Job Description and key Responsibilities
- Developing, Testing, Debugging, and Troubleshooting of Containerized Infrastructure.
- Ensure solutions are well-engineered, maintainable, and delivered on schedule.
- Work with business and engineering partners to deploy new infrastructure for private and public cloud platform.
- Monitor the availability, latency, and overall system health. On-call incident and change management
- Willingness to enhance the team learning environment by providing and encouraging mentorship and technical leadership.
- Manage Cloud and containerized environment setup and deployment in AWS & Azure and On Prem environments.
- Ensure security of application and development processes
- Mature Configuration Management processes
- Establish an automated DevOps release management pipeline which delivers tooling for next generation application development efforts and on-going production operations.
- Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mindset.
- Troubleshoot code build and deployments, product releases, and integration issues with the CI/CD workflow.
- Manage deployment and licensing of all Kubernetes/Container platforms, software, and hardware.
- Cloud virtualized and physical machine/system creation, configuration, management for both application and internal usage.
- Work with all the stake holders to on application migration from on-prem to cloud. Provide recommendations to app teams to design cloud architecture.
- Use appropriate tools to automate deployment and orchestrate governance and security of Infrastructure as code and infrastructure in general.
- Compose and leverage Infrastructure as code using CloudFormation and terraform templates for the repeatable deployment of infrastructure.
- Review Cloud Architecture diagrams and deploy the solutions accordingly.
- Design Well architected solutions in AWS/Azure.
- Engineer cloud operational standards for new approved services and review/update existing ones.
- Work with DevOps team to build Ci/CD pipelines for infrastructure and app teams.
- Design, Review, Build and deploy and Manage Kubernetes Clusters in Multi Cloud Environment.
- Managing IAM permissions the in the cloud and ensuring that the right users have access to the right services with the least privileges.
- Work with vendors to bring new tools/ services to Jefferies.
- Setting naming/ working and operational standards for new services
- Follow change control procedures and policies.
- Create Documentation and provide reports to management. Be on call and Fulfill On-Call Support duties once a month.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience Requirements
Must have 8+ Years’ experience in a Multi Cloud and preferrable Hybrid Cloud environment.
- 8+ years deploying distributed apps with containers (Docker) & orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, GKE). Experience with Rafay is highly desirable for multi cloud orchestration.
- 5+ years development experience in config management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform)
- 5+ Years using gitops to deploy applications to Kubernetes.
- 7+ years working within and building on AWS (IAM, Orgs, API Gateway, Lambda, KMS)
- 7+ years Linux system engineering experience
- 5+ years developing or infrastructure and application security for Highly Sensitive Customer Data & Environments (IAM, CI/CD, PKI)
- 5+ years’ experience deploying with a CI orchestration service (GitLab/GitHub, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Jfrog, Xray, antifactory, ECR)
- 7+ years working experience scripting/programming language (Bash Shell, Python, JavaScript)
- Experience with TCP/IP networking protocols and components as implemented in IAAS (VPC, TGW, route tables, security groups, etc.)
- Experience with Log Management and Analytics tools such as Splunk, fluentbit etc.
- Excellent experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Otel, AppDynamics etc.
- Excellent experience in securing Kubernetes environment using service mesh, secrets vaulting, service discovery, certificate and AppSSO management,
- Must have in depth AWS development experience (Containerization - Docker, Amazon EKS, Lambda, EC2, S3, Azure blob, Azure VM, service fabric, Azure AKS)
- Scripting capability and the ability to develop AWS/Azure Infrastructure environments as code.
- Experience with core AWS/Azure platform architecture, including areas such as: Organizations, Account Design, VPC, Subnet, segmentation strategies., subscriptions, VNet, resource groups. Security groups, DNS, and routing. etc.
- Data Protection, Persistent Storage, Backup, HA and Disaster Recovery approach and design.
- Network connectivity, Direct Connect, Express Route and VPN
- Good understanding of Compute, Databases, Analytics and security services and best practices in AWS and Azure.
- Presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
- A continuous learner and a critical thinker.
- A team player with great communication skills both verbal and written.
Nice To have Skills.
- DEVOPS certification highly desirable.
- AWS/Azure/Kubernetes Certification Preferred.
- Rafay Certification Highly desirable.
- Knowledge of Internal Developer Portal is highly desirable preferably TAP.
- VMWare and Nutanix Hypervisors - Desired
- Block storage (PURE), Netapp FSX experience is a plus.
- Compute (UCS & Synergy) is a plus.
- Knowledge on VMC and Nutanix on AWS is desired.
Critical Beyond the Technical Skills Required:
- Strong oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate technical and non-technical concepts to peers, customers, and management.
- Must be capable of routinely making effective and timely decisions in alignment with departmental direction and based on sound business knowledge and industry best practices.
- Possess excellent technical problem solving and customer service skills.
- Ability to cope well under pressure.
- Initiative, drive, and ability to work effectively as part of a local team as well as a global team.
- Must work well without direct supervision and as part of global teams.
