DevOps Architect

**Sr DevOps Architect**

**Qualification**:
Graduate
**Responsibility**:
CI-CD / Building Pipelines / DevOps Engineering
- Develop custom scripts as required to support Continuous Integration process.
- Develop custom scripts as required to support Continuous Deployment process.
- Integrate the different Continuous Integration & Deployment tools to achieve automation based on the defined target architecture.
- Develop packaging, deployment documentations and scripts for final builds to be used for production deployments.
- Support agile development team with builds and releases.
- Implement release automation solution as per the defined target architecture or operating model.
- Implement Branching & Merging solution.
- Participates in the discovery phase of small to mediumsized projects to come up with high level design.
- Provide solution to implement Continuous integration & continuous deployment solutions for largesized project.
- Manage Medium to largesized projects.
- Guide the team to solve build & deployment automation issues.
- Design/Implement release orchestration solutions for medium or large sized projects.
- Participates in the discovery phase of largesized projects to come up with high level design.
- Participate/Lead E2E DevOps small customer assessment.
- Perform preassessments to help the customer to start on the DevOps journey.
- Participate in large assessment for data assimilation.
- Participate/Lead DevOps transformation for a largesized customer.
- Provide solution for RFPs.
- Create/participate in creating reference architecture for DevOps build & release automation implementation across customers.
- Release Management & Environment Management Able to perform below functional roles in Release Management.
- Release Orchestration.
- Change LifeCycle Management.
- Release Automation.
- SelfServie Portal.
- Able to perform the below functional Roles in Environment Management.
- Environment Demand Management.
- SelfService Portal.
- Containerization / VM Management.
- Infraasacode tool setup/configuration.
- OnDemand Environment Provisioning.
- Pre/post testing & Env Purge.
- Feedback Amplification.
- Ability to build DevOps Dashboards by performing the following function.
- Automated Log Management.
- Tool Integration for logging.
- Event Driven Notification.
- Develop Search queries.
- Develop Alerting and reporting.
- Configure log management tool.
- ANalytics & Insights.
- Metrics Management.
- Look at emerging open source technologies to optimize the cost and achieve required efficiencies.
- Define the reporting framework to enable metrics based reporting.
- Define the reporting framework to enable customers to move towards proactive monitoring.
- Solution Definition & Design.
- Contribute for the discovery phase of a or new Engagement & come up with the high level design & Architecture.
- Detailed Design Create Detailed Design for the defined DevOps Architecture (CI/CD).
- Flawless Delivery Quality of Delivery (EgDefects within SLA, Zero Escalations, Effort & Schedule Variations within defined limits).
- DevOps Metrics Setup to Quantify DevOps benefits.
- Client execution impact and stakeholder engagement.
- Stakeholder Management & Satisfaction EDLs/Customer.
- Upskilling industry certifications, Account specific skill target achievement.
- L3 Proficiency in any one of the streams AWS / Azure / GCP.
- Upskilling for an Account specific requirement (2 Microcredentials in a year).
- L1 Proficiency in another stream.
- People Engagement & Community Growth.
- Act as a Technical SME for 4 Associates in a Quarter & recognize talent leveraging Cognizant Cheers platform.
- Participate in 4 Evaluation Drives.
- Community Leader for 5 Associates as applicable.
- Fostering thought leadership and build IPs / assets.
- Ideation for Client pain points (At least TWO).
- Adopt accelerators for higher productivity (At least one).
- Contribute building ONE Assets/accelerators.
- Fostering thought leadership SME Council.
- Contribute to SME Council by owning one area / publish PoVs / Assist teams having technical challenges.
- Active Participation in Mindshare Sessions.
- Present at least 1 Mindshare sessions for the Team / DevOps community.
- People Management (Career Management).
- Set goals & Manage performance of reporting team members.
- Provide career guidance to team members.

**Must Have Skills**
- Build Acceptance Validation
- CI Build & Reporting
- Static Code Analysis
- Automated Build
- Branching Strategy

**Good To Have Skills**
- CD-Quality Gates set-up
- Artifact Deployment

**Technical Skills**

**SNo**

**Primary Skill**

**Proficiency Level **

**Rqrd./Dsrd.**
- 1- CD-Quality Gates set-up- PL4- Desired- 2- Artifact Deployment- PL4- Desired- 3- Build Acceptance Validation- PL4- Required- 4- CI Build & Reporting- PL4- Required- 5- Static Code Analysis- PL4- Required- 6- Automated Build- PL4- Required- 7- Branching Strategy- PL4- Required- **Proficiency Legends**

**Proficiency Level**