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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

About us

 

Classplus is India's largest B2B ed-tech start-up, enabling 1 Lac+ educators and content creators to create their digital identity with their own branded apps. Starting in 2018, we have grown more than 10x in the last year, into India's fastest-growing video learning platform.

 

Over the years, marquee investors like Tiger Global, Surge, GSV Ventures, Blume, Falcon, Capital, RTP Global, and Chimera Ventures have supported our vision. Thanks to our awesome and dedicated team, we achieved a major milestone in March this year when we secured a “Series-D” funding.

 

Now as we go global, we are super excited to have new folks on board who can take the rocketship higher🚀. Do you think you have what it takes to help us achieve this? Find Out Below!

 

 

What will you do?

 

· Define the overall process, which includes building a team for DevOps activities and ensuring that infrastructure changes are reviewed from an architecture and security perspective

 

· Create standardized tooling and templates for development teams to create CI/CD pipelines

 

· Ensure infrastructure is created and maintained using terraform

 

· Work with various stakeholders to design and implement infrastructure changes to support new feature sets in various product lines.

 

· Maintain transparency and clear visibility of costs associated with various product verticals, environments and work with stakeholders to plan for optimization and implementation

 

· Spearhead continuous experimenting and innovating initiatives to optimize the infrastructure in terms of uptime, availability, latency and costs

 

 

You should apply, if you

 

 

1. Are a seasoned Veteran: Have managed infrastructure at scale running web apps, microservices, and data pipelines using tools and languages like JavaScript(NodeJS), Go, Python, Java, Erlang, Elixir, C++ or Ruby (experience in any one of them is enough)

 

2. Are a Mr. Perfectionist: You have a strong bias for automation and taking the time to think about the right way to solve a problem versus quick fixes or band-aids.

 

3. Bring your A-Game: Have hands-on experience and ability to design/implement infrastructure with GCP services like Compute, Database, Storage, Load Balancers, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Firewalls, Message Brokers, Monitoring, Logging and experience in setting up backups, patching and DR planning

 

4. Are up with the times: Have expertise in one or more cloud platforms (Amazon WebServices or Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure), and have experience in creating and managing infrastructure completely through Terraform kind of tool

 

5. Have it all on your fingertips: Have experience building CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Docker for applications majorly running on Kubernetes. Hands-on experience in managing and troubleshooting applications running on K8s

 

6. Have nailed the data storage game: Good knowledge of Relational and NoSQL databases (MySQL,Mongo, BigQuery, Cassandra…)

 

7. Bring that extra zing: Have the ability to program/script is and strong fundamentals in Linux and Networking.

 

8. Know your toys: Have a good understanding of Microservices architecture, Big Data technologies and experience with highly available distributed systems, scaling data store technologies, and creating multi-tenant and self hosted environments, that’s a plus

 

 

Being Part of the Clan

 

At Classplus, you’re not an “employee” but a part of our “Clan”. So, you can forget about being bound by the clock as long as you’re crushing it workwise😎. Add to that some passionate people working with and around you, and what you get is the perfect work vibe you’ve been looking for!

 

It doesn’t matter how long your journey has been or your position in the hierarchy (we don’t do Sirs and Ma’ams); you’ll be heard, appreciated, and rewarded. One can say, we have a special place in our hearts for the Doers! ✊🏼❤️

 

Are you a go-getter with the chops to nail what you do? Then this is the place for you.

DevOps Engineer

Our engineering team is looking for Big-Data DevOps engineers to join the engineering team and help us automate the build, release, packaging and infrastructure provisioning and support processes. The candidate is expected to own the full life-cycle of provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, maintenance and support for cloud as well as on premise deployments.

 

Responsibilities

 

• 3-plus years of DevOps experience managing the Big Data application stack including HDFS, YARN, Spark, Hive and Hbase
• Deeper understanding of all the configurations required for installing and maintaining the infrastructure in the long run
• Experience setting up high availability, configuring resource allocation, setting up capacity schedulers, handling data recovery tasks
• Experience with middle-layer technologies including web servers (httpd, ningx),

application servers (Jboss, Tomcat) and database systems (postgres, mysql)

• Experience setting up enterprise security solutions including setting up active directories, firewalls, SSL certificates, Kerberos KDC servers, etc.
• Experience maintaining and hardening the infrastructure by regularly applying required security packages and patches
• Experience supporting on-premise solutions as well as on AWS cloud
• Experience working with and supporting Spark-based applications on YARN
• Experience with one or more automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc
• Experience working with CI/CD tools like Jenkins and various test report and coverage Plugins
• Experience defining and automating the build, versioning and release processes for complex enterprise products
• Experience supporting clients remotely and on-site
• Experience working with and supporting Java- and Python-based tech stacks would be a Plus

 

Position Summary

Cloud Engineer helps to solutionize, enable, migrate and onboard clients to a secure cloud
platform, which offload the heavy lifting for the clients so that they can focus on their own business
value creation.

