Senior Software Engineer

About Company:

• Role Overview

• Senior Engineer with a strong background and experience in cloud related technologies and architectures. Can design target cloud architectures to transform existing architectures together with the in-house team. Can actively hands-on configure and build cloud architectures and guide others.

• Key Knowledge

• 3-5+ years of experience in AWS/GCP or Azure technologies
• Is likely certified on one or more of the major cloud platforms
• Strong experience from hands-on work with technologies such as Terraform, K8S, Docker and orchestration of containers.
• Ability to guide and lead internal agile teams on cloud technology
• Background from the financial services industry or similar critical operational experience

• Configure, optimize, document, and support of the infrastructure components of software products (which are hosted in collocated facilities and cloud services such as AWS)
• Design and build tools and frameworks that support deployment and management and platforms
• Design, build, and deliver cloud computing solutions, hosted services, and underlying software infrastructures
• Build core functionality of our cloud-based platform product, deliver secure, reliable services and construct third party integrations
• Assist in coaching application developers on proper DevOps techniques for building scalable applications in the microservices paradigm
• Foster collaboration with software product development and architecture teams to ensure releases are delivered with repeatable and auditable processes
• Support and troubleshoot scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring, backup, and restores of different environments
• Work independently across multiple platforms and applications to understand dependencies
• Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability of continuous integration environments
• Design and architect solutions for existing client-facing applications as they are moved into cloud environments such as AWS
• Competencies
• Full understanding of scripting and automated process management in languages such as Shell, Ruby and/ or Python
• Working Knowledge SCM tools such as Git, GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services and related APIs
• Ability to deliver and manage web or cloud-based services
• General familiarity with monitoring tools
• General familiarity with configuration/provisioning tools such as Terraform
• Experience
• Experience working within an Agile type environment
• 4+ years of experience with cloud-based provisioning (Azure, AWS, Google), monitoring, troubleshooting, and related DevOps technologies
• 4+ years of experience with containerization/orchestration technologies like Rancher, Docker and Kubernetes

LogiNext is looking for a technically savvy and passionate Principal DevOps Engineer or Senior Database Administrator to cater to the development and operations efforts in product. You will choose and deploy tools and technologies to build and support a robust infrastructure.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable infrastructure. You have experience to automate and streamline the development operations and processes. You are a master in troubleshooting and resolving issues in dev, staging and production environments.

Responsibilities:

Design and implement scalable infrastructure for delivering and running web, mobile and big data applications on cloud Scale and optimise a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases (especially MongoDB), web servers, application frameworks, caches, and distributed messaging systems Automate the deployment and configuration of the virtualized infrastructure and the entire software stack Plan, implement and maintain robust backup and restoration policies ensuring low RTO and RPO Support several Linux servers running our SaaS platform stack on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud Define and build processes to identify performance bottlenecks and scaling pitfalls Manage robust monitoring and alerting infrastructure Explore new tools to improve development operations to automate daily tasks Ensure High Availability and Auto-failover with minimum or no manual interventions

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field 8 to 10 years of experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting Extensive experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure Experience 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 query analysis, peformance tuning, database redesigning, 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 skills

Required qualifications and must have skills  

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers 

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure 

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software 

• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers 

• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker 

Nice to have Skills   

• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto 

• Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices 

• Familiarity with reliability best practices 

We are hiring candidates who are looking to work in a cloud environment and ready to learn and adapt to the evolving technologies.

Linux Administrator Roles &  Responsibilities:

• 5+ or more years of professional experience with strong working expertise in Agile environments
• Deep knowledge in managing Linux servers.
• Managing Windows servers(Not Mandatory).
• Manage Web servers (Apache, Nginx).
• Manage Application servers.
• Strong background & experience in any one scripting language (Bash, Python)
• Manage firewall rules.
• Perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Basic administration of MySQL, MSSQL.
• Ready to learn and adapt to business requirements.
• Manage information security controls with best practises and processes.
• Support business requirements beyond working hours.
• Ensuring highest uptimes of the services.
• Monitoring resource usages.

Skills/Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, Software Engineering or a relevant field.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructures, Linux/Unix administration.
• Knowledge in managing databases such as My SQL, MS SQL.
• Knowledge of scripting languages such as Python, Bash.
• Knowledge in open-source technologies and cloud services like AWS, Azure is a plus. Candidates willing to learn will be preferred.
• Experience in managing web applications.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• 5+ years experience in the IT industry.

• Proven experience in handling large infrastructure and distributed systems like Kafka, Yarn, Elastic Search, etc..
• Familiarity with Python-related technologies and frameworks like Django or Pyramid.
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems internals and administration (e.g. filesystems, inodes, system calls, etc) or networking (e.g. TCP/IP, routing, network topologies, and hardware, SDN, etc)
• Familiarity with at least one of the cloud computing infrastructures - GCP / Azure / AWS
• Familiarity with task queue frameworks like Celery or Pika is a plus.
• Source code management and Implementation of security best practices.
• Experienced in building monitoring/metrics & alerting tool (APM tool), a custom dashboard for each Application stack against the supported environment
• Good understanding & implementation experience using 12-factor App principles
• Awareness of Cloud Security concepts
• Awareness of Information Security concepts and Best Practices

• Proficient in Java, Node or Python
• Experience with NewRelic, Splunk, SignalFx, DataDog etc.
• Monitoring and alerting experience
• Full stack development experience
• Hands-on with building and deploying micro services in Cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Experience with terraform w.r.t Infrastructure As Code
• Should have experience troubleshooting live production systems using monitoring/log analytics tools
• Should have experience leading a team (2 or more engineers)
• Experienced using Jenkins or similar deployment pipeline tools
• Understanding of distributed architectures