Senior Platform Engineer

Role : Principal Devops Engineer

About the Client

It is a Product base company that has to build a platform using AI and ML technology for their transportation and logiticsThey also have a presence in the global market

Responsibilities and Requirements

• Experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure

• Knowledge in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting

• Experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure

• Knowledge in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios

• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms

• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations

• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skill

We are looking "Sr.Software Engineer(Devops)" for Reputed Client @ Bangalore Permanent Role.

Experience: 4+ Yrs

Responsibilities:

• As part of a team you will design, develop, and maintain scalable multi cloud DevOps blueprint.

• Understand overall virtualization platform architecture in cloud environments and design best of class solutions that fit the SaaS offering & legacy application modernization

• Continuously improve CI/CD pipeline, tools, processes and procedures and systems relating to Developer Productivity

• Collaborate continuously with the product development teams to implement CI/CD pipeline.

• Contribute to the subject matter on Developer Productivity, DevOps, Infrastructure Automation best practices.

Mandatory Skills:

• 1+ years of commercial server-side software development experience & 3+ years of commercial DevOps experience.

• Strong scripting skills (Java or Python) is a must.

• Experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc.

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Gradle

• Hands-on working experience in developing or deploying microservices is a must.

• Hands-on working experience of at least of the popular cloud infrastructure such as AWS / Azure / GCP / Red Hat OpenStack is a must.

• Knowledge about microservices hosted in leading cloud environments

• Experience with containerizing applications (Docker preferred) is a must

• Hands-on working experience of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications (Kubernetes) is a must.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical skills and good understanding of the best practices for building, testing, deploying and monitoring software

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience working with Secret management services such as HashiCorp Vault is desirable.

• Experience working with Identity and access management services such as Okta, Cognito is desirable.

• Experience with monitoring systems such as Prometheus, Grafana is desirable.

Educational Qualifications and Experience:

• B.E/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech (Computer science/Information science/Information Technology is a Plus)

• 4 to 6 years of hands-on experience in server-side application development & DevOps

Electrum is looking for an experienced and proficient DevOps Engineer. This role will provide you with an opportunity to explore what’s possible in a collaborative and innovative work environment. If your goal is to work with a team of talented professionals that is keenly focused on solving complex business problems and supporting product innovation with technology, you might be our new DevOps Engineer. With this position, you will be involved in building out systems for our rapidly expanding team, enabling the whole engineering group to operate more effectively and iterate at top speed in an open, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software engineering and a vivid experience in deploying product updates, identifying production issues, and implementing integrations. The ideal candidate has proven capabilities and experience in risk-taking, is willing to take up challenges, and is a strong believer in efficiency and innovation with exceptional communication and documentation skills.

YOU WILL:

• Plan for future infrastructure as well as maintain & optimize the existing infrastructure. 
• Conceptualize, architect, and build:
• 1. Automated deployment pipelines in a CI/CD environment like Jenkins;
• 2. Infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes, and other serverless platforms; 
• 3. Secured network utilizing VPCs with inputs from the security team. 
• Work with developers & QA team 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 a rollback of deployments. 
• Triage release of applications/ Hotfixes to the production environment on a daily basis.
• Interface with developers and triage SQL queries that need to be executed in production 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 a postmortem, follow up and review of issues affecting production availability.
• Scale Electum platform to handle millions of requests concurrently.
• Reduce Mean Time To Recovery (MTTR), enable High Availability and Disaster Recovery

PREREQUISITES:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of six years of hands-on experience in software development and DevOps, specifically managing AWS Infrastructures such as EC2s, RDS, Elastic cache, S3, IAM, cloud trail, and other services provided by AWS.
• At least 2 years of experience in building and owning serverless infrastructure.
• At least 2 years of scripting experience in Python (Preferable) and Shell Web Application Deployment Systems Continuous Integration tools (Ansible).
• Experience building a multi-region highly available auto-scaling infrastructure that optimizes performance and cost.
• Experience in automating the provisioning of AWS infrastructure as well as automation of routine maintenance tasks.
• Must have prior experience automating deployments to production and lower environments.
• Worked on providing solutions for major automation with scripts or infrastructure.
• Experience with APM tools such as DataDog and log management tools.
• Experience in designing and implementing Essential Functions System Architecture Process; establishing and enforcing Network Security Policy (AWS VPC, Security Group) & ACLs.
• Experience establishing and enforcing:
• 1. System monitoring tools and standards
• 2. Risk Assessment policies and standards
• 3. Escalation policies and standards
• Excellent DevOps engineering, team management, and collaboration skills.
• Advanced knowledge of programming languages such as Python and writing code and scripts.
• Experience or knowledge in - Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and prior experience as an open-source contributor will be preferred.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Gather and analyse cloud infrastructure requirements

• Automating system tasks and infrastructure using a scripting language (Shell/Python/Ruby

preferred), with configuration management tools (Ansible/ Puppet/Chef), service registry and

discovery tools (Consul and Vault, etc), infrastructure orchestration tools (Terraform,

CloudFormation), and automated imaging tools (Packer)

• Support existing infrastructure, analyse problem areas and come up with solutions

• An eye for monitoring – the candidate should be able to look at complex infrastructure and be

able to figure out what to monitor and how.

• Work along with the Engineering team to help out with Infrastructure / Network automation needs.

