Talented DevOps Supervisor with wide skills in programing and support

Job Description

We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have a passion for building and maintaining cloud infrastructure while ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our applications. You will be responsible for deploying and maintaining cloud environments, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring optimal performance through proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Cloud Infrastructure: Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on Microsoft Azure or AWS, ensuring scalability and reliability.
• CI/CD Pipeline Enhancement: Continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and build robust development and production environments.
• Application Deployment: Manage application deployments, ensuring high reliability and minimal downtime.
• Monitoring: Monitor infrastructure health and perform application log analysis to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and debug incidents, collaborating closely with development teams to implement effective solutions.
• Infrastructure as Code: Enhance Ansible roles and Terraform modules, maintaining best practices for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Tool Development: Write tools and utilities to streamline and improve infrastructure operations.
• SDLC Practices: Establish and uphold industry-standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices with a strong focus on quality.
• On-call Support: Be available 24/7 for on-call incident management for production environments.

Requirements:

• Cloud Experience: Hands-on experience deploying and provisioning virtual machines on Microsoft Azure or Amazon AWS.
• Linux Administration: Proficient with Linux systems and basic system administration tasks.
• Networking Knowledge: Working knowledge of network fundamentals (Ethernet, TCP/IP, WAF, DNS, etc.).
• Scripting Skills: Proficient in BASH and at least one high-level scripting language (Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Tools Proficiency: Familiarity with tools such as Git, Nagios, Snort, and OpenVPN.
• Containerization: Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes is mandatory.
• Communication Skills: Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to engage with peers, customers, vendors, and partners across all levels of the organization.

Role: DevOps engineer

We are looking for an experienced DevOps engineer that will work closely with our client’s team to establish DevOps practice. 

Your role will include establishing configuration management, automating the infrastructure, implementing continuous integration, and training the team in DevOps best practices to achieve a continuously deployable system.

You will be part of a continually growing team. You will have the chance to be creative and think of new ideas. You might also get the opportunity to work on some open-source projects, ranging from small to large.

What you’ll be doing – your role

Duties and tasks are varied and complex, and may require independent judgement; you should be fully competent in your own area of expertise. Some of the responsibilities associated with the role include:

• Improve CI/CD tooling
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
• Help support daily operations through the use of automation and assist in building a DevOps culture with our engineers for a better all-around software development and deployment experience
• Develop and maintain solutions for highly resilient services and infrastructure
• Implement automation to help deploy our services and maintain their operational health
• Contribute to the understanding of how our services are being used and help plan the capacity needs for future growth

 What do we expect – experience and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related technical field, involving coding
• 3+ years of experience running large-scale customer-facing services
• 2-3 years of DevOps experience
• A strong desire and aptitude for system automation defines success in this role
• Linux experience, including expertise in system installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting
• Experience with cloud-based providers such as AWS
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with web-based API/restful service
• Experience with Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code platforms (Terraform)
• Experience with at least one scripting language (Python, Bash, JavaScript)
• Methodical approach to troubleshooting and documenting issues
• Experience in Docker orchestration and management
• Experience with implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (mainly GitHub Actions and ArgoCD)
• Experience in implementing comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions using Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.

Main tasks

• Supervision of the CI/CD process for the automated builds and deployments of web services and web applications as well as desktop tool in the cloud and container environment
• Responsibility of the operations part of a DevOps organization especially for development at LS telcom in the environment of container technology and orchestration, e.g. with Kubernetes
• Installation, operation and monitoring of web applications in cloud data centers for the purpose of development of the test as well as for the operation of an own productive cloud as LS service
• Implementation of installations of the LS system solution especially in the container context
• Introduction, maintenance and improvement of installation solutions for LS development in the desktop and server environment as well as in the cloud and with on-premise Kubernetes
• Maintenance of the system installation documentation and implementation of trainings

Execution of internal software tests and support of involved teams and stakeholders

• Hands on Experience with Azure DevOps.

Qualification profile

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in communications engineering, electrical engineering, physics or comparable qualification
• Experience in software
• Installation and administration of Linux and Windows systems including network and firewalling aspects
• Experience with build and deployment automation with tools like Jenkins, Gradle, Argo or similar as well as system scripting (Bash, Power-Shell, etc.)
• Interest in operation and monitoring of applications in virtualized and containerized environments in cloud and on-premise
• Server environments, especially application, web-and database servers
• Knowledge in VMware/K3D/Rancer is an advantage
• Good spoken and written knowledge of English

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience

Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform

Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation

Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Familiarity with DevOps methodologies and tools such as Git, Jenkins, or Ansible

Strong problem-solving and analytical skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to work independently and as part of a team

Willingness to learn new technologies and tools as required

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
• Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.  Includes:
  • Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
  • Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
  • Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
  • A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
  • Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
  • Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
  • Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
• Security and monitoring
  • Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
  • Using APM and logging tools:
    • Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
    • Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
    • Alert upon exception events
    • Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
• Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
• Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
• Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
• Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
• Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
• Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
• Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
• Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.

