DevOps Engineer

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Job Description Summary

Responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area. She/he will work independently and contribute to the immediate team and to other teams across business. She/he will Lead design discussion in a limited manner.

Job Description

Roles and Responsibilities:

In this role, you will:

·  Identify the scope of the work, provide initial estimate, and justify the estimate with facts.
·  Demonstrate the understanding of Agile software development lifecycle and able to distinguish the core inputs and outputs in each cycle.
·  Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding.
·  Execute in a fast-paced delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal.
·  Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation.
·  Seek and provide feedback on design and development.
·  Demonstrate the ability to make informed technology choices after due diligence and impact assessment
·  Understand whole product, its modules, and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module
·  Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules
·  Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.
·  Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
·  Drive design reviews, define interfaces between code modules, and applies existing technology to designs.
·  Be an expert in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices
·  Be an expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and has the ability to implement them using language of choice
·   Be responsible for providing technical leadership and defining, developing, and evolving software in a fast paced and agile development environment using the latest software development technologies and infrastructure
·  Provide guidance to a team of 5 to 7 developers with either planning and execution and/or design architecture using agile methodologies such as SCRUM
·  Work with Product Line Leaders (PLLs) to understand product requirements & vision
·  Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project.

Desired Characteristics Technical Expertise :

·  Bachelors or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related discipline with strong academic credentials.
·  A minimum of 3-6 years of professional experience
·  Must have hands-on experience in using any pipeline/scripting languages (Groovy, Python, Bash etc.)
·  Must have hands-on knowledge of container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
·  Must have knowledge of cloud service providers, like AWS.
·  Must have proficiency in developing Continuous Integration/ Delivery pipelines using Jenkins.
·  Must have hands-on experience in component build and packaging metadata such as Maven
·  Highly desired to have knowledge on static code analysis tools like Coverity and Vulnerability scanning tools like JFrog X-ray.
·  Good to have working knowledge on databases like Postgresql.
·  Good to have working knowledge on deploying and supporting business intelligence/reporting tools like Superset.
·  Good to have knowledge on metric technologies like Prometheus, Grafana
·  Good to have knowledge on EFK Stack
·  Good to have on tool like Jira, Confluence, and static code analysis tools like Coverity
·  Good to have knowledge with service discovery/mesh such as Istio

Business Acumen:

·  Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments
·  Experience in maintaining scalable and highly available distributed systems
·  Expert in breaking down problems and estimate time for development tasks
·  Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective.

Leadership:

·  Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions
·  Influences through others; builds direct and "behind the scenes" support for ideas
·  Proactively identifies and removes project obstacles or barriers on behalf of the team
·  Shares knowledge, power, and credit, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

Personal Attributes :

·  Able to work under minimal supervision
·  Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity
·  Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility
·  Skilled in providing oversight and mentoring team members. Shows ability to effectively delegate work

Additional Information

Relocation Assistance Provided: Yes