Lead Devops Engineer

About the Role

The incumbent will work collaboratively with software engineering team to deploy and operate our systems and, help automate and streamline our operations and processes. S/He will build and maintain tools for deployment, monitoring and operations. In addition, troubleshoot and resolve issues in our dev, test and production environments.

What youll do:

• Architect enterprise ready secure and scalable solution in cloud optimized for cost, security and scale.
• Architect and manage the CI/CD Pipelines and build the pipelines to deploy the applications, micro-services to QA, Staging and production environments.
• Write scripts to automate the infrastructure & configurations deployments.
• Manage application & API hosting and do the load balancing, configure the firewall and implement security practices.
• Actively monitor the infrastructure & deployments and upkeep the business-critical application and services.
• Maintain high availability and resilience of the applications using IaaS and PaaS.
• Drive and conduct audits on current cloud utilization and recommend cloud optimization and changes.
• Act as a mentor and technical expert for Devops and engineering teams.
• Work with junior team members to manage the deliverables and manage their tasks.
• Co-ordinate with software development teams for deployments and implement the best practices.

Skills and Qualifications:

• Overall 8+ years' experience with B.S or higher education in Computer Science & Engineering.
• 5+ years' experience in AWS Services (EC2, S3, VPC, WAF, API gateway, ALB, CloudWatch, CloudFront, RDS, Elastic Cache, Route 53, ECS etc)
• Extensive 3+ years of experience in CI/CD, build, and installation for software products.

• 3+ years' experience with Docker, Microservices and container deployment and service orchestration
• 2+ years' experience with configuration management tools as Ansible/ Chef/Puppet - Preferred Ansible
• 2+ years' experience with Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Cloud formation)
• Solid understanding of design principles for resilient, scalable, high-performing distributed applications
• Experience with automation, orchestration, CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps and other tools.
• Experience in deploying the micro-services of Python, node.js, PHP environments.
• Experience in web application deployments and NoSQL databases.
• Proven development and/or DevOps experience deploying and maintaining multi-tiered infrastructure and applications.
• Strong hands-on experience in Linux, networking, web server and database administration.
• Hands-on experience in scripting and programming languages: Shell, Python, SQL.
• Perform analysis of the current practices and design and implement best practices and emerging concepts in CICD landscape.
• Experience with monitoring and logging tools and the ELK stack is essential.
• Working knowledge of git and JIRA will be preferred.