Opswerks is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer or individuals in a similar/comparable role. Ideal candidates will have experience providing platform or infrastructure operations support in hosted data engineering and analytics environments. Preference will be given towards experience operationalizing and optimizing Apache ecosystems such as Spark, Iceberg, and Airflow and ensuring availability and usability for developers and analysts.

Your Role

• You will be part of our 24x7 team composed of talented engineers both from Opswerks and its partner-customers focusing on the development, maintenance, and operations of platforms and applications delivering quality, secure, and reliable service.

• Work with our customer’s data engineering and analytics teams to support their workflows and operations running on both their in-house, indigenously developed and commercially offered platforms.

• Perform root cause analysis, identify and resolve underlying problem patterns while driving automation solutions and optimizing engineering processes.

• Works confidently with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a diverse group of individuals and teams.

• Build tools/develop or help contribute in the improvement of solutions for challenging and business-critical problems.

• Able to write clear, consumable, and effective documentation, playbooks, and other consolidated knowledge repositories that can help existing teams and future hired resources.

• Design and implement end-to-end engineering solutions and processes for business opportunities
  

• Possess leadership qualities through coaching and mentoring to improve our engineering processes and practices, quality and deliverables
  

• Enjoys working closely with all your other talented colleagues around the world in a collaborative and respectful manner
  

Your Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher education, preferably in computing or any related field.
  

• Minimum of 2-3 years working in a Dev-ops environment and is well adapted to its mindset and concepts.

• Minimum of 2-3 years experience with UNIX/Linux administration and is comfortable in navigating and working through the operating system environment with basic troubleshooting skills.

• Working knowledge in containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, etc. and is very familiar with its architecture, design and operations.

• Knowledgeable in the operations, design, architecture, and management of Cloud based Infrastructure preferably AWS or similar technologies like Azure, GCP
  

• Experience with build automation, source control and CI/CD tools (GitHub, Artifactory, Jenkins, Secrets, etc)
  

• Experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Perl and Python.
  

• Experience in customer success and support with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  

• Experience working on projects with cross-functional teams

• The role requires an 8-hour rotating shift on a 24x7 coverage.

• Amenable to a full on-site work set-up.

Plus Points

• Working experience in Big Data ecosystems - Data analytics and other related operations and tools or solutions within its scope such as Apache Spark, Airflow, and Jupyter Notebook definitely is an advantage.
• Adaptability and flexibility with new and emerging technologies
  
• Relevant certifications in any of the skills on key qualifications
  

Who we are

Opswerks specializes in making data center and cloud operation teams thrive. Our philosophy is about making technology “Werk” for our customers by tailoring solutions to their exact needs. We believe that products, services, tools and processes should serve the needs of people, NOT the other way around.

Our global team of service architects, infrastructure admins and software engineers have built and operated some of the world’s largest, most scalable environments over the past two decades. From 24/7 monitoring to infrastructure design to application development, our team of talented, creative and dynamic people has got it all covered.

Join us at Opswerks. Together, we can make technology “Werk” for the people.

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