Senior Devops Engineer

Job Description

Please apply only if you are willing to relocate to kochi. An exciting opportunity to join an established UK based company with 20% year on year growth rate. A rapidly growing UK based software (SaaS) company dedicated to providing cutting-edge solutions for the logistics and transportation industry. With ongoing investment in new products, we offer the excitement and innovation of a start-up coupled with the stability and benefits of an established business. What would you be doing? You will pioneer our DevOps team in India. You will help us to adopt Kubernetes across teams You will support us in the transition from a monolithic architecture to microservices Create and maintain our pipelines Mentor and develop the other DevOps engineers You will ensure our entire infrastructure is codified and can be provisioned with a single command Continuously improve DevOps engineering practices Encourage innovation, implementation of cutting-edge technologies, inclusion, outside-of-the box thinking, teamwork, self-organization, and diversity Managing performance and provide constructive feedback, helping the members of your team become the best they can Define your career path and embrace the opportunity to grow and learn Benefit from working in a multi-disciplinary team, that uses modern software and product development techniques, and values continuous improvement You will report to the Head of DevOps What are we expecting from you? 6+ years in a DevOps role BS degree in Engineering or Computer Science or equivalent experience You are hands-on (this is a hands-on role) Superior knowledge of working in cloud-based infrastructure, in particular AWS Outstanding experience deploying and managing Kubernetes/Docker clusters Master of Infrastructure as Code, in particular with Terraform Deep knowledge of New Relic and monitoring best practices Demonstrable knowledge of microservices oriented architectures Familiarity with Multi Region Topologies, Auto Scaling, Load Balancers, Proxy Servers, SNS, SQS, DNS, CDNs and WAFs Capable of architecting frictionless security and compliance best practices into global cloud infrastructure Good knowledge of configuration management tools, preferably Ansible Vast experience with build tools, especially with Jenkins. Guardian of secrets, hands-on experience with KMS secrets manager and EKS integration Custodian of artifacts, experience with Amazon EKS, ECR, Code Artifact Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores Experience working with RDBMS like PostgreSQL, MySQL Experienced working in/with Lean, DevOps culture Nice to have: Solid knowledge of Nginx and Apache HTTP Server You deployed on production Apache Pulsar You deployed on production, and upgraded Apache Open Search Solid understanding of service discovery and distributed key-value stores At easy using Python and/or Shell scripting Possessing any AWS certification will be an added advantage.