Senior DevOps Engineer Veryon – Chennai Office
Performance Profile
Why We Need You – The Mission
Veryon is a global information services and software company that exists to make flying safer and more reliable. Our products help reduce operating costs, improve aircraft reliability, and support technical knowledge sharing and collaboration within the general, business, and commercial aviation, as well as military/defense and OEM industries.Reporting to DevOps Manager, the DevOps Engineer will be responsible for building and automating all facets of technology infrastructure including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, continuous delivery, health monitoring, and alerting. They will be extremely proficient at building, migrating to, and operating Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments with extensive hands-on experience.
The job requires a flexible work schedule and after hours on-call rotations. The profile of the ideal candidate includes:
- You live and breathe automation and automate manual processes for deployments/communications.
- You build pipelines from scratch for production and test workloads
- Industry best practices are ingrained in your day-to-day DevOps Operations.
- You constantly stay at the forefront of software development trends.
- You naturally take the lead, research solutions, and champion new approaches.
- Your communication is proactive; you flag risks and bottlenecks early in the process.
- You are intrinsically self-driven, passionate about technology, and thrive on seeing projects through to completion.
What You’ll Accomplish – Your Performance Objectives
In your first 30 days:
- Learn Veyron’s software products and their tech stacks through demos, reading and self-teaching.
- Gain an understanding of the various hosting methodologies at Veryon, and more specifically Veryon’s implementation of AWS cloud native services.
- Build, execute, and enhance documentation of existing build and deployment frameworks.
- Learn and understand current process of troubleshooting applications and infrastructure.
- Complete AWS DevOps training
- Gain a basic understanding of Terraform and Jenkins, and Cloud Native services such as AWS RDS, EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, Route 53, Cloudfront, and Cognito
In your first 3 months
Work with the software development leads, QA automation leads, and DevOps to build/improve current CI/CD pipelines based on DevOps roadmap.
- Manage, track, and document changes to infrastructure and CI/CD code with source control tools.
- Successfully troubleshoot and resolve after hours support requests.
- Manage and execute against a pipeline of requests for ongoing deployments and support.
- Demonstrate ability to manage infrastructure by building and deploying a test environment in AWS using infrastructure as code.
- Demonstrate knowledge of various Terraform, Jenkins and AWS Services
In your first 12 months:
Demonstrate ability to contribute to and deliver against Veryon’s engineering technology roadmap.
- Build relationships with Developers and Testers and ensure their DevOps needs are being met.
- Provide regular progress on the implementation of infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.
- Develop infrastructure security gold templates including images, patching methodologies and open-source software license management.
- Manage, track, and document changes to code with source control tools.
Ideal Candidate’s Technical Skills
- Knowledge and understanding of AWS services: EC2, EKS, Route53, API Gateway, RDS, ECR, Lambda
- Knowledge and understanding of Azure services: App Service, Azure Functions, SQL Server
- Experience with CI/CD – Jenkins and Gitlab
- Understanding of Logging and Monitoring (ex: Datadog)
- Ability to build projects from source code in .NET and perform basic debugging on the local machine.
Who We’re Looking For – The Personal Competencies That Matter
Collaborative:
You have empathy for your colleagues and customers. You demonstrate cross-functional collaboration within the engineering team and seek out opportunities to build relationships with others throughout the company. You understand we are all on the same team working towards the same goals. You are comfortable mentoring and training less experienced developers as part of an agile team.
Intellectually Curious:
You have a strong level of curiosity and care about learning. You understand that learning is a continuous part of being a Software Engineer and are always looking for ways to sharpen and/or broaden your skillset.
Flexibility:
You understand that priorities and requirements will evolve, and you may have to be flexible in your approach and in your expectations. You are open-minded and adapt well to changing environments as a company grows and scales. You aren’t afraid to step outside your comfort zone and take the initiative to help the team succeed.
How We Work – The Core Values We Live By
Fueled By Customers:
We work hard so our customers can get more uptime. A customer-centered approach is on the forefront of our minds. We’re big on transparent communication with our customers, and we celebrate their wins internally because we love the positive impact we’re making on their lives.
Win Together:
We focus on the “we” and not the “me”. Collaboration is key, we value diverse backgrounds and skill sets. Our mission is to win as a team, we think everyone plays an integral part in our success.
Make it Happen:
When we make a commitment, we get it done. We take a proactive approach, we commit, we adapt to evolving landscapes and problems, we tackle problems at every difficulty level.
Innovate to Elevate:
We set the standard in aviation by embracing and advancing cutting edge technology. We take a fail-forward approach using everything as a learning experience. We encourage creativity and experimentation within our teams. This helps us set the bar high and provide world class expertise in aviation.
