Mashreq - Assistant Vice President - DevOps

Responsibilities :

- Managing the DevOps Chapter for Wholesale Digital Studio applications.

- Create Azure DevOps Pipelines by ensuring project and change release(s) are packaged as per standards, seamless deployments across all environments without change or modification.

- Responsible for adhering ISG and Audit standards.

- Develop scripts to automate DevOps functions, source code checking with continuous integration, automated test tool configuration, automated deployment (Zero Click Deployments).

- Monitoring and managing infrastructure resources of DevOps, Web, and Mobile Applications.

- Setup, Configure and Maintain the DevOps tools like Sonar Cloud, Twistlock, Veracode.

- Setup, Configure and Maintain Kubernetes services, Storage services (NFS) for entire wholesale digital studio web applications.

- Plan and execute Disaster recovery for applications.

- Manage new DevOps tool set and implementing DevOps strategy for Mobile Applications.

- Design a DevOps strategy to migrate from App center to Azure DevOps.

- Recommend and facilitate implementation of infrastructure enhancements as required to maintain systems performing in response to business growth.

- Maintain and enhance the previous DevOps implementations.

- Collaboration with ISG and CCOE teams on latest changes and implement in DevOps area.

- Designing a secure application-release automation process to make security an integral part of the CI/CD pipelines both on-perm & Azure cloud platforms.

- Hands-on Experience in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment and implementing the DevSecOps processes.

- Constantly looks for better ways of solving technical problems and designs the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo.

- Identifies bottlenecks in coding development and deployment processes.

- Leads knowledge growth effort of platform configuration management and troubleshooting.

- Collaborates with the rest of DevOps team to deliver consistent and holistic solution to the organization.

- Help debug and fix any problems with the infrastructure and applications.

- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automating the build, test, and deployment processes.

- Collaborate with development teams to ensure that applications are designed with scalability, reliability, and operability in mind.

- Participate in incident management and post-mortem reviews to analyse root causes, implement preventative measures, and improve system reliability.

- Continuously evaluate and adopt best practices, tools, and technologies for improving reliability, performance, and efficiency.

- Contribute to the development of operational processes, documentation, and knowledge sharing initiatives to enhance team productivity and :

- Overall, around 8+ years of experience with IT Infrastructure and or Application development.

- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer/architect or in a similar role.

- Proficiency in scripting and programming languages.

- Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

- Experience in Continuous Deployment (CI/ CD).

- Experience in Containerized deployments using Docker.

- Strong understanding of Systems, Kubernetes, Databases, Redis, Network, Storage, Firewalls, CDN infrastructure on Azure/AWS or GCP platform.

- Experience on Splunk or similar application/infrastructure logging for day-to-day log management & production issue troubleshooting.

- Understanding of industry standard monitoring platforms and ability to troubleshoot production issues through the observability platforms.

- 4 to 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes and continuous build & integration on Kubernetes Clusters.

- Hands on experience on related tools such as Azure DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Veracode, Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, Twistlock etc.

- Currently practicing DevOps methodology.

- Excellent coding and scripting skills (Java, Java Spring Boot, react preferred) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS).

- Working knowledge of deployment automation solutions.

- Strong Expertise of cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS or GCP) and cluster management tools like AKS/EKS or GKE.

- Experience in Agile Development, with specific Solution Architect (or similar) experience preferred.

- Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and service degradation.

- Experience as a DevOps on a cross-functional agile team.

- Understands relationship with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Design Lead, and rest of technical team.

- Effective communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions.

- Bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.

- Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging/disruptive Us :

The leading financial institution in MENA.

- While more than half a century old, we proudly think like a challenger, startup, and innovator.
in banking and finance, powered by a diverse and dynamic team who put customers first.

- Together, we pioneer key innovations and developments in banking and financial services.

- Our mandate? To help customers find their way to Rise Every Day, partnering with them through the highs and lows to help them reach their goals and unlock their unique vision of success.

- Delivering superior service to clients by leading with innovation, treating colleagues with dignity and fairness while pursuing opportunities that grow shareholders value.

- We actively contribute to the community through responsible banking in our mission to inspire more people to Rise.

(ref:hirist.tech)

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