Devops Architect

DevOps Architect

Experience: 10 to 15 years

Job Location: Jayanagar, Bangalore

Role:

Be the leader of the devops and system administration team

Be an individual contributor and be recognized as an expert that the company would look up to in all infrastructure related areas

Provide architectural inputs and insights for product architecture, recommend appropriate cloud services or self managed open source systems along with suitable commercial and technical justification

Be able to distinguish and manage contradictions between short term and long term goals while selecting infrastructural components

Participate in the technical architecture board to whet system architecture proposed for products being built

Be on top of the latest security vulnerabilities being reported and take proactive steps to ensure security of all of the company's digital assets

In case of a security violation, be in the forefront of restoring normalcy, managing the situation and performing the root cause analysis and take appropriate action to prevent repetition

Build an excellent team of dedicated experts that can manage the company's growing internet and on-premise resources

Be responsible for all technical infrastructure of the company

Be the controller for all technical and other third party cloud services subscribed to by the company

Create the DevOps department as an excellent service provider with high reliability and quick turn-around time.

Prepare, implement and keep updated the technical deployment architecture

Provide troubleshooting support and assistance for production issues

Take responsibility and be accountable for the reliable working of all production infrastructure with an uptime of over 99.99%. Ensure uptime for other environments such as Dev, QA, and Pre-production, as per the SLAs.

Have a tight control on the infrastructure costs and ensure that optimal configurations are used and unwanted resources are released.

Working across engineering teams to enable cost-effective, robust and secure delivery of platform services.

Providing feedback to help the team understand technical trade-offs at the architecture, design and planning stage, particularly with respect to technical debt, performance, scalability and security.

Performing the necessary platform development to enable and support the engineering team's goals as they evolve over the feature lifecycle, from defining requirements and specifications, developing proof-of-concepts, to ultimately delivering solutions to end users.

This includes:

Provisioning and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and environment

Create and maintain CI/CD systems and pipelines

Supporting engineers with training, guidance and standardised protocols for the deployment of new services that apply the relevant best practices

Monitoring system health and managing events, alerting stakeholders when necessary

Working closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered such that they are observable and auditable across all relevant dimensions.

Guarantee business continuity by ensuring adequate backup is taken as per the requirements of the disaster recovery SLAs

Ensure that restoration drills are performed at regular intervals to check preparedness for disaster recovery as well as the quality of backup

Ensure the company's data and databases are well protected

Maintain Deployment architecture and infrastructure documentation

Key skills and experience

At a minimum, candidates must have and experience and understanding with:

Experience as a DevOps Architect participating in architecture and design phases of product building

Software development at different stages of product development, particularly early-stage prototypes, to minimum viable products

Strong experience in infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, and continuous integration

Proficiency in system administration and Linux administration

CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild etc

Experience with Relational and NO-SQL databases

Should be good with Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Microservices architectures.

Should have fair idea of Database Administration with MySQL, MondgoDB

Understanding of networking concepts and protocols

Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Utho, Azure, or GCP

Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus

Job Type: Permanent

Pay: ₹2,000, ₹2,500,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Provident Fund

Work Location: In person