DevOps Architect

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Role Description

Develop enterprise class DevOps solutions, lead delivery teams in customer workshops, coordinate with multiple partners in client hierarchy to engage, understand and articulate requirements for framing end-to-end solution. Has expertise in one or more Public Cloud provider technologies and is capable of embedding these capabilities into existing or new cloud-based infrastructure, platform and DevOps solutions.

As a DevOps consultant, you will engage with clients to understand requirements and architect solutions to streamline their development, release, testing, and operations. Demonstrate your strengths in innovations, problem-solving, and continuous improvement areas to orchestrate the adoption of new technologies and frameworks with speed in order to provide a competitive position in the market addressing business needs.

Candidate must have overall 7-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps technologies with a Software development and its management background.

Job Requirements

• Key Responsibilities:

Define Cloud-based Architecture catering to client needs and requirements. Lead teams for a discovery and architecture workshop to understand existing development and operational processes, influence client architects, and IT personnel to improve Development and operations in cloud. Analyze complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess potential solutions, impacts, and align DevOps with cloud roadmap and solution architecture. Develop and implement DevOps solutions for hybrid scenarios based on cloud services of AWS, Azure, GCP, and relevant Open Source/3rd Party technologies when assigned to work on delivery projects. Strong understanding of application development methodologies, web application security, and secure coding practices. Hands-on experience in DevOps technologies with a Software development background. Facilitate critically important analysis, extraction, and management of systems. Foundations in programming, algorithms, and Software application design. Do incremental code, build, test, and deployments by streamlining execution and minimizing errors. Experience in container architecture, Docker universal packaging, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform), and Microservices architecture pattern. Authority level application deployment experience using modern DevOps technologies (Newic, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Salt stack, etc.). Expertise in working with Source Code Management (GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket). Experience in selecting, handling build infrastructure, CICD pipelines with Jenkins to streamline the deployment of applications to Kubernetes and Docker handled containers. Experience with Scripting (shell, bash, python) on Linux and develop custom workflows and use automation by coding and scripting. Good to have programming experience with Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java. Detect early all the errors, bugs, and issues to seek them and solve them. Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline). Mentoring and guiding team members. Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs. Handling periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer. Build automation wherever possible in the DevOps end-to-end architecture. Good to have experience crafting and building applications using REST API. Agile SDLC experience is helpful, writing stories and delivering features with CI/CD, Scrum Guide, and other architects working with you in the team. Adapt communications and approaches to conclude technical scope discussions with various partners, resulting in common agreements. Create and develop DevOps process frameworks, documents, SOPs, cookbooks, automation scripts/tools to build, implement, and handle DevOps processes in the customer environment. Lead internal and external initiatives to standardize, automate, and develop driven assets and accelerators.

• Professional Attributes:

Strategic problem solver, have the ability to grasp new technologies, innovate, develop, and further new solutions. Experience in driving consulting workshops, creating content of workshops in short deadlines to C-levels. Demonstrate thought leadership, create good impacts in engagements, handle time, and demonstrate flexibility by adapting to situations. An ability to follow processes and demonstrate critical thinking and strong problem-solving skills. Excellent teammate who can lead/drive the team towards success goals. Strong documentation skills. Good social skills both written and verbal with the client.

• Certifications:

• Must Have (any): Azure DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Authority / AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer.
• Good to have: TOGAF, ITIL, Azure Solution Architect Authority / AWS Solution Architect Professional / GCP Professional.

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