Principal Engineer DBA

About Us:

Ola is committed to its mission of building mobility for a billion people. Using the Ola mobile app, users across 110 cities can book from over 6,00,000 vehicles across cabs, auto-rickshaws and taxis. 

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Oversees the performance of day-to-day operational support for server, storage or network infrastructures.
• Oversees the building, patching, testing (check for compatibility issues, conducts QA) and deployment of systems and platforms meeting clients’ needs and specifications.
• Oversees plans and implements changes to infrastructure with the goal of enhancing performance.
• Oversees storage and server data backup, data migration and disaster recovery operations.
• Oversees software and operating system upgrades and track system licensing.
• Oversees the configuration of security settings or access permissions for groups and individuals.
• Documents complex procedures and complex troubleshooting procedures related to systems/networks software and hardware.
• Configures, monitors maintain and oversees the office and/or production software, adjunct support and/or utility software, i.e. Virus malware protection, office application suites and/or application software.
• Evaluates and recommend new technologies, optimize operational efficiency, and troubleshoot problems arising in the infrastructure environments.
• Participates in deployment of overall enterprise disaster recovery (DR) strategy. 

Critical Functional Skills (Any Certifications Preferred):

• Linux: In-depth Linux/Unix fundamentals, various Linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc) fundamentals.
• Fundamentals: DNS & Networking Fundamentals, TCP/UDP, IP Routing, HA & Load Balancing Concepts.
• Application Stacks: LAMP, Nginx/HAproxy/ATS, Tomcat/Jboss etc.
• Databases:SQL/RDBMS Fundamentals, MySQL, Replication concepts, NoSQL
• Configuration management: Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Tools/Utilities: Nagios, Cacti, Ganglia, Kickstart/Cobbler, Mcollective, Yum, RPM, GIT/SVN
• Programming: Good programming fundamentals, Coding in any of PERL/Ruby/Python/PHP/Go etc.
• Others: Regular expressions, Good troubleshooting skills.
• Plus: Knowledge of virtualization

Experience Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to present to and influence both technical and business stakeholders. Ability to understand complex problems while presenting them simplistically.
• Experience working with emerging technology, defining effective security controls for cases of the first impression
• Ability to produce and present presentations on technical subjects.
• CISSP or equivalent certification