DevOps Architect-Full time Job

Dear Connections,

We are hiring across Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad/Noida/Pune for DevOps Architect.

Work Loction: Bangalore/Chennai/Hyderabad/Noida/Pune

Role: Permanent

Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

What is the purpose of this role?

A Multicloud Platform that will operate across Public (AWS, Azure, GCP), Private and Edge Clouds. The Platform will support both Containers (Kubernetes) and Server based deployments. These Platforms will employ best of breed technologies and are designed to encourage best practice application design/development/operation such as automation and CI/CD.

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic DevSecOps Engineer to join our team and help drive it's success into the future.

The platforms are operational hosting many strategic Applications and Services. The team will support the production and non-production environments, help onboard new Applications/Services and continue to build out value add capabilities into the platform.

How does the role contribute to business strategy?

These platforms are a key contributor to:

· The company “Digitisation” program enabling devops teams using the platforms to take advantage of cloud technologies.

· The #9025 program goal of moving 90% of the eligible apps to the Public Cloud

What are the measurable outcomes of this role?

Uptime of UAT/SVT environment

Minimise Production outages

Continuous feature delivery and Automation of changes deployed in UAT/SVT

Develop lifecycle plans and enhancements for the Infrastructure platforms to meet performance and operational requirements

Key Accountabilities

· Must have examples:

o Linux and/ or WIndows: how it works, how it boots, services, how logging is done, distributions (e.g. CentOS, Ubuntu, etc).

o Docker: how to write a Docker file

o Intermediate level: security model (IAM user, groups, roles and policies), important AWS (or Azure equivalent) services like EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS and what they are and what they do.

o Terraform or CloudFormation/Bison or CDK (which implies knowledge about AWS)

o Coding at an at least basic level in Python, Ruby, GoLang, Rust.Bash scripting knowledge

o Basic network knowledge: IP addressing, routes, gateways, difference between TCP and UDP, what ports most common services use

o Basic knowledge about common machine parse-able formats: YAML and JSON

o Basic knowledge: Virtualisation (vSphere, VMs, datastores, etc.)

o Basic general troubleshooting skills: understand the architecture and break it down into parts, test individual parts, Ansible and packer and Git.

o Cloud security feature delivery

o Agile Methodology

o Leading teams in Multiple Timezones

o Network security: what a firewall is, how firewalls rules are created, advanced protocol knowledge (TCP flags, etc), packet capture and interpretation

o How HTTP works: methods, structure of a HTTP request and response, REST API.

o HTTP knowledge: what an API is, how it is implemented, authentication and authorization methods and protocol (HTTP basic, digest, SAML, OpenID Connect, etc)

o Cisco knowledge: IOS, routing protocols such as BGP, IGRP or OSPF.

o How to configure routing, NAT and access lists.

o Advanced vSphere knowledge: the REST or SOAP API

o Advanced coding knowledge: knows one or two web frameworks for Python/Ruby or other languages and how to write a simple API or API client.

o Knows what and ORM (object relationship mapper) is and how to use it.

o Database knowledge: generic SQL is fine, MySQL and PostgreSQL is good to have (schema building, selects, inserts, joins, updates).

o Encryption: what is TLS and common usage, PKI and public/private keys, common implementations and how to make use of tools such as OpenSSL to troubleshoot encrypted connections. TLS Certificates and how to request, generate and inspect the attributes.

o Any advanced AWS or Azure service knowledge: Lambda functions from scratch, IAM / RBAC policies from scratch, CodePipeline, Step functions, ECS/EKS/Fargate and AppMesh, etc

o Knowledge of ITIL practices/SRE principals (Incident management, Problem management, Change management)

· Include:

o Ideas/Thought Leadership - how should the platform evolve? What technologies should we adopt? How will it make the platform better?

o Design of the cloud platform

o Development of cloud platform

o Security of cloud platform

o Support and maintenance of the production and non-production environments

o Work with application and operations teams to ensure successful deployment and operation of their application

o Support the build and deployment infrastructure used by our development teams

o Respond to high severity production issues escalated by our operations teams

Key Skills/Technical Expertise

Skill/Technical Expertise

Description

Health Safety and Environment (HSE) Leadership

1) You visibly and proactively demonstrate commitment to the health and safety of employees, contractors, suppliers, the community by eliminating or, if not reasonably practicable, minimising health, safety and environmental risks.

2) You take accountability for the health, safety and environmental performance within your area of accountability and role model the safe and responsible behaviours expected of our employees, contractors and suppliers.

Managing product lifecycles

Delivering, monitoring, improving and exiting curated technology products to drive profit and market differentiation

Advanced

3) Tests products with key stakeholders and customers

4) Selects fit-for-purpose product partners and construction methods

5) Implements strong governance for construction

6) Resolves product performance issues

Deploying integrated platform and solutions

Builds systems that install, configure, deploy and monitor platform solutions, ensuring effective integration and automation

Advanced

7) "Configuration: Develops advanced programming logic for automated configuration changes, orchestration and unit testing, leveraging and enhancing open source libraries and frameworks appropriately

8) Deployment: Leads the creation of a CI/CD framework, in collaboration with SMEs and partners, creating deployment guidelines and approaches that address the overarching outcomes and business goals, for a single technology domain in the context of the enterprise wide strategy

9) Agile Team Working: Leads an agile team to plan and deliver code that meets the DoD, defining SCM practices to ensure that code and associated artefacts are properly versioned and controlled

10) Systems Engineering: Employs holistic ""systems thinking"" across multiple technology domains, defining appropriate integration and automation patterns in reusable proof of concepts (PoC) projects, contributing to complexity reduction in systems development"

Optimising platform and solution performance

Creates systems that monitor and optimise network solution performance across the lifecycle to enable optimal use and outcomes for the end user or customer

Advanced

11) Performance monitoring: Establishes platform solution advanced performance metrics and enhances automated monitoring tools and data infrastructure to evaluate the system against these metrics, contributing to the development of predictive models to automate performance monitoring and capacity forecasting

12) Capacity Planning: Identifies how automated systems can indicate when service level changes require additional capacity to be deployed and engages vendors accordingly

13) Troubleshooting: Uses data infrastructure to automatically gather, manage and analyse performance data to identify parties impacted by service level changes or outages, escalates to relevant internal stakeholders, taking ownership and collaborating across teams

14) Optimisation: Evaluates automated optimisation opportunities for improving customer centricity, judging trade-offs between cost and customer benefits, using data and analytics to gain buy-in from stakeholders

The candidate will possess the following attributes

15) A strong passion for automation and repeatable processes

16) Advanced knowledge of AWS and/or Azure

17) Advanced knowledge of components in a modern web stack

18) Ability to own an idea from inception through to implementation

19) Excellent problem solving skills coupled with a "can do" attitude

20) A fervent enthusiasm for committing "all the things" to source control

21) A commitment to producing high quality and tested solutions

22) A solid understanding Linux and network security

23) Excellent written and oral collaboration skills

Interested candidates can share their profile to amit.k@acldigital.com.

Thanks & Regards

Amit Kumar