Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer

Position title - DevOps- Senior/Lead Engineer

Summary

As a DevOps Senior engineer / lead you are responsible for Designing, implementing, Automating, Deploying, Monitoring and Administrating the infrastructure and applications on Azure/ on premise SAAS-N environment.

You will lead daily tasks and activities of multiple team members, responsible for their missions, supporting, guiding and mentoring in a technical aspect.

You will be scripting in a various common language such as Lambda, PowerShell, etc.

You will explore and learn open source tools, working closely with R&D application teams.  

The ideal candidate has the following experience.

• Excellent scripting (e.g. PowerShell\Python) and automation skills.
• Strong background knowledge on Windows\Linux Administration.
• Strong hands-on experience working with Azure environment, including automation with configuration management tools like Puppet, Chef, Ansible or an equivalent will be an added advantage.
• Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana etc.) will be an added advantage.
• Must have excellent communication (verbal & written), interpersonal, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
• The position requires to work extra hours as needed.

Primary Responsibilities Include: 

• Managing configurations across virtual machines and ensuring configuration drift is minimal 
• Optimizing deployment times by automating the build, test , patch and scaling of the platform through scripts 
• Review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development process 
• Develop and support the app build pipeline (cutting, tagging, and maintaining branches etc) 
• Select, deploy, administer and support 3rd party tools as needed, like Jenkins Jobs/Plugins/Settings and Integration through CI/CD platform 
• Trace complex build problems, release issues and environment issues in a multi-component environment 
• Develop, maintain and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes 
• Documentation skills to deliver reports and architecture documents to customers and auditors 

Required Skills/Experience:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, IT or related field 
• Minimum 4 years experience working as a hands-on DevOps or CloudOps engineer with: 
• Web application installations, upgrades, and deployment as well as any servers/systems that support/host web application 
• Configuration management and release engineering 
• One or more continuous integration tools such as Bamboo, Jenkins , terraform or other integrated automation tools 
• Knowledge of using docker , Kubernetes is a must
• Technical background, Analytical, and Problem-solving skills are required 
• Knowledge and experience with configuration management systems is valuable 
• Must possess strong communication and interpersonal skills