Senior Devops Engineer
Who are we?
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 do 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 do 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 ?
Introduction
When was the last time you thought about rebuilding your smart phone charger using solar panels on your backpack OR changed the sequencing of switches in your bedroom (on your own, of course) to make it more meaningful OR pointed out an engineering flaw in the sequencing of traffic signal lights to a fellow passenger, while he gave you a blank look? If the last time this happened was more than 6 months ago, you are a dinosaur for our needs. If it was less than 6 months ago, did you act on it? If yes, then let’s talk.
We are quite keen to meet you if:
- You eat, dream, sleep and play with Cloud Data Store & engineering your processes on cloud architecture
- You have an insatiable thirst for exploring improvements, optimizing processes, and motivating people.
- You like experimenting, taking risks and thinking big.
3 things this position is NOT about:
- This is NOT just a job; this is a passionate hobby for the right kind.
- This is NOT a boxed position. You will code, clean, test, build and recruit & energize.
- This is NOT a position for someone who likes to be told what needs to be done.
3 things this position IS about:
- Attention to detail matters.
- Roles, titles, ego does not matter; getting things done matters; getting things done quicker & better matters the most.
- Are you passionate about learning new domains & architecting solutions that could save a company millions of dollars?
Roles and Responsibilities
This is an entrepreneurial Cloud/DevOps Lead position that evolves to the Director- Cloud engineering .This position requires fanatic iterative improvement ability - architect a solution, code, research, understand customer needs, research more, rebuild and re-architect, you get the drift. We are seeking hard-core-geeks-turned-successful-techies who are interested in seeing their work used by millions of users the world over.
Responsibilities:
- Consistently strive to acquire new skills on Cloud, DevOps, Big Data, AI and ML technologies
- Design, deploy and maintain Cloud infrastructure for Clients – Domestic & International
- Develop tools and automation to make platform operations more efficient, reliable and reproducible
- Create Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), strive for full automated solutions, ensure the up-time and security of all cloud platform systems and infrastructure
- Stay up to date on relevant technologies, plug into user groups, and ensure our client are using the best techniques and tools
- Providing business, application, and technology consulting in feasibility discussions with technology team members, customers and business partners
- Take initiatives to lead, drive and solve during challenging scenarios
Requirements:
- 3 + Years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
- Experience with Linux systems, RHEL/CentOS preferred
- Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Hands on experience with AWS services (EC2, VPC, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda)
- Experience with one or more programming languages (Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, .Net)
- Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
- Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef
- Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)
- Deep experience in customer facing roles with a proven track record of effective verbal and written communications
- Dependable and good team player
- Desire to learn and work with new technologies
Key Success Factors
- Are you
- Likely to forget to eat, drink or pee when you are coding?
- Willing to learn, re-learn, research, break, fix, build, re-build and deliver awesome code to solve real business/consumer needs?
- An open source enthusiast?
- Absolutely technology agnostic and believe that business processes define and dictate which technology to use?
- Ability to think on your feet, and follow-up with multiple stakeholders to get things done
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills
- Superior project management and organizational skills
- Logical thought process; ability to grasp customer requirements rapidly and translate the same into technical as well as layperson terms
- Ability to anticipate potential problems, determine and implement solutions
- Energetic, disciplined, with a results-oriented approach
- Strong ethics and transparency in dealings with clients, vendors, colleagues and partners
- Attitude of ‘give me 5 sharp freshers and 6 months and I will rebuild the way people communicate over the internet.
- You are customer-centric, and feel strongly about building scalable, secure, quality software. You thrive and succeed in delivering high quality technology products in a growth environment where priorities shift fast.
About Searce Inc
About
Searce is a cloud, automation & analytics led process improvement company helping futurify businesses. Searce is a premier partner for Google Cloud for all products and services. Searce is the largest Cloud Systems Integrator for enterprises with the largest # of enterprise Google Cloud clients in India.
Searce specializes in helping businesses move to cloud, build on the next generation cloud, adopt SaaS - Helping reimagine the ‘why’ & redefining ‘what’s next’ for workflows, automation, machine learning & related futuristic use cases. Searce has been recognized by Google as one of the Top partners for the year 2015, 2016.
Searce's organizational culture encourages making mistakes and questioning the status quo and that allows us to specialize in simplifying complex business processes and use a technology agnostic approach to create, improve and deliver.
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environments: AWS / Azure / GCP
• Must have strong work experience (2 + years) developing IaC (i.e. Terraform)
• Must have strong work experience in Ansible development and deployment.
• Bachelor’s degree with a background in math will be a PLUS.
• Must have 8+ years experience with a mix of Linux and Window systems in a medium to large business
environment.
• Must have command level fluency and shell scripting experience in a mix of Linux and Windows
environments.
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• Must enjoy the experience of working in small, fast-paced teams
• Identify opportunities for improvement in existing process and automate the process using Ansible Flows.
• Fine tune performance and operation issues that arise with Automation flows.
• Experience administering container management systems like Kubernetes would be plus.
• Certification with Red Hat or any other Linux variant will be a BIG PLUS.
• Fluent in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook / Word / Excel).
• Possess a strong aptitude towards automating and timely completion of standard/routine tasks.
• Experience with automation and configuration control systems like Puppet or Chef is a plus.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes (or container orchestration equivalent) is nice to have
1. Experience working on Linux Ubuntu, Nginx, Application Deployment & Implementation
2. Excellent understanding of Python.
3. Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo
4. Excellent troubleshooting
5. Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services
6. Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
7. Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
8. Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
9. Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
10. Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
11. Setting up tools and required infrastructure
12. Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
13. Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
14. Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
15. Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for their adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
16. Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
17. Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
18. Incidence management and root cause analysis
19. Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
20. Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
21. Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
22. Mentoring and guiding the team members
23. Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
24. Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
environment. He/she must demonstrate a high level of ownership, integrity, and leadership
skills and be flexible and adaptive with a strong desire to learn & excel.
