DevOps Engineer

Job Description SummaryResponsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area. She/he will work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business. She/he will Lead design discussion in a limited manner.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

• Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate, and justify the estimate with facts.
• Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding.
• Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal.
• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
• Seek and provide feedback on design and development.
• Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
• Understand whole product, its modules, and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
• Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs.
• Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
• Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice
• Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
• Provide guidance to a team of 5 to 7 developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
• Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
• Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong academic credentials.
• A minimum of 3-6 years of professional experience
• Must have hands-on experience in using any pipeline/scripting languages (Groovy, Python, Bash etc.)
• Must have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
• Must have knowledge of cloud service providers, like AWS.
• Must have proficiency in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines using Jenkins.
• Must have hands-on experience in component build and packaging metadata such as Maven
• Highly desired to have knowledge on static code analysis tools like Coverity and Vulnerability scanning tools like JFrog X-ray.
• Good to have working knowledge on databases like Postgresql.
• Good to have working knowledge on deploying and supporting business intelligence/reporting tools like Superset.
• Good to have knowledge on metric technologies like Prometheus, Grafana
• Good to have knowledge on EFK Stack
• Good to have on tool like Jira, Confluence, and static code analysis tools like Coverity
• Good to have knowledge with service discovery/mesh such as Istio

Business Acumen:

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
• Experience in maintaining scalable and highly available distributed systems
• Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

Leadership:

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
• Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
• Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
• Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes:

• Able to work under minimal supervision
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
• Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work