 

Job Description

• Assessing existing customer systems and/or cloud environment to determine the best migration approach and supporting tools used
• Build a secure and compliant cloud environment, with a proven enterprise operating model, on-going cost optimisation, and day-to-day infrastructure management
• Provide and implement cloud solutions to reduce operational overhead and risk, and automates common activities, such as change requests, monitoring, patch management, security, and backup services, and provides full-lifecycle services to provision, run, and support their infrastructure
• Collaborate with internal service teams to meet the clients’ needs for their infrastructure and application deployments
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure deployments, recreate customer issues, and build proof of concept environments that abide by cloud-best-practices & well architecture frameworks
• Apply advanced troubleshooting techniques to provide unique solutions to our customers’ individual needs
• Work on critical, highly complex customer problems that will span across multiple cloud platforms and services
• Identify and drive improvements on process and technical related issues. Act as an escalation point of contact for the clients
• Drive clients meetings & communication during reviews

 

Requirement:

• Degree in computer science or a similar field.
• At least 2 year of experience in the field of cloud computing.
• Experience with CI/CD systems.
• Strong in Cloud services
• Exposure to AWS/GCP and other cloud-based infrastructure platforms
• Experience with AWS configuration and management – EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, IAM, VPC, RDS, CloudFront etc
• Exposure in architecting, designing, developing, and implementing cloud solutions on AWS platforms or other cloud server such as Azure, Google Cloud
• Proficient in the use and administration of all versions of MS Windows Server
• Experience with Linux and Windows system administration and web server configuration and monitoring
• Solid programming skills in Python, Java, Perl
• Good understanding of software design principles and best practices
• Good knowledge of REST APIs
• Should have hands-on experience in any deployment orchestration tool (Jenkins, Urbancode, Bamboo, etc.)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm charts
• Hands on experience in Ansible and Git repositories
• Knowledge in Maven / Gradle
• Azure, AWS, and GCP certifications are preferred.
• Troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Good communication and collaboration skills.

Required qualifications and must have skills  

• 5+ years of experience managing a team of 5+ infrastructure software engineers 

• 5+ years of experience in building and scaling technical infrastructure 

• 5+ years of experience in delivering software 

• Experience leading by influence in multi-team, cross-functional projects 

• Demonstrated experience recruiting and managing technical teams, including performance management and managing engineers 

• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, GCP, or Azure 

• Experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker 

Nice to have Skills   

• Experience with Hadoop, Hive and Presto 

• Application/infrastructure benchmarking and optimization 

• Familiarity with modern CI/CD practices 

• Familiarity with reliability best practices 

DevOps Architect 

Experience:  10 - 12+ year relevant experience on DevOps
Locations : Bangalore, Chennai, Pune, Hyderabad, Jaipur.

Qualification:
• Bachelors or advanced degree in Computer science, Software engineering or equivalent is required.
• Certifications in specific areas are desired

Technical Skillset: Skills Proficiency level

• Build tools (Ant or Maven) - Expert
• CI/CD tool (Jenkins or Github CI/CD) - Expert
• Cloud DevOps (AWS CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, Code Pipeline etc) or Azure DevOps. - Expert
• Infrastructure As Code (Terraform, Helm charts etc.) - Expert
• Containerization (Docker, Docker Registry) - Expert
• Scripting (linux) - Expert
• Cluster deployment (Kubernetes) & maintenance - Expert
• Programming (Java) - Intermediate
• Application Types for DevOps (Streaming like Spark, Kafka, Big data like Hadoop etc) - Expert
• Artifactory (JFrog) - Expert
• Monitoring & Reporting (Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty etc.) - Expert
• Ansible, MySQL, PostgreSQL - Intermediate

• Source Control (like Git, Bitbucket, Svn, VSTS etc)
• Continuous Integration (like Jenkins, Bamboo, VSTS )
• Infrastructure Automation (like Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
• Deployment Automation & Orchestration (like Jenkins, VSTS, Octopus Deploy)
• Container Concepts (Docker)
• Orchestration (Kubernetes, Mesos, Swarm)
• Cloud (like AWS, Azure, GoogleCloud, Openstack)

