DevOps Engineer

Job Summary:

• Minimum of 12 years of experience with minimum of 8 years of experience in DevOps & Release and Config manager role
• Provide support, guidance, and governance to ensure Bupa release standards and practices are followed.
• Ensure release planning activities adhere to standards, policies, and best practices.
• Schedule coordinate and manage successful implementation of releases into production including managing the pipeline of releases.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews
• Maintain central repository for release artefacts and release calendar.
• Work closely with Change Management for Release and Deployment to ensure smooth operation of Release Planning activities.
• Raise changes, represent in TCAB and CAB to ensure changes are reviewed and approved
• Ensure relevant release information is communicated timely and disseminated to stakeholders.
• Understand and manage cross dependencies within the platform releases/cross platform releases to enable scheduling.
• Participate in all Release cutover activities including the dress rehearsals.
• Craft implementation plan, walkthrough of plan with all stakeholders including business.
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities
• Develop and Maintain stakeholder escalation matrix for use during cutover. Escalate and arrive at decisions by engaging the stakeholders during the cutover
• Maintain and track post implementation issues with impact analysis and remediation follow-up.
• Manage risks maintaining Risk register with identified risks and mitigation plan.
• Maintain any lessons learned and strive for continuous improvement of releases.
• Proficient in building and deploying .NET web apps/apis to Azure Cloud
• CI/CD Continuous Integration, Delivery and DevOps experience in – Microsoft Technologies
• Proficient in Build and release pipelines in Azure DevOps (Mandatory)
• Hands-on experience with Container technology like Docker, Kubernetes, AKS, Helm charts (Mandatory), must be proficient in containers
• In depth knowledge of C# and .Net Framework, RESTful APIs, Strong PowerShell scripting
• Experience in deploying PaaS solutions, API’s and Infrastructure as Code (desirable) to Azure
• Experience in code base management tools (Git, TFSV)
• Experience in Azure Boards setup.
• Experience in Environment provision and refresh processes.