Sr. SDE - 3 - DevOps

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain robust monitoring solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, New Relic, etc.
• Configure alerting mechanisms to ensure proactive identification and resolution of potential issues.
• Creating and maintaining various Ansible playbooks for automation pieces.
• Ensure configuration and compliance with configuration management tools.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux-based systems.
• Troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas.
• Oversee the monitoring and stability of applications hosted on EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service).
• Work closely with development teams to optimize application performance.
• Prepare detailed reports on infrastructure resource usage.
• Identify means to optimize infrastructure utilization and reduce costs.
• Demonstrate expertise in managing and optimizing infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration with cloud services.
• Create documentation outlining the setup, configuration, and maintenance procedures for each monitoring tool.
• Develop and document incident response plans to address system outages or performance degradation promptly.
• Maintain an incident response playbook for reference during critical situations.
• Implement and document incident reporting procedures, including the creation of incident tickets, categorization, and prioritization.
• Lead incident management efforts, ensuring timely resolution and post-incident reviews for continuous improvement.
  

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with monitoring tools like New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog. (Preference is New Relic).
• Hands-on experience with Incident Management tools like Opsgenie and PagerDuty.
• Install, customize, support, and enhance system monitoring infrastructure.
• Integrate monitoring and incident management tools with the infrastructure.
• Support to day operation of our monitoring functions.
• Sit with teams and design end-to-end monitoring of the APIs and relevant workloads that are critical.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS/GCP or private cloud environments.
• Strong experience in Container Technologies (Docker/ Kubernetes) and containerizing applications.
• Monitoring concepts to be very strong, and should have experience with ELK stack, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Strong knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, and RHEL).
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across platforms and application domains.
• Proficiency in any programming or scripting language, such as Shell Script, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (e. g., Terraform).
• Experience with continuous integration, unit testing, and integration testing.
• Experience with RDBMS and NoSQL databases - PostgreSQL, MongoDB.
• Lead incident response efforts, providing timely resolution of system outages and performance issues.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated.
• Fintech experience - advantageous.