DevOps Architect
DevOps Architect
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Job Description
Role
Be the leader of the devops and system administration team
Be an individual contributor and be recognized as an expert that the company would look up to in all infrastructure related areas
Provide architectural inputs and insights for product architecture recommend appropriate cloud services or self managed open source systems along with suitable commercial and technical justification
Be able to distinguish and manage contradictions between short term and long term goals while selecting infrastructural components
Participate in the technical architecture board to whet system architecture proposed for products being built
Be on top of the latest security vulnerabilities being reported and take proactive steps to ensure security of all of the companys digital assets
In case of a security violation be in the forefront of restoring normalcy managing the situation and performing the root cause analysis and take appropriate action to prevent repetition
Build an excellent team of dedicated experts that can manage the companys growing internet and onpremise resources
Be responsible for all technical infrastructure of the company
Be the controller for all technical and other third party cloud services subscribed to by the company
Create the DevOps department as an excellent service provider with high reliability and quick turnaround time.
Prepare implement and keep updated the technical deployment architecture
Provide troubleshooting support and assistance for production issues
Take responsibility and be accountable for the reliable working of all production infrastructure with an uptime of over 99.99. Ensure uptime for other environments such as Dev QA and Preproduction as per the SLAs.
Have a tight control on the infrastructure costs and ensure that optimal configurations are used and unwanted resources are released.
Working across engineering teams to enable costeffective robust and secure delivery of platform services.
Providing feedback to help the team understand technical tradeoffs at the architecture design and planning stage particularly with respect to technical debt performance scalability and security.
Performing the necessary platform development to enable and support the engineering teams goals as they evolve over the feature lifecycle from defining requirements and specifications developing proofofconcepts to ultimately delivering solutions to end users.
This includes:
Provisioning and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and environment
Create and maintain CI/CD systems and pipelines
Supporting engineers with training guidance and standardised protocols for the deployment of new services that apply the relevant best practices
Monitoring system health and managing events alerting stakeholders when necessary
Working closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered such that they are observable and auditable across all relevant dimensions.
Guarantee business continuity by ensuring adequate backup is taken as per the requirements of the disaster recovery SLAs
Ensure that restoration drills are performed at regular intervals to check preparedness for disaster recovery as well as the quality of backup
Ensure the companys data and databases are well protected
Maintain Deployment architecture and infrastructure documentation
Key skills and experience
At a minimum candidates must have and experience and understanding with:
Experience as a DevOps Architect participating in architecture and design phases of product building
Software development at different stages of product development particularly earlystage prototypes to minimum viable products
Strong experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) software development and continuous integration
Proficiency in system administration and Linux administration
CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions Jenkins CircleCI AWS CodeDeploy AWS CodeBuild etc
Experience with Relational and NOSQL databases
Should be good with Terraform Terragrunt Ansible Microservices architectures.
Should have fair idea of Database Administration with MySQL MondgoDB
Understanding of networking concepts and protocols
Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS Digital Ocean Utho Azure or GCP
Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Relevant cloud certifications (e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus
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Employment Type
Full-Time
