Azure Administrator

Job Description: SOC Manager

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES          

•      Leadership & Team Management: Leads the SOC team providing clear direction, fostering teamwork and collaboration. Regularly assesses the strengths and weaknesses of team members, providing mentoring, coaching, and opportunities for growth. Hands-on execution across operational challenges, making decisive judgments while ensuring high morale and cohesion.

•      Incident Management: Ensures that all security events and incidents are identified, categorized, and responded to promptly and thoroughly. This includes setting up appropriate escalation processes, coordinating between various teams for cross-functional incidents, and ensuring that incidents are closed with comprehensive documentation and lessons learned.

•      Continuous Improvement: Regularly reviews and analyzes the efficiency of the existing operations processes, tools, and protocols. Implement changes based on findings, feedback from the team, and changing threat landscapes. This also involves staying updated with advancements in SOC technologies and methodologies.

•      Technology Management: Oversees the implementation, configuration, and continuous tuning of various security tools, including the client’s Security Platform.

•      Training and Development: Designs and implements a continuous training plan for the existing and new SOC team members, ensuring they have the latest skills and knowledge and are onboarded and productive as quickly as possible. This also involves organizing periodic simulation exercises (like red teaming) to test and improve incident response capabilities.

•      Reporting: Establishes a comprehensive reporting framework that offers insights into the SOC's performance. This includes metrics on incident volumes, response times, and resolution success rates.

These reports should be presented to stakeholders clearly, actionable, highlighting successes and areas for improvement.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

•      Minimum of 6+ years in cybersecurity roles with at least 3 years in a SOC leadership position.

Experience in an MSSP or a large-scale global SOC is highly preferred.

•      Experience in actively managing the lifecycle of security incidents.

•      Strong knowledge and familiarity with major cloud provider technologies (AWS, Azure, etc.)

•      Solid understanding of networking protocols and infrastructure designs, including cloud infrastructures, routing, firewall functionality, host and network intrusion detection systems, encryption, load balancing, and other network protocols.

•      Experience with virtualization technologies (VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V).

•      Experience with the following tools and technologies:

–     Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

–     Intrusion Detection & Prevention (IDP) 

–     Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR)

–     Network Detection & Response (NDR)

–     Network Analysis tools - Wireshark, tcpdump, etc. 

–     Scripting in Python, Bash, PowerShell

•      Experience in regulated environments such as HIPAA or PCI preferred.

•      Strong governance skills in time management, project management, and stakeholder management.

•      Excellent communication skills, with ability to lead security-reviews with clients; keep stakeholders appraised of key issues/risks/incidents.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

•      CISSP – Certified Information Systems Security Professional

•      CISM – Certified Information Security Manager

•      OSCP – Offensive Security Certified Professional

•      CEH – Certified Ethical Hacker

•      GSEC – SANS GIAC Security Essentials

•      CompTIA – Security

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

·      Flexibility of schedule is required to meet the demands of the position.

·      This role requires to work in shifts (including night shift) and support clients in North America.

About Quantela

We are a technology company that offers outcomes business models. We empower our customers with the right digital infrastructure to deliver greater economic, social, and environmental outcomes for their constituents.

When the company was founded in 2015, we specialized in smart cities technology alone. Today, working with cities and towns; utilities, and public venues, our team of 280+ experts offer a vast array of outcomes business models through technologies like digital advertising, smart lighting, smart traffic, and digitized citizen services.

We pride ourselves on our agility, innovation, and passion to use technology for a higher purpose. Unlike other technology companies, we tailor our offerings (what we can digitize) and the business model (how we partner with our customer to deliver that digitization) to drive measurable impact where our customers need it most. Over the last several months alone, we have served customers to deliver outcomes like increased medical response times to save lives; reduced traffic congestion to keep cities moving and created new revenue streams to tackle societal issues like homelessness.

We are headquartered in Billerica, Massachusetts in the United States with offices across Europe, and Asia.

The company has been recognized with the World Economic Forum’s ‘Technology Pioneers’ award in 2019 and CRN’s IoT Innovation Award in 2020.

For latest news and updates please visit us at www.quantela.com

Overview of the Role

The ideal candidate should have automation skills to automate Infrastructure, microservices deployment through automation tools. Should be handling Kubernetes cluster in Production, both cloud and on-premise

Key Responsibilities

• Overall 6+ Years of experience and should have handled Production Kubernetes Cluster both on Cloud and On-premises environments.
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
• Should migrate VM based applications to Kubernetes cluster.
• Automate Infrastructure component provision.
• Document every task, your findings turn into repeatable actions and then into automation.
• Follow the Agile process and plan the work accordingly.

Must have Skills

• Knowledge on container solutions like Docker, Kubernetes and understanding of Virtualization concepts.
• Experience in Configuration Management Tools like Ansible, Chef.
• Experience with Terraform, Cloud Formation or other infrastructure as code tools.
• Experience with CI/CD in Jenkins.
• Good knowledge of AWS/Azure cloud environments.
• Good hands-on experience on webservers like Nginx, Apache, tomcat configuration, and administration.
• Experience working with and maintaining package management systems (e.g., Artifactory, APT).
• Knowledge of scripting in PowerShell/Python/Bash/
• Experience building automation and pipelines (integration, testing, deployment)
• Experience with Docker containers (images and registry management).
• Understanding of metrics collectors such as Metricbeat, Heartbeat or Prometheus is good to have.
• Ability to work collaboratively on a cross-functional team with a wide range of experience levels
• Ability to analyze existing services and identify technical debt to work.

