Cloud DevOps Engineer

Our enterprise-level client in India has an immediate need to add several Cloud DevOps Engineers to the team on a hybrid basis in major tech hubs including: Bengaluru / Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Noida, or Gurgaon.

Job Notes:

--6+ month contract / extensions and perm conversion possible with good performance.

--Hybrid / remote, but must live within commuting distance of Bengaluru / Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Noida, or Gurgaon to qualify.

--Drug & Background required.

--Must be able to speak, read, and write in English.

--Must be able to work Central European Time hours.

Note:

Responsibilities:

• Build, package, deploy, and maintain infrastructure (shared responsibility).
• Monitor service level KPI metrics and build communication and action plans when KPIs/SLAs are not met.
• Plan implementations and outages for defined action plans and configuration corrections.
• Build operations requirements for infrastructure automation and onboarding migrations.
• Conduct infrastructure services and infrastructure performance analysis, optimization, debugging, and monitoring.
• Design and deploy dynamically scalable and highly available infrastructure services.
• Build patch and release outage plans for IaaS, VMs, or legacy systems.
• Create and manage virtual networks and connectivity.

Support activities and duties:

• Monitor incident response and resolution for production applications and infrastructure.
• Respond to and escalate incidents, as required, perform root cause analysis, and follow change management processes to implement solutions.
• Develop and maintain continuity and disaster recovery processes.
• Provide backup and recovery support for cloud resources by following disaster recovery procedures.
• Monitor and report on compliance programs.
• Monitor and ensure performance and availability SLAs are met.
• Provide performance tuning consulting with Engineers, as required
• Create and maintain documentation related to infrastructure operations

Skills Required:

• Expert level knowledge and skills in developing, implementing and customizing observability solutions such as Dynatrace, Solarwinds, and ELK.
• Working knowledge with DevOps, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Powershell and configuration management tools such as Ansible, and Terraform.
• Solid understanding of network protocols, system administration, incident response, and troubleshooting techniques
• Strong experience designing, configuring, and deploying applications in cloud.
• Large-scale system performance expertise with tuning and analysis.
• Knowledge of IT compliance and risk management (security, privacy, PCI, PII, SOC-2, etc.).
• Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Continuous integration, deployment, and improvement concepts.
• Experience developing and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) (Terraform).
• Cloud provider Landing Zone concepts.
• On premise to cloud service migration experience.
• Experience in one or more programming languages (C#, Java, Node.js, etc.)
• Experience in one or more database services (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL).
• Conceptual knowledge of cloud-based data warehouse.
• Experience with system integration and concepts.
• Experience in disaster recovery testing and automation.
• Extensive experience and knowledge of Policy as Code (PaC) for example OPA, Regula.
• Strong understanding of Python/Go and Bash/PowerShell scripting.
• Configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef or Puppet).
• Example of good to have certifications: AWS Certified SysOps Admin Associate, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), DevOps Engineer Expert, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD).

Why Choose Merge IT?

We have a team of talented and ambitious professionals that drive growth by identifying and delivering top quality IT talent for our Fortune 100, enterprise-level clients (aka ‘Big Name’ - think big banks, big pharma, etc.).

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