DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer cum Linux System Administrator in Amazon AWS, who can design, build, deploy, maintain, monitor and cost-effectively scale as per need of our web applications LAMP environments. The person should also be able to maintain and extend our AWS, Puppet, Git, Jenkins CI environment and our containerized local dev and QA environments. The person must be a team player, working closely with the DevOps team members and the developers.


Experience: 7+ years as Linux System Administrator with recent 3+ years in Amazon AWS, Apache HTTP server, Puppet, Jenkins, Docker and building automation scripts using bash and AWS CLI.


Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for designing, configuring, deploying, administering, monitoring, analysing, and supporting cloud based (IaaS/PaaS) application services and systems.
You will work alongside developers to deploy our software and systems in the QA and production environments.
You will be continuously improving and automating the environment setup using Puppet code.
You will be managing and extending our Jenkins based CI / CD environment and maintaining our Git repository.
You will be continuously monitoring the servers for load assessment and security risks suggesting appropriate and timely recourse and rectification.
You will be supporting the developers in running Docker on their Ubuntu workstations. You will be building and managing images for them to use.
Analysing the logs like alert and trace files, syslog, auth.log, mail.log, Apache logs, AWS Logs (ELB, ALB, CloudTrail log, RDS logs VPC Flow log, etc.).
Linux update and upgrade, security patches, etc.
Backup and restore, log rotation and purging, snapshots and purging, etc.
Automating and documenting server maintenance tasks.
Strong knowledge of monitoring tools (Nagios, in particular) including experience in designing and implementing new monitoring checks.
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, ability to comprehend, review and analyse application logs.