DevOps Lead

Work Location: India, Pune 

Job Title: DevOps - Lead Software Engineer

About the Role:

The role is for a Lead Software Engineer – Dev Ops candidate with solid and successful background driving CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, monitoring, and original tools development for enterprise software and systems running in clouds as well private datacenters and on on-prem VM and Kubernetes clouds using Python, Groovy, shell scripting, Perl, and Java. This role will design and support continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and the Engineering process for eCommerce websites and apps, retail stores, supply chain, and call center applications through devops tooling and direct support of software engineers in testing and pre-production environments. Through original code and integration, provide enhancements to CI/CD tooling and original applications that accelerate feature delivery by reducing human effort, removing process stop points, increasing repeatability, and providing self-service. The successful candidate must have great communication skills, a passion for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and a strong sense of ownership. A proven track record of designing, developing, and maintaining dependable, repeatable, mission-critical build pipelines, systems and products is a must. 

Responsibilities

• Assists in interpreting devops product descriptions and designing and defining the solutions
• Works with Architecture to craft technical designs and drive the evolution of our devops architecture
• Programs original tools, enhancements to existing tools and pipelines, and new services in Python, Java, and Groovy
• Performs peer code review
• Proactively identifies automation and self-service opportunities
• Continuously monitors the health of CI/CD tools and takes corrective action on issues identified
• Responds to trouble reports regarding CI/CD tooling and investigates and corrects issues
• Responds to requests for assistance triaging custom and 3rd party-application environments
• Investigates pipeline and build failures, identifies root cause, corrects
• Supports Production Support in use of release and other tooling
• Researches, designs, implements new technologies within CI/CD and as standalone applications
• Collaborates with feature developers to onboard/integrate applications according to WSI best practices
• Supports development team delivery process through SDLC up to handoff to production support teams
• Collaborates with Infrastructure team to provision and deprovision capacity
• Leads or participates in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems
• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of high complexity
• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation
• Contributes to and enforces best practices
• Participates in establishing strategies and standards
• Performs systems resource optimization activities
• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and thresholds
• Supports resolution of production incidents
• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation
• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines
• Suggests process improvements and best practices
• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals
• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers
• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work
• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings
• Inspires teamwork and guides the team members in task completion
• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise
• Self-directing and provides direction for others
• Achieves team consent and buy-in

Criteria

• 8 years of relevant DevOps experience
• Docker and Kubernetes stack expertise
• Experience using Helm/Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments
• Jenkins and Jenkins Pipeline expertise
• Programming expertise in Groovy, Python, shell, and/or Java
• Experience with Maven
• git and GitHub Enterprise expertise
• Node/npm experience
• Expertise interpreting Java stack trace and Node error logs
• Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science or related field