Junior DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer, is one of the core positions in cloud native engineering team, where key responsibilities involve management of the platform and developing key features with the goal of providing innovative Cloud services to our customers. You will be working with container technologies and would be interacting with various development and engineering teams.

What the Role needs to Achieve

• Excellent communication skills for direct interaction with internal & external teams.
• Self-motivated and self-sufficient enthusiastic team player, able to work on own initiative
• Effective collaborator and communicator at all levels
• Can-do attitude, willing to go the extra mile
• Analytical and diligent, with great attention to detail
• Professional and positive, with outstanding customer-facing practices.

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• You will be involved in automating continuous integration pipelines using container native technologies.
• You will be responsible for deploying the container platform (Docker, Kubernetes), in various cloud environments.
• You will be responsible for proposing and implementing security measures related to container images, container engine and platform configuration, with the goal to achieve overall security of the platform
• You will be involved in writing and assessment of Dockerfile, build configuration and proposing possible optimizations as and when required.
• You will be responsible for maintaining continuous integration pipelines and continuous delivery pipelines, reducing the time from code to delivery
• You will be responsible for maintaining container registry platform, and application container images, that are required by Dev, QA and Delivery teams.
• You will be responsible for writing, maintaining Kubernetes application manifests and automate application deployment using them.
• You will be responsible for writing scripts in Python/Bash scripting languages with a goal to automate, integrate and monitor Kubernetes platform
• You will be responsible for implementing backup and restore services, for container platform, to ensure data availability and platform reliability.
• You will be responsible for communicating with different teams, while understanding their challenges, proposing relevant solutions and sharing platform integration knowledge.
• You will be responsible in producing and maintaining technical documents with respect to Design, Deployment, Network, Architecture, Backup and Restore plans for the platform.

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED

• Knowledge of Linux system administration is required.
• Basic knowledge of Docker Container and Kubernetes is required.
• Knowledge of networking and communication protocols, including TCP and HTTP(S) is required.
• Knowledge of data storage and retrieval using File management, Object Store and Databases (NoSQL and SQL) is expected.
• Basic Knowledge of virtualization, virtual-machines and cloud computing is preferred.
• Knowledge of Open SSL is required.

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

• E./ B. Tech in Computer/Electronic/IT or M.C.A or higher from a recognized university
• Certification in Linux System Administration
• Certification in Python Programming, Linux Shell Scripting or equivalent programming language
• Docker and Container Technology
• Kubernetes / Certified Kubernetes Administrator

EXPERIENCE

• Experience of scripting languages like Python and Bash is required.
• 1 + year experience of writing dockerfile, kubernetes yaml manifests is required.
• Hands-on experience in packaging Python, Perl, PHP, and Go Lang based applications is desired.
• Hands-on experience on REST API development is desired.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise grade applications is desired.