Lead DevOps Engineer

Introduction

Synapsica is a series-A funded HealthTech startup founded by alumni from IIT Kharagpur, AIIMS New Delhi, and IIM Ahmedabad. We believe healthcare needs to be transparent and objective while being affordable. Every patient has the right to know exactly what is happening in their bodies and they don't have to rely on cryptic 2 liners given to them as a diagnosis.

Towards this aim, we are building an artificial intelligence enabled cloud based platform to analyse medical images and create v2.0 of advanced radiology reporting.  We are backed by IvyCap, Endia Partners, YCombinator and other investors from India, US, and Japan. We are proud to have GE and The Spinal Kinetics as our partners. Here’s a small sample of what we’re building: [hidden]

Your Roles and Responsibilities

The Lead DevOps Engineer will be responsible for the management, monitoring and operation of our applications and services in production. The DevOps Engineer will be a hands-on person who can work independently or with minimal guidance and has the ability to drive the team’s deliverables by mentoring and guiding junior team members. You will work with the existing teams very closely and build on top of tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform and support our numerous polyglot services.

Introducing a strong DevOps ethic into the rest of the team is crucial, and we expect you to lead the team on best practices in deployment, monitoring, and tooling. You'll work collaboratively with software engineering to deploy and operate our systems, help automate and streamline our operations and processes, build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring, and operations and troubleshoot and resolve issues in our development, test and production environments. The position is based in our Bangalore office.

Primary Responsibilities

Providing strategies and creating pathways in support of product initiatives in DevOps and automation, with a focus on the design of systems and services that run on cloud platforms.

Optimizations and execution of the CI/CD pipelines of multiple products and timely promotion of the releases to production environments

Ensuring that mission critical applications are deployed and optimised for high availability, security & privacy compliance and disaster recovery.

Strategize, implement and verify secure coding techniques, integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration

Ensure analysis, efficiency, responsiveness, scalability and cross-platform compatibility of applications through captured  metrics, testing frameworks, and debugging methodologies.

Technical documentation through all stages of development

Establish strong relationships, and proactively communicate, with team members as well as individuals across the organisation

Requirements

Minimum of 6 years of experience on Devops tools.

Working experience with Linux, container orchestration and management technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, EKS, ECS …).

Hands-on experience with "infrastructure as code" solutions (Cloudformation, Terraform, Ansible etc).

Background of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Gitlab-CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, Github actions etc).

Experience with the Hashicorp stack (Vault, Packer, Nomad etc).

Hands-on experience in building and maintaining monitoring/logging/alerting stacks (ELK stack, Prometheus stack, Grafana etc).

Devops mindset and experience with Agile / SCRUM Methodology

Basic knowledge of Storage , Databases (SQL and noSQL)

Good understanding of networking technologies, HAProxy, firewalling and security.

Experience in Security vulnerability scans and remediation

Experience in API security and credentials management

Worked on Microservice configurations across dev/test/prod environments

Ability to quickly adapt new languages and technologies

A strong team player attitude with excellent communication skills.

Very high sense of ownership.

Deep interest and passion for technology

Ability to plan projects, execute them and meet the deadline

Excellent verbal and written English communication.