

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets.
As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following
- Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support HPC applications
- Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud.
- Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally.
- Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis.
- Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
- NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case.
- Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm.
- BackUps - Identify and automate back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless.
- Access Control - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins.
- Operating System -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions.
- Configuration management -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same.
- Data Storage & Security Planning - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
- Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity.
- Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc
Qualifications
- Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
- 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
- Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
- Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
- Efficient in scripting languages and python
Desirables
- Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
- Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.
APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

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Must Have -
a. Background working with Startups
b. Good knowledge of Kubernetes & Docker
c. Background working in Azure
What you’ll be doing
- Ensure that our applications and environments are stable, scalable, secure and performing as expected.
- Proactively engage and work in alignment with cross-functional colleagues to understand their requirements, contributing to and providing suitable supporting solutions.
- Develop and introduce systems to aid and facilitate rapid growth including implementation of deployment policies, designing and implementing new procedures, configuration management and planning of patches and for capacity upgrades
- Observability: ensure suitable levels of monitoring and alerting are in place to keep engineers aware of issues.
- Establish runbooks and procedures to keep outages to a minimum. Jump in before users notice that things are off track, then automate it for the future.
- Automate everything so that nothing is ever done manually in production.
- Identify and mitigate reliability and security risks. Make sure we are prepared for peak times,
- DDoS attacks and fat fingers.
- Troubleshoot issues across the whole stack - software, applications and network.
- Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables as part of a self-organizing team.
- Learn and unlearn every day by exchanging knowledge and new insights, conducting constructive code reviews, and participating in retrospectives.
Requirements
- 2+ years extensive experience of Linux server administration include patching, packaging (rpm), performance tuning, networking, user management, and security.
- 2+ years of implementing systems that are highly available, secure, scalable, and self-healingon Azure cloud platform
- Strong understanding of networking, especially in cloud environments along with a good understanding of CICD.
- Prior experience implementing industry standard security best practices, including those recommended by Azure
- Proficiency with Bash, and any high-level scripting language.
- Basic working knowledge of observability stacks like ELK, prometheus, grafana, Signoz etc
- Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code and Infrastructure Testing, preferably using Pulumi/Terraform.
- Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker/Kubernetes.
- Excellent communication skills, spoken as well as written, with a demonstrated ability to articulate technical problems and projects to all stakeholders.

- Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools(IaS) like Terraform and Cloud Formation.
- Proficiency in cloud-native technologies and architectures (Docker/ Kubernetes), Ci/CD pipelines.
- Good experience in Javascript.
- Expertise in Linux / Windows environment.
- Good Experience in Scripting languages like PowerShell / Bash/ Python.
- Proficiency in revision control and DevOps best practices like Git

We will share our workload as a team and we expect you to work on a broad range of tasks. Here’s are some of the things you might have to do on any given day:
- Developing APIs and endpoints for deployments of our product
- Infrastructure Development such as building databases, creating and maintaining automated jobs
- Build out the back-end to deploy and scale our product
- Build POCs for client deployments
- Document your code, write test cases, etc.
The AWS Cloud/Devops Engineer will be working with the engineering team and focusing on AWS infrastructure and automation. A key part of the role is championing and leading infrastructure as code. The Engineer will work closely with the Manager of Operations and Devops to build, manage and automate our AWS infrastructure.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design cloud infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and highly available on AWS
- Work collaboratively with software engineering to define infrastructure and deployment requirements
- Provision, configure and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure defined as code
- Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools
- Administer and troubleshoot Linux based systems
- Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
- Build and maintain operational tools for deployment, monitoring, and analysis of AWS infrastructure and systems
- Perform infrastructure cost analysis and optimization
Qualifications:
- At least 1-5 years of experience building and maintaining AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Security Groups, IAM, ECS, CodeDeploy, CloudFront, S3)
- Strong understanding of how to secure AWS environments and meet compliance requirements
- Expertise using Chef for configuration management
- Hands-on experience deploying and managing infrastructure with Terraform
- Solid foundation of networking and Linux administration
- Experience with CI-CD, Docker, GitLab, Jenkins, ELK and deploying applications on AWS
- Ability to learn/use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Strong bias for action and ownership
- Demonstrated experience with AWS
- Knowledge of servers, networks, storage, client-server systems, and firewalls
- Strong expertise in Windows and/or Linux operating systems, including system architecture and design, as well as experience supporting and troubleshooting stability and performance issues
- Thorough understanding of and experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMWare/Hyper-V)
- Knowledge of core network services such as DHCP, DNS, IP routing, VLANs, layer 2/3 routing, and load balancing is required
- Experience in reading, writing or modifying PowerShell, Bash scripts & Python code.Experience using git
- Working know-how of software-defined lifecycles, product packaging, and deployments
- POSTGRESSQL or Oracle database administration (Backup, Restore, Tuning, Monitoring, Management)
- At least 2 from AWS Associate Solutions Architect, DevOps, or SysOps
- At least 1 from AWS Professional Solutions Architect, DevOps
- AWS: S3, Redshift, DynamoDB, EC2, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch etc.
- Bigdata: Databricks, Cloudera, Glue and Athena
- DevOps: Jenkins, Bitbucket
- Automation: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Python, Shell scripting Experience in automating AWS infrastructure with Terraform.
- Experience in database technologies is a plus.
- Knowledge in all aspects of DevOps (source control, continuous integration, deployments, etc.)
- Proficiency in security implementation best practices on IAM policies, KMS encryption, Secrets Management, Network Security Groups etc.
- Experience working in the SCRUM Environment


