases 

- Working understanding of version control system (GIT is preferred) 

- Managing IT operations, setting up best practices and tuning them from time-totime. 

- Ensuring that process overheads do not reduce the productivity and effectiveness of small team. - Willingness to explore and learn new technologies and continuously refactor thetools and processes.

 

The ideal candidate is a self-motivated, multi-tasker, and demonstrated team player. You will be a lead developer responsible for the development of new software security policies and enhancements to security on existing products. You should excel in working with large-scale applications and frameworks and have outstanding communication and leadership skills. 

 

 

Responsibilities

• Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.
• Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.
• Mentoring junior software developers in gaining experience and assuming DevOps responsibilities.
• Managing the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Collaborating with developers on software requirements, as well as interpreting test stage data.
• Developing interface simulators and designing automated module deployments.
• Completing code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
• Overseeing routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
• Documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.
• Conforming to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.

 

Qualifications

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructure such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail and other services provided by AWS.
• Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimises performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimise existing infrastructure.
• Conceptualise, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a containerised infrastructure using Docker, Mesosphere or similar SaaS platforms.
• Conceptualise, architect and build a secured network utilising VPCs with inputs from the security team.
• Work with developers & QA to institute a policy of Continuous Integration with Automated testing Architect, build and manage dashboards to provide visibility into delivery, production application functional and performance status.
• Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production environments.
• Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in Ansible.
• Must have written playbook to automate provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have had prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Experience with APM tools like New Relic and log management tools.
• Our entire platform is hosted on AWS, comprising of web applications, webservices, RDS, Redis and Elastic Search clusters and several other AWS resources like EC2, S3, Cloud front, Route53 and SNS.
• Essential Functions System Architecture Process Design and Implementation

• Minimum of 2 years scripting experience in Ruby/Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible)Establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
• Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

Below is the Job Description for the position of DevOps Azure Engineer in Xceedance co.

 

Qualifications BE/ B.Tech/ MCA in computer science

Key Requirement for the Position Develop Azure application design and connectivity patterns, Azure networking topologies, and Azure storage facilities.
• Run code conformance tools as part of releases.
• Design Azure app service web app by using Azure CLI, PowerShell, and other tools.
• Implement containerized solution using Docker and Azure Kubernetes Service
• Automating the build and deployment process through Azure DevOps approach and tools from development to production
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines
• Script and update build and deployments.
• Coordinate environment usage and alignment.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize automated deployments code for development, test, staging and production environments.
• Configure the application and container platform with proactive monitoring tools and trigger alerts through communication channels
• Develop infrastructure and platform code
• Effectively contribute to building the overall knowledge and expertise of the technical team
• Provide Level 2/3 technical support
Location Noida or Gurgaon

 

Contract to hire
Total 8 years of experience and relevant 4 years
• Experience with building and deploying software in the cloud, preferably on Google Cloud       Platform (GCP)
• Sound knowledge to build infrastructure as code with Terraform
• Comfortable with test-driven development, testing frameworks and building CI/CD pipelines     with version control software Gitlab
• Strong skills of containerisation with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiar with Gitlab, systems integration and BDD
• Solid networking skills e.g. IP, DNS, VPN, HTTP/HTTPS
• Scripting experience (Bash, Python, etc.)
• Experience in Linux/Unix administration
• Experience with agile methods and practices (Scrum, Kanban, Continuous Integration, Pair     Programming, TDD)

Total Experience: 6 – 12 Years

 

Required Skills and Experience 

 

