DevOps Engineer - IT Consortium

This is a hands-on technical position. The ideal candidate has prior experience managing cloud based n-tier web applications and strives to solve traditional operations problems through automation and software.You must possess a high standard of excellence, solid written and verbal communication skills, have a strong customer focus, and be capable of technical deep-dives into operating systems, application performance, databases, load balancers, networks, and storage systems. You should be either a software developer with some experience and knowledge as a system administrator, or possibly a system administrator with some experience and knowledge as a programmer.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Build solutions to problems that interrupt availability, performance, and stability in our systems, services, and products at scale.
• Perform a wide variety of technical and administrative duties in overall systems design, development, and delivery.
• Work in conjunction with IT, engineering, and business groups to understand functionality, scalability, performance, security, and integration requirements.
• Maintain a good understanding of the application, systems, database architecture, and the general application functionality used to maintain data integrity.
• Drive operational cost reductions through service optimizations and demand based auto scaling.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience building and maintaining production systems on AWS using EC2, RDS, S3, ELB, Cloud Formation, etc. and familiarity interacting with the AWS APIs.
• Proficient in high level script languages preferably Python as well as script environments like bash
• Experience administering Linux (Centos, RHEL, Ubuntu) systems.
• Good understanding of configuration management concepts like Ansible.
• Experience with RDBMS (MySQL).
• A desire to automate yourself out of a job. We will always have new challenges and problems to solve.

Benefits

• Attractive Remuneration
• Medicals
• Employee Provident Fund Scheme
• Quarterly Bonuses based on performance
• Lunch
• Rent Subsidy