DevOps Lead

Kore.ai is a globally recognized leader in the conversational AI space helping enterprises deliver extraordinary experiences for their customers, employees, and contact centre agents. Kore.ai’s no-code experience optimization (XO) platform and solutions are used by over 150 Fortune 2000 companies from banking, insurance, healthcare, telecom, retail, manufacturing, and other sectors serving over 100M of consumers and 500,000+ employees worldwide. With billions of interactions automated using our AI-powered technology, we have been able to save over $500M for these companies.

Kore.ai offers a stack of conversational AI-first no-code platform and solutions catering to customer experience, employee experience, and agent experience use cases. The product portfolio includes SmartAssist – AI-first cloud contact centre as a service (CCaaS), BankAssist – AI-powered virtual assistant for retail banking, SearchAssist – AI-first conversational cognitive search engine, workplace experience optimization solutions covering HR Assist, IT Assist, and WorkAssist product suite.

Kore.ai is recognized as a leader by the leading technology and industry analysts like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, Everest, and others.

Founded in 2014 by serial successful entrepreneur, Raj Koneru, Kore.ai is headquartered in Florida USA. The company is growing 100% year on year and has recently secured a Series C funding of $73.5M from marquee investors including a strategic investment from NVIDIA to foster innovations in Voice AI.

With other offices in India, Uk, Germany, Korea, and Japan, Kore.ai has a diverse team of 500+ led by the seasoned leadership on a mission to push AI innovations to the next level to serve customers worldwide.

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POSITION / TITLE: DEVOPS LEAD

This role will require you to work closely with the Engineering team to design, build, and maintain systems. This includes setting up monitoring solutions, configuring and adding new servers/services periodically, and maintaining existing and future custom application code and configuration. You will also regularly interface with developers and team members for capacity and architecture planning and make recommendations for improvements to the existing architecture. You will also participate in regular deployments of code updates.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Support the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development, and Agile best practices, processes, and tools across cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) & On-Premise
Design, implement, and migration of provisioning, build and release management processes to support development processes
Perform system build and release when assistance is required – this is key to identifying areas for improvement.
Ensure the uptime, availability, and proper performance of all components.
Periodic review of the systems in terms of vulnerability, capacity management
Ensure all the security best practices are implemented & followed by the team.
Mentor & train the team members.
Maintain knowledge base & the required documentation of all implementations.
EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

5+ years’ experience in a 24×7 high-availability production environment
5 + years of administration experience with development tools, like build automation, continuous integration, code analysis tools, deployment scripting as well as application and infrastructure monitoring
Unix/Linux operating system (including Shell, Perl or Python, or Ruby scripting) •
Previous experience in release engineering and/or configuration management
Excellent organizational skills, and oral and written communication skills
Good knowledge of the application / Infrastructure architecture
Excellent Knowledge of automated application deployments
Excellent analytical / troubleshooting skills from the application perspective.
Able to coordinate with the other teams/customer to analyze, fix & track the issues to the closure.
MUST HAVE SKILLS

Knowledge (and interest) of open-source build automation, continuous integration and code analysis, and monitoring tools
Knowledge of all cloud providers (AWS, Azure & GCP)
Knowledge of container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes [EKS, AKS, OpenShift & on Premise] & the required automation for CI/CD using helm / other tools on both cloud & on-premise.
Knowledge of automated deployment scripting, tools, and techniques (Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Helm, etc.,)
Unix/Linux operating system
Knowledge of industry-standard security controls & compliance policies such SOC2, HIPAA, PCI, FedRamp, etc
Scripting – Shell, Perl, or Python
Able to work in shifts 24X7 on a need basis.
OTHER SKILLS WE’D APPRECIATE

Administration experience with Build Automation and Continuous Integration (CI) tools, such as Jenkins
Cloud Certifications in AWS, Azure / GCP
Experience in configuration and monitoring software like Icinga2, Nagios, or xymon, etc.
EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

Graduate in Engineering OR Master in Computer Applications

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