Sr.DevOps 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

Location: Remote

Job Description :

• Strong hands-on knowledge on Azure DevOps.
• Mandatory Skills required :Azure Devops,docker,Kubernetes
• Skills required : Terraform,GIT,Jenkins,CI/CD,Pipelines,YAML,Scripting,Shell Scripting,Python, Gradle, Maven
• Require only developer experience profiles, and Admin roles are not required

Why LiftOff? 

We at LiftOff specialize in product creation, for our main forte lies in helping Entrepreneurs realize their dream. We have helped businesses and entrepreneurs launch more than 70 plus products.

Many on the team are serial entrepreneurs with a history of successful exits.

As a Devops Engineer, you will work directly with our founders and alongside our engineers on a variety of software projects covering various languages, frameworks, and application architectures.

Must Have 

*Work experience of at least 2 years with Kubernetes.

*Hands-on experience working with Kubernetes. Preferably on Azure Cloud.

*Well-versed with Kubectl

*Experience in using Azure Monitor, setting up analytics and reports for Azure containers and services.

*Monitoring and observability

*Setting Alerts and auto-scaling

Nice to have

*Scripting and automation

*Experience with Jenkins or any sort of CI/CD pipelines

*Past experience in setting up cloud infrastructure, configurations and database backups

*Experience with Azure App Service

*Experience of setting up web socket-based applications.

*Working knowledge of Azure APIM

We are a group of passionate people driven by core values. We strive to make every process transparent and have flexible work timings along with excellent startup culture and vibe.

Please find the JD below: 

• Candidate should have good Platform experience on Azure with Terraform. 
• The devops engineer needs to help developers, create the Pipelines and K8s Deployment Manifests. 
• Good to have experience on migrating data from (AWS) to Azure. 

• To manage/automate infrastructure automatically using Terraforms. Jenkins is the key CI/CD tool which we uses and it will be used to run these Terraforms. 
• VMs to be provisioned on Azure Cloud and managed. 
• Good hands-on experience of Networking on Cloud is required. 
• Ability to setup Database on VM as well as managed DB and Proper set up of cloud hosted microservices needs to be done to communicate with the db services. 
• Kubernetes, Storage, KeyValult, Networking (load balancing and routing) and VMs are the key infrastructure expertise which are essential. 

• Requirement is to administer Kubernetes cluster end to end. (Application deployment, managing namespaces, load balancing, policy setup, using blue green/canary deployment models etc). 
• The experience in AWS is desirable. 
• Python experience is optional however Power shell is mandatory. 
• Know-how on the use of GitHub 
• Administration of Azure Kubernetes services 

• Essentail Skills:
• Docker
• Jenkins
• Python dependency management using conda and pip

• Base Linux System Commands, Scripting
• Docker Container Build & Testing
• Common knowledge of minimizing container size and layers
• Inspecting containers for un-used / underutilized systems
• Multiple Linux OS support for virtual system

• Has experience as a user of jupyter / jupyter lab to test and fix usability issues in workbenches
• Templating out various configurations for different use cases (we use Python Jinja2 but are open to other languages / libraries)
• Jenkins PIpeline
• Github API Understanding to trigger builds, tags, releases
• Artifactory Experience
• Nice to have: Kubernetes, ArgoCD, other deployment automation tool sets (DevOps)

• Defining and documenting best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance
• Providing guidance, thought leadership and mentorship to development teams to build cloud competencies
• Ensuring application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design
• Managing cloud environments in accordance with company security guidelines
• Developing and implementing technical efforts to design, build and deploy AWS applications at the direction of lead architects, including large-scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling and advanced analytics
• Participating in all aspects of the software development life cycle for AWS solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance
• Troubleshooting incidents, identifying root cause, fixing and documenting problems and implementing preventive measures
• Educating teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training as required

Desired Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology
• 2+ years of experience as architect, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms
• Experience in several of the following areas: database architecture, ETL, business intelligence, big data, machine learning, advanced analytic
• Proven ability to collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists and subject matter experts
• Self-motivation with the ability to drive features to delivery
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Good logical sense, strong technical skills and the ability to learn new technologies quickly
• AWS certifications are a plus
• Knowledge of web services, API, REST, and RPC    

Job Brief:

We are looking for candidates that have experience in development and have performed CI/CD based projects. Should have a good hands-on Jenkins Master-Slave architecture, used AWS native services like CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy and CodePipeline. Should have experience in setting up cross platform CI/CD pipelines which can be across different cloud platforms or on-premise and cloud platform.

Job Location:

Pune.

Job Description:

• Hands on with AWS (Amazon Web Services) Cloud with DevOps services and CloudFormation.
• Experience interacting with customer.
• Excellent communication.
• Hands-on in creating and managing Jenkins job, Groovy scripting.
• Experience in setting up Cloud Agnostic and Cloud Native CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience in Maven.
• Experience in scripting languages like Bash, Powershell, Python.
• Experience in automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in Docker and Kuberneties with creating docker files.
• Hands on with version control systems like GitHub, Gitlab, TFS, BitBucket, etc.

• Azure Devops - Working experience in Azure yaml pipelines. (Note – Some say they worked in yaml but it’s for Jenkins and not Azure devops)
• Azure – Infrastructure automation using Terraform/ARM templates. (Note – Some say that they worked in terraform but it’s for AWS and not Azure). Please confirm Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.
• Powershell scripting to automate and deploy .Net applications.