Associate DevOps Engineer

Company Description

BlueOptima’s vision is to become the global reference for the optimisation of the performance of Software Engineers across all industries. We provide industry-leading objective metrics in software development. We enable large organisations to deliver better software, faster and at lower cost, with technology that pushes the limits of what has been done before. 

We are a global company which has consistently doubled in headcount and revenue YoY, with no external investment. We currently are located in 4 countries: London (our HQ), Mexico, India and the US. A total number of 110 employees (and increasing every day) from 34 different nationalities and with over 25 languages spoken.

We promote an open minded environment and encourage our employees to create their own success story in this high performance environment. 

Location: Bangalore, India
Department: Engineering

Job Description

We are looking for skilled and talented engineers to join our Platform team and directly contribute to Continuous Delivery, and improve the state of art in CI/CD and Observability within BlueOptima.

As an Associate DevOps Engineer, you will define and outline CI/CD related aspects and collaborate with application teams on imparting training and enforcing best practices to follow for CI/CD and also directly implement , maintain, and consult on the observability and monitoring framework that supports the needs of multiple internal stakeholders. 

Your team: The Platform team in BlueOptima works across Product lines and is responsible for providing a scalable technology platform which is used by the Product team to build their application, improve performance of it, or even improve the SDLC by improving the application delivery pipeline, etc. 

The platform team is also responsible for driving technology adoption across the product development team. The team works on components that are common across product lines like IAM (Identity & Access Management), Auto Scaling, APM (Application Performance Monitoring) and CI/CD, etc.

Responsibilities and Tasks: 

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and related processes, working within established frameworks.
• Contribute to improving the build process by automating tasks and reducing manual intervention, under guidance. 
• Assist in automating deployments and rollback procedures for various environments, including production. 
• Follow established guidelines and standards for automated testing within the CI/CD pipeline, including artifact generation and promotions.
• Automate deployments and rollbacks to production environments, executing established procedures. 
• Collaborate with engineering teams, application developers, and infrastructure teams to understand monitoring needs and utilize provided tooling to improve application observability. 
• Stay informed about emerging observability tools and trends and contribute to enhancing existing systems and processes. 
• Utilize approved tools to address specific problems within applications. 
• Collaborate with application teams on:
• Implementing logging standards. 
• Configuring application metrics tracking and assisting with visualization on Grafana (or similar tools). 
• Setting up alerts for application health monitoring in production. (Instead of "Define alerts")
• Utilizing tooling such as APM, E2E, etc.
• Contribute to improving existing DevOps practices. 
• Assist in tool training sessions and ensure training materials are kept up-to-date. 

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 1-3 years of experience with implementation, operations, maintenance of IT systems and/or administration of software functions in multi-platform and multi-system environments.
• Experience of having developed containerized application components, using docker or similar solutions in previous roles.
• Familiarity with metrics and logging libraries and aggregators, data analysis, and visualization tools. 
• Experience in defining, creating, and supporting monitoring dashboards.
• 1+ Years of Experience with CI tools and building pipelines using Jenkins.
• 1 + Years of Experience with monitoring and observability tools and methodology of products such as; Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, ELK.
• Ability to write and read simple scripts using Python / Shell Scripts.
• Familiarity with configuration languages such as Ansible.
• Ability to work autonomously with minimum supervision.
• Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skill

Additional Information

Why join our team?

Culture and Growth:

• Global team with a creative, innovative, and welcoming mindset
• Rapid career growth and opportunity to be an outstanding and visible contributor to the company's success
• Freedom to create your own success story in a high-performance environment
• Training programs and Personal Development Plans for each employee

Benefits:

• 33 days of holidays (this includes public and religious holidays)
• Contributions to your Provident Fund which can be matched by the company above the statutory minimum as agreed
• Gratuity payments
• Private Medical Insurance provided by the company (Employee + Spouse + 2 Children + 2 Parents)
• Personal Accident Insurance (Employee Only)
• 12 Weeks Paid Paternity Leave, 6 months Maternity leave
• Support with childcare costs (50%)
• Work from Home Equipment allowance
• Flexible Work from Home policy - 2 days home p/w
• Flexible Work from Long Distance - 4 weeks a year
• Sponsored Learning Opportunities
• Team Socials

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