Required Skills:
- Strong experience working with tools and platforms like Helm charts, Circle CI, Jenkins,
- and/or Codefresh
- Excellent knowledge of AWS offerings around Cloud and DevOps
- Strong expertise in containerization platforms like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes & Rancher
- Should be familiar with leading Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.
- Strong experience in Python, Shell Scripting, Ansible, and Terraform
- Good command over monitoring tools like Datadog, Zabbix, Elk, Grafana, CloudWatch, Stackdriver, Prometheus, JFrog, Nagios, etc.
- Experience with Linux/Unix systems administration.
As a DevOps Engineer with experience in Kubernetes, you will be responsible for leading and managing a team of DevOps engineers in the design, implementation, and maintenance of the organization's infrastructure. You will work closely with software developers, system administrators, and other IT professionals to ensure that the organization's systems are efficient, reliable, and scalable.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Leading the team in the development and implementation of automation and continuous delivery pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, and Ansible.
- Managing the organization's infrastructure using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring of applications.
- Ensuring that the organization's systems are secure and compliant with industry standards.
- Collaborating with software developers to design and implement infrastructure as code.
- Providing mentorship and technical guidance to team members.
- Troubleshooting and resolving technical issues in collaboration with other IT professionals.
- Participating in the development and maintenance of the organization's disaster recovery and incident response plans.
To be successful in this role, you should have strong leadership skills and experience with a variety of DevOps and infrastructure tools and technologies. You should also have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, and be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Design, Develop, deploy, and run operations of infrastructure services in the Acqueon AWS cloud environment
- Manage uptime of Infra & SaaS Application
- Implement application performance monitoring to ensure platform uptime and performance
- Building scripts for operational automation and incident response
- Handle schedule and processes surrounding cloud application deployment
- Define, measure, and meet key operational metrics including performance, incidents and chronic problems, capacity, and availability
- Lead the deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and support of operating systems (Windows, Linux)
- Build out lifecycle processes to mitigate risk and ensure platforms remain current, in accordance with industry standard methodologies
- Run incident resolution within the environment, facilitating teamwork with other departments as required
- Automate the deployment of new software to cloud environment in coordination with DevOps engineers
- Work closely with Presales, understand customer requirement to deploy in Production
- Lead and mentor a team of operations engineers
- Drive the strategy to evolve and modernize existing tools and processes to enable highly secure and scalable operations
- AWS infrastructure management, provisioning, cost management and planning
- Prepare RCA incident reports for internal and external customers
- Participate in product engineering meetings to ensure product features and patches comply with cloud deployment standards
- Troubleshoot and analyse performance issues and customer reported incidents working to restore services within the SLA
- Monthly SLA Performance reports
As a Cloud Operations Manager in Acqueon you will need….
- 8 years’ progressive experience managing IT infrastructure and global cloud environments such as AWS, GCP (must)
- 3-5 years management experience leading a Cloud Operations / Site Reliability / Production Engineering team working with globally distributed teams in a fast-paced environment
- 3-5 years’ experience in IAC (Terraform, K8)
- 3+ years end-to-end incident management experience
- Experience with communicating and presenting to all stakeholders
- Experience with Cloud Security compliance and audits
- Detail-oriented. The ideal candidate is one who naturally digs as deep as they need to understand the why
- Knowledge on GCP will be added advantage
- Manage and monitor customer instances for uptime and reliability
- Staff scheduling and planning to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for cloud operations
- Customer facing, excellent communication skills, team management, troubleshooting
This role requires a balance between hands-on infrastructure-as-code deployments as well as involvement in operational architecture and technology advocacy initiatives across the Numerator portfolio.
Responsibilities
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Technical Skills
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Requirements:-
- Bachelor’s Degree or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering,Software Engineering or a relevant field.
- Strong experience with Windows/Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
- knowledge of Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Xray, Ansible, Windows and .Net. as their Core Skill.
- Strong experience with databases such as SQL, MS SQL, MySQL, NoSQL.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as Shell Scripting /Python/ PHP/Groovy, Bash.
- Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira / WorkFront etc.
- Experience with open-source technologies and cloud services.
- Experience in working with Puppet or Chef for automation and configuration.
- Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.
- Experience in a DevOps Engineer role (or similar role)
- AExperience in software development and infrastructure development is a plus
Job Specifications:-
- Building and maintaining tools, solutions and micro services associated with deployment and our operations platform, ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.
- Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production, catching and solving issues before launch.
- Test our system integrity, implemented designs, application developments and other processes related to infrastructure, making improvements as needed
- Deploy product updates as required while implementing integrations when they arise.
- Automate our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our security requirements.
- Specifying, documenting and developing new product features, and writing automating scripts. Manage code deployments, fixes, updates and related processes.
- Work with open-source technologies as needed.
- Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT and SVN.
- Lead the team through development and operations.
- Offer technical support where needed, developing software for our back-end systems.
- 2+ years of demonstrable experience leading site reliability and performance in large-scale, high-traffic environments
- 2+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps engineer
- Strong leadership, communication and interpersonal skills geared to getting things done
- Developing themselves and the talent within their charge – fostering and creating opportunity for the team
- Strong understanding of SRE concepts and the DevOps culture. Set the direction and strategy for your team, and help shape the overall SRE program for the company
- Be able to lead complicated technical issues and communicating status updates/RCA with management and customers.
- Own site stability, performance, capacity planning, DevOps recruitment.