Technical Lead DevOps

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We turn customer challenges into growth opportunities.

Material is a global strategy partner to the world’s most recognizable brands and innovative companies. Our people around the globe thrive by helping organizations design and deliver rewarding customer experiences.

We use deep human insights, design innovation and data to create experiences powered by modern technology. Our approaches speed engagement and growth for the companies we work with and transform relationships between businesses and the people they serve.

Srijan, a Material company, is a renowned global digital engineering firm with a reputation for solving complex technology problems using their deep technology expertise and leveraging strategic partnerships with top-tier technology partners. Be a part of an Awesome Tribe

 

Responsibilities: (6-10 years of experience)

• Deploy & manage highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using AWS, Azure cloud, and GCP

• Use Infrastructure as a Code to define & deploy cloud infrastructure.

• Translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs and document all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping tools where appropriate.

• Implement & manage automation and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling.

• Implement cloud-based network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

• Review and optimize cloud environments to ensure adherence to Information Security policies and industry best practices.

• Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR, HA and SRE for critical cloud workloads.

• Deploy and manage on-premises and SaaS source code repositories including Azure DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket.

• Implement systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business, technical complexity, and meaningful impact with well-understood technology design patterns.

• Manage availability of different service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.

• Create and interpret automation scripts for cloud-based CI/CD pipeline to deploy/upgrade/patch web applications.

• Deploy & promote applications across environments (e.g., Dev, Quality, Staging, Production)

• Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects to completion.

• Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes with consistently high-quality

• Prepare documentation and support transition of operational activities Collaboration

• Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT, INF, EA) to implement base lines for IaaS and PaaS platforms, adopting best practices and policies that support and optimize their respective environments

• Collaborate with DevOps architect to support development teams with a full set of DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes that will result in a fully automated release management pipeline to include: the Automated build process, environment setups, testing scripts, deployments, and production operational metrics/debugging information (to target developers).

• Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management, minimizing risks that could be introduced to new or existing environments

• Safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure capabilities

• Promote quality work by bringing multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT service owners, partners and vendors.

• Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are deployed, monitored, and supported in a highly scalable and automated fashion.

• Document the process and tasks being taught so it can be standardized and cross trained across the team Operations

• Streamline DevOps processes throughout the organization, decreasing deployment time, optimizing monitoring and reducing interruptions.

• Monitor & optimize costs with stakeholders to ensure IaaS & PaaS operations are within budget.

• Participate in incident response activities on private and public cloud platforms.

• Innovate in the automation & reliability engineering space, making new solutions available for use by our development community

• Optimize resource utilization on existing cloud workloads.

• Estimate costs for future cloud workloads based on project requirements.

• Assist with cloud ops for existing workloads (scaling, migration, decommission).

• Troubleshoot and identify problems across systems: including computing, storage, networking, software, COTS and open-source packages and solutions, and cloud computing, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

• Bring an automation mindset to eliminate mundane or repetitive tasks by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice on DevOps initiatives.

• Analyze current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimize processes, and lead and develop a team of experts to deliver service improvements.

• Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set by creating and managing release pipelines for next generation application development efforts and on-going production operations. .

• Evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy and standards.

• Report on established KPIs to ensure performance is measured against expected business outcomes.

Requirements Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or Engineering (B.E/B Tech/M. E/M Tech), or related field or equivalent experience and 5+ Years of experience.

• Certification in at least one of the cloud technologies i.e., AWS, Azure and GCP is mandatory

• Good to have: Certified Kubernetes administrator

Functional:

Done it: 

6+ years of relevant experience in cloud-based infrastructure architecture, administration and monitoring.

o In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of AWS, Azure, and GCP,

o Proven experience as DevOps engineer.

o Strong understanding of networking, cloud, compute, and storage.

o Strong knowledge of Cloud Governance, focusing on application security, risk management and collaboration.

o Experience in inter-cloud migration.

o Experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell or Bash.

o Advanced experience with usage and management of Git version control technologies (GitHub, Gitlab, AWS Commit etc.)

o Proven experience applying best practices for frontend and backend infrastructure (web engines, relational databases, storage, network, disaster recovery, high availability)

o Experience troubleshooting complex issues ranging from system resources to application stack traces

Know it:

o Experience with continuous Integration tools (TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline)

o Working knowledge of automation service provisioning. o Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, Typescript, Azure ARM etc.

o Hands on in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS Fargate)

o Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management

o Secure systems & networks’ management through automation, capacity planning, monitoring, performance tuning and testing

o You are aware of information security at large Networks, Docker security, Kubernetes Security.

o Strong hardware and software diagnostic skills Shown it o Familiarity with web development experience and setup: Apache, Nginx etc.

o Familiarity with Agile/Scrum process using platforms like Jira/Confluence o Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/EFK stack

o Demonstrable experience in converting complex business & security needs into fit-forpurpose, straightforward solutions, with well-managed execution and non-interruptive transition to operations, as well as effective troubleshooting & escalation handling.

o Demonstrated competencies in; system administration. DevOps or systems knowledge, security protocols for client/server environment.

o Experience supporting at least one of the following databases: MS-SQL server, MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.

o Working knowledge of related technologies including encryption, IPsec, VLANs, VPNs, routing, firewalls, proxy services, LAN/WAN connectivity

Do it o Experience on SCM tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit, Azure Repos etc.

o Experience in application and systems performance monitoring (Splunk, New Relic, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch).

o Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.

o Continuous application of skillsets in, cloud and hybrid environments adding resiliency when introducing new and upcoming technologies.

o Experience with APIGee, Kong, or Kafka from an operational perspective will be a good to have.

o Read and understand release notes and follow the deployment instructions precisely to ensure zero defects in the deployment.

o Experience on open source/Linux will be good to have.

 

Competencies:

• A communicator, humble and patient individual working effectively with distributed teams who is equally a mentor and a mentee

• A creative mindset that brings ideas to life by leveraging technologies in new ways that could have high impact in every aspect of operations • A technical player who is trusted to identify challenges and define how to overcome them.

• A multi-tasker and flexible towards work timings, working in a fast-paced environment without getting overwhelmed easily.

• Detail-oriented, always ready to put in the extra effort to deliver polished, well-formed IT solutions for Material.

• Mindful of the employee experience - articulate, confident & well-spoken in all forms of communication, comfortable to be the voice of our customer to Material IT, and the face of Material IT to our customers.

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Last updated on Oct 14, 2024