As a SaaS Platform DevOps Lead Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering technology solutions by working closely with Product and Platform teams.
About the role
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.
About the role
- The role is of a DevOps engineer to work on enabling SaaS products to run on the SaaS Platform.
- The role needs an expert understanding of Docker and experience on running application in Kubernetes.
- The role also involves cloud technologies - strong working experience in a public cloud (Google Cloud is preferred) is essential.
- The candidate should have strong experience of DevOps technologies like Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt and Jenkins.
- The candidate is expected to have a working understanding of data and messaging technologies like Kafka, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch. Understanding container monitoring and metrics solution like Prometheus will be a plus.
- Design custom automation solutions based on the application/business requirements and workload characteristics.
- Understanding of High Availability architectures to maintain 99.99% availability SLA
- Strong Experience in performance tuning, identifying bottlenecks, minimizing response time meeting performance SLAs as per business requirements. This requires close collaboration with Product Architects.
- Excellent application architecture and development awareness - architectural patterns, development lifecycle and tools, programming techniques, methods, languages, DevOps methods and tools, Agile / SAFe etc.
- Demonstrate and cultivate a passion for delivering high quality products aligned with customer needs; increase customer exposure to build empathy.
- Employ continuous learning; build domain expertise and keep abreast on new technology, processes, systems and tools.
- BS degree in Computer Science or related degree preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in programming and DevOps technologies
- Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams
- Expertise in working with Agile/ Scrum teams
- Strong understanding of systems fundamentals including OS, networking, storage, load balancing, etc.
- Proficient in following technologies:
- Orchestration – Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker
- Languages – Python, Shell, Ant; Java or Golang will be plus
- DevOps tools – Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm & Docker Compose, Jenkins (CI/ CD)
- Cloud/PaaS Environments – Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure
- Middleware technologies – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis
- A passion for automation to reduce repeatable mundane day-to-day tasks and improve consistency and in results.
- Experience in any/combination of Monitoring tools – Stackdriver, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, AIOps
- Experience with Migration of workloads across different Cloud platforms
- Experience with running services in large Kubernetes clusters.
- Experience with documentation of standard procedures, architecture, design and deployments
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline delivery environment
If you are located outside USA, please be sure to fill out a home address as this will be used for future correspondence.