Skills Required:

• Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
• Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
• Experience with CI/CD and Release management
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
• Demonstrable expertise in Java
• Familiarity with REST APIs

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• AWS Certifications is added advantage

• Administration and Support for Azure DevOps Server/Services
• Migration from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services (SaaS)
• Process Template Customization and Deployment model
• Migration, Upgrade, Monitor, and Maintenance of ADS Instance
• Automation using REST API to build Extensions and Custom Reporting
• Expert in all Modules of Azure DevOps Server/Service (Work Item, SCM/VC, Build, Release, Test, Reporting Management)"

• CICD Orchestration tools and other SCM/VC tools

• Microsoft MCSD Application Lifecycle Management certified
• A bachelor or master degree with a minimum of 6 years relevant work experience in Azure DevOps Server/Services (SaaS)
• Good communication skills
• Strong knowledge of application lifecycle workflows and processes involved in the design, development, deployment, test, and maintenance of software systems in the Windows environment
• Visual Studio and the .NET Framework experience is required "

• Administration and Support for Azure DevOps Server/Services
• Migration from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services (SaaS)
• Process Template Customization and Deployment model
• Work with the user community to adopt new features, enable new use cases, and help resolve any issues
• Create customizations and tools to help support the team’s needs (PM, Dev, Test, & Ops)
• Take the lead in the validation of the application.
• Monitor the health of the solution and take proactive steps to ensure reliable availability and performance
• Manage patches and updates for tooling solutions and related hosting environments including the operating system
• Automate the process for Maintenance"

Are you the one? Quick self-discovery test:

1. Love for the cloud: When was the last time your dinner entailed an act on “How would ‘Jerry Seinfeld’ pitch Cloud platform & products to this prospect” and your friend did the ‘Sheldon’ version of the same thing.
2. Passion: When was the last time you went to a remote gas station while on vacation and ended up helping the gas station owner saasify his 7 gas stations across other geographies.
3. Compassion for customers: You listen more than you speak.  When you do speak, people feel the need to listen.
4. Humor for life: When was the last time you told a concerned CEO, ‘If Elon Musk can attempt to take humanity to Mars, why can’t we take your business to run on the cloud?

Your bucket of undertakings:

This position will be responsible to consult with clients and propose architectural solutions to help move & improve infra from on-premise to cloud or help optimize cloud spend from one public cloud to the other.

1. Be the first one to experiment on new-age cloud offerings, help define the best practice as a thought leader for cloud, automation & Dev-Ops, be a solution visionary and technology expert across multiple channels.
2. Continually augment skills and learn new tech as the technology and client needs evolve
3. Use your experience in the Google cloud platform, AWS, or Microsoft Azure to build hybrid-cloud solutions for customers.
4. Provide leadership to project teams, and facilitate the definition of project deliverables around core Cloud-based technology and methods.
5. Define tracking mechanisms and ensure IT standards and methodology are met; deliver quality results.
6. Participate in technical reviews of requirements, designs, code, and other artifacts
7. Identify and keep abreast of new technical concepts in the google cloud platform
8. Security, Risk, and Compliance - Advise customers on best practices around access management, network setup, regulatory compliance, and related areas.

Accomplishment Set 

• Passionate, persuasive, articulate Cloud professional capable of quickly establishing interest and credibility 
• Good business judgment, a comfortable, open communication style, and a willingness and ability to work with customers and teams.
• Strong service attitude and a commitment to quality.
• Highly organised and efficient.
• Confident working with others to inspire a high-quality standard.

Experience :

• 4-8 years experience in Cloud Infrastructure and Operations domains
• Experience with Linux systems and/OR Windows servers
• Specialize in one or two cloud deployment platforms: AWS, GCP
• Hands on experience with AWS services (EKS, ECS, EC2, VPC, RDS, Lambda, GKE, Compute Engine, API Gateway, AppSync and ServiceMesh)
• Experience in one or more scripting language-Python, Bash
• Good understanding of Apache Web Server, Nginx, MySQL, MongoDB, Nagios
• Logging and Monitoring tools (ELK, Stackdriver, CloudWatch)
• DevOps Technologies (AWS DevOps, Jenkins, Git, Maven)
• Knowledge on Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Packer
• Experience working with deployment and orchestration technologies (such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos)

Education :

1. Is Education overrated? Yes. We believe so. However there is no way to locate you otherwise. So unfortunately we might have to look for a Bachelor's or Master's degree in engineering from a reputed institute or you should be programming from 12. And the latter is better. We will find you faster if you specify the latter in some manner. Not just degree, but we are not too thrilled by tech certifications too ... :)
2. To reiterate: Passion to tech-awesome, insatiable desire to learn the latest of the new-age cloud tech, highly analytical aptitude and a strong ‘desire to deliver’ outlives those fancy degrees!
3. 3-8 years of experience with hands-on experience in Cloud Computing (AWS/GCP) and IT operational experience in a global enterprise environment.
4. Good analytical, communication, problem solving, and learning skills.
5. Knowledge on programming against cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform and lean development methodologies.