DevOps Infrastructure Strategist

As a Cloud Infrastructure Specialist, you will play a critical role in designing and building scalable and efficient infrastructure platforms. Your expertise will be instrumental in shaping our technology strategy and driving innovation across the organization.

• The ideal candidate should have 9-12 years of experience in DevOps with a bachelor's degree in engineering or technology, or a master's degree in engineering or computer applications.

Key responsibilities include designing and enabling application support, handling production farms, and various infrastructure platforms for different delivery teams. As a subject matter expert, you will be responsible for designing and building container-based environment topology following principles of designing a well-architected framework.

Additionally, you will be responsible for establishing best practices, cultivating thought leadership, and developing common practices/solutions on infrastructure. Your skills and experience should include:

• Expertise in cloud tools: AWS, Azure, GCP, version control: Git, Gitlab, GitHub, container infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, hosted solutions.
• Ability to define container-based environment topology following principles of designing a well-architected framework.
• Design and implementation of advanced aspects using service mesh technologies like Istio, Linkerd, Kuma, etc.
• Infrastructure automation: Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation.
• Build tools: Ant, Maven, Make, Gradle.
• Artifact repositories: Nexus, JFrog Artifactory.
• CI/CD tools on-premises/cloud: Jenkins, TeamCity.
• Monitoring, logging, and security: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, log analytics, hosted tools such as ELK, EFK, Splunk, Prometheus, OWASP, SAST, and DAST.
• Scripting languages: Python, Ant, Bash, and Shell.
• Hands-on experience in designing pipelines and pipelines as code.
• Good exposure to tools and technologies used in building a container-based infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience of GCP/AWS/AZURE with a good understanding of computing, networks, IAM, Security, and integration services with production knowledge on implementing strategies for reliability requirements, ensuring business continuity, meeting performance objectives, security requirements and controls, deployment strategies for business requirements, cost optimization, etc.

You should also have experience in managing installation, configuration, automation, performance, monitoring, capacity planning, and availability management of various servers and databases. An expert in automation skills, you should have knowledge of load balancing, CDN options provided by multiple cloud vendors, and network algorithms on failover and availability. Additionally, you should have the capability to write complex code, e.g., automation of recurring/mundane tasks, OS administration (CPU, memory, network performance troubleshooting), and demonstrate strong troubleshooting skills.

Other key responsibilities include demonstrating HA/DR design on cloud platform as per SLAs/RTO/RPO, performing root cause analysis, and understanding of any one of DBMS like MySQL, Oracle, or No SQL like Cassandra, MongoDB, etc. Furthermore, you should have working knowledge of scripting in any one of the languages: BASH/Python/Perl/Ruby, and certification in any cloud (Architect or Professional).

In return, you will have the opportunity to set yourself apart with your capabilities in estimating the setup time required for infrastructure and build/release activities, good working knowledge of the Linux operating system, skill development, knowledge base creation, and toolset optimization of the practice, handling content delivery network, and much more.