Devops Engineer

Devops Engineer

*Experience: 4-6 Years
Location: Bangalore
Type: Full-time *

About Digit88:
Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience in building offshore development centers for US startups and MNCs over the last 7+ years. The founding team has 50+ years of product engineering and services experience out of India, China, and the US.

The Opportunity:
Digit88 manages and is expanding the dedicated offshore product development team for its US (Bay Area, NYC) based NLP/Chatbot platform development partner, that is building a next-generation AI/NLP/Chatbots based customer engagement platform. The candidate would be joining an existing team of 30+ engineers and help expand and lead the Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client, assume technical leadership of the highly scalable and available messaging platform that connects the conversational AI platform to human agents and, own and drive the technical excellence in the offshore development team.

Our Hunt:

Digit88 is seeking an enthusiastic Release Engineer with 4-6 years of hands on experience to join the engineering team for our Bay Area based partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product/engineering services company in a Release Engineer role, handling release management responsibilities in a high-availability, high-performance real-time and distributed systems on Linux OS is mandatory. Applicants must have a passion for engineering with accuracy and efficiency, be highly motivated and organized, able to work as part of a team, and also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities:
In this role, you'll get to:
Build and maintain cross-team platform components: infrastructure based on Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, application/infrastructure monitoring, and automation of other development-related processes
Design and Deploy Automation of Container Applications using Kubernetes and Docker
Setup application/system monitoring
Work with Developers/QA to build and validate containerized applications
Manage geographically deployed server farms
Document Deployment Processes, Services and Environments

Requirements:
BE/BTech with CS or related discipline
4+ years of experience as a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) or Systems Engineer
Advanced understanding of AWS services and components - VPC, IAM, EC2, ALB, ECS/EKS
Strong background in Linux Shell Programming.
Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra or DynamoDB)
Strong experience in Distributed Streaming Platform (Kafka/ Spark)
Strong experience in Docker Containers
Hands on experience with one or more of Java/Python/Go/NodeJS languages
Implementation Experience in automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) like Git (Source Repo), Maven/Gradle (build tool), Jenkins/Teamcity and Docker.
Hands-on experience in Kubernetes
Hands-on experience in Terraform
Experience in Package Management Tools like npm.
Experience with automation/configuration management tools like Salt/ Puppet/ Chef/ Ansible.
Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS is required) for application deployment.
Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
Experience in troubleshooting production issues and co-ordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
Proven experience in optimizing the company’s computing architecture.

Good to have:
AWS certification (Architect, Operations) is a plus
Experience in Kubernetes/Swarm is a plus.

Benefits & working @ Digit88
Comprehensive health and accident insurance

Attractive pay package

Creative, flexible and rewarding work environment

Opportunity to work with a founding team of serial entrepreneurs with multiple successful exits to their credit. The learning will be immense just as will the challenges