DevOps Engineer

Alation continues to hire for roles at various locations with all interviewing and on-boarding done virtually due to COVID-19 crisis. Everyone new to the Alation team, along with our current workforce, will temporarily work from home until it is safe to return to our offices.

Alation pioneered the data catalog market and today is leading its evolution into a platform for a broad range of data intelligence solutions including data search & discovery, data governance, and digital transformation. Nearly 200 enterprises drive data culture, improve decision making, and realize business outcomes with Alation. For more information, visit https://www.alation.com/

What do we do as a company?
Alation is building a data-fluent world by changing the way people find, understand, and trust data. The first to bring a data catalog to market, Alation combines machine learning and human collaboration to bring confidence to data-driven decisions. More than 100 organizations, including eBay, Munich Re and Pfizer, leverage the Alation Data Catalog. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Alation is funded by Costanoa Ventures, Data Collective, Harmony Partners, Icon Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. For more information, visit alation.com.

Job Scope:
Alation is seeking a talented and highly technical DevOps Engineer to join our fast growing team in Chennai, India. The ideal candidate will communicate fearlessly to build trust. We need leaders who take active roles in shaping the future of engineering while embodying our core values.

As part of the DevOps Team, You will

• Assist with Plans for Development and QA teams to use CI/CD Jenkins Pipelines using JobDSL Groovy and AWS Cloud Based Infrastructure.
• Collaborate on estimates of work effort for all the User stories as a DevOps Team.
• Provide Technical and Cultural trainings, Guidance and resource support for multiple engineering teams in the DevOps Space.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in our DevOps owning services environments.

You may be a perfect fit if you:

• Have a degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• DevOps engineer with 4+ years of experience designing, developing and shipping software products and services with a distributed backend.
• Owning and developing for our Infrastructure environments.
• Strong in at least 2 programming and 1 scripting languages: ruby, python, groovy, bash, ps1.
• Desired tooling: chef, terraform or cloudformation, jobDSL experience.
• Developing automation for AWS, Azure, GCP, Jenkins, Atlassian, GitHub.
• Developing our release management and upgrade infrastructure.
• Developing configuration and integration tools with customer IT systems.
• Playing a key role in defining and implementing security practices.
• Experience with AWS products Like EC2, RDS, etc is a plus.
• Understand how to translate business requirements and “user needs” into code.
• Are adaptable and prepared for a fast-paced, evolving, growing, and dynamic environment.
• Have strong Git skills while working with an Agile team.
• Are able to identify solutions that improve the quality of service and reduce operational and support burden.
• You have a passion for elegance and simplicity.
• You take pride in designing solutions that will outlive the problem.

Additional Requirements:

• Additional Requirements:
• BTech/BE in Computer Science or Equivalent.
• Curious and Growth MindSet and always willing to learn new technologies.
• Can Do attitude and Ability to think outside of the box.
• Good Communication and Strong Interpersonal Skills.

More About Alation
Our founders have come together from different backgrounds: business, engineering, and design. This unique mix from our founding team is important to the Alation culture story. Today, our team consists of creators and communicators with varied backgrounds - from Stanford, to the Indian Institute of Technology, big companies and one-person startups, the United States, and abroad. We continue to seek ever more diverse perspectives as we grow.

Why Alation?

• Market-Leading Data Catalog Provider
• High-growth, collaborative environment with diverse and inclusive teams
• Continuous learning, enrichment and development opportunities
• Competitive pay and health offerings
• Flexible time off to relax and recharge and much, much more!