Senior/Lead Devops Engineer

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As a Senior/Lead Devops Engineer you will help to increase speed of delivery, improve quality/security of code, and optimize processes for the development team

You will be responsible for identifying the bottlenecks of various development and delivery processes, working with team members to improve them, and improving the overall experience of developers.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Tech Leads and developers of various teams to assess existing problems and to come up with process improvement solutions
• Detect upcoming bottlenecks and production issues proactively and consult teams hands-on towards improved technical solutions
• Participate in planning delivery time, code quality, and process efficiency improvement projects
• Execute on plan by building coding standardizations and automating processes for the organization
• Perform daily tasks such as environmental health checks, disk space monitoring, and environmental status reports
• Maintain and grows knowledge of platform configuration management and troubleshooting
• Actively participate in deploying application artifacts to appropriate target environments using the supported technologies and infrastructure
• Survey developers and technical members of the organization to understand their main pain points in the coding and development process
• Collaborate with the rest of DevOps team to deliver consistent and holistic solution to the organization

• Domain Expertise

• 6+ years of experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer on a cross-functional agile team

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, or Engineering

Technical Skills

• Excellent coding and scripting skills (Bash, Python) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS/SaaS)

• Working knowledge of deployment automation solutions (i.e. Terraform, Helm, etc.)

• Knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) and cluster management tools like Kubernetes, Docker, configuration management and monitoring

• Experience with continuous integration and related tools such as Jenkins, Hudson, Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, etc.

• Experienced with building, debugging, operating systems, databases and infrastructure at scale

Mindset and attributes

• Strong communication skills with ability to communicate complex technical concepts and align organization on decisions
• Sound problem-solving skills with the ability to quickly process complex information and present it clearly and simply
• Utilizes team collaboration to create innovative solutions efficiently