DevOps Lead  

• Leading devops team.
• Perform daily system monitoring, data backup, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

• At least 7 years of industry experience working on DevOps.

>> At least 7 - 10 years of experience. Looking for someone who is already in senior position at current company.

• Ability to work in a startup environment with high levels of ownership & commitment

>> Culture fit. Understanding of fast paced environment, quick turn around time. Get things done without waiting to be told what needs to be done.

• Experience working with AWS eco-system (EC2, ELBs, S3, OpsWorks, Route53 etc.)

>> Strong knowledge of AWS eco-system, at least 3.5 years of experience. Looking for deeper understanding not use basic usage.

• Good knowledge on automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Salt etc.) and proponent of automation first approach

>> At least 2 years of experience in one of the tools - Chef, Puppet, Salt stack.

• Experience with automated deployments, monitoring & alerting for services.

>> Good understanding of automated deployments (if docker using docker swarm, kubernetes, Marathon - DC/OS)

• Experience dealing with production issues/outages & mitigation of the same.

>> This is essential because outage handling is done only after candidate has been on that scenario previously.

• Experience with working on low latency & high throughput systems at scale.
• Should have good knowledge of deployments on Java stack (understand JVM tuning, GC tuning, VM sizing etc.)

>> Deep understanding of Java Stack, able to resolve and debug production issues.

• Experience in deployment & maintenance of Core infra viz. NoSQL data stores (Cassandra, HBase, Couchbase etc.), Caching layer (Aerospike, Redis/Elasticache), Queueing Infra (Kafka, RMQ etc.)