DevOps Lead Engineer/Architect

About Persistent

We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what’s next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 12 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

Our growth trajectory continues, as we reported $1,231M annual revenue (16% Y-o-Y). Along with our growth, we’ve onboarded over 4900 new employees in the past year, bringing our total employee count to over 23,500+ people located in 19 countries across the globe.

Persistent Ltd. is  dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

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About the position

We are looking for a DevOps Lead Engineer to be responsible for creating software deployment strategies that are essential for the successful deployment of software in the work environment. You will identify and implement data storage methods like clustering to improve the performance of the team.

What you?ll do

• Manage a group of highly motivated DevOps engineers and systems administrators
• Participate in the agile ceremonies and interface with the agile team(s) and other program staff as required
• Work with application teams to help them adopt continuous build, inspection, testing and deployment
• Participate in all aspects of DevOps engineering and promote industry standard methodologies in DevOps engineering
• Migrate code from TFS to Azure DevOps
• Help to configure DevOps stack with regards to performance monitoring, analytics, and auditability
• Design and build a new code production pipeline
• Developing ?Idealized? automated CI / CD processes and working with teams
• to implement those processes in SSGA?s DevOps technology stack
• Provide deployment and occasional off hours support
• Analyze existing standards to identify gaps and remedies. Evaluate gaps related to DevOps best practices
• Develop and maintain installation, configuration and operations procedures
• Develop Junit tests to support code coverage as part of the CI / CD pipeline
• Share best practices with a focus on re-use of application code
• Work with the development, project / product management organizations to align projects, releases, patches, and other efforts
• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI / CD pipelines)

Expertise you?ll bring

• Qualifications:
  • Bachelor?s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a closely related field.
  • A Bachelor?s degree in Computer Science is preferable while a Master?s degree will carry a lot more weight.
  • Experience: 8+ years working in the related field. Additionally, experience in the following:
  • Automating and orchestrating workloads for large-scale enterprise Java applications using Ansible
  • Working with Cloud solutions at massive scale and resiliency.
  • Deploying updates and fixes
  • Developing scripts to automate visualization
  • Writing scripts and automation using Perl / Python / Groovy / Java / Bash.
  • Shell scripting, Python, Groovy, etc
• Good to have skills
  • PostgreSQL, MySQL, NoSQL, and / or Cassandra
  • Migrating application to AWS cloud; AWS certifications
  • Test Driven Development
• Knowledge:
  • Ruby or Python
  • Build tools like Ant, Maven, and Gradle ? including configuring & adopting
  • Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) practices and tools; Certification in Agile delivery (e.g., SAFe Agilist)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Inclusive Environment

•We offer hybrid work options and flexible working hours to accommodate various needs and preferences.

•Our office is equipped with accessible facilities, including adjustable workstations, ergonomic chairs, and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.

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