What will you be doing
- Operate, maintain and administer solutions that contribute to the operational efficiency, availability and visibility of customer infrastructure.
- Planning maintenance activity, design documentation and standard procedures
- Provide Root Cause Analysis reports for outages/incidents (ITIL - Problem Management)
- Observe and provide feedback on the current state of the client s infrastructure, and identify opportunities to improve resiliency, reduce the occurrence of incidents and automate repetitive administrative and operational tasks.
- Contribute to, improve and maintain team documentation about client systems and infrastructure, procedures, policies and schedules.
- Gather and document information about client environments through audit activities, and analyze the information to identify opportunities for improvement and application of best practices.
- Work collaboratively with team mates to contribute to the continuous improvement of our working culture.
- Act as a technology leader for clients, as well as drive client discussions on technology road maps.
- Participate in an on-call rotation in an escalation capacity.
What do we need from you
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and container technologies ( Kubernetes is a must , Docker, lxc etc)
- Experience working with at least one major cloud provider . Preferably Google but AWS or Azure would suffice (including infrastructure as code deployment with Cloud Formation, Terraform, Opsworks etc)
- Clear understanding of software development lifecycles and best practices from an infrastructure point of view
- Understanding the end to end operations of a Business System vs components.
- Comprehensive systems hardware and network troubleshooting experience
- Common Linux distribution platform installation, configuration and performance tuning
- TCP/IP networking, NIC bonding and network services configuration (DNS, NTP, DHCP, SMTP, etc.)
- Operation and administration of virtual infrastructure, including experience with at least one hypervisor (VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, etc.)
- Ability to describe IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, pros and cons of each, use cases for virtualization and cloud
- Administration of web servers and supporting technologies, including network load balancers
- Scripting and automation of administrative tasks using bash, python, ruby, go etc.
- Experience with the design, development and deployment of at least one major configuration management framework (i.e. Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Salt)
- System and application error investigation, troubleshooting of access/availability issues including deep multi system root cause analysis
- Experience managing networking devices, such as switches and firewalls from a variety of vendors
- Solid understanding of DevOps tools, processes, and culture
- Exposure and operational experience with network monitoring systems (NMS)
- Ability to pick up new technologies quickly
- Ability to provide accurate work scheduling and task estimations for work delivery
What do you get in return
- Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus and an annual bonus plan!
- Love your development : Hone your skills or learn new ones with a minimum 0.6 Lakh INRannual training allowance; 2 paid professional development days, attend conferences, become certified, whatever you like!
- Love your work/life balance : 3 weeks of paid time off and flexible working hours. While our Hyderabad and Bangalore offices remain closed due to the pandemic, work from your home, all you need is a stable internet connection!
- Love your workspace: We give you all the equipment you need to work from home including a laptop with your choice of OS, with 0.3 lakh INRbudget to personalise your work environment!
- Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity. To support in keeping our people, their families and their communities safe, Pythian is covering the cost of the Covid 19 Vaccine for all eligible employees in India!