Lead DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deliver DevOps automation projects to our global clients by managing offshore implementation teams, collaborating with dev and ops client teams, and setting the right expectations with stakeholders.
• Promote the reuse of the technology and processes by contributing to the tools that enable internal process automation and improve team skills.
• Help in sales engineering activities such as understanding client needs and proposing solutions, implementing PoC, defining the scope of work, and arriving at estimates.
• Guide team members with day-to-day activities and train them on new technologies/tools/frameworks.
• Keep abreast of the latest trends and technologies in DevOps and introduce new service offerings from the DevOps COE.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in independently handling deployment automation projects using IaC, Configuration management, Orchestration, containerization, and CI/CD automation tools.
• Linux Admin background is a must.
• Through understanding and hands-on skills in at least four of these tools - (Terraform, CloudFormation), (Ansible, Chef, Puppet), (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS), Docker Images, Volumes, Secrets, Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline
• Good understanding of networking, security rules, firewalls, WAF, API gateways, and auto-scaling principles
• Hands on experience managing production alerts (Analyse, Debug, Fix) using monitoring tools like New Relic, CloudWatch, Data Dog.
• Exposure to AWS resources - computing, databases, storage, IAM, messaging, serverless, and discount schemes is a plus.
• Programming or scripting experience in PowerShell, Bash, Python, or SQL is a plus.