Zycus - Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Kubernetes (3-6 yrs)

Zycus is looking for Site Reliability Engineering Experts with having hands-on Application Performance monitoring, troubleshooting, automation SME with 3-6 years of expertise in KUBERNETES & Ansible Deployment, administration and scaling of middleware and passion in solving complex production issues in distributed systems, multi-tenant services and large-scale infrastructures

Responsibilities :

- Performance tuning, resource trending, capacity planning of overall Infrastructure through automation tools like grafana, logstash, prometheus.

- Should be leading/training team to provide best practices in Site reliability and setting up KPIs for them.

- To have proactive approach in seeking knowledge from engineering team and contribute in design aspects in case of middleware technologies.

- Serve as escalation point for app support and system engineering teams.

- Identifying opportunities, simplifying adhoc tasks and daily tasks with automation.

- Review and influence ongoing design, architecture, standards and methods for operating services and systems.

- Experiment with new & relevant technologies and tools, and drive adoption of the proposed technologies.

- Need to have deep knowledge, understanding & experience of working with a large variety of multi-tier/ multi-tenant architectures.

- Participate in overall service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.

- You will drive reliability and supportability aspects of Cloud service, including change management, triage of customer escalations, remediation plans, Devops Kubernetes Ansible playbooks and automations.

Skills And Expertise :

- Must have experience on Kubernetes

- Expertise in 2 to 3 key - value technologies viz, Redis, Memcached, Couchbase etc.

- Experience in middleware technologies i.e. J2EE Application servers (Tomcat, JBoss), Active MQ, Zookeeper, Lucene, Solr etc.

- Expertise in administration and scaling of middleware of messaging technologies viz, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, Kafka.

- Excellent problem solving and debugging skills for complex & large-scale infrastructure issues.

- Experience in scaling RDBMS and NoSQL databases viz Solr, lucene, Redis.

- Expert in the configuration and maintenance of common applications such as Apache, Tomcat, Nginx, Wildfly, Squid, LDAP NFS, DHCP, DNS, and SNMP

- Solid understanding of layer 7, load balancing, Linux/UNIX-related network services, TCP/IP networking, content delivery network.

- Proficiency in one of Python, PHP, Perl, or Ruby for operations scripts.

- Experience in both cloud and data center operations.

- Experience in implemeting Monitoring solutions using APM tools(Example: AppDynamics, Graylog, Dynatrace, Datadog etc.) set up and test proactive monitoring alerts

- Understanding of Site Reliability concepts i.e. Application tiers, Database tiers and Infrastructure tiers

- Review physical and logical architectures of middleware components, databases structures, performance tuning, security of components.

- Plan and implement pro-active and reactive performance analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and capacity planning for all middleware components.

Preferred Qualifications/ Good to have experience :

- Excellent knowledge on MQ and Redis.

- Experience with big data systems is a plus

- Experience with distributed systems, distributed-shared filesystem a plus

Five Reasons Why You Should Join Zycus :

Cloud Product Company : We are a Cloud SaaS Company and our products are created by using the latest technologies like ML and AI. Our UI is in Angular JS and we are developing our mobile apps using React.

A Market Leader : Zycus is recognized by Gartner (world's leading market research analyst) as a Leader in Procurement Software Suites.

Move between Roles : We believe that change leads to growth and therefore we allow our employees to shift careers and move to different roles and functions within the organization

Get a Global Exposure : You get to work and deal with our global customers.

Create an Impact : Zycus gives you the environment to create an impact on the product and transform your ideas into reality. Even our junior engineers get the opportunity to work on different product features.

About Us :

Zycus is a pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source to Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.

Zycus helps enterprises drive real savings, reduce risks, and boost compliance, and its seamless, intuitive, and easy-to-use user interface ensures high adoption and value across the organization.