Sr. DevOps Software Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities:

• AWS Cloud Management: Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure. Optimize and maintain cloud resources for performance and cost efficiency. Monitor and ensure the security of cloud-based systems.
• Automated Provisioning: Develop and implement automated provisioning processes for infrastructure deployment. Utilize tools like Terraform and Packer to automate and streamline the provisioning of resources.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Champion the use of Infrastructure as Code principles. Collaborate with development and operations teams to define and maintain IaC scripts for infrastructure deployment and configuration.
• Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and provide DevOps expertise. Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders regarding infrastructure changes, updates, and improvements.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery processes. Ensure reliable and efficient deployment of applications through the development lifecycle.
• Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Implement monitoring solutions to track system performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize resource utilization. Proactively identify opportunities for system and process improvements. 

Mandatory Skills:

• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role, with a focus on AWS.
• Strong proficiency in automated provisioning and cloud management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, particularly Terraform and Packer.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills for effective collaboration.

Secondary Skills:

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK stack).

PortOne is re−imagining payments in Korea and other international markets. We are a Series B funded startup backed by prominent VC firms Softbank and Hanwa Capital

https://portone.io/global/en

PortOne provides a unified API for merchants to integrate with and manage all of the payment options available in Korea and SEA Markets - Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia etc. It's currently used by 2000+ companies and processing multi-billion dollars in annualized volume. We are building a team to take this product to international markets, and looking for engineers with a passion for fintech and digital payments.

Culture and Values at PortOne

• You will be joining a team that stands for Making a difference.
• You will be joining a culture that identifies more with Sports Teams rather than a 9 to 5 workplace.
• This will be remote role that allows you flexibility to save time on commute
• Your will have peers who are/have
• Highly Self Driven with A sense of purpose
• High Energy Levels - Building stuff is your sport
• Ownership - Solve customer problems end to end - Customer is your Boss
• Hunger to learn - Highly motivated to keep developing new tech skill sets

Who you are ?

* You are an athlete and Devops/DevSecOps is your sport.

* Your passion drives you to learn and build stuff and not because your manager tells you to.

* Your work ethic is that of an athlete preparing for your next marathon. Your sport drives you and you like being in the zone.

* You are NOT a clockwatcher renting out your time, and NOT have an attitude of "I will do only what is asked for"

* Enjoys solving problems and delight users both internally and externally

* Take pride in working on projects to successful completion involving a wide variety of technologies and systems

* Posses strong & effective communication skills and the ability to present complex ideas in a clear & concise way

* Responsible, self-directed, forward thinker, and operates with focus, discipline and minimal supervision

* A team player with a strong work ethic

Experience

* 2+ year of experience working as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* BE in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience

* Must have actively managed infrastructure components & devops for high quality and high scale products

* Proficient knowledge and experience on infra concepts - Networking/Load Balancing/High Availability

* Experience on designing and configuring infra in cloud service providers - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Knowledge on Secure Infrastructure practices and designs

* Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, Release Engineering, and Automation

* Experience with Agile development incorporating TDD / CI / CD practices

Hands on Skills

* Proficient in atleast one high level Programming Language: Go / Java / C

* Proficient in scripting - bash scripting etc - to build/glue together devops/datapipeline workflows

* Proficient in Cloud Services - AWS / GCP / AZURE

* Hands on experience on CI/CD & relevant tools - Jenkins / Travis / Gitops / SonarQube / JUnit / Mock frameworks

* Hands on experience on Kubenetes ecosystem & container based deployments - Kubernetes / Docker / Helm Charts / Vault / Packer / lstio / Flyway

* Hands on experience on Infra as code frameworks - Terraform / Crossplane / Ansible

* Version Control & Code Quality: Git / Github / Bitbucket / SonarQube

* Experience on Monitoring Tools: Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana / Prometheus / Grafana / Datadog / Nagios

* Experience with RDBMS Databases & Caching services: Postgres / MySql / Redis / CDN

* Experience with Data Pipelines/Worflow tools: Airflow / Kafka / Flink / Pub-Sub

* DevSecOps - Cloud Security Assessment, Best Practices & Automation

* DevSecOps - Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Preferrable to have Devops/Infra Experience for products in Payments/Fintech domain - Payment Gateways/Bank integrations etc

What will you do ?

