Lead II – DevOps Engineering

at UST
Published October 19, 2021
Location Alpharetta, GA
Category Default  
Job Type Full-time  

Description

  • Hands on experience on Grafana, Prometheus with various exporters and Blackbox setup.
  • Experience working with some of the following tech stack – Kubernetes, Docker & Python, AWS, Java, Springboot. 
  • Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring
  • Hands on experience on CICD pipeline, python, groovy, and JIRA Automation.
  • Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
  • System integration using a wide variety of protocols, not limited to REST, SOAP, MQ, TCP/IP, JSON.
  • Ensure scalability & high availability with efficient server virtualization, networking and storage.
  • Manage large scale deployments (thousands of servers, auto scaling etc) using Kubernetes container orchestration.
  • Create architecture runways that enable rapid recovery, repair & cleanup of faulty migrations, with the objective of building fault tolerant systems.
  • Create automations to resolve common faults in a system to reduce MTTI/MTTR.
  • Identify & enable self-service capabilities for infrastructure & application management tasks
  • Very high problem-solving ability, able to handle work under pressure, strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Solid understanding of systems, data structures, modern scripting and passion for enterprise level languages and open source tools.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Computer Engineering / Relevant technologies
  • Good communication skills and troubleshooting skills
  • 4+ years of development experience on Kubernetes, Kafka Streaming, Docker, AWS Cloud

 Responsibilities:

  • Design/Develop pub/sub messaging using Kafka / Kubernetes clusters
  • Install Kafka / Kubernetes clusters
  • Write design specs
  • Monitoring and Automation
  • Building test scripts and support testing
  • Support environment and service issues
  • Performance turning and verification
  • Participate towards on-call when necessary

 

 

Role Proficiency:

Act under guidance of DevOps; leading more than 1 Agile team.

 

Outcomes:

  1. Interprets the DevOps Tool/feature/component design to develop/support the same in accordance with specifications
  2. Adapts existing DevOps solutions and creates relevant DevOps solutions for new contexts
  3. Codes debugs tests and documents and communicates DevOps development stages/status of DevOps develop/support issues
  4. Selects appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components
  5. Optimises efficiency cost and quality of DevOps process tools and technology development
  6. Validates results with user representatives; integrates and commissions the overall solution
  7. Helps Engineers troubleshoot issues that are novel/complex and are not covered by SOPs
  8. Design install and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and software
  9. Able to automate infrastructure provisioning on cloud/in-premises with the guidance of architects
  10. Provides guidance to DevOps Engineers so that they can support existing components
  11. Good understanding of Agile methodologies and is able to work with diverse teams
  12. Knowledge of more than 1 DevOps toolstack (AWS Azure GCP opensource)

 

Measures of Outcomes:

  1.   Quality of Deliverables
  2.   Error rate/completion rate at various stages of SDLC/PDLC
  3.   # of components/reused
  4.   # of domain/technology certification/ product certification obtained
  5.   SLA/KPI for onboarding projects or applications
  6.   Stakeholder Management
  7.   Percentage achievement of specification/completeness/on-time delivery

 

Outputs Expected:

Automated components :

  1. Deliver components that automates parts to install components/configure of software/tools in on premises and on cloud
  2. Deliver components that automates parts of the build/deploy for applications

 

Configured components:

  1. Configure tools and automation framework into the overall DevOps design

 

Scripts:

  1. Develop/Support scripts (like Powershell/Shell/Python scripts) that automate installation/configuration/build/deployment tasks

 

Training/SOPs :

  1. Create Training plans/SOPs to help DevOps Engineers with DevOps activities and to in onboarding users

 

Measure Process Efficiency/Effectiveness:

  1. Deployment frequency innovation and technology changes.

 

Operations:

  1. Change lead time/volume
  2. Failed deployments
  3. Defect volume and escape rate
  4. Meantime to detection and recovery

 

Skill Examples:

  1.   Experience in design installation and configuration to to troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and software using Jenkins/Bamboo/Ansible/Puppet /Chef/PowerShell /Docker/Kubernetes
  2.   Experience in Integrating with code quality/test analysis tools like Sonarqube/Cobertura/Clover
  3.   Experience in Integrating build/deploy pipelines with test automation tools like Selenium/Junit/NUnit
  4.   Experience in Scripting skills (Python Linux/Shell Perl Groovy PowerShell)
  5.   Experience in Infrastructure automation skill (ansible/puppet/Chef/Poweshell)
  6.   Experience in repository Management/Migration Automation – GIT BitBucket GitHub Clearcase
  7.   Experience in build automation scripts – Maven Ant
  8.   Experience in Artefact repository management – Nexus/Artifactory
  9.   Experience in Dashboard Management & Automation- ELK/Splunk
  10.   Experience in configuration of cloud infrastructure (AWS Azure Google)
  11.   Experience in Migration of applications from on-premises to cloud infrastructures
  12.   Experience in Working on Azure DevOps ARM (Azure Resource Manager) & DSC (Desired State Configuration) & Strong debugging skill in C# C Sharp and Dotnet
  13.   Setting and Managing Jira projects and Git/Bitbucket repositories
  14. Skilled in containerization tools like Docker & Kubernetes

 

Knowledge Examples:

 
Additional Comments:

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