Sr Devops Engineer

Sr. DevOps Engineer

Role

• Be the leader of the devops and system administration team.
• Be an individual contributor and be recognized as an expert that the company would look up to in all infrastructure related areas
• Build an excellent team of dedicated experts that can manage the company s growing internet and onpremise resources
• Be responsible for all technical infrastructure of the company
• Be the controller for all technical and other third party cloud services subscribed to by the company
• Create the DevOps department as an excellent service provider with high reliability and quick turnaround time.
• Prepare and implement the technical deployment architecture
• Provide troubleshooting support and assistance for production issues

Accountabilities

• Take responsibility and be accountable for the reliable working of all production infrastructure with an uptime of over 99.99%. Ensure uptime for other environments such as Dev QA and Preproduction as per the SLAs.
• Have a tight control on the infrastructure costs and ensure that optimal configurations are used and unwanted resources are released.
• Working across engineering teams to enable costeffective robust and secure delivery of platform services.
• Providing feedback to help the team understand technical tradeoffs at the design and planning stage particularly with respect to technical debt performance scalability and security.
• Performing the necessary platform development to enable and support the engineering teams goals as they evolve over the feature lifecycle from defining requirements and specifications developing proofofconcepts to ultimately delivering solutions to end users. This includes:

• Monitoring system health and managing events alerting stakeholders when necessary
• Working closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered such that they are observable and auditable across all relevant dimensions.
• Ensure adequate backup is taken as per the requirements of the disaster recovery SLAs
• Ensure that restoration drills are performed at regular intervals to check preparedness for disaster recovery as well as the quality of backup
• Ensure the company s data and databases are well protected
• Maintain Deployment architecture and infrastructure documentation

Key skills and experience

• Strong experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) software development and continuous integration
• Proficiency in system administration and Linux administration
• CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions Jenkins CircleCI AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodeBuild etc
• Experience with Relational and NOSQL databases
• Should be good with Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Microservices architectures.
• Should have fair idea of Database Administration with MySQL MondgoDB
• Understanding of networking concepts and protocols
• Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Digital Ocean Utho Azure or GCP
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus

Candidates will preferably also have

• Extensive experience with dataintensive systems
• Experience working in startup or R&D environments

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