About the Role
As an Automation DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the infrastructure and tools necessary for the development and deployment of software solutions. You will work closely with development and operations teams to automate processes, streamline the build and release pipelines, and ensure the scalability and reliability of applications. This role involves designing a secure application-release automation process to make security an integral part of the CI/CD pipelines both on-premises and cloud platforms.
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Key Responsibilities
- Hands-on experience in CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment, and implementing the DevSecOps processes.
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for automating the build, test, and deployment processes.
- Help debug and fix any problems with the infrastructure and applications.
- Collaborate with the rest of the DevOps team to deliver consistent and holistic solutions to the organization.
- Identify bottlenecks in coding development and deployment processes.
- Be hands-on in coding to help the team develop solutions and solve all surfacing problems.
- Identify and remove technical impediments.
- Constantly look for better ways of solving technical problems and design solutions, not afraid of challenging the status quo.
- Provide the team a roadmap for implementing software engineering practices for higher code quality.
- Lead knowledge growth efforts in platform configuration management and troubleshooting.
Operating Environment, Framework and Boundaries, Working Relationships
- Ability to provide innovative solutions and influence critical decisions by providing recommendations.
- Build bridges between teams and technology solutions for common goals and delivery.
- Adhere to information controls and security frameworks/procedures.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
- Overall, around 6+ years of experience with IT infrastructure and applications.
- 3-4 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and continuous integration and related tools such as Azure DevOps, Hudson, Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, etc. Currently practicing DevOps methodology.
- Excellent coding and scripting skills and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS).
- Working knowledge of deployment automation solutions.
- Expertise in cloud infrastructure (Azure) and cluster management tools like AKS.
- Experience in Agile Development and DevOps on a cross-functional agile team.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions.
- Bachelor's or master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
- Experience in setting up systems, network, storage, and CDN infrastructure on Azure.
- Understanding of Splunk or similar application/infrastructure logging tools for troubleshooting.
- Understanding of industry-standard monitoring platforms and the ability to troubleshoot production issues through observability platforms.
