Solution Architect

Required Skills:

• Experience in systems administration, SRE or DevOps focused role
• Experience in handling production support (on-call)
• Good understanding of the Linux operating system and networking concepts.
• Demonstrated competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, EKS, S3, RDS, ELB, IAM, Lambda.
• Experience with Docker containers and containerization concepts
• Experience with managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• Experience building scalable infrastructure in AWS with Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of Protocol-level such as HTTP/HTTPS, SMTP, DNS, and LDAP
• Experience monitoring production systems
• Expertise in leveraging Automation / DevOps principles, experience with operational tools, and able to apply best practices for infrastructure and software deployment (Ansible).
• HAProxy, Nginx, SSH, MySQL configuration and operation experience
• Ability to work seamlessly with software developers, QA, project managers, and business development
• Ability to produce and maintain written documentation

What You will do

We're looking for bright Senior DevOps engineers that are deeply experienced individual contributors and dynamic team leaders, to join our dedicated DevOps Practice Group. As a Senior DevOps practitioner at Zemoso you’ll use your expertise to provide DevSecOps services to our customers and to our inhouse Dev teams.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or equivalent experience. 
• 15+ years of overall IT experience
• 10+ years of DevOps experience with 5+ years of it on Azure platform
• Relevant Azure Certification(s)

Must have experience

• IaC tools ARM/bicep template, Azure DevOps
• GITHub repo and GIT tools
• scripting languages Python, PowerShell, bash development experience
• CI/CD design, build management.
• Container tools Docker and Kubernetes
• Azure Policy and permissions provisioning.
• IT experience to design, development (Java Spring Boot), automated testing, REST API’s, Microservices, Pub/Sub architecture
• Costing, budgeting, forecasting, monitoring cloud expenses.
• Architecture drawings and proposals, presentations.
• Stakeholder management.
• Prototyping.

Nice to have experience

• IaC tools CloudFormation, Terraform 
• Build tools Apache Maven, Jenkins
• Networking: DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, CDN and VPN
• Security: NSG, firewall and Azure policies, HTTPS, SSL certificates, KMS key
• Authentication (IAM): SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, Keycloak-based IdAM, LDAP and AD, and/or 3rd-party SSO.
• Access: RBAC and ABAC
• Load Balancers: Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Encryption: PKI infrastructure, Certificate authorities, OCSP, CRL, CSRs, x.509 certificate structures, pkcs12 certificate containers

Additionally, we’re looking for individuals who:

• Will assist in the rollout and deployment of new product features, and deploy applications via automation with configuration management tools
• Will build applications and tools to reduce barriers, decrease friction and speed up delivery of products
• Can effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions.
• Have strong collaborative instincts and interpersonal skills; must enjoy and work well with a wide variety of stakeholders in a complex organization
• Will manage individual project priorities with guidance, meeting deadlines and deliverables.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Work from anywhere.
• Learning and gaining experience rapidly.
• Reimbursement for basic working set up at home.
• Insurance (including a top up insurance for COVID).

Location

Remote - work from anywhere.

About us:

Zemoso Technologies is a Software Product Market Fit Studio that brings silicon valley style rapid prototyping and rapid application builds to Entrepreneurs and Corporate innovation. We offer Innovation as a service and work on ideas from scratch and take it to the Product Market Fit stage using Design Thinking->Lean Execution->Agile Methodology.

We were featured as one of Deloitte Fastest 50 growing tech companies from India thrice (2016, 2018 and 2019). We were also featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific both in 2016 and 2018.

We are located in Hyderabad, India, and Dallas, US. We have recently incorporated another office in Waterloo, Canada.

Our founders have had past successes - founded a decision management company acquired by SAP AG (now part of Hana Big data stack & NetWeaver BPM), early engineering team of Zoho (leading billion $ SaaS player) & some Private Equity experience.

Marquee customers along with some exciting start-ups are part of our clientele.

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.
• Implement consistent observability, deployment and IaC setups
• Lead incident management and actively respond to escalations/incidents in the production environment from customers and the support team.
• Hire/Mentor other Infrastructure engineers and review their work to continuously ship improvements to production infrastructure and its tooling.
• Build and manage development infrastructure, and CI/CD pipelines for our teams to ship & test code faster.
• Lead infrastructure security audits

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in handling/building Production environments in AWS.
• At least 3 years of programming experience in building API/backend services for customer-facing applications in production.
• 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
• Experience in deploying and managing production Python/NodeJS/Golang applications to AWS EC2, ECS or EKS.
• Experience in security hardening of infrastructure, systems and services.
• Proficient in containerised environments such as Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes
• Experience in setting up and managing test/staging environments, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience in IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK
• Exposure/Experience in setting up or managing Cloudflare, Qualys and other related tools
• 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 – Hands-on experience with Nginx, Postgres, Postfix, Redis or Mongo systems.

**THIS IS A 100% WORK FROM OFFICE ROLE**

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will help our team establish DevOps practice. You will work closely with the technical lead to identify and establish DevOps practices in the company.
You will help us build scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure. You’ll implement monitoring for automated system health checks. Lastly, you’ll build our CI pipeline, and train and guide the team in DevOps practices.

ROLE and RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management
activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for
DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in
the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or
creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing
vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous
development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer

Essential Skills and Experience Technical Skills

• Proven 3+years of experience as DevOps
• A bachelor’s degree or higher qualification in computer science
• The ability to code and script in multiple languages and automation frameworks
like Python, C#, Java, Perl, Ruby, SQL Server, NoSQL, and MySQL
• An understanding of the best security practices and automating security testing and
updating in the CI/CD (continuous integration, continuous deployment) pipelines
• An ability to conveniently deploy monitoring and logging infrastructure using tools.
• Proficiency in container frameworks
• Mastery in the use of infrastructure automation toolsets like Terraform, Ansible, and command line interfaces for Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and other cloud platforms
• Certification in Cloud Security
• An understanding of various operating systems
• A strong focus on automation and agile development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• An ability to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple projects
simultaneously

OTHER INFORMATION

The DevOps Engineer will also be expected to demonstrate their commitment:
• to gedu values and regulations, including equal opportunities policy.
• the gedu’s Social, Economic and Environmental responsibilities and minimise environmental impact in the performance of the role and actively contribute to the delivery of gedu’s Environmental Policy.
• to their Health and Safety responsibilities to ensure their contribution to a safe and secure working environment for staff, students, and other visitors to the campus.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering or in a related field
• 4+ years of experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals
• Programming experience in Python/Shell scripting
• Strong AWS skills with knowledge of EC2, VPC, S3, RDS, Cloudfront, Route53, etc
• Experience in containerization (Docker) and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Experience in DevOps & CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Terraform, Helm
• Experience with SQL & NoSQL databases such as MySql, MongoDB, and ElasticSearch
• Debugging and troubleshooting skills using tools such as strace, tcpdump, etc
• Good understanding of networking protocol and security concerns (VPN, VPC, IG, NAT, AZ, Subnet)
• Experience with monitoring and data analysis tools such as Prometheus, EFK, etc
• Good communication & collaboration skills and attention to details
• Participation in rotating on-call duties