The purpose of this job is to define and own the overall cloud infrastructure as well as the devops automation. This includes designing, deploying, and maintaining cloud-based systems and infrastructure and the primary role is to ensure the efficient and reliable operation of cloud computing systems, services, and applications, and ensuring the devops automation ensures continuous deployment capability to the organisation.

Job Context & Major Challenges :

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Job Context :

The domain being financial services there will be continuous enhancements and changes to the systems. There will be continuous demands to the cloud platform on which these services will run from security, performance, ease of deployment, high availability, redundancy among others.

Some of the specific tasks that this job will perform include:

- Designing and implementing cloud infrastructure: Will be responsible for designing cloud-based infrastructure, including computing, storage, and networking systems, that meet the requirements of an organization.

- Designing framework for devops automation: Will design and deliver the architecture to deliver automation in continuous deployment & integration of applications over the cloud infrastructure.

- Building and deploying cloud-based applications: Will work with software developers to create and deploy cloud-based applications and services.

- Monitoring and troubleshooting: Will be responsible for monitoring cloud infrastructure to ensure optimal performance and addressing issues that arise.

- Security and compliance: Will work to ensure that cloud-based systems and applications are secure and compliant with relevant regulations and standards.

- Automation and optimization: Will use automation tools and techniques to optimize and streamline cloud infrastructure and applications.

- High Availability, DR & BCP : Will be plan for the redundancy at all levels applications, database, networks to ensure high uptime as well as minimum RPO & RTO.

- General Database Administration: Will ensure installations, health checkup of databases, backup & recovery aspects.

Enabling Skill Sets , Qualifications & Experiences :

- Experience with effective data management & backup, and disaster recovery planning.

- Experience with AWS cloud setups.

- Microsoft (Azure) Cloud setups experience will be a plus.

- Experience with setting up hybrid private and public cloud setups.

- Experience working with open-source software on Linux.

- Experience with serverless function setups.

- Experience with message queue and/or Apache Kafka setups.

- Experience with Docker containers and Kubernetes cluster setups & orchestration.

- Experience with setups involving database on cloud instances or managed databases.

- Knowledge of common client/server communication protocols and standards:

o Directory Services: DNS, LDAP, GC, Kerberos, etc.

o Messaging: POP, IMAP, MAPI, SMTP, SSL/TLS, Connectors, etc.

Education required for this role is graduate with 4-6 years of experience of working in as a senior cloud engineer in high volume transaction processing setups, with continuous development changes.

Team/Resources to Handle as Direct Reportees :

The devops lead will start off as a single person team, and will be over a period of time supported by junior resources as the product platform evolves.

Team/Resources to Colloborate (Same Dept) :

Solution Architect- The role will work closely with the solution architect to understand the specific aspects of application architecture and ensure the performance & deployment strategy is aligned.

CISO- The role will work closely with the CISO to ensure the security elements are implemented properly.

Project Manager +Dev Team- The role will work closely with the project manager & dev team to ensure the planned/continuous deployments to the cloud environments.

Challenges :

Rapid deployment changes and the need to ensure quick deployments with min downtime, including planning for continuous deployments.