We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineering Lead with 7-10 years of progressive experience to drive our data platform infrastructure automation, CI/CD excellence, and operational efficiency. This role is pivotal in managing and scaling our resilient and performant systems, with a strong focus on empowering microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in a wide range of DevOps tools and practices, coupled with strong leadership and problem-solving abilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• CI/CD Pipeline Ownership: Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipeline architecture for microservices applications, ensuring continuous integration, delivery, and deployment.
• Infrastructure Planning & Management: Lead the design, provisioning, optimization and management of scalable data infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) across cloud , ECS and/or on-premise environments, specifically supporting a data mesh paradigm.
• Elastic Stack Expertise: Manage and optimize Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for centralized logging, monitoring, and analytics.
• Automation & Scripting: Design, Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Shell scripts, Python, Java, or other relevant languages to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency.
• Infrastructure Procurement & Lifecycle: Oversee the end-to-end Solution (SLTN) process for infrastructure procurement, ensuring timely and compliant acquisition of resources.
• Capacity Estimation & Planning: Conduct thorough capacity planning and performance analysis for microservices and underlying infrastructure to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Access Management & Security: Design and implement secure machine-to-machine communication strategies and manage infrastructure access, adhering to security best practices.
• Microservices Operations: Provide operational expertise and support for highly distributed microservices architectures, including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response.
• Governance & Observability: Implement and enforce data governance policies through automation, and establish comprehensive observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for data pipelines and infrastructure.
• Mentorship & Best Practices: Mentor junior DevOps engineers, promote DevOps best practices (e.g., IaC, Git Ops, observability), and foster a culture of continuous improvement.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with partner development, QA, and infra security teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 7-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a similar role.
• Proven expertise in designing and implementing DevOps leadership
• In-depth experience with container orchestration platforms like AWS, Openshift ECS (or Kubernetes).
• Strong practical experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for transaction, logging and monitoring.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Schell scripting, Python is a must), and strong Java development skills, particularly for tooling and automation.
• Demonstrated knowledge of microservices architecture principles and operational challenges.
• Familiarity with machine-to-machine authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Must have knowledge of automation principles and practices.
• Experience with job scheduling tools like Autosys.
• Familiarity with Helix Blueprint or similar automation frameworks.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Modern Engineering Practices: Familiarity in modern engineering practices such as Trunk-Based Development, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Contract Testing, and Agile methodologies.

Good to Have:

• AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, Sys Ops Administrator).
• Experience with Kafka and Tibco messaging infrastructure, including best practices for messaging design and operations.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Applications Development

Time Type:

Full time

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