DevOps Engineer

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As a DevOps engineer, you will work as an integral part of our Agile development team as well as Operations team, to deliver reliable and robust services to our board customer base. You will be involved in every stage of the development process and take pride in delivering great new services with excellent reliability. You will bring onboard a strong sense of ownership and will thrive in a fast-paced production environment.

Responsbilities:

Cloud:

• Collaborate with DevOps team on migration of on-prem applications to Azure/AWS, with emphasis on security, scalability, and sustainability
• Configuration of foundational Azure services, and continuously assess and integrate emerging cloud features
• Documentation of the architecture and solution design of cloud platforms, cloud practices, connectivity, and deployment patterns

Automation:

• Design and implement automation of everything, to minimize manual work, from infrastructure to application deployments
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines while meeting software compliance and improve observability of the system through monitoring and alerting
• Write secure code using tools such as terraform and ansible to build infrastructure in Azure

Collaborate:

• Work closely with a cross-functional team to understand requirements and expectation of our application infrastructure and develop solutions to improve product delivery and end-user experience
• Collaborate with development teams to design, establish and maintain a clear branching strategy, ensuring consistency and alignment with CI/CD processes to facilitate smooth integration, testing, and deployment
• Be part of the team to architect and evolve our next generation infrastructure based on Kubernetes
• Work close with release management team to coordinate release plans and deployments, including which fixtures and enhancements will feature in which release.
• Own and manage all application test environments on Azure

Improvement:

• Analyze existing tools and process and identify opportunities to adopt new tools and evolve our processes.
• Constantly evaluating our current infrastructure and processes, and look for areas of improvement
• Keep abreast of the latest technology in Cloud architecture and DevOps trends, conduct R&D to provide proof of concepts (POC), adapt and roll out new solutions as needed
• Create accurate and timely documentation of processes and procedures
• Applying vendor provided system patches to DevOps tooling and Kubernetes containers

Monitor and Alerts

• Develop and own best practices / methodologies for provisioning, application scaling, configuration management, monitoring to improve visibility into how each components of our application infrastructure interact and perform in production
• Design and implement monitoring tools and system analytics to quickly diagnose the root cause of system issues
• Provide after-hours support for critical infrastructure issues and maintain uptime of all critical systems
• Resolve service outages and performance degradation, build automated responses for recurrence prevention
• Participate in on-call rotation

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps, site reliability engineer, or equivalent role
• Deep knowledge and experience of cloud computer platform (Azure or similar) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• 3+ years of experience on design, architect and implement production level Docker and Kubernetes orchestration on the cloud
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipeline
• Experience with Unix/Linux operating systems as a developer or system administrator
• Experience applying cloud security best practices and maintaining compliance (e.g. SOC)
• Experience developing logs, monitors and alerts in production cloud system, alongside the ability to use those logs to diagnose and understand production behavior
• Familiarity with SRE methodologies
• You have a passion for documentation & writing
• Expertise in infrastructure monitoring, availability, and security
• Working knowledge of web-based and mobile application architectures
• Nice to have: Azure, Google, or AWS cloud Administration Certification

Tech Stack:

• Cloud: Azure Cloud
• Containers/Orchestration: Kubernetes with Istio, Docker
• Deployments: Kustomize, Helm Charts
• Monitoring: Prometheus, Kubernetes Dashboard / Azure Service Dashboard
• CI/CD: Github Action, Jenkins, Azure DevOps pipeline
• Configuration Management: Ansible
• Development Framework: .NET & .NET Core
• Database:  MS SQL
• IaC: ARM Template, Teraform
• Others:  RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, Azure blob storage, Powershell, Linux bash scripting

Education: 

Bachelor’s/master’s degree in software engineering, Computer Science, or a related area 

Benefits:

• Hybrid working arrangements (2/3 days in the office)
• Annual performance-related bonus
• 6x Flexi Anyday: knock 2.5 hours off your any day.
• Engaging, fun & inclusive culture: check out the MRI Software APAC Insta feed and stories!

Company Overview:

MRI Software delivers innovative applications and hosted solutions that free real estate companies to elevate their business.  Our flexible technology platform, along with an open and connected ecosystem, allows us to meet the unique needs of real estate businesses, from property-level management and accounting to investment modeling and analytics for the global commercial and residential markets.  With nearly five decades of expertise and insight, we have grown to include offices across the United States, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada, India, and Ireland with over 3000 team members to support our clients and their unique needs! 

MRI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.