DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Hyderabad| Bengaluru

Why you?

As a DevOps Engineer Pythian you will build high quality solutions to achieve business objectives for our customers. You will work on your own or as part of a team, to understand the path of a project, provide insight on implementation details, and deliver consistent, high quality solutions leveraging automation. At the end of the day, our DevOps Consultants create interesting solutions using cutting edge technology and use their skills to deliver value at velocity to our clients.

• Become part of our client’s team, building trust, providing technical  leadership and managing client relationships with regards to the current project to which you are assigned.  
• Work with stakeholders to discover technical and business requirements, assist in project plan creation and documentation for both small and medium sized projects.  
• Participate in sprint planning activities including story point estimation and ceremonies such as  standups, backlog grooming and story refinement, planning and retrospectives. 
• Implement technical project work and deliver to clients.  
• Research, evaluate, and recommend third party software and technology packages. Provide component or site-wide performance optimization and capacity planning. Make and document best practice recommendations.  
• Create automated provisioning solutions for servers, environments, cloud, container platforms and data centers.  
• Continuously learn and improve existing technical skills, and acquire new skills that will be useful for future work.  
• Be an expert on a wide range of tools and platforms, and embrace an ever evolving technology landscape. 

• Experience with engineering solutions on major cloud provider platforms, ideally Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and one or both of Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure.
• Hands-on operating system platform configuration, tuning and administration experience with Linux or Windows, preferably both.
• Strong understanding of architecture and design patterns used to ensure applications and services are highly available, performant and scalable.
• Experience supporting common open-source application stacks.
• High proficiency with open source Hashicorp tools including Terraform, Packer, and Vault. Familiarity with related tools and technologies such as Terratest and Terragrunt, and preferably with other idempotent deployment frameworks such as Pulumi.
• Proficiency in at least one popular programming language (Go, Java, Python, Ruby, Rust, etc).
• Solid understanding of test techniques and frameworks associated with your language, including test and behavior-driven development, spec tests, unit tests, suites, mocks and fixtures.
• Capability to write scripts for maintenance, automation and data processing in a variety of scripting languages (BASH, Groovy, Javascript, Perl, PHP, Powershell, R, etc).
• Experience with common configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, etc).
• Strong knowledge of automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, ideally with hands-on experience with Kubernetes and tools such as Helm.
• Exposure to Anthos is a plus.
• Skilled in common CI/CD tools, patterns and techniques, including familiarity with common pipeline enablement products (ArgoCD, Azure DevOps, Cloud Build, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
• Development methods, workflows and patterns, particularly including Agile and GitOps.
• Experience with stream-processing software platforms and services such as Kafka and Cloud PubSub.
• Understanding of the principles of data security, including encryption, access control and identity management, and the technical application of associated policies, such as separation of duties and data custodianship.

• Love your career: Competitive total rewards package with excellent take home salaries, shifted work time bonus (if applicable) and an annual bonus plan!
• Love your development: Hone your skills or learn new ones with an annual 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. 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, and budget to personalize your work environment!  
• Love your community: Blog during work hours; take a day off and volunteer for your favorite charity.

Why Pythian

Pythian excels at helping businesses use their data and cloud to transform how they compete and win in this ever-changing environment by delivering advanced on-prem, hybrid, cloud and multi-cloud solutions to solve the toughest data challenges faster and better than anyone else. Founded and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada in 1997, Pythian now has more than 300 employees located around the globe with over 350 clients spanning industries from SaaS; media; gaming; financial services; e-commerce and more. Pythian is known for its technology-enabled data expertise covering everything from ETL to ML. We pride ourselves on our ability to deliver innovative solutions that meet the specific data goals of each client and have built meaningful partnerships with major cloud vendors AWS, Google and Microsoft. The powerful combination of our extensive expertise in data and cloud and our ability to keep on top of the latest bleeding edge technologies make us the perfect partner to help mid and large-sized businesses transform to stay ahead in today’s rapidly changing digital economy.

Disclaimer

For this job an equivalent combination of education and experience, which results in demonstrated ability to apply skills will also be considered.

The successful applicant will need to fulfill the requirements necessary to obtain a background check.

Accommodations are available upon request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.