Devops Lead

Lead DevOps Engineer
Pune, Hybrid

Overview:
Guidepoint’s Engineering team thrives on problem-solving and creating happier users. As Guidepoint works to achieve its mission of making individuals, businesses, and the world smarter through personalized knowledge-sharing solutions, the engineering team is taking on challenges to improve our internal CRM system and create new products to optimize the seamless delivery of our services.
As a Lead – of DevOps & Cloud Engineering, you will be a core member of the engineering leadership team. In this role, you will manage and lead a team of Sys. Admin and DevOps engineers. You will be responsible for developing and executing a Development Operations (DevOps) strategy to ensure quality software deployments and overall application health and performance.

What You’ll Do:

• Complete ownership of DevOps/DevSecOps pipelines, supporting Enterprise Production, Development, and Test deployments
• Managing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Argo CD, Keda, and Velero for backups and DR
• Lead and manage a team of experienced DevOps engineers in our global team
• Provision, install, configure, optimize, maintain, and support all components of the Web Applications Stack:
• (Linux, Apache, SQL, PHP, Solr, Elastic Search, Redis, Couchbase)
• Right size and optimize infrastructure, balancing performance and cost for AKS and Azure VMs
• Secure all infrastructure by applying patches and updates at regular intervals.
• Configure and manage to monitor and alert of issues with Infrastructure and Application
• Provide production support by triaging and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to overall engineering initiatives as a member of the engineering leadership team.

What You Have:

• 5+ years of experience working as a Senior DevOps Engineer
• 3+ years of experience managing a team of DevOps/DevSecOps Engineers
• Hands-on experience and knowledge of Linux (CentOS), PHP (configs/modules), Apache, Nginx, Solr, Elastic Search Clusters, Redis, Couchbase, SQL Server, and RabbitMQ.
• Well-versed in git version control and Artifactory

Preferred to have:

• Solid understanding and experience of IaaS and PaaS Cloud services (Azure preferred)
• Datadog experience with Infrastructure and Application monitoring and observability Tools
• Expertise in Containerization Technology (Docker, Kubernetes, ASR)
• Solid understanding and hands-on experience with CI/CD tools:
• Terraform, Ansible
• Azure DevOps Pipelines
• Argo CD, Keda and Velero expertise
• Experience/knowledge of Azure IaaS/Paas a Plus:
• Compute: VMs, Scale Sets
• Networking: Vnet, Application Gateway, Load balancers, NSG, ASG, Firewalls
• Storage: Storage Accounts, Virtual Disks, Blob Storage
• PaaS: Web Apps, Web Jobs, Service Bus, Event Grid etc

Soft Skills Required:

• Maintain problem solving skills and a proactive work style.
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
• Independent contributor with drive
• Collaborative and teamwork-oriented
• Accountable for work and take ownership of tasks.
• Strategic thinker
• Manages projects and uphold quality on a deadline.
• Exhibits judgement when it comes to prioritization and overall team management.
• Proven effective leadership skills.

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation
• Employee medical coverage
• Central office location
• Entrepreneurial environment, autonomy, and fast decisions
• Casual work environment