Description :

Role & responsibilities :

- Proactively manages the development team, architecting technology related to automating Hitachi and/or multi-vendor storage and compute solutions.

- Provides vision to management on technology, tools and skills requirements.

- Leads prioritization of work and generates roadmaps with delivery dates for each relevant feature.

- Using solid technical skills, leads developers in designing the best possible solution for the problem at hand.

- Works closely with developers by performing code reviews and technical sessions to unblock them when they face a coding issue.

- Ensures code is properly tested.

- Works closely with the Project Manager to monitor progress, minimize issues to ensure delivery success customer satisfaction

- Listens to customer needs, understand their challenges, articulate the overall services solution and subsequent implementation plan to customers in terms they comprehend.

- Leads multiple projects, requiring effective time management and judgement based on the needs of the project.

- Functions as primary technical contact for all members of the combined Hitachi Vantara and customer team.

- Responsible for actively involving the customer to discuss and complete the engagement project readiness.

- Builds relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be Hitachi Vantara advocates.

- Understands system architecture of upstream and downstream impacts when implementing solutions.

- Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of Hitachi Vantara products, administration best practices, and agile methodology best practices

Qualifications :

- Bachelor's degree (Masters Preferred) or equivalent experience. 5+ years of IT architecture experience in a large enterprise capacity. 5+ years of combined DevOps experience with compute, storage, data security, database, ESA, and API development.

- Strong technical background with a firm understanding of compute and storage hardware platforms, operating systems, fabric interconnects, DevOps pipeline development, and the DevOps life cycle.

- Strong Object-Oriented programming knowledge, particularly advocating for proper use of SOLID principles.

- Strong programming skills in Python, Javascript. 5+ years of experience in Django, Django Rest Framework, Flask, and FastAPI.

- Good understanding of C#, ASP.NET webform. 5+ years of experience in DevOps Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift.

- Substantial experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

- Prior customer-facing (internal or external) experience a must.

- Excellent organizational, verbal, and written communication skills, required.

- Experience using agile development methodology.

- Experience with automation platforms such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef and Puppet is a plus.

- Strong project management background with specific experience with meeting aggressive timelines, highly desired.