Position: Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

You have a deep interest in and passion for technology. You love writing and owning codes and enjoy working with people who will keep challenging you at every stage. You have strong problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making and excellent communication with interpersonal skills.

You are self-driven and motivated with the desire to work in a fast-paced, results-driven agile environment with varied responsibilities. You will also have to provide technical leadership and mentoring to a small team of highly talented and motivated engineers to deliver these solutions with the highest quality.

Locations: Bangalore India or Fumba, Zanzibar or Nairobi Kenya

Requirements:

• 6+ years prior experience in software product development and DevOps or TechOps.
• 3+ years prior experience in DevOps Automation
• Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology from premier institutes.
• Design, implement and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using core DevOps principles.
• Hands-on experience in using Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Docker, and Kubernetes with proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

Senior Software Engineer (DevOps) – Duties & Responsibilities:

• Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable.
• Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.
• Collaborate with the security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques, and integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration.
• Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery and release engineering to Development, QA and Production environments.
• Contribute to an efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.
• Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of environment automation.
• Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).
• Experience with middleware and databases like Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, MySQL or similar.
• Responsible for the stability and high availability of environments by using automation and self-healing principles.
• Understand and own component security analysis, including code and data flow review.
• Championing & driving application, infrastructure & enterprise security efforts, certificate management etc.
• Design and implement APIs, abstractions and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.
• Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, code best practices and lessons learned.
• Support in triaging and troubleshooting highly distributed services in production environments.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies and limitations.
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions.
• Mentor other engineers, define our technical culture, and help build a fast-growing team.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done.

Must have:

• 3+ years prior experience in DevOps Automation.
• Experience in handling native cloud infrastructure (RDMS, NoSQL, Networking, Compute Engines, Virtualization, Data Stores, Multi-layered Architectures, Proxies, Load balancing, API Gateways, Caching, CDN & other e-Commerce Stacks)
• Hands-on experience in Monitoring, Alerting, Log Management, Security, Availability, Performance, Web apps, Mobile Apps, Middleware & Microservices.
• Experience working on one or more large-scale applications/platforms
• Experience in handling complex production issues

Good to have.

• Knowledge of B2B & B2C retail eCommerce
• Experience developing, maintaining, and innovating large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
• Experience in a newer Spring boot or any good framework.

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