• Deploy infrastructure as code and automate as much as possible

• Manage a team of DevOps

Desired Profile:

• Understanding of provisioning of Bare Metal and Virtual Machines

• Working knowledge of Configuration management tools like Ansible/ Chef/ Puppet, Redfish.

• Experience in scripting languages like Ruby/ Python/ Shell Scripting

• Working knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing, firewalling & IPS concepts

• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills.

• Self-starter who can implement with minimal guidance

• Hands-on experience setting up CICD from SCRATCH in Jenkins

• Experience with Managing K8s infrastructure

• Collaborate with Dev, QA and Data Science teams on environment maintenance, monitoring (ELK, Prometheus or equivalent), deployments and diagnostics
• Administer a hybrid datacenter, including AWS and EC2 cloud assets
• Administer, automate and troubleshoot container based solutions deployed on AWS ECS
• Be able to troubleshoot problems and provide feedback to engineering on issues
• Automate deployment (Ansible, Python), build (Git, Maven. Make, or equivalent) and integration (Jenkins, Nexus) processes
• Learn and administer technologies such as ELK, Hadoop etc.
• A self-starter and enthusiasm to learn and pick up new technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Need to have

• Hands-on Experience in Cloud based DevOps
• Experience working in AWS (EC2, S3, CloudFront, ECR, ECS etc)
• Experience with any programming language.
• Experience using Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes
• Experience in Python.
• Should be very comfortable working in Linux/Unix environment.
• Exposure to Shell Scripting.
• Solid troubleshooting skills

• Automate deployments of infrastructure components and repetitive tasks.
• Drive changes strictly via the infrastructure-as-code methodology.
• Promote the use of source control for all changes including application and system-level changes.
• Design & Implement self-recovering systems after failure events.
• Participate in system sizing and capacity planning of various components.
• Create and maintain technical documents such as installation/upgrade MOPs.
• Coordinate & collaborate with internal teams to facilitate installation & upgrades of systems.
• Support 24x7 availability for corporate sites & tools.
• Participate in rotating on-call schedules.
• Actively involved in researching, evaluating & selecting new tools & technologies.

• Cloud computing – AWS, OCI, OpenStack
• Automation/Configuration management tools such as Terraform & Chef
• Atlassian tools administration (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
• Scripting languages - Ruby, Python, Bash
• Systems administration experience – Linux (Redhat), Mac, Windows
• SCM systems - Git
• Build tools - Maven, Gradle, Ant, Make
• Networking concepts - TCP/IP, Load balancing, Firewall
• High-Availability, Redundancy & Failover concepts
• SQL scripting & queries - DML, DDL, stored procedures
• Decisive and ability to work under pressure
• Prioritizing workload and multi-tasking ability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Database systems – Postgres, Oracle, or other RDBMS
• Mac automation tools - JAMF or other
• Atlassian Datacenter products
• Project management skills

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in the field or related area
• Requires MS or BS in Computer Science or equivalent field

• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps role.
• Deep understanding of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Proven record of infra automation and programming skills in any of these languages - Python, Ruby, Perl, Javascript.
• Implement DevOps Industry best practices and the application of procedures to achieve a continuously deployable system
• Continuously improve and increase the capabilities of the CI/CD pipeline
• Support engineering teams in the implementation of life-cycle infrastructure solutions and documentation operations in order to meet the engineering departments quality and standards
• Participate in production outages and handle complex issues and works towards resolution

As DevOps Engineer, you'll be part of the team building the stage for our Software Engineers to work on, helping to enhance our product performance and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build & operate infrastructure to support website, backed cluster, ML projects in the organization.
• Helping teams become more autonomous and allowing the Operation team to focus on improving the infrastructure and optimizing processes.
• Delivering system management tooling to the engineering teams.
• Working on your own applications which will be used internally.
• Contributing to open source projects that we are using (or that we may start).
• Be an advocate for engineering best practices in and out of the company.
• Organizing tech talks and participating in meetups and representing Box8 at industry events.
• Sharing pager duty for the rare instances of something serious happening.
• Collaborate with other developers to understand & setup tooling needed for Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Requirements:

• 1+ Years Of Industry Experience Scale existing back end systems to handle ever increasing amounts of traffic and new product requirements.
• Ruby On Rails or Python and Bash/Shell skills.
• Experience managing complex systems at scale.
• Experience with Docker, rkt or similar container engine.
• Experience with Kubernetes or similar clustering solutions.
• Experience with tools such as Ansible or Chef Understanding of the importance of smart metrics and alerting.
• Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring (we are on AWS and use ECS, ELB, EC2, Elasticache, Elasticsearch, S3, CloudWatch).
• Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases, including Postgres and Cassandra.
• Knowledge of data pipeline and workflow management tools: Azkaban, Luigi, Airflow, etc.
• Experience in working on linux based servers.
• Managing large scale production grade infrastructure on AWS Cloud.
• Good Knowledge on scripting languages like ruby, python or bash.
• Experience in creating in deployment pipeline from scratch.
• Expertise in any of the CI tools, preferably Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of docker containers and its usage.
• Using Infra/App Monitoring tools like, CloudWatch/Newrelic/Sensu.

Good to have:

• Knowledge of Ruby on Rails based applications and its deployment methodologies.
• Experience working on Container Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/ECS/Mesos.
• Extra Points For Experience With Front-end development NewRelic GCP Kafka, Elasticsearch.