Cloud Architect - Azure

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Cloud & DevOps Specialist to join our team of bright thinkers and doers. Our environment and culture foster growth and present exciting opportunities to hone your skills in the industries that we support and in business problem-solving. Contribute ideas for improvements in DevOps practices, delivering innovation through automation. We are on a mission to transform the world, and you will be instrumental in shaping how we do it with your ideas, thoughts, and solutions.

Your Impact:

• The Specialist would bring hands-on technological expertise, passion, and innovation to the table.
• Will be responsible for designing and enabling Application support, and handling Production farms and various Infrastructure platforms for different delivery teams.
• In the capacity of a subject matter, experts will be responsible as a system architecture to design and build scalable and efficient Infrastructure Platforms
• At the same time, specialists will also be responsible for establishing best practices, cultivating thought leadership, and developing common practices/ solutions on Infrastructure.

Your Skills & Experience:

• 9 to 13 years of experience in DevOps with a bachelor's in engineering/Technology Or master's in engineering/Computer Applications
• Expertise in DevOps & Cloud tools:
• Cloud (Azure, GCP)
• Version Control (Git, Gitlab, GitHub)
• Hands-on experience in Container Infrastructure ( Docker, Kubernetes, Hosted solutions)
  • Ability to define container-based environment topology following principles of designing a well-architected framework.
  • Be able to Design and implement advanced aspects using Service Mesh technologies like Istio, Linkerd, Kuma, etc
• Infrastructure Automation (Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Terraform, ARM, Cloud Formation)
• Build tools (Ant, Maven, Make, Gradle)
• Artifact repositories (Nexus, JFrog Artifactory)
• CI/CD tools on-premises/cloud (Jenkins, TeamCity)
• Monitoring, Logging, and Security (CloudWatch, cloud trail, log analytics, hosted tools such as ELK, EFK, Splunk, Prometheus, OWASP, SAST, and DAST)
• Scripting languages: Python, Ant, Bash, and Shell
• Hands-on experience in designing pipelines & pipelines as code.
• Hands-on experience in end-to-end deployment process & strategy
• Good exposure to tools and technologies used in building a container-based infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience of GCP/AWS/AZURE with a good understanding of computing, networks, IAM, Security, and integration services with production knowledge on
  • Implementing strategies for reliability requirements
  • Ensuring business continuity
  • Meeting performance objectives
  • Security requirements and controls
  • Deployment strategies for business requirements
  • Cost optimization etc
• Responsible for managing Installation, configuration, automation, performance, monitoring, Capacity planning, and Availability Management of various Servers and Databases. An expert in automation skills
• Knowledge of load balancing, CDN options provided by multiple cloud vendors (E.g. Load balancer and Application gateway in Azure, ELB, and ALB in AWS)
• Good knowledge of network algorithms on failover and availability.
• Capability to write complex code
  • e.g., automation of recurring/mundane tasks, OS administration (CPU, memory, network performance troubleshooting), also demonstrates strong troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrates HA/DR design on Cloud platform as per SLAs/RTO/RPO
• Good knowledge of migrations tools available with cloud vendors and independent providers

Set Yourself Apart With:

• The capability of estimating the setup time required for Infrastructure and build & release activities.
• Good Working Knowledge of the Linux Operating System
• Skill development, knowledge base creation, and toolset optimization of the Practice.
• Handling Content Delivery Networks and Performing root cause analysis.
• Understanding of any one of DBMS like MySQL, Oracle, or No SQL like Cassandra, MongoDB, etc.
• Capacity Planning and Infrastructure estimations.
• Working understanding of scripting in any one of the languages: BASH/Python/Perl/Ruby
• Certification in any cloud (Architect or Professional)

• Gender Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year.
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being