Lead Cloud Engineer - CI/CD Pipeline

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.