DevOps Engineer

Role description

Position: CloudOps Engineer Classification: Contractor

Reports to: Manager of CloudOps Travel Requirements: Possibly

Location: Bengaluru Supervisory Responsibility: Possibly

Objective: This position will assist in performing implementation, operation, monitoring, recovery, and performance tuning for infrastructure and application services at symplr.

The CloudOps team augments the symplr Development, IT teams by focusing on automation, CI/CD and operating production systems using a software engineering approach.

CloudOps goals include improving system performance, increasing operational observability, enhancing system stability, and reducing time for software delivery.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Be a champion for department initiatives and values by ensuring all actions promote the department s mission statement

Work Closely with AWS Professional Services team in the AWS migration project to migrate the symplr products from other hosting platforms into AWS Cloud.

Work closely with the DevOps engineers in setting up the controlled environments of symplr products built on the AWS Cloud using IaC.

Participate in release cycles of product by closely working with Engineering Managers, Architects and Developers during the AWS migration.

Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes, and remediate problems in the environment.

Implement monitoring, ing, notification and metrics collection for

Infrastructure and application performance

System uptime

Error rate

Monitor and continually improve the capacity and reliability of our production environment infrastructure.

Investigate and fix performance and scalability bottlenecks, proactively identify issues and create work items to improve stability and performance.

Identify single points of failure and other high-risk architecture issues and propose resilient resolutions to mitigate the risk thereby improving the system reliability.

See opportunities for automation and reduce the operational workload, build scripts, introduce new tools and practices as needed

Work with other Cloud Infrastructure engineers and developers to ensure maximum performance, reliability and automation of our deployments and infrastructure.

Communicate to stakeholders and handle the deployment/maintenance/support efficiently

Ticket Handling and Support

Tickets that are handled should have clear communication and correct stakeholders involved

Tickets should be completed within the SLA and should be clearly informed, documented if there are any delays or improper tickets.

Tickets should have proper comments to close the ticket including steps for resolutions, screen shots.

Tickets that are repetitive should be discussed in standup call for brainstorming and eventually should lead into resolution through automation if necessary.

Skills Required:

5+ years of experience with any public cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and On-Prem Servers

Hands-on experience on migrating workloads from On-prem or other cloud hosting platforms into AWS cloud.

Solid understanding of standard TCP/IP networking, Load Balancing and common protocols like DNS, HTTPS

Good knowledge on CI/CD tools like Azure ADO, GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc

Monitoring and Logging: Experience with any Application monitoring and logging tools (e.g. Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Application Insight, ELK, Prometheus).

Incident Management experience (from tools like PagerDuty)

Good understanding of Web Servers & Database

Good understanding in Docker and Kubernetes.

Good scripting knowledge & Software life cycles model.

Good understanding of DevOps practices.

Should have worked on high traffic & highly scalable systems in past

Knowledge of fundamental aspects for release automation (packaging, dependencies, promotion, deployment, compliance)

A passion for collecting, evaluating, and improving performance metrics.

Excellent time management, resource organization and priority establishment skills, and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment

Ability to work quickly and efficiently with minimal supervision

Excellent communication skills with both written and verbal

Qualifications:

Have HEART. To work here, you must be:

Humble - self-aware and respectful

Effective - measurably move the needle & immeasurably add value

Adaptable - innately curious and constantly changing

Remarkable - stand out in some way

Transparent - openly and honestly sharing knowledge

5+ years of Systems Engineering experience in the following areas

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and On-Prem Servers

Windows and Linux Servers

Application Monitoring Tools (Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Application Insights)

Log Aggregation Tools (Datadog, ELK, etc)

PowerShell, Bash, or Python scripting

CI/CD tools (Azure Pipelines, GithHub Actions, Jenkins, Octopus, etc.)

Infrastructure management tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

Application Hosting (IIS, Apache, Tomcat)

Bachelor s degree or equivalent experience

Shift Timing: 6:30 PM -3:30 AM IST

work location: Remote

Skills

devops,aws migration,cloud computing,cloud platform,cloud operations management,

About UST

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