Sr. DevOps Engineer

Location: Noida Berger Tower, IndiaThales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billons of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds, people cross borders, energy become smarter and much more. More than 30,000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things, grant access to digital services, analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.Present in India since 1953, Thales is headquartered in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, and has operational offices and sites spread across Bengaluru, Delhi, Gurugram, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Pune among others. Over 1800 employees are working with Thales and its joint ventures in India. Since the beginning, Thales has been playing an essential role in India’s growth story by sharing its technologies and expertise in Defence, Transport, Aerospace and Digital Identity and Security markets.

Core responsibilities:

• Understanding customer requirements and project KPIs
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Planning the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Managing stakeholders and external interfaces
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Have the technical skill to review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team and with customers
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
• Managing support for clients on AWS & GCP Cloud across various regions.

Required Skills and Experience

• At least 6 to 8 years’ experience in software development or technical operations with extensive hands-on experience building, deploying, and scaling high availability Linux-based web applications and services in a large public cloud environment.
• Strong scripting or development background in Python, Ruby, Node.js, Scala, Golang, or Java with demonstrated track record of independently and rapidly learning new frameworks, languages, tools, and APIs.
• Extensive experience with Open Source configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform, or SaltStack.
• Production experience and Strong foundation of knowledge around cloud platforms like Google, Azure and AWS and the cloud ecosystem
• Experienced in AWS Cloud IaaS platform with features EC2, VPC, ELB, Auto - Scaling, Security Groups, Route53, IAM, EBS, AMI, RDS, S3, SNS, CloudFormation, CloudFront and CloudWatch.
• Hands On experience with google cloud platform (GCP) services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, cloud storage, cloud SQL, stack driver monitoring and cloud deployment.
• Experience in Designing, Architecting and implementing scalable cloud-based web applications using AWS and GCP
• Strong working experience on Kubernetes, Helm & Docker environments.
• Experience with Open Source and tools such as Redis, Istio, Haproxy, Apache, Nginx, F5, or Amazon ELB.
• Basic competency in one or more relational databases (MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, or SQL Server)
• Fluency with version control systems with a preference for Git.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills necessary to work as part of a global services organization that supports 24x7 online services.
• Strong attention to detail, sense of ownership, and Engineerership skills necessary to drive technical and business problems to closure across organizational boundaries.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills
• Previous experience successfully and happily working as part of a remote or distributed team.
• An effective communicator & team leader with strong analytical, problem solving & continuous learning skills.

Desired Skills and Experience

• Practical experience with J2EE/JVM Web Application deployment, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance tuning, analysis of stack traces and JVM metrics.
• Experience designing and implementing infrastructure and application automation and monitoring to support complex distributed systems using cloud-based database, messaging systems.
• Experience in build automation technologies like Ant, Jenkins, Bamboo, Teamcity, Groovy, Maven, etc.
• Experience with commercial or Open Source log management tools such as DataDog, Splunk or Logstash.
• Understand and appreciate core concepts of 12-Factor App development and micro services delivery.
• Exposure to evolving development and deployment platforms including Cloud Foundry, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes and Serverless technologies.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working. Great journeys start here, apply now!