• 3+ years of relevant experience with DevOps tools Jenkins, Ansible, Chef etc
• 3+ years of experience in continuous integration/deployment and software tools development experience with Python and shell scripts etc
• Building and running Docker images and deployment on Amazon ECS
• Working with AWS services (EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, RDS, Cloudwatch, ECS, ECR, EKS)
• Knowledge and experience working with container technologies such as Docker and Amazon ECS, EKS, Kubernetes
• Experience with source code and configuration management tools such as Git, Bitbucket, and Maven
• Ability to work with and support Linux environments (Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, CentOS)
• Knowledge and experience in cloud orchestration tools such as AWS Cloudformation/Terraform etc
• Experience with implementing "infrastructure as code", “pipeline as code” and "security as code" to enable continuous integration and delivery
• Understanding of IAM, RBAC, NACLs, and KMS
• Good communication skills

 

Good to have:

 

• Strong understanding of security concepts, methodologies and apply them such as SSH, public key encryption, access credentials, certificates etc.
• Knowledge of database administration such as MongoDB.
• Knowledge of maintaining and using tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence.

 

Responsibilities

 

• Work with Leads and Architects in designing and implementation of technical infrastructure, platform, and tools to support modern best practices and facilitate the efficiency of our development teams through automation, CI/CD pipelines, and ease of access and performance.
• Establish and promote DevOps thinking, guidelines, best practices, and standards.
• Contribute to architectural discussions, Agile software development process improvement, and DevOps best practices.

YOE: 1- 3years
Skill: Python, Docker or Ansible , AWS

➢ Experience Building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes
performance and cost. plan for future infrastructure as well as Maintain & optimize existing
infrastructure.
➢ Conceptualize, architect and build automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like
Jenkins.
➢ Conceptualize, architect and build a containerized infrastructure using Docker,Mesosphere or
similar SaaS platforms.
Work with developers to institute systems, policies and workflows which allow for rollback of
deployments Triage release of applications to production environment on a daily basis.
➢ Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed inproduction
environments.
➢ Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation to respond and support troubleshooting of issues in production.
➢ Assist the developers and on calls for other teams with post mortem, follow up and review of
issues affecting production availability.
➢ Establishing and enforcing systems monitoring tools and standards
➢ Establishing and enforcing Risk Assessment policies and standards
➢ Establishing and enforcing Escalation policies and standards

DevOps Engineer Position: Full time Base Location: Bangalore, with extensive and frequent travel to SEA R&R: ● Work with people across various levels right from delivery team level to top management ● Support internal product and external customers on multiple platforms ● Working with customer teams (specifically development team) to analyse their process, and environments to improve user satisfaction ● Improve client Devops team by enabling them with DevOps concepts, and processes. ● Act as the technical expert across multiple client projects helping them in enhancing their delivery pipeline , and overall DevOps and Agile practices ● Identify state of the art CI/CD tools, prepare decision proposals, implementation plans for these tools and carry out introduction & training, allowing client delivery to move faster. ● Bring in new and cutting-edge methodologies in DevOps both for Greyamp and for clients. Need to have: ● 3 - 5 years of experience of relevant experience (at least 1 year experience in development, and 2+ in Devops) ● Understanding of Linux/Unix Administration ● Understanding of one scripting language (python, shell, ruby or pearl) ● Experience working with different OS Servers (RedHat, Oracle, Microsoft) ● Strong understanding of version control (GIT) ● Good understanding of build tools like ANT or Maven or gradle ● Experience with setting up relevant dashboard using tools around code quality and vulnerability checks (SonarQube) ● Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins or Circle CI or GoCD) ● Good understanding and working experience with Docker Containers ● Experience working with configuration management tools(chef, puppet or ansible) ● Extensive knowledge on working with cloud platform and maintaining automation scripts using terraform or similar tools. ( preferably AWS or Azure or GCP ) ● Basic knowledge on working with the cloud product suite ( preferably AWS or Azure or GCP ) ● Understanding and experience working on Saas architecture ● Understanding and experience with VMware or other virtual environments. Nice to have: ● Experience working with Testing automation tools (Preferably Selenium) ● Knowledge and experience with Kubernetes ● Understanding and experience with Monitoring tools like ELK stack, prometheus and grafana, Nagios, or Dynatrace ● Experience working with DataBase deployments ● Client handling experience and stakeholder management