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
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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Role: DevOps engineer
We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will work closely with our client’s team to establish DevOps practice.
Your role will include establishing configuration management, automating the infrastructure, implementing continuous integration, and training the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.
You will be part of a continually growing team. You will have the chance to be creative and think of new ideas. You might also get the opportunity to work on some open-source projects, ranging from small to large.
What you’ll be doing – your role
Duties and tasks are varied and complex, and may require independent judgement; you should be fully competent in your own area of expertise. Some of the responsibilities associated with the role include:
- Improve CI/CD tooling
- Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
- Help support daily operations through the use of automation and assist in building a DevOps culture with our engineers for a better all-around software development and deployment experience
- Develop and maintain solutions for highly resilient services and infrastructure
- Implement automation to help deploy our services and maintain their operational health
- Contribute to the understanding of how our services are being used and help plan the capacity needs for future growth
What do we expect – experience and skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, involving coding
- 3+ years of experience running large-scale customer-facing services
- 2-3 years of DevOps experience
- A strong desire and aptitude for system automation defines success in this role
- Linux experience, including expertise in system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting
- Experience with cloud-based providers such as AWS
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with web-based API/restful service
- Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code platforms (Terraform)
- Experience with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, JavaScript)
- Methodical approach to troubleshooting and documenting issues
- Experience in Docker orchestration and management
- Experience with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (mainly GitHub Actions and ArgoCD)
- Experience in implementing comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
Responsibilities
● Work with application development teams to identify and understand their operational pain points.
● Document these challenges and define goals to be achieved by the infrastructure team.
● Prototype and evaluate multiple solutions, often by experimenting with various vendors and tools available, to achieve the goals undertaken.
● Rollout tools and processes with heavy focus on automation.
● Evangelize and help onboard application development teams on the platforms provided by the infrastructure team.
● Co-own the responsibility with application development teams to ensure the reliability of services.
● Design and implement solutions around observability to ensure ease of maintenance and quick debugging of services
● Establish and implement administrative and operational best practices in the application development teams.
● Find avenues to reduce infrastructure costs and drive optimization in all services.
Qualifications
● 5+ years of experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure engineer with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
● Experience with git, CI / CD, Docker, etc
● Experience in working with infrastructure as code (Terraform, etc).
● Strong Linux Shell scripting experience
● Experience with one of the programming languages like Python, Java, Kotlin, etc.
We are a boutique IT services & solutions firm headquartered in the Bay Area with offices in India. Our offering includes custom-configured hybrid cloud solutions backed by our managed services. We combine best in class DevOps and IT infrastructure management practices, to manage our clients Hybrid Cloud Environments.
In addition, we build and deploy our private cloud solutions using Open stack to provide our clients with a secure, cost effective and scale able Hybrid Cloud solution. We work with start-ups as well as enterprise clients.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Cloud Engineer to work on exciting projects and have an opportunity to expand their knowledge working on adjacent technologies as well.
Must have skills
• Provisioning skills on IaaS cloud computing for platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Strong working experience in AWS space with various AWS services and implementations (i.e. VPCs, SES, EC2, S3, Route 53, Cloud Front, etc.)
• Ability to design solutions based on client requirements.
• Some experience with various network LAN/WAN appliances like (Cisco routers and ASA systems, Barracuda, Meraki, SilverPeak, Palo Alto, Fortinet, etc.)
• Understanding of networked storage like (NFS / SMB / iSCSI / Storage GW / Windows Offline)
• Linux / Windows server installation, maintenance, monitoring, data backup and recovery, security, and administration.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP protocol & internet technologies.
• Passion for innovation and problem solving, in a start-up environment.
• Good communication skills.
Good to have
• Remote Monitoring & Management.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and Containers.
• Exposure to DevOps automation scripts & experience with tools like Git, bash scripting, PowerShell, AWS Cloud Formation, Ansible, Chef or Puppet will be a plus.
• Architect / Practitioner certification from OEM with hands-on capabilities.
What you will be working on
• Trouble shoot and handle L2/ L3 tickets.
• Design and architect Enterprise Cloud systems and services.
• Design, Build and Maintain environments primarily in AWS using EC2, S3/Storage, CloudFront, VPC, ELB, Auto Scaling, Direct Connect, Route53, Firewall, etc.
• Build and deploy in GCP/ Azure as needed.
