Insurance Information Bureau - DevSecOps Manager (12-14 yrs)

Location : Hyderabad, India

Reporting Manager : CTO

Work Pattern : Full Time, 5 days in the office

Minimum Experience as a DevSecOps manager : 12 years

The DevSecOps manager will gather product & business requirements, gut check new ideas and proposals, balance technology gaps and delivery of product functionality.

Solely responsible for all the people management areas like, goal setting, performance management, providing regular feedback & coaching, taking care of the rewards and recognition. Implement the DevOps roadmap and measure success via key performance indicators agreed with the CTO.

Responsibilities :

- Work with Product Managers, platform architects and the cloud product group to understand business and technical needs, convert them into high quality software implemented in QA and production systems

- Manage the day-to-day testing activities of the Dev QA Engineers which includes resource allocation, escalating and resolving software defects and issues, participating in release testing activities

- Research, gather feedback, and help build momentum for change within the organization as we move to a SaaS environment

- Source engineering talent and be comfortable closing candidates

- Hold JAD sessions with other development teams to enhance and assess solutions across different teams

- Provide post implementation support in production environment, following up with any reported issues to resolution

- Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and application system tuning

- Design and implement innovations that improve software velocity, infrastructure resiliency, security and data availability

- Progress adoption and maximise efficiency of DevOps tooling

- Manage operations team to maintain uptime SLAs of systems, proactive review of systems health and initiation and execution of projects to further improve systems resiliency

- Address critical severity issues with full support and accountability of core dev teams

- Manage and oversee proactive reviews and audits of production systems, issue triage and follow up

- Recommend and facilitate implementation of infrastructure enhancements as required to maintain systems performing in response to business growth

- Allocate resources and prioritize regular maintenance and operations activities

- Manage and facilitate security processes and best practices

- Identify requirements and oversee implementation of monitors and escalation procedures

- Collaborate with PMO, infrastructure operations team and analytics for several products and projects

Skills :

- 12+ years of hands-on experience designing, building, deploying, testing, maintaining, monitoring, and owning scalable, resilient, and distributed software products

- Familiarity with a wide range of systems engineering tools, including source code repository hubs, continuous integration services, issue tracking, test automation, deployment automation, development team collaboration, agile project management

- Knowledge of DevOps tools, GIT, SVN, Jenkins, JIRA, Rally, Green hopper, Puppet/Chef Vagrant, Selenium

- Strong scripting skills, REST, shell, Java and VB

- Must have experience with more than one of the following scripting languages such as Chef, Puppet, PowerShell, Shell Script, or JavaScript

- Understanding of enterprise GIT repositories including branching and forking

- Experience with Linux (Red Hat preferred), Satellite, and Apache configuration, management, and tuning and hardening

- Hands-on DevSecOps management in any of the hyperscalers - Azure, AWS, GCP

Good to Have :

- Passion for testing strategy, problem-solving, and continuous learning.

- Willingness to acquire new skills and knowledge

- Possess a product/engineering mindset to drive impactful data solutions

- Experience working in distributed environments with global teams

- Great numerical and analytical skills

Soft Skills :

- Analytical thinking skills

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Problem-solving skills

Tools and Programs :

- JIRA, GitHub, Maven, Docker, Jenkins, Chef or Puppet, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, NodeJS, MS SQL, MySQL, MongoDB

Education :

- A bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.

- A master's degree in computer science, information science or similar is preferred.

- Industry related certifications in the DevSecOps context is highly desirable