Devops Architect

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Role

The DevOps Architect is responsible for providing technical direction and oversight of the application engineering/DevOps practices across scrum teams within a program. DevOps Architect works closely with Program Architects and Application Architects to understand business needs and provides strategic and tactical directions for specific initiatives. Promotes DevOps culture by examining the big picture, applying agile mindset and modern DevOps tools to accelerate the overall software deliver, promotes innovation, alternative solutions, reusability, stability, scalability, and consistency across programs. Researches new technologies and tools to remain abreast of current and emerging technologies, and to introduce new opportunities for innovation.

Job Functions And Responsibilities

• Identifies and provides oversight of the technical solutions for Source Control, Build and Deployment automation, Continuous Integration, Environment Monitoring.
• Develops & evangelizes best practices for DevOps & CI/CD, API Management, Networking.
• Provides technical direction for scrum teams for specific initiatives and assists with initial proof of concepts and template builds.
• Participates in Technology/Architecture and design discussions and designing automation templates for infrastructure provisioning, configuration & change management, and developing the detailed technical design.
• Leads researching on new tools/ technology solutions/processes, build consensus and plan to introduce cost justifiable technology to improve SDLC pipeline
• Continually finds ways to optimize and build out a comprehensive architecture/strategy for supporting applications in production
• The scope of work includes build, machine configuration, test infrastructure and virtual machine deployment.
• Level-3 support for Production Environment
  
  

Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of Hands-on experience working as a DevOps/Build/Deployment and Engineering & Operations skills
• Experience with Agile/Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and related tools
• Hands-on experience in production environments, both deploying and troubleshooting applications in Windows /Linux environment.
• Strong experience automating with scripting languages such as Power Shell, Python and any deployment scripting languages
• Strong experience with CI/CD deployment supporting Microsoft technologies ( IIS, Team Foundation Server (TFS, VSTS), GIT/ ProGit, Octopus Deploy and TeamCity is preferred)
• Highly Proficient in Configuration Management ( Puppet, Ansible, Chef or Similar)
• Excellent understanding of Containerization, Docker & Kubernetes is required.
• Excellent understanding of Micro-services architecture, design patterns, and standard methodologies with an eye towards scale, automation, resiliency, high availability and disaster recovery.
• Excellent understanding of networking, load balancing, caching, security, config and certificate management.
• Working experience with Consul and NGINX
• Working experience with Redis
• Experience in larger Enterprise suites such as BPM, CRM, Portals, Content Management preferred