• Architect cloud solutions keeping performance, cost and BCP considerations in mind.
• Plan cloud migration projects as needed.
• Collaborate & work as part of a cohesive team.
• Help build our private cloud offering on Open stack.
You will be responsible for:
- Managing all DevOps and infrastructure for Sizzle
- We have both cloud and on-premise servers
- Work closely with all AI and backend engineers on processing requirements and managing both development and production requirements
- Optimize the pipeline to ensure ultra fast processing
- Work closely with management team on infrastructure upgrades
You should have the following qualities:
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps, and CI/CD
- Deep experience in: Gitlab, Gitops, Ansible, Docker, Grafana, Prometheus
- Strong background in Linux system administration
- Deep expertise with AI/ML pipeline processing, especially with GPU processing. This doesn’t need to include model training, data gathering, etc. We’re looking more for experience on model deployment, and inferencing tasks at scale
- Deep expertise in Python including multiprocessing / multithreaded applications
- Performance profiling including memory, CPU, GPU profiling
- Error handling and building robust scripts that will be expected to run for weeks to months at a time
- Deploying to production servers and monitoring and maintaining the scripts
- DB integration including pymongo and sqlalchemy (we have MongoDB and PostgreSQL databases on our backend)
- Expertise in Docker-based virtualization including - creating & maintaining custom Docker images, deployment of Docker images on cloud and on-premise services, monitoring of production Docker images with robust error handling
- Expertise in AWS infrastructure, networking, availability
Optional but beneficial to have:
- Experience with running Nvidia GPU / CUDA-based tasks
- Experience with image processing in python (e.g. openCV, Pillow, etc)
- Experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB (Or SQL familiarity)
- Excited about working in a fast-changing startup environment
- Willingness to learn rapidly on the job, try different things, and deliver results
- Bachelors or Masters degree in computer science or related field
- Ideally a gamer or someone interested in watching gaming content online
Skills:
DevOps, Ansible, CI/CD, GitLab, GitOps, Docker, Python, AWS, GCP, Grafana, Prometheus, python, sqlalchemy, Linux / Ubuntu system administration
Seniority: We are looking for a mid to senior level engineer
Salary: Will be commensurate with experience.
Who Should Apply:
If you have the right experience, regardless of your seniority, please apply.
Work Experience: 3 years to 6 years
About us:
HappyFox is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) support platform. We offer an enterprise-grade help desk ticketing system and intuitively designed live chat software.
We serve over 12,000 companies in 70+ countries. HappyFox is used by companies that span across education, media, e-commerce, retail, information technology, manufacturing, non-profit, government and many other verticals that have an internal or external support function.
To know more, Visit! - https://www.happyfox.com/
Responsibilities:
- Build and scale production infrastructure in AWS for the HappyFox platform and its products.
- Research, Build/Implement systems, services and tooling to improve uptime, reliability and maintainability of our backend infrastructure. And to meet our internal SLOs and customer-facing SLAs.
- Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
- Proficient in writing automation scripts or building infrastructure tools using Python/Ruby/Bash/Golang
- Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
- Patch production systems to fix security/performance issues
- Actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers or the support team
- Mentor other Infrastructure engineers, review their work and continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure.
- Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
- Participate in infrastructure security audits
Requirements:
- At least 5 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
- At least 2 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
- Demonstrable knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS fundamentals.
- Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
- Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
- Proficient in managing/patching servers with Unix-based operating systems like Ubuntu Linux.
- Proficient in writing automation scripts using any scripting language such as Python, Ruby, Bash etc.,
- Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
- Passion for making systems reliable, maintainable, scalable and secure.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to address, escalate and express technical ideas clearly
- Bonus points – if you have experience with Nginx, Postgres, Redis, and Mongo systems in production.
Sr Enterprise Software Architect with Cloud skills and preferably having either a GCP Associate or Professional Certification.
The requirement is to understand existing Enterprise Applications and help design a solution to enable Load balancing & Auto Scaling the application to meet certain KPIs.
Should be well versed with
- Designing and Deploying Large enterprise software in Cloud
- Understands Cloud fundamentals
- DevOps & Kubernetes
- Experience deploying cloud applications and monitoring operations
- Preferably Google Cloud
- Associate or Professional Certification.