Devops

* Provisioning the infrastructure using Crossplane/Terraform/Cloudformation scripts.

* Creating and Managing the AWS EC2, RDS, EKS, S3, VPC, KMS and IAM services, EKS clusters & RDS Databases.

* Monitor the infra to prevent outages/downtimes and honor our infra SLAs

* Deploy and manage new infra components.

* Update and Migrate the clusters and services.

* Reducing the cloud cost by enabling/scheduling for less utilized instances.

* Collaborate with stakeholders across the organization such as experts in - product, design, engineering

* Uphold best practices in Devops/DevSecOps and Infra management with attention to security best practices

DevSecOps

* Cloud Security Assessment & Automation

* Modify existing infra to adhere to security best practices

* Perform Threat Modelling of Web/Mobile applications

* Integrate security testing tools (SAST, DAST) in to CI/CD pipelines

* Incident management and remediation - Monitoring security incidents, recovery from and remediation of the issues

* Perform frequent Vulnerabiltiy Assessments/Penetration Testing for Web, Network and Mobile applications

* Ensure the environment is compliant to CIS, NIST, PCI etc.

Here are examples of apps/features you will be supporting as a Devops/DevSecOps Engineer

* Intuitive, easy-to-use APIs for payment process.

* Integrations with local payment gateways in international markets.

* Dashboard to manage gateways and transactions.

* Analytics platform to provide insights

Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

 3-5 years of experience in DevOps, systems administration, or software engineering roles.

 B. Tech. in computer science or related field from top tier engineering colleges.

 Strong technical skills in software development, systems administration, and cloud infrastructure management.

 Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terra form or Cloud Formation.

 Experience with containerization technologies such as Dockers and Kubernetes.

 Experience with cloud providers such as AWS or Azure.

 Experience with scripting languages such as Bash or Python.

 Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

 Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
• Responsive, reliable and results oriented with the ability to execute on aggressive plans
• A background in software development, with experience of working in an agile product software development environment
• An understanding of modern deployment tools (Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, etc.), workflow tools (Jira, Confluence) and practices (Agile (SCRUM), DevOps, etc.)
• Expert level experience with AWS tools, technologies and APIs associated with it - IAM, Cloud-Formation, Cloud Watch, AMIs, SNS, EC2, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS, VPC, ELB, IAM, Route 53, Security Groups, Lambda, VPC etc.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong DevOps skills across CI/CD and configuration management using Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Docker.
• Experience provisioning and spinning up AWS Clusters using Terraform, Helm, Helm Charts
• Ability to work across multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to manage and work with teams and customers across the globe

• Lead, inspire, and influence to make sure your team is successful
• Partner with the recruiting team to attract and retain high-quality and diverse talent
• Establish great rapport with other development teams, Product Managers, Sales, and Customer Success to maintain high levels of visibility, efficiency, and collaboration
• Ensure teams have appropriate technical direction, leadership, and balance between short-term impact and long-term architectural vision.
• Occasionally contributing to development tasks such as coding and feature verifications to assist teams with release commitments, to gain an understanding of the deeply technical product as well as to keep your technical acumen sharp

You'll need:

• BS/MS degree in CS-or- a related field with 5+ years of engineering management experience leading productive, high-functioning teams
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and development
• Ability to hire while ensuring a high hiring bar, keep engineers motivated, coach/mentor, and handle performance management
• Experience running production services in Public Clouds such as AWS, GCP, and Azure
• Experience with running large stateful data systems in the Cloud
• Prior knowledge of Cloud architecture and implementation features (multi-tenancy, containerization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• A great track record of shipping features and hitting deadlines consistently; should be able to move fast, build in increments and iterate; have a sense of urgency, aggressive mindset towards achieving results and excellent prioritization skills; able to anticipate future technical needs for the product and craft plans to realize them
• Ability to influence the team, peers, and upper management using effective communication and collaborative techniques; focused on building and maintaining a culture of collaboration within the team

• 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

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