Lead DevOps & Site Reliability Engineer (12-20 yrs)

Roles & Responsibilities :

- Responsible for the stability, high availability, and scalability of the environments by using automation, self-healing/immutable microservice-based architectures /clustering on cloud platforms.

- Collaborating with developers, Test Engineers, Product Managers, and InfoSec Managers for their DevSecOps and SRE requirements and providing the architectural solution as well as implementation.

- Championing & driving application, infrastructure, development environment & organization security efforts, etc.

- Lead developer productivity projects in the areas of environment automation, monitoring, and updates.

- Consulting with management on the operational requirements of software solutions.

- Contributing expertise on information system options, risk, and operational impact.

- Mentoring junior SRE/DevSecOps in gaining experience and assuming DevSecOps responsibilities.

- Overseeing routine maintenance procedures, performing diagnostic tests, debugging the system/process faults, and identifying areas to save cost.

- Ensuring proper documentation and internal publishing of design tradeoffs, SRE/DevSecOps best practices, and lessons learned.

- Keeping up with software development, DevSecOps, and SRE trends and innovation.

- Design, implement, and evolve highly scalable and fault-tolerant distributed components using core DevSecOps principles.

- Hands-on experience in using Docker, and Kubernetes with proper metrics instrumentation in software components, to help facilitate real-time and remote troubleshooting/performance monitoring.

- Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable.

- Work closely with Operations & Infrastructure teams, developers, and other stakeholders for cross-functional development activities.

- Collaborate with the security team to implement and verify secure coding techniques, and integrate code security tools for Continuous Integration.

- Scanning repositories for security vulnerabilities : SonarCube, Blackduck, Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP), Vault, OWASP dep check, early threat modeling, and Security design reviews.

- Automated deployment, Continuous integration, Continuous delivery, and release engineering to Development, QA, and Production environments.

- Contribute to an efficient development process pipeline by leveraging best-in-class CI/CD tools.

- Experience with configuration automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt).

- Experience with middleware and database systems like Kafka, Aerospike, Cassandra, MySQL, NoSQL, etc.

- Understand and own component security analysis, test stage data, and log analysis including code and data flow review.

- Design and implement APIs, abstractions, and integration patterns to solve challenging distributed computing problems.

- Support in triaging and troubleshooting of highly distributed services in the production environment.

Skills Required :

- Extensive experience in DevSecOps engineering, team management, and collaboration, knowledge of any major programming languages such as Python and Java, and writing code and scripts.

- Experience in working in a highly agile environment with a working familiarity with the entire software development lifecycle including version control, build process, testing, and code release.

- Experience with operating system internals, file systems, disk/storage, and networking protocols.

- Proficiency in documenting processes and monitoring performance metrics.

- Advanced knowledge of best practices related to data encryption, certificate management, and cybersecurity.

- Previous experience in the healthcare domain is a big plus.

- Hands-on experience in Splunk, Sysdig, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.is a big plus.

- Experience with Docker Networking, Service Mesh, and Proxies is a big plus.

- Certifications from CNCF CKA / CKAD are a plus.

- Experience with distributed databases, distributed computing, and high-frequency transactions is a plus.

Qualification/Experience :

- Minimum of 12 years with 10+ years of SRE/DevOps experience.

- BTech/BE/BS or MTech/MCA/ME/MS.