DevOps/ Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• DevSecOps expert, who can self-manage and drive the team towards CI /CD integration and implementation.
• Should drive & support various DevOps initiatives.
• Provides analysis and solutions to technical and business issues.
• Understand and apply technology and corporate vision setting direction on implementation.
• Maintain awareness of business and technology strategies and implements technical alternatives and strategies to gain competitive advantage.
• Assist in the development of the strategic technical architecture.
• Designing and implementing automation tools and frameworks for continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
• Monitoring and managing infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance, security, and scalability.
• Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application development, deployment, and operations.
• Remain current on technical and professional advances and business strategies regarding area of responsibility.
• Serve as expert in area of responsibility, identifies process improvements and problem prevention, and advises department and management of relevant information as appropriate.
• Resolve architectural or development blockers raised.
• Provide technical leadership and consultation to project team members as directed by the project manager.
• Provide direct guidance in planning, designing, programming, documentation, and implementation of the systems.
• Perform reviews of new and existing systems to ensure operational integrity and accomplishment of stated objectives.
• Design, code, test, debug and document programs as required.
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant controls and standards
• Keep up-to-date and have expertise on current tools, technologies and areas like cyber security and regulations pertaining to aspects like data privacy, consent, data residency etc. that are applicable.
• Ensure service resilience, service sustainability and recovery time objectives are met for all the software solutions delivered

Requirements

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Over 5+ years of experience in DevOps with a strong focus on CI/CD, automation.
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Working experience with Jenkins Groovy Declarative pipeline.
• Hands on experience with Ansible Automation Platform
• Solid knowledge on infrastructure like Linux OS, networking, storage, load-balancer, etc.
• Expertise in docker, k8s, service mesh
• Experience in SCM tools like Github, Bitbucket
• Experience in tracking tools like Jira
• Solid knowledge of REST, APIs
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Puppet or Chef)
• Experience in Build tools, Maven, Gradle
• Experience and expertise on Package management tool, preferably Nexus
• Expertise in monitoring and observability technologies like Prometheus, AppDynamics, Splunk, Open Telemetry.
• Experience in the financial industry will be an added advantage.
• Ability to work independently and think out of the box.
• The passion and ability to lead/motivate and develop technologist, including mentoring and coaching.
• Superior listening skills, ability to learn quickly, and willing to accept accountability for company and team success.
• Extensive critical thinking skills for problem identification and solution recommendation.
• Highly flexible, set priorities and meet deadlines in a changing environment