Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Description:

We are looking for a technology driven Cloud Operations Engineer to join our Digital Platform team to help build & deploy distributed cloud application that consists of a set of complex micro-service-architecture based backend services.

Your primary responsibility will be to take ownership of deploying & monitoring the performance and availability of the cloud services, as well as responding to time-critical incidents and identifying & resolving issues (including security).

You will need to work with the team to deliver a robust infrastructure and ensure that these services are well utilized by various internal and external applications. A commitment to collaborative problem solving, sophisticated design & development with high levels of quality & reliability is essential.

Responsibilities & duties:

• Configure, deploy, manage, and maintain large-scale enterprise cloud environment on Azure platform
• Create tools, automation scripts, and streamlined processes to ensure rapid deployment of cloud services
• Proactively look at ways to improve security, scalability, product availability & robustness
• Work with customer support teams to ensure quick resolution of incidents & issues
• Creation of documentation and policies to deploy & manage services
• Proposal and Creation of Dynatrace dashboards for development team to easily debug production issues

Qualifications - External

Essentials:

• Strong technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure cloud services
• Minimum 2 years experience in Terraform Scripting is a must .
• Experience in installing, configuring, deploying, maintaining & optimizing Azure cloud-based servers and services for high availability, scalability, fault tolerance and disaster recovery.
• Experience in configuring health monitoring and alerts for apps, pipelines, infrastructure and services.
• Microsoft Azure Certification (MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure or MCSE Core Infrastructure)
• Hands-on experience using the Azure administration portal
• Experience with Container Orchestration Platforms (preferably Azure Kubernetes Services)
• Proficient in creating tools, scripts, and automation (preferably in Python)
• Strong technical and analytical troubleshooting skills and experience working in a technical support / network support role
• Strong DevOps mentality
• Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols, e.g. HTTP, REST APIs , with clear understanding of networking concepts.
• Experience of creating networking strategies with VNets, VPN gateways, Firewalls
• Experience in of working in an Agile Team Environment.

Desirable:

• Security experience, certifications, or compliance auditing
• Team leadership skills by being a role model

Personal qualities & behavioral traits

• Problem-solver at heart – resourceful, aptitude to quickly troubleshoot
• Resourceful & proactive: take initiative & act
• Willingness & ability to learn new technologies
• Ability to challenge and question based on reasoned argument
• Clear and precise communication in English – written and verbal

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related technical discipline.
• 5+ years of rich experience in areas mentioned above
• Industry recognized DevOps certification during the career.

Team Environment

• A successful candidate will be expected to work in a flat organizational structure.
• Working with fellow front end and back end development team while talking their language is very important for the specialist.
• In direct day to day working person will be interacting with team architects, technical managers, business leaders, development and verification team .  

1. Engineering Degree (Masters level preferred) in Computer Science/Electrical or any other engineering stream.
2. Programming/Database/Tools experience in following areas:
   • 4-6 Years of Experience in SaaS , PaaS , IaaS is a big plus.
   • Strong experience working in any scripting language
   • Experience working on web application deployment both micro-services and monolith environments
3. Any certifications on Agile , AWS , Azure etc... will give a clear benefit to the candidate applying for the position.