Senior DevOps Engineer Role
We are seeking a skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure management and automation, as well as experience with building CI/CD pipelines.
Responsibilities include:
* Implementing solutions to manage VM infrastructure via code
* Engaging and improving the lifecycle of our services - from design to deployment, operation, and refinement
* Scaling systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
* Releasing deployments that have suitably passed quality and security gateways
* Debugging, optimizing code, and automating routine tasks
* Supporting services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning, and launch reviews
* Maintaining services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health
* Scaling systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolving systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
* Supporting the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating
* Practicing sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems
* Taking a holistic approach to problem solving, connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover
* Analysing and developing observability enhancements to our products monitoring and alerts that help in reducing MTTM
* Onboarding tech assets to real-time monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Prometheus
* Onboarding tech assets to synthetic data transactions, and health checks for auto-failover / failback
* Enhancing our releases deployment automation, rolling deployment, and auto-validations
* Providing new capabilities to support CI/CD enhancements
* Sharing knowledge and mentoring junior resources
Fundamental Skills:
* Strong communication and collaboration skills
* Understanding of Windows/Linux operating systems
* Experience in monitoring and logging tools e.g. Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.
* Experience in monitoring as a code e.g. SplunkSync, rolling deployment and release automation e.g. XLR
* Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines with hands-on work done on building pipelines using Jenkins
* Good understanding of Chef, preferably Chef Habitat, Ruby/Bash scripting
* Awareness of security implementations, certificate management lifecycle, mutual TLS, SSL handshake, SSH keys, symmetric and asymmetric encryptions
* Understanding of API authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and MTLS
* Basic understanding of network protocols, network security, WAF
* Problem solver and solution-seeking approach
* Team player
Beneficial Skills:
* Experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation, preferably Azure but AWS also helpful
* Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Ruby, Python, Bash
* Experience deploying and scaling distributed systems on virtual machines