What you'll do & how you'll make your mark.

- Architect and maintain mission critical global hybrid infrastructure spanning multiple datacenters & cloud providers, leveraging primarily open source technologies.
- Design next generation scalable systems which are highly available, resilient and capable of handling high volume Internet facing web traffic.
- Be responsible for downtimes and maintain the product SLA, capacity planning of the systems and overall health & performance of large scale production systems.
- Participate in weekly 24/7 oncall rotation, solving escalated tickets, resolve outages and debug production issues.
- Work closely with various stakeholders like Engineering, Monitoring and Operations teams, Noc / Soc, customers & business development teams.
- Challenge the status quo. Empower development teams by transitioning legacy methodologies, platform & technologies to devops principles, cloud native technologies and newer ecosystems without much friction.
- Strict adherence to automating routine tasks and scripting, with a low tolerance to manual processes.
- Needs to be data & metric driven. Develop tools and platforms for better system observability & insights.
- Writing design decision documentation and is keen on implementing overall production best practices with a strong focus on security & encourage right Devops Workflows.

Who you are & what you'll need to succeed.

- Excellent knowledge of Linux internals & OS fundamentals like scheduler, memory, storage, networking, etc. Has managed production servers running on RHEL/CentOS/ Ubuntu Distributions.
- Needs to be positive in understanding Linux Filesystems, Linux troubleshooting spanning networks and systems. Sound knowledge in shell / command line, OSI, TCP/IP & networking fundamentals is mandatory.
- Exposure to RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL etc.




- Exposure to at least 1 configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible, Chef etc & understanding of GIT concepts / terminologies.
- Can code in Python to write scripts and automate routine tasks.
- Public cloud and Kubernetes experience .
- A Generalist who has the knowledge of the aforementioned and below mentioned skills. Someone who understands from DNS-to-Deployments and everything in between.
- Has managed in past large scale web infrastructure with deep understanding of L4/L7 Load balancing, high availability & DNS. Has worked on Haproxy, Nginx, Heartbeat/KeepAlived, pacemaker etc. Prior experience of managing DNS and large scale Email system is a bonus.
- Has prior Systems administration & troubleshooting experience and exposure to high traffic production environments dealing primarily in web application stacks on Apache / Nginx / Tomcat etc.
- Sound knowledge on various RDBMS and NoSQL Databases like Mysql / PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra etc. Exposure to Database clustering solutions is a plus.
- Deploying new, maintaining, patching and upgrading systems at scale with automation tools like Rundeck etc.
- Exposure to metrics & logging stacks like Ganglia, TICK. Grafana/Influx/ Graphite,, Prometheus, ELK, Fluentd, Splunk, Graylag etc.
- Understands the basic principles of virtualization and containerization and working knowledge of Docker, KVM/Libvirt. Exposure to infrastructure orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Openshift, OpenStack, Mesos is a bonus.
- Production experience to deploying in AWS and proficient in IAC toolchains like Terraform, CloudFormation etc will be a bonus.
- Experience in managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, etc
- Proficient in atleast one scripting/programming language like Python, Ruby, Golang, Perl,Powershell etc.
- Understands the importance of basic system, application & network security and exposure to benchmarks like CIS, NIST and OpenSCAP is a bonus.

📌 Operations Engineer (Mumbai)
🏢 Newfold Digital Philippines
📍 Mumbai