Duties and Responsibilities  

• As a player-coach, establish, scale, lead, and mentor Team Members towards our DevOps pursuits.

• Help build a reusable standard CI/CD pipeline model with built-in quality gates, security, and cutting-edge tools and automation.
• Drive process automation focused on eliminating manual steps in application build and deployment, integrating compliance and quality gates in the process.
• Lead discussion and guide technical teams regarding operational, technical, and procedural best practices.
• Evangelize a fully automated product build and release process, driving a pushbutton deploy attitude and vision.
• Work with program teams to understand their product development requirements, guide in embracing DevOps principles, prescribed toolchain, and pipeline framework.
• Be highly familiar with cloud services, having supported large scale production deployments on one or more of these platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud GCP).
• Build, release, and configuration management of production systems.
• System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains.
• Remain abreast of technology advancements for future cloud, software, and other relative implementations and capabilities.
• Provide technical guidance in architecture and DevOps process improvements.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensure critical system security using best in class cloud security solutions.
• Create and update documentation for the operational process, procedures, and environment configurations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years designing, implementing CI/CD solutions, and DevOps related practices.

• Version Control: Experience with version control systems such as GitHub, GitLab and code branching principles.
• Outstanding experience with build and release process and associated tools - building CI and deployment pipelines and hands-on knowledge of applicable tools chain such as Jenkins, CircleCI, TeamCity, Azure DevOps or like build orchestration tools, Artifactory, GitHub, GitLab, SonarCube, Coverity or similar.
• Strong experience with Terraform to create infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience with Ansible to create configuration as code.
• Strong experience in automation and one of scripting language such as Python, Javascript or similar.
• Strong experience with Docker (Docker, Docker Compose etc) for container management.
• Strong experience with Packer for image creation and curation.
• Experience with build management tools such as Nuget, Maven or Gradle.
• Knowledge of cloud architecture and experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (such as AWS/Azure/GCP and their services EC2, RDS, ELB, EBD, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, CloudTrail).
• Understanding of network configurations (such as SSL and PIP).
• Experience in implementing DevOps best practices with the ability to define operational processes.
• Very familiar with organizing work using Agile principles (story backlog, Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience with agile backlog management tools such as Atlassian Jira or similar.
• Ability to solve problems by considering available information, prioritizing and making timely decisions.
• Familiar with monitoring tooling such as Elastic or Splunk.
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows.
• Experience with enterprise environment management and virtualization technologies such as VMware or Hyper-V.

• Support process improvements, drive efficiency across teams, eliminating redundancy by leveraging software tools and process automation, provide improvement evidence with measurable data and metrics.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills required.