Minimum 7 years of DevOps and Cloud experience, preferably in a Software product company.

Has familiarity with the retail industry domain.

Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.

Job requirements:

- Experience in Azure DevOps is must.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

- Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime.

- Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required.

- Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components.

- Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure.

- Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery.

- Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing.

- Perform automatic backup / restore of production database.

- Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effective manner.

- Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception.

- Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed.

- Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members.

- Ensure that all SOC2 policies related to DevOps are followed and evidence for controls are maintained and submitted on time.

- Contribute to the Organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building.

Essential Skills & Qualifications :

- Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps, BitBucket Pipelines.

- Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes.

- Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc.

- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.

- Knowledge of SonarQube or similar tools for static code scanning.

- Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup.

- Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems.

- Certification in at least 1 public cloud system.

- Strong interpersonal communications skills.

- Mentor the team and guide towards excellence.

- Demonstrates attention to details.

- Has the ability to work in a lightweight process environment.

- Is self-motivated and capable of high performance in a periodic iteration cadence.

- Takes ownership of tasks and executes.

- Collaborate effectively with a distributed team.

- Mentor and develop junior talent.

- Identify skill gaps for the junior team members and recommend certifications/trainings to address them.

- Graduate or Post Graduate in Engineering / Computer Applications.