Roles and Responsibilities

• DevOps architect should automate the process with proper tools.
• Developing appropriate DevOps channels throughout the organization.
• Evaluating, implementing and streamlining DevOps practices.
• Establishing a continuous build environment to accelerate software deployment and development processes.
• Engineering general and effective processes.
• Helping operation and developers teams to solve their problems.
• Supervising, Examining and Handling technical operations.
• Providing a DevOps Process and Operations.
• Capacity to handle teams with leadership attitude.
• Must possess excellent automation skills and the ability to drive initiatives to automate processes.
• Building strong cross-functional leadership skills and working together with the operations and engineering teams to make sure that systems are scalable and secure.
• Excellent knowledge of software development and software testing methodologies along with configuration management practices in Unix and Linux-based environment.
• Possess sound knowledge of cloud-based environments.
• Experience in handling automated deployment CI/CD tools.
• Must possess excellent knowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Ansible, Chef, and Puppet).
• Hand on experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Must have strong expertise in operating Linux/Unix environments and scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Shell.
• Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines i.e., implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
• Previous experience in implementing continuous delivery and DevOps solutions.
• Experience in designing and building solutions to move data and process it.
• Must possess expertise in any of the coding languages depending on the nature of the job.
• Experience with containers and container orchestration tools (AKS, EKS, OpenShift, Kubernetes, etc)
• Experience with version control systems a must (GIT an advantage)
• Belief in "Infrastructure as a Code"(IaaC), including experience with open-source tools such as terraform
• Treats best practices for security as a requirement, not an afterthought
• Extensive experience with version control systems like GitLab and their use in release management, branching, merging, and integration strategies
• Experience working with Agile software development methodologies
• Proven ability to work on cross-functional Agile teams
• Mentor other engineers in best practices to improve their skills
• Creating suitable DevOps channels across the organization.
• Designing efficient practices.
• Delivering comprehensive best practices.
• Managing and reviewing technical operations.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Exceptional communication skills, be knowledgeable about the latest industry trends, and highly innovative

 

What you need to have:

JD for Devops

Experience: 5+ years

 

Job Description

Interprets the DevOps Tool/feature/component design to develop/support the same in accordance with specifications Adapts existing DevOps solutions and creates own DevOps solutions for new contexts Codes debugs tests documents and communicates DevOps development stages/status of DevOps develop/support issues Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components Optimises efficiency cost and quality of DevOps process tools and technology development Validates results with user representatives; integrates and commissions the overall solution Helps Engineers troubleshoot issues that are novel/complex and are not covered by SOPs Design install configure troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and software Able to automate infrastructure provisioning on cloud/in-premises with the guidance of architects Jenkins, Docker, K8’s, Spinnaker Java application, NodeJs, Springboot GitHub, GitActions Cloud (GoogleCLoud mandatory)

• Should have strong experience in working Configuration Management area, with tools preferably, TFSVC, TFS vNext OR GIT, SVN, Jenkins
• Strong working experience in tools related to Application Lifecycle Management, like Microsoft TFS
• Should have hands-on working experience in CICD (Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment) practices
• Strong be expertise in handling software builds & release mgmt. activities in Dotnet based environment / Java environment
• Strong skills in Perl or PowerShell or in any other scripting/automation/programming language
• Should have exposure to various build environments like dotNet, Java
• Should have experience with writing build scripts, automation of daily/nightly builds & deployment
• Good knowledge in Merging /Branching concepts.
• Good understanding of product life cycle management"
• Shall be very good technically; possess systems mindset and good problem-solving abilities
• Working with multisite teams, Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented
• Self-starter and quick learner and ability to work with minimal supervision
• Can play a key role in the team
• Strong team player with a “can-do” attitude
• Ability to handle conflicts
• Ability to stay focused on the target in an ambiguous situation
• Good communication and documentation skills"

 

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Ensure limited system failure and increase up-time and availability of the various company apps.
• Understand the current application infrastructure and strive for making it better.
• Automate infrastructure and develop tools and processes to improve the customer experience and reduce support time.
• Work closely with a team of developers and solution strategists to develop, deploy and troubleshoot the deployment and infrastructure issues.
• Manage full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environments.
• Set up a monitoring stack.
• Implement the application’s CI/CD pipeline using the AWS stack. Increasingly automate and improve the testing plans and development workflows and tools.
• Work closely with the engineers to design networks, systems, and storage environments that effectively reflect business needs, security requirements, and service level requirements.
• Manage a continuous integration/continuous deployment methodology for the server-based technologies.
• Proficient in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment. Experience working in an Agile, fast-paced, DevOps environment.
• Support internal and external customers on multiple platforms.
• First point of contact for handling customer issues, providing guidance and recommendations to increase efficiency and reduce customer incidents.
• Learn on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision.
• In addition to providing customer support, will be responsible for helping build tools and processes necessary for excellent customer outcomes.

Skills:

• Experience with the core AWS services, plus the specifics mentioned in this job description.
• Experience working with at least one of the following languages: Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin or Java.
• Proficient with Git and Git workflows and hosted enterprise Git solutions like GitHub.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience with. AWS EKS Kubernetes infrastructure setup.
• Experience creating Cloud Formation Template to create Auto Scaling Groups, Route 53, DNS, back-end database, Elastic load balancer, VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, Cloud Watch, S3, IAM roles, RDS DB instances, and to provide those instances and configure those resources to work together reducing the manual effort.
• Experience in deploying and monitoring microservices on Kubernetes, AWS ECS, and AWS EKS
• Security aware and ensures that all systems are security standards-compliant.
• Good background in Linux/Unix administration.
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Minimum 3-5 years of cloud development experience, preferably AWS
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins preferred.
• Good analytical and communication skills
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical discipline