Senior DevOps Engineer

PrivateCircle delivers the power of technology and intelligence to investors and companies and enables growth and value creation in the private unlisted markets. PrivateCircle intelligence makes it easier for investors to know everything about a company, and a company to know everything about an investor.

Our intelligence is used by more than 250 customers across Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Bankers, and Corporates. Our intelligence covers the entire universe of Indian private companies and investors. We are gearing to power growth and transactions in private markets in India and around the world. We want our solutions to be reliable, timely and trustworthy to make investment and business decisions.

PrivateCircle was founded in 2015 by IIT Madras Alumni Mr. Krishna Saraswati and Mr. Avinash Loganathan. As of Jan 2023, we have 100+ employees out of which 30+ are in tech related roles.

As a fintech startup we have 3 products in the market.

1. PrivateCircle Research: Private Market Intelligence product.
2. PrivateCircle Connect: Intelligent Prospecting tool for Sales teams.
3. PrivateCircle Markets: Investment opportunities discovery platform. Senior DevOps Engineer We are looking for a DevOps engineer (minimum 7 years of experience) to help us build scalable, functional systems to improve customer experience and provide support to our engineering team.

Objectives:

• Optimize deployment architecture and sizing in a cloud native ecosystem comprising of following platforms for PC products, based on workload projection. Note: most of our platforms are deployed on BareMetal Cloud infra
o Terraform and Ansible
o MongoDB
o ELK
o PostGres
o RabbitMQ
o Django
• Create an automated process for generation of app availability and usage metrics based on PC product ecosystem, to be used for decision making on optimization, including decommissioning.
• Create performance model(s) and test harness(es) for PC products based on their architecture, usage characteristics and growth in data and user base. This is especially relevant as we move towards a SaaS model.

*Responsibilities: *

• Develop scripts to automate collection of statistics.
• Create dashboards to drive management decisions.
• Train and build internal capacity in the engineering team.
• Deploying product updates, diagnosing and resolving production issues and implementing integrations to serve the requirements of all teams.
• Ultimately, you will execute and automate operational processes at all levels quickly, reliably and securely.

*Requirements: *

• Work experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role.
• Good working knowledge of Python.
• Hands-on experience with deployment automation tools like Ansible. • In-depth knowledge of relational databases and SQL.
• Experience with MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• Experience with RabbitMQ and Redis.
• Experience using system monitoring tools, automated testing frameworks and implementing server-side security.
• Knowledge of at least one cloud platform like AWS, Digital Ocean, Linode, GCP or Azure.
• Proficiency in scripting, Git, Git workflows and creating CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Gitlab and Gitlab CI/CD is a plus.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or any container technologies is a plus.
• Problem-solving attitude.
• Team spirit.

For the above, relevant areas of experience required as mandatory.
• Infrastructure design and sizing in cloud native environment, with high availability, high data volumes being ingested, processed and queried. Must have full lifecycle experience of scale out of a cloud platform.
• Cloud network design and Layer 4 and Layer 7 load balancing
• Application integration architecture based on set of platforms mentioned in section above.
• Understanding of security architecture in PC tech stack
• Performance engineering framework design and implementation in a cloud-native ecosystem, comprising of webapps and SaaS models.
• Product evaluation, licensing and deployment of open-source products/platforms to integrate as seamlessly as possible with existing infra.

We offer a dynamic and fast-paced work environment with ample opportunities for growth and advancement. If you're a highly motivated individual with a desire to work with cutting-edge technologies, please apply today! Know more about us on www.privatecircle.co