Job Description

BlueOptima's vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before.

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 180+ employees (and increasing every day) from 22 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment.

Location: Bangalore/Gurgaon, India
Department: Engineering



Job summary:

We are hiring for a CloudOps Engineer with experience in building and managing scalable linux environments hosted on AWS. With a knack for automating the simplest of tasks and ability to simplify the most complex of problems. An individual with great attention to details, who is genuine, confident, committed and not only passionate about technology, but excited to work in a fun and friendly environment.

Our groundbreaking product requires an exceptional environment setup.

We are seeking a skilled and talented engineer to work on our cloud environment, alerting/monitoring setup, developer services and along with our in-house developed solutions to solve complex problems and bring desirable efficiency and results.

Your team:

The CloudOps team is instrumental in setting up and configuring the BlueOptima infrastructure on AWS, as well as monitoring applications that are critical to the functioning of all the teams in engineering. We automate the automatable!! We are always interested in developing scripts or tools (preferably in Python) that can help reduce manual effort.

Each member of our team represents the commitment to the proper functioning of all components in the BlueOptima environment. We use multiple configuration management tools to host and secure the infrastructure, as well as to bootstrap and configure applications. Maintaining SLAs for uptime of these resources is paramount to the team.

You will be working with a diverse team with members located around our different offices, with whom you will be working hand-to-hand. This team is currently based in Gurgaon and Bangalore with rapid expansion in India at this moment.

Responsibilities and tasks:

Manage AWS services, covering (but not limited to) the following:

EC2, EBS, S3, Lambda and network configurations

IAM policies

Security perimeter on EC2, S3 and VPC

Route53, Guarduty, etc

Bootstrap and manage EC2 and On Premise infrastructure using configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible & Terraform

Design, install, configure, and maintain applications and clusters across the environment

Maintaining and Improving existing monitoring solutions such as Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager and Cloudwatch

Maintaining and Improving our existing log aggregation and alerting mechanism using ELK stack

Work with application teams to help them achieve success - specifically in areas of CI/CD, containerization and Kubernetes deployments

Support and improve the uptime for the Developer Services, such as Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins etc.

Identify, tackle, and mitigate system failures and vulnerabilities carrying security risk

Developing solutions, decreasing manual day to day involvement of regular items.

Provides leadership and supervision to the junior members of the team

Qualifications

What You Need to Succeed at BlueOptima:

Experience:

Bachelor's degree with overall 3 to 5 years of experience

2+ years of programming or scripting experience related to automation utilizing Python/Bash.

3+ years of experience in Linux Administration

3+ years of experience on AWS

Essential Skills:

Ability to support planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud and recommend improvements

Excellent hands-on experience in Ansible

Experience with scripting technologies, such as Python, Shell scripting,

Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts and processes and experience in CI/CD tools like Jenkins

Experience in monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, ELK Stack, Prometheus and Grafana.

Experience in troubleshooting Linux distributed systems

Experience in working with database/application backups and restoration with minimal downtime

An understanding of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like Terraform

Good experience with available containerization solutions like docker

Ability to work as part of an integrated team that is geographically dispersed, as well as work independently as required

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical knowledge of operating system security and hardening(linux)

Good understanding of Infrastructure/Network/Application Vulnerability Assessment.

Have excellent collaboration skills, a sense of ownership and is a team player

Desired:

In-hand experience in administration/improvement of Atlassian Services (Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence)

Experience with clustered and highly-available environments

Experience with postgres configuration management

Good understanding of various benchmarking standards like CIS, NIST, etc

Experience with administration/development of Kubernetes and it's ecosystem

Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanners like Nessus, Openvas, Nexpose,etc

Additional Information

Your career progression: In BlueOptima, we strive to strengthen your skills, widen your scope of work and develop your career fast. For this role, you can expect moving to a Senior CloudOps Engineer role depending up on your performance, skill-sets and interests

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

Global team with a creative, innovative and welcoming mindset

Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success

Freedom to create your own success story in a high performance environment

Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• 32 days of holidays - this includes public and religious holidays
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Extended to employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• Gratuity payments
• Claim Mobile/Internet expenses and Professional Development costs
• Leave Travel Allowance
• 12 Weeks Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Free drinks and snacks in the office
• International travel opportunities
• Global annual meet up (most recent meetups have been held in Cancun and India)
• High quality equipment (Ergonomic chairs and 32' screens)

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