Devops Lead

Devops Lead

Requirements

• 1+ years serving in a lead Devops role or similar capacity
• 4+ years of experience using one of the following IaC frameworks: Cloud Formation, Terraform, ARM
• 4+ years of experience working with Docker containers
• 4+ years of experience working on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and associated deep understanding of failover, high-availability, high scalability, and security
• 2+ years of experience with administering and managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS, GCP, or AKS)
• Prior experience programming with Python, C#/C/C++, Java, Go, or similar programming language
• One or more configuration management tools: Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef
• CI/CD deployment pipelines: Jenkins, TravisCI, Gitlab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure Devops
• Version control and git workflows
• Overall understanding of integrations; data and systems
• Experience with planning and forecasting work and projects
• Experience with leading teams; in-house, onshore, and off-shore
• Ability to work with multiple business partners to build strong relationships
• Ability to explain technical issues in a way that non-technical people may understand
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment and show initiative to take on responsibilities
• Decision making, research, and analytical leadership and problem-solving skills
• Time management with the ability to organize, assess, and prioritize multiple tasks, projects, and demands
• Experience working in an Agile scrum team
• Strong interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to work harmoniously and effectively with others
• Ability to adapt to quickly changing business conditions.
• Able to manage multiple projects with competing deadlines and priorities
• Familiar with solutions hosted in the cloud (Azure, AWS, etc)
• Willingness to grow and share his/her knowledge with others on the team.
• Good understanding of SDLC; development and testing methodologies
• Strong understanding of Agile (Scrum) practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant platforms to run production applications that solve business problems
• Understand the needs and challenges of engineering across operations and development, and then formulate solutions that advance their business and technical goals.
• Serve as primary technical leader for team of Devops developers
• Manage overall DevOps team’s capacity
• Participate in estimating and forecasting activities
• Grow and develop the people on the team; help them to pursue and achieve their career goals
• Develop solutions encompassing technology, process, and people for: Continuous Delivery, Infrastructure strategy & operations, Build and release management
• Work closely with development teams to ensure that solutions are designed with customer user experience, scale/performance, and operability in mind.
• Develop infrastructure and deployment platform to enable production engineering development.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, and conducting code reviews.
• Develop and improve infrastructure including CI/CD, microservice frameworks, distributed computing, and cloud infrastructure needed to support this platform.

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more monitoring and analytics platforms: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, SumoLogic, NewRelic, DataDog, CloudWatch, Nagios
• HashiCorp Vault and integrating it with Kubernetes for secret management
• Deploying end-to-end logging solutions such as the EFK stack
• Deploying Prometheus and various exporters (postgres, elasticsearch, etc)
• Hadoop framework
• Distributed databases and query languages such as SQL or HQL: Hive, Aster Data, Greenplum, Cassandra, Vertica, Amazon Redshift, Snowflake
• Developing frameworks, platforms, APIs
• Developing and maintaining rigorous technical documentation and runbooks
• Collaborating with the Networking and Security infrastructure teams to achieve and maintain baseline security standards
• Serverless frameworks