Development and Operations Engineer Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Provisioning and maintaining infrastructure in AZURE/AWS cloud.

• Maintain and improve the current CICD pipeline (Github workflow & Jenkins)

• Strong Python Knowledge.

• Proficiency in using Terraform for infrastructure as code to manage AWS/Azure resources

• Shell/Powershell scripting

• Application deployment automation using Ansible/Terraform/etc

• Review and maintain IAC repositories in bitbucket

• Fix the AZURE/AWS non-compliance wherever possible - Security controls and best practices

• Strong emphasis on DevOps as an engineering discipline with a focus on automation

• Handle escalations from internal stakeholders and manage critical issues to resolution

• Manage, and provide guidance to a high performing global team of Site Reliability Engineers.

• Teaching how to adopt reliability engineering practices such as error budgets, blameless retrospectives, chaos engineering, etc.

• Identify problems and opportunities for improvements that are common across many teams and services.

• Develop services to handle automatic recovery from incidents and disasters.

• Participate in troubleshooting, capacity analysis and planning, and performance analysis

• Design cost controls and rollout the cost optimization strategy

• Respond on-call to incidents with quick and effective resolutions

• Responsible for fixing compliance issues and requirements raised by SecOps tools

Required Skills and Experience 

• Minimum 7+ years experience in technical and people management.

• History of supporting applications and infrastructure in Production

• Experience in Capacity planning and Cost optimization

• Deep understanding of Linux/Unix operating systems

• Experience using a high-level scripting language (Python preferred) and IaC tools(Terraform, CloudFormation) 

• Infrastructure as code (IaC) and System Administration skills

• Software Development and Continuous Integration skills

• Experience with AZURE/AWS cloud services

• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues

• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Desirable Skills and Experience

• AZURE/AWS Certification (or equivalent in another public cloud)

• Experience with microservice architecture

• Above-average skills in Python or another high-level programming language

• Experience with SaaS monitoring toolsets (Datadog, SumoLogic, PagerDuty, ELK, Grafana)

• Experience in Atlassian tools: Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence,Github

• Experience using SQL and NoSQL databases

• Experience with Jenkins/Bamboo for CI/CD

• Experience in Kubernetes is an added advantage

• Extensive experience with Azure App Service, Azure Functions, and other Azure services.

• Proven experience with Azure Front Door and designing multi-region architectures for high availability and disaster recovery.

• Strong knowledge of GitHub workflows for CI/CD pipeline implementation and management.