DevOps Architect - Cloud Infrastructure (10-15 yrs)

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 .