Principle DevOps Engineer

This is a remote position.

looking for a technically savvy and passionate Principal DevOps Engineer or Senior Database Administrator to cater to the development and operations efforts in product. You will choose and deploy tools and technologies to build and support a robust infrastructure.

You have hands-on experience in building secure, high-performing and scalable infrastructure. You have experience to automate and streamline the development operations and processes. You are a master in troubleshooting and resolving issues in dev, staging and production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement scalable infrastructure for delivering and running web, mobile and big data applications on cloud
  
• Scale and optimise a variety of SQL and NoSQL databases (especially MongoDB), web servers, application frameworks, caches, and distributed messaging systems
  
• Automate the deployment and configuration of the virtualized infrastructure and the entire software stack
  
• Plan, implement and maintain robust backup and restoration policies ensuring low RTO and RPO
  
• Support several Linux servers running our SaaS platform stack on AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud
  
• Define and build processes to identify performance bottlenecks and scaling pitfalls
  
• Manage robust monitoring and alerting infrastructure 
  
• Explore new tools to improve development operations to automate daily tasks
  
• Ensure High Availability and Auto-failover with minimum or no manual interventions
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field
  
• 7+ years of experience in designing and maintaining high volume and scalable micro-services architecture on cloud infrastructure
  
• Strong background in Linux/Unix Administration and Python/Shell Scripting
  
• Extensive experience working with cloud platforms like AWS (EC2, ELB, S3, Auto-scaling, VPC, Lambda), GCP, Azure
  
• Experience in deployment automation, Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (Jenkins, Maven, Puppet, Chef, GitLab) and monitoring tools like Zabbix, Cloud Watch Monitoring, Nagios
  
• Knowledge of Java Virtual Machines, Apache Tomcat, Nginx, Apache Kafka, Microservices architecture, Caching mechanisms
  
• Experience in query analysis, peformance tuning, database redesigning, 
  
• Experience in enterprise application development, maintenance and operations
  
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
  
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, judgment and decision-making skills