Roles & Responsibilities:

- Design and develop automation of infrastructure, championing best practices in service operation, delivery, scale, and observability.

- Engage in the continuous integration and continuous deployment lifecycle of services, from design and inception through deployment, operation, and continuous refinement.

- Contribute system design, capacity planning, and pre-production activities to support services before they go live.

- Ensure optimal service performance by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system health. Implement sustainable scaling through automation and push for system evolution to boost reliability and deployment velocity.

- Actively participate in incident response and conduct blameless postmortems to foster continuous improvement.

Requirements:

Total Experience: 4 - 9 years

- Minimum of 4 years in DevOps, system administration, or similar roles, with a proven track record in supporting enterprise-level applications.

- Experience in creating resources in Kubernetes.

- Extensive experience with Azure; familiarity with GCP and AWS is an added advantage.

- Strong command of at least one compiled programming language along with experience in scripting languages such as Bash or Python.

- At least 2 - 4 years in production engineering or a similar capacity.

- Deep understanding of Linux internals, networking, CI/CD methodologies, and best practices with tools like Azure DevOps.

- Expertise in using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform/Azure ARM Templates for automated system deployments.

- Experience deploying applications in containerized environments using Kubernetes or Docker Swarm.

- Familiarity with Azure Services like Application Insights, App Configurations, Key vault, API Management Services, Alerting & Monitoring and AKS.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience in creating build and deployment pipelines with Azure DevOps.

- Expertise in managing applications with Kubernetes.

- Working knowledge of both Azure and GCP.

- Experience working with Security scans like Fortify, Veracode or other tools.

- Demonstrated ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.

- Proficient in working with APIs and Plugins for integrating diverse tooling into established CI/CD pipelines.

Candidate Attributes:

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a capability to optimize code and automate routine tasks.

- Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively articulating technical challenges and solutions to varied audiences.