DevOps Engineer

Detailed JD (Roles and Responsibilities)

Job Summary:

• Defining standard release automation patterns for infrastructure and application components.
• Defining standard CI/CD pipeline patterns that include a common set of DevOps and SecOps tools.
• Developing reports and metrics to validate existing and new pipelines use standard DevSecOps tools.
• Proactive optimization of redundancies, monitoring and alerting practices and patterns
• Developing resilient and highly available cloud patterns
• Controlling and executing the promotion of code through all environments
• Infrastructure as Code development for buildout cloud infrastructure
• Building and Releasing pipeline development
• Secrets and configuration management
• Monitoring systems and services, providing incident and emergency response to triage and resolve system or client issues
• Management of the application ecosystem improving platform infrastructure and applications with high reliability, resiliency, performance and quality
• Supporting documentation, knowledge articles, and runbooks
• Designing, building and implementing devops patterns that adhere to our client’s security guidelines and policies.
• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree or in lieu of a degree, demonstrating, in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college.
• At least 2 years of relevant working experience.
• Advanced Kubernetes – Must have strong skills in Kubernetes at scale using one of GKE, AKS, EKS or RKE. Experience with Kubectl and Helm.
• Containers: Experience deploying Java (Spring Boot) microservices in dockerized environments.
• Observability – Experience in setting up tools like Prom/Grafana, Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk. to give actionable intel on a microservice environment including but not limited to synthetics, Application performance monitoring, logging and Alerting (PagerDuty/OpsGenie Integrations).
• Good CI/CD expertise. Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Artifactory, Azure container registry, Google container registry and other similar tooling.
• SCM - Working with tools like GitHub/Gitlab for source code management and well as experience with branching strategies like GitFlow and trunk based.
• Strong troubleshooting skills – Be able to move all the way down to code level to give development teams a head start on application issues. Effectively be able to contribute to root cause analysis exercises post problem resolution.
• Good Communication Skills - Active listening, verbal and non-verbal communication, Clarity and Concision, Confidence, Open-Mindedness, Respect.
• Good Documentation skills - Be able to effectively document any automation, technical efforts so as to ensure ease of adoptability of a solution.

Good collaboration skills – Must be able to work effectively with Scrum/Dev teams with a push/pull (push back and prioritize work pulled in) philosophy in order to manage expectations and contribute to the stability and improvement of the platform.

Mandatory skills

SRE

Azure Devops

Advanced Kubernetes