- Experience using AWS (that’s just common sense)
- Experience designing and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3
- Experience building and maintaining cloud-native applications
- A solid background in Linux/Unix and Windows server system administration
- Experience using https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/devops-tutorial/devops-tools" target="_blank">DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/what-is-docker-container" target="_blank">Docker, GitHub, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/jenkins-tutorial/what-is-jenkins" target="_blank">Jenkins, https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/kubernetes-tutorial/what-is-kubernetes" target="_blank">Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube
- Experience installing and configuring different application servers such as JBoss, Tomcat, and WebLogic
- Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, and Prometheus
- An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform
- Knowledge of one or more of the most-used programming languages available for today’s cloud computing (i.e., SQL data, XML data, R math, Clojure math, Haskell functional, Erlang functional, Python procedural, and Go procedural languages)
- Experience in troubleshooting distributed systems
- Proficiency in script development and scripting languages
- The ability to be a team player
- The ability and skill to train other people in procedural and technical topics
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
As a special aside, an AWS engineer who works in DevOps should also have experience with:
- The theory, concepts, and real-world application of Continuous Delivery (CD), which requires familiarity with tools like AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodeDeploy, and AWS CodePipeline
- An understanding of automation
Our Client is an IT infrastructure services company, focused and specialized in delivering solutions and services on Microsoft products and technologies. They are a Microsoft partner and cloud solution provider. Our Client's objective is to help small, mid-sized as well as global enterprises to transform their business by using innovation in IT, adapting to the latest technologies and using IT as an enabler for business to meet business goals and continuous growth.
With focused and experienced management and a strong team of IT Infrastructure professionals, they are adding value by making IT Infrastructure a robust, agile, secure and cost-effective service to the business. As an independent IT Infrastructure company, they provide their clients with unbiased advice on how to successfully implement and manage technology to complement their business requirements.
- Working closely with other engineers and administrators
- Learning intimate knowledge of how best to customize the services available on various cloud platforms to help us become more secure and efficient.
- Assessing client requirements and coming up with costing for the sales team
- Planning and designing client infrastructure on Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Setting up alerts and monitor the health of cloud resources
- Handling the day-to-day management of clients’ cloud-based solutions Implementing security and protecting Identities
- Diagnosing and troubleshooting technical issues relating to Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Helping customers successfully deploy and implement cloud computing solutions
- Resolving technical support tickets via telephone, chat, email and sometimes in-person
- Keeping self and team updated with new cloud services offerings from Microsoft, Amazon & Google
- Staying current with industry trends, making recommendations as needed to help the company excel
What you need to have:
- Experience in cloud-based tech
- This position requires excellent written and verbal communication skills and negotiation
- Should have working knowledge of Microsoft Azure Calculator and AWS Calculator
- A clear understanding of core Cloud Computing services
- Knowledge of various computer services on Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Knowledge of various storage services on Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Knowledge of log collecting services available with Microsoft Azure and AWS
- Experience of working with popular operating systems such as Linux & Windows
- Experience of computer networks
- Experience of computer technologies like Active Directory, network protocols & subnetting
- Experience in automating day to day tasks using PowerShell scripting
- Confidence in own abilities
- Knowledgeable within this subject area and a thought leader
- Fast assimilator of information
- Imaginative problem solver
- Structured organizer
- Strong relationship building skills
- Strong analytical & numeracy skills
- Ability to use initiative and work under pressure, prioritizing to meet deadlines
- Driven, leading on initiatives, being committed to the role, and delivering on objectives and deadlines
- Service Orientation, demonstrable commitment to customer service
Job Dsecription:
○ Develop best practices for team and also responsible for the architecture
○ solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
○ Participate in production outage and handle complex issues and works towards Resolution
○ Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering Productivity
Required Experience and Expertise
○ Having a good knowledge of Terraform + someone who has worked on large TF code bases.
○ Deep understanding of Terraform with best practices & writing TF modules.
○ Hands-on experience of GCP and AWS and knowledge on AWS Services like VPC and VPC related services like (route tables, vpc endpoints, privatelinks) EKS, S3, IAM. Cost aware mindset towards Cloud services.
○ Deep understanding of Kernel, Networking and OS fundamentals
NOTICE PERIOD - Max - 30 days
- GCP Cloud experience mandatory
- CICD - Azure DevOps
- IaC tools – Terraform
- Experience with IAM / Access Management within cloud
- Networking / Firewalls
- Kubernetes / Helm / Istio