DevOps Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Proficiency in working with a variety of operating systems, including Windows and Linux
• Building, securing, and maintaining on-premises and cloud infrastructures
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems
• Configuration and maintenance of secure infrastructure, including address translations, port security for firewalls, and ensuring compliance with security standards
• Creating disaster recovery plans and monitoring network backups
• Collaboration on defining security requirements and conducting tests to identify weaknesses
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing issues, and providing operational support
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines and automating configuration management (e g , Ansible, Puppet)
• Enhancing development and release processes through automation
• Automating alerts for system availability and performance monitoring
• Supporting and improving container-based development practices
• Building deployment and testing pipelines using Jenkins, CloudFormation, and Puppet for automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure
• Understanding and applying static code analysis tools (e g , SonarQube)
• Prototyping solutions, evaluating new tools, and engaging in incident handling and root cause analysis
• Enforcing DevOps practices in collaboration with software developers
• Leading the automation effort and maintaining servers to the latest security standards
• Contributing to maturing DevOps culture, showcasing a methodical approach to problem-solving, and following agile practices

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps in Linux-based systems
• Expertise in troubleshooting system issues causing downtime or performance degradation
• Proficiency in Agile software development methodologies, including Change Management and Release Management
• Willingness to learn and research technologies and solutions to build new tools that gets the job done
• Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, SES, Elastic IP, Route53) and Azure
• Hands-on experience in infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform preferred
• Experience with Microservices Architecture and using Kubernetes
• High availability setups for databases such as PostgreSQL
• Understanding of network technologies and networking in general
• Proficiency in DNS management and setting up HTTPS certificates and SSL tunnels
• Routine security scanning for malicious software, suspicious network activity, and protocol analysis to identify and remedy network performance issues
• Expertise in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub actions
• Proficiency in code versioning tools like Git
• Strong knowledge of containerization
• Scripting experience with Bash and Python