Digit88 is a niche product engineering consulting company based out of Bangalore with experience of establishing and managing offshore development centers for US start-ups and MNCs over the last 6+ 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 16+ engineers and help expand Platform Engineering, Production Support and Monitoring services for our client.
Job Profile:
Digit88 is seeking an enthusiastic Site Reliability Engineer (DevOps) with 5-8 years of hands on experience to join the platform engineering and DevOps team for our Bay Area based partner. Experience with a fast-paced India/US product/engineering services company in a Senior Dev Ops engineer role, setting up and maintaining a high-availability, high-performance real-time system 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:
- 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
- 5+ 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
- Deep experience with Linux administration and network stack
- Strong background in Linux Shell Programming.
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL (Cassandra or DynamoDB)
- Strong experience in Distributed Streaming Platform (Kafka/ Spark)
- 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.
- 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 coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
- Proven experience in optimizing the company’s computing architecture.
- Hands on experience in conducting systems tests for security, performance
- Experience in troubleshooting production issues and coordinate with the development team to streamline code deployment.
Good to have:
- AWS certification (Architect, Operations) is a plus
- Experience in Kubernetes/Swarm is a plus.
Additional Project/Soft Skills:
- Strong verbal and written communication with ability to articulate problems and solutions over the phone and emails.
- Strong sense of urgency, with a passion for accuracy and timeliness.
- Ability to work calmly in high pressure situations and manage multiple projects/tasks.
- Ability to work independently and possess superior skills in issue resolution
Benefits & working @ Digit88
- Comprehensive health and accident insurance
- Attractive pay package
- Bonus/Revenue share opportunities
- 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!
