DevOps Engineer - 3

About Us

ACKO is India’s first and only fully-digital Insurtech (product) company to have taken insurance by storm. You might have seen our cool ads or are already a customer and we hope you have noticed how we are rewriting the rules of the insurance game constantly and persistently.

Based out of Bangalore, we are solving for the Indian market. But we are a part of a global wave of insurtech startups such as ZhongAn in China , Oscar, Lemonade, Metromile in the US, that are known to succeed owing to their business models and technology.

We are a unicorn backed by a slate of marquee investors like Binny Bansal, Amazon, Ascent capital, Accel, SAIF, Catamaran, General Atlantic and Multiples. In only four years since our inception and operations, our products have reached ~75M unique users. We have partnered with some of the biggest names of the digital ecosystem such as Amazon, Ola, RedBus, Oyo, Lendingkart, ZestMoney, GOMMT group etc.

At ACKO, job roles are focused at impact and we’re here to transform the way the industry operates. Innovation drives us and our products, and we are poised to disrupt insurance, powered by our pioneering products. We have changed the landscape of this age old sector in a growing economy like India and have miles to go from here.

After having crossed the $1B valuation mark, our eyes set on even bigger milestones. If you think we’re just about growth and numbers, employee wellbeing lies at the core of all our programs and policies. We are a regular ‘Great Place to Work’ winner and consistently feature on Linkedin’s list of top startups. Currently 1000 strong, we are hiring across all functions.

As a DevOps engineer, you are expected to work as a key enabler who builds the framework that takes care of the end-to-end seamless setup/deployment by defining the standard CI / CD, management, and periodic review of infrastructure and applications.

Responsibilities :

• Work closely with the Application development and QA teams to have an automated framework for seamless setup and deployment of infrastructure, applications, and databases (RDBMS and NoSQL).
• Define and implement the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment life cycles for all the services and Business units of Auto, Health, partnerships, Electronics, etc.
• Design the right infrastructure architecture using either open source or Commercial tools and build a scalable and cost-effective model.
• Automated deployment of code across all the SDLC environments.
• Establish rollback mechanisms for both the application and database deployments.
• Create automated process frameworks related to release engineering, database administration, space management, security, monitoring, and performance that can be easily scaled and utilized by the stakeholders.
• Develop the right service discovery and service mesh models.
• Develop frameworks for logging across the Troubleshoot and solving complex application and database deployment problems through research, analysis, and collaboration with the Reliability engineering team.
• Ensure high quality, adherence to standards and best practices, high performance, and scalable, repeatable processes and deliverables.
  
  
  

Qualifications and Skills:

• BS degree in Computer Science or related engineering disciplines
• 6- 9 years of relevant DevOps engineering work experience in any of the Online technology companies.
• Experience in Python or other scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, etc.
• Expertise in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes for enterprise SaaS and on-prem applications using tools like Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Maven, Gradle, etc Expertise in AWS or GCP and all related services, including cloud provisioning tools.
• Expertise in release engineering/management of deploying code designed in Java stack and Open-source or any other proprietary.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, Fabric, Puppet, or SaltStack.
• Experience with Orchestration tools such as Nomad, Spinnaker, Terraform
• Experience running 24*7 production code with reliable deployments with the right monitoring and alerts for CI / CD breaks.
• Experience in building the right logging framework across the Infra, application, databases, and NoSQL.
• Experience in building monitoring and alerting frameworks for Infrastructure, applications, databases, and NoSQL.
• Hands-on experience in building and administering VMs and Containers using tools such as Docker and Kubernetes Experience in designing and maintaining cloud-based solutions, either Private or Public or Hybrid.
• Proven automation skills.
• Experience in Linux or Unix variants, both system, and Admin level, is a plus.
• Experience in any database or NoSQL is a plus.
• Ability to work with multiple stakeholders like the Application development and QE teams.
• Great team player with strong communication skills, both verbal and written.