Lead DevOps Engineer – AKS

Role Overview

• Designing and managing highly scalable, reliable and fault tolerant CI/CD Pipeline infrastructure & networking that forms the backbone of SaaS Based Retail Banking Solution at Finastra.
• Improve overall Monitoring and security posture of infrastructure/application by implementing protective measures, efficiently in tandem with better ROI and TCO.
• Work along with the Dev Engineering teams to help with Application / Infrastructure / Network automation and long-term business needs.
• Research and evaluate parallel products available, define & govern application/ infrastructure baselines
• Communicate, collaborate and work effectively across distributed teams in a global environment.
• Operate to strengthen teams across their product with their knowledge base.
• Research and implement toolsets that help developers use Containers, Kubernetes and Service Mesh
• Develop tools for developers, operations and release teams to use Kubernetes and Service Mesh with ease
• Ensure Platform Security and Monitoring using tools like Prometheus/Grafana etc and implement Monitoring and Security best practices
• Have a passion for delivering zero-defect and highly resilient code and be responsible for ensuring the team's deliverables exceed the prescribed availability and defect SLA
• Present technical solutions, capabilities, considerations, and features in business terms
• Groom user stories into detailed development tasks
• Effectively communicate status, issues, and risks in a precise and timely manner.

Requirements

• 8 to 15 years of hands-on experience on SaaS / IaaS
• Hands-on experience with DevOps techniques building continuous integration solutions using Ansible, Bash, Docker, Git, Maven
• Experience with Load Balancing, Rate Limiting, Traffic Shaping and managing connectivity between Applications and Networks.
• Deep knowledge of Linux as a production environment.
• Strong Understanding of Container technologies. e.g. Docker, Infrastructure As Code such as Terraform, K8s administration at large scale.
• Strong understanding of cluster orchestrators and schedulers (Kubernetes, Mesos etc)
• Excellent bash, and scripting fundamentals and strong hands on with scripting in programming languages such as Spring, Python, Java, Ruby, etc.
• Good understanding of distributed system fundamentals and ability to troubleshoot issues in a larger distributed Application infrastructure
• Excellent understanding of interactive application development paradigm, memory management, performance/resource optimizations, database interactions, network programming, concurrency and multithreading, fault tolerance, monitoring, security and operability of systems.
• Working knowledge on Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL or Mongo DB databases.
• Have worked on production distributed systems and strong understanding of microservices architecture, RESTful services, CI/CD.
• Must have Prior experience with at least one Cloud Service provider – Azure AKS, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, OpenShift, Rancher etc.
• Experience implementing Kubernetes controllers/operators.
• Strong Docker experience
• Operational experience deploying and managing Kubernetes CKA or CKAD certification.
• AZ400 (Good to Have)

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Docker
• Google Cloud Platform
• Grafana
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Maven
• Microservices
• MongoDB
• OpenShift
• Oracle
• Postgres
• Prometheus
• Python
• Ruby
• Spring
• Terraform

Benefits

• Work-life balance
• Collaborative team environment
• Opportunities for professional development