The Flex Factor with... Nitin

Meet Nitin, our Senior DevOps engineer and security guru. Keep reading to learn a bit more about him and what it's like to work in DevOps at Flexciton.

Tell us what you do at Flexciton?

I’m a Senior DevOps engineer in the Platform Engineering Team (PET), which involves building highly available, scalable infrastructure to support various customers deployments, building infrastructure as code and supporting existing environments. I also have an important role to play as a Security Lead, to ensure Infrastructure and Application development follows standard security principals, dealing with Security incidents/threats and resolving them.

What does a typical day look like for you at Flexciton?

A typical day starts with looking at my slack channels to see if there are any issues with infrastructure or customer environments, and checking high priority security incidents raised by our systems. After that we have a scrum meeting to discuss how we are dealing with current tasks, any hurdles and get ready for another challenging day. If I have a dedicated security day then I would be looking at our security board in SecureFrame and begin fixing various failing security tests as we aim to soon get our SOC2 certificate. Also, looking at our SIEM dashboard, check security threats and build smart alerts to help us capture issues beforehand. If I am on DevOps tasks then I will be helping the PET team with building infrastructure for new customers, getting best practices set, and making sure that our development team can build infrastructure.

What do you enjoy most about your role?

What I enjoy most about my role at Flexciton is the variety of tasks and responsibilities that come with being a Senior DevOps and leading the Security work. As we are aiming for a SOC2 certification, I love the challenges I am facing, the various ways I need to consider before making infrastructure changes, and keeping myself always on top of security incidents to make sure I am not missing anything. 

From DevOps point of view, I really enjoyed working on the various initiatives/tech debts including logical grouping of infrastructure, and validation of Azure resources like why/when/how we will use them.

If you could summarise working at Flexciton in 3 words, what would they be?

Grit, innovation, challenges. 

What career advice would you give to your younger self? 

“Never settle down”.

Keep pushing yourself.

If you could swap jobs with anyone for a day, who would they be and why?

I’d love to be an Astronaut. Watching our planet and enjoying the beautiful views of the galaxy. It wouldn't be easy to acquire the skills I'd need, but given a chance I'd give it a try!

Tell us about your best memory at Flexciton?

My favourite memory was when we recently celebrated the 7th anniversary of Flexciton on a boat. We floated around the Thames and enjoyed the lovely views across the river.