Senior Specialist - Architecture

DevOps Lead

Position Summary

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work as a DevOps Lead on client facing projects with a focus on infrastructure design configuration management and automation

Candidate Profile

Three to five years experience as a DevOps Lead

Overall 10 years experience in the IT industry

A deep understanding of DevOps tools processes and best practices

Expert knowledge of configuration management orchestration containerization deployment automation

Experience working with application developers project managers and other stakeholders in a fast paced high availability environment where the focus is on application performance availability and customer satisfaction

Motivated self starter who continuously engages and collaborates with others to reach the collective end goal

Excellent leadership and decision making skills

Strong English verbal and written communication skills

Key Responsibilities

Define the configuration of hosting environments based on requirements provided by Dev Architecture and Infrastructure teams

Prepare technical specifications for DevOps solutions and conduct design walkthroughs with Architecture and Project Teams

Ability to adopt Infra as a Code IaC methodology while provisioning infrastructure on premises or cloud

Responsible for operationalization of new automated platforms including runbook documentation and capacity management

Implement effective logging monitoring and ing solutions

Automate service restarts and other maintenance and support tasks as part of project implementations

Define upgrade strategies and maintaining currency of DevOps and Cloud tools and services

Maintain up to date knowledge of core DevOps and related technologies

Provide rotating on call L3 support for business critical applications and systems as well as project implementation support

Participate in annual disaster recovery DR planning and testing

Advanced proficiency with operation and support of enterprise grade Linux based virtual servers

Demonstrate ability to perform complex troubleshooting in Cloud environments

Good experience in managing and troubleshooting cloud based container orchestration platforms

Familiarity with modern web application architecture technologies including AngularJS and Spring Boot

Experience with Microservices based applications including providing support troubleshooting issues in API Gateways mTLS API Security Frameworks like JWT OAuth etc

Solid conceptual understanding of infrastructure and technology stack for achieving HA and DR ready implementations

Advanced understanding of core TCP IP v4 network concepts to provide in segregated network environment intranet DMZ extranets This would include understanding of DNS routing load balancing firewall ACLs etc

Ability to work with internal external parties to conduct respond remediate for application infrastructure vulnerability assessments VAs processes

Relevant Tools Technologies

Configuration Management Ansible CloudFormation

Continuous Integration Jenkins

Artifact Repository Nexus

Orchestration AWS ECS EKS Fargate OpenShift Kubernetes

Containerization Docker Podman Buildah

Scripting Python YAML Groovy PowerShell

API Management Spring Cloud Gateway AWS API Gateway Service Mesh

Web Apache HTTPd AngularJS Spring Frameworks Apache Tomcat JBossEAP

Network F5 BIG IP LTM APM

Monitoring Dynatrace rsyslogd Site24x7

Cloud Virtualization AWS VMware

Security CAST SonarQube Qualys Sentinel

Other Tools RHEL Git