Cloud native technologies - Kubernetes (EKS, GKE, AKS), AWS ECS, Helm, CircleCI, Harness, Severless platforms (AWS Fargate etc.)
Infrastructure as Code tools - Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
Scripting - Python, Bash
Desired Skills & Experience:
Projects/Internships with coding experience in either of Javascript, Python, Golang, Java etc.
Hands-on scripting and software development fluency in any programming language (Python, Go, Node, Ruby).
Basic understanding of Computer Science fundamentals - Networking, Web Architecture etc.
Infrastructure automation experience with knowledge of at least a few of these tools: Chef, Puppet, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform, Packer, Jenkins etc.
Bonus points if you have contributed to open source projects, participated in competitive coding platforms like Hackerearth, CodeForces, SPOJ etc.
You’re willing to learn various new technologies and concepts. The “cloud-native” field of software is evolving fast and you’ll need to quickly learn new technologies as required.
Communication: You like discussing a plan upfront, welcome collaboration, and are an excellent verbal and written communicator.
B.E/B.Tech/M.Tech or equivalent experience.
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○ 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

If you are looking for good opportunity in Cloud Development/Devops. Here is the right opportunity.
EXP: 4-10 YRs
Location:Pune
Job Type: Permanent
Minimum qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor-Master degree
- Proficient in English language.
Relevant experience:
- Should have been working for at least four years as a DevOps/Cloud Engineer
- Should have worked on AWS Cloud Environment in depth
- Should have been working in an Infrastructure as code environment or understands it very clearly.
- Has done Infrastructure coding using Cloudformation/Terraform and Configuration Management using Chef/Ansibleand Enterprise Bus(RabbitMQ/Kafka)
- Deep understanding of the microservice design and aware of centralized Caching(Redis), centralizedconfiguration(Consul/Zookeeper)
● Responsible for design, development, and implementation of Cloud solutions.
● Responsible for achieving automation & orchestration of tools(Puppet/Chef)
● Monitoring the product's security & health(Datadog/Newrelic)
● Managing and Maintaining databases(Mongo & Postgres)
● Automating Infrastructure using AWS services like CloudFormation
● Participating in Infrastructure Security Audits
● Migrating to Container technologies (Docker/Kubernetes)
● Should be able to work on serverless concepts (AWS Lambda)
● Should be able to work with AWS services like EC2, S3, Cloud-formation, EKS, IAM, RDS, ..etc
What you bring:
● Problem-solving skills that enable you to identify the best solutions.
● Team collaboration and flexibility at work.
● Strong verbal and written communication skills that will help in presenting complex ideas
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● an accessible and engaging way.
● Ability to choose the best tools and technologies which best fits the business needs.
Aviso offers:
● Dynamic, diverse, inclusive startup environment driven by transparency and velocity
● Bright, open, sunny working environment and collaborative office space
● Convenient office locations in Redwood City, Hyderabad and Bangalore tech hubs
● Competitive salaries and company equity, and a focus on developing world class talent operations
● Comprehensive health insurance available (medical) for you and your family
● Unlimited leaves with manager approval and a 3 month paid sabbatical after 3 years of service
● CEO moonshots projects with cash awards every quarter
● Upskilling and learning support including via paid conferences, online courses, and certifications
● Every month Rupees 2,500 will be credited to Sudexo meal card


