DevOps Architect

**DevOps Architect: Infra & Platform**

**Company Description**
Material is a modern marketing services firm powered by sophisticated analytics, deep
human understanding and a specialized type of creativity, design thinking. Headquartered
in LA, the company has grown consistently for nearly 50 years to 1200+ employees in 20
offices including NY, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, and London. Material has actively
acquired a portfolio of businesses to build a unique, integrated marketing services business
with key capabilities in analytics, intelligence, and experience for an array of top-tier clients in
entertainment, tech, retail, healthcare, and packaged goods.

We believe people are people, not data points. Diverse and inclusive problem-solving. Data
and creativity is complementary and equally essential. Breaking down silos improves
efficiency and creativity. Combining people, insights, and ideas uncovers hidden truths.
Putting humans at the center of everything we do creates opportunities to improve lives.

Material is a global strategy, insights, design, and technology partner to companies striving for true customer centricity and ongoing relevance in a digital-first, customer-led world. By leveraging proprietary, science-based tools that enable human understanding, we inform and create customer-centric business models and experiences + deploy measurement systems - to build transformational relationships between businesses and the people they serve.

**Overview**
As a DevOps Architect, you are highly skilled and experienced and have a deep understanding
of public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms. The DevOps Architect will play a key technical
role in the life cycle of projects and will have significant interaction with tech leads and
project managers. This also includes taking the lead role in planning solutions, technical
architecture and data modeling. In-depth knowledge of all DevOps stages, concepts and
practical experience in dealing with DevOps, SecOps, NetOps, and leadership roles is a key
factor for this position.

**Details**:

- Minimum Experience: 7+ Years
- Preferred location: Gurgaon (Hybrid)
- Alternate preferred locations: Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai.
- Work Mode: Hybrid for Gurgaon else Remote for other locations.
- Work Time: Normal IST Business hours, flexibility in time is preferred as the individual will be working with the team in the USA/UK overlap. - 11 AM to 8 PM or 12 PM to 9 PM IST time shift will be good.

**What does success look like?**
A successful DevOps Architect, Infrastructure will have mastered the arts of:
Architecture: Successfully converted business requirements into roadmaps that deliver the right architecture and support of a modern Infrastructure.
- Collaboration: Bridged the gap between Infrastructure SME’s and other teams to understand business requirements and deliver high-quality outcomes through coaching & mentoring on core Infrastructure concepts;
- Operations: Effectively maintained/improved stability, integrity, and efficiency of Material’sinfrastructure by proactively identifying, strengthening, and eliminating single points of failures through collaboration with IT service owners and operations partners.
- Point of escalation Leads the team through successful incident and problem resolution by direction and coordination during business-critical incidents or outages.

**Responsibilities**:
**Architecture**
- Design, build, and manage highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using AWS, Azure Cloud, and GCP
- Use Infrastructure as a code to build the cloud infrastructure.
- Planned, designed, and implement network infrastructure to support cloud-based systems, ensuring high availability, security, and performance.
- Review and optimize the cloud environment to ensure it is secure and in line with the corporate security policies and industry best practices. - Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR/HA on critical cloud workloads.
- The person will be responsible for the design, deployment, and management of the source code repositories like Azure DevOps, Gitlab, Github, Bitbucket, etc, hosted on-prem/cloud/Saas.
- Translate business/project requirements and goals into technical solutions. Collaboration
- Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT, INF, BA) to implement baselines for systems and networks, best practices, and policies that support and optimize their respective environments
- Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management, minimizing risks that could be introduced to new or existing environments
- Empower the team to safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure capabilities
- Promote quality work by bringing a multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT service owners, partners, and vendors.
- Lead a team of DevOps leads and engineers and reported to the Infrastructure Architect.
- Streamline De