Desired Background

Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or Computer Applications

Key Responsibilities

• As a part of the DevOps team, you will be responsible for the configuration, optimization, documentation, and support of the CI/CD components.

• Creating and managing build and release pipelines with Azure DevOps and Jenkins.

• Assist in planning and reviewing application architecture and design to promote an efficient deployment process.

• Troubleshoot server performance issues & handle the continuous integration system.

• Automate infrastructure provisioning using ARM Templates and Terraform.

• Monitor and Support deployment, Cloud-based and On-premises Infrastructure.

• Diagnose and develop root-cause solutions for failures and performance issues in the production environment.

• Deploy and manage Infrastructure for production applications

• Configure security best practices for application and infrastructure

Essential Requirements

• Good hands-on experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS & GCP. (Preferably Azure)

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD principles.

• Strong work experience with CI/CD implementation tools like Azure DevOps, Team City, Octopus Deploy, AWS Code Deploy, and Jenkins.

• Experience of writing automation scripts with PowerShell, Bash, Python, etc.

• GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, and Continuous Integration (CI) system.

• Understanding of secure DevOps practices

Good to Have -

•Knowledge of scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash

• Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, Scrum/Kanban, etc.

• Experience with Build technologies and cloud services. (Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS Code Deploy)

• Strong communication skills and ability to explain protocol and processes with team and management.

• Must be able to handle multiple tasks and adapt to a constantly changing environment.

• Must have a good understanding of SDLC.

• Knowledge of Linux, Windows server, Monitoring tools, and Shell scripting.

• Self-motivated; demonstrating the ability to achieve in technologies with minimal supervision.

• Organized, flexible, and analytical ability to solve problems creatively

• Extensive experience in designing, building & supporting Azure Managed Services Operations.
• Good understanding of Azure IaaS and PaaS services (Azure VMs, App Service, VM Scale set, Storage, Web App, Function App, Logic App, SQL instance, Data factory, Key vault, API management service etc.).
• Good understanding of Azure networking, vNet, NSG, various load balancing services, VPN, Express Route and firewalls in cloud environment.
• Knowledge on Cloud Adoption Framework.
• Hands on Experience in migration of various workloads to Azure from on-prem sources like VMware, Hyper-V, Physical Servers and from other Clouds.
• Knowledge of Azure Backups and ASR (Azure Site Recovery).
• Strong Knowledge on Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS).
• Powershell Scripting, Azure CLI, ARM templates writing, setup automation for resources provisioning and other IaC tools like terraform, Ansible is an added advantage.
• Knowledge on Azure automation and Automation Desire State Configuration.
• Knowledge on Azure Devops or GIT Actions on CI/CD pipeline configuration.
• Strong experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft based production systems.
• Aspire to learn and be able to pick up latest technical advances in Azure and be able to implement it.
• Certificate on Azure Administrator & Azure Architect has added advantage.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Primary stakeholder collaborating with Dir Engineering on software/infrastructure architecture, monitoring/alerting framework and all other architectural level technical issues
• Design and manage implementation of Silvermine’s high performance, scalable, extensible and resilient microservices application stack based of existing, partially migrated monolithic application and for new product development.  Includes:
  • Utilizing either ECS Fargate (no EC2 clusters) or EKS as the orchestration framework – to be tested up to a minimum of 100k concurrent users
  • Exploring, designing and implementing use of on demand compute (Lambda) where appropriate
  • Scalable and redundant data architecture supporting microservices design principles
  • A scalable reverse proxy layer to isolate microservices from managing network connections
  • Utilizing CDN capabilities to offload origin load via an intelligent caching strategy
  • Leveraging best in breed AWS service offerings to enable team to focus on application stack instead of application scaffolding while minimizing operational complexity and cost
  • Monitoring and optimizing of stack for
• Security and monitoring
  • Leverage AWS and 3rd party services to monitor the application stack and data; secure them from DDOS attacks and security breaches; and alert the team in the vent of an incident
  • Using APM and logging tools:
    • Monitor application stack and infrastructure component performance
    • Proactively detect, triage and mitigate stack performance issues
    • Alert upon exception events
    • Provide triaging tools for debugging and Root Cause Analysis.
• Enhance the CI/CD pipeline to support automated testing, a resilient deployment model (e.g., blue-green, canary) and 100% rollback support (including the data layer)
• Development a comprehensive, supportable, repeatable IAC implementation using CloudFormation or Terraform
• Take a leadership role and exhibit expertise in the development of standards, architectural governance, design patterns, best practices and optimization of existing architecture.
• Partner with teams and leaders to provide strategic consultation for business process design/optimization, creating strategic technology road maps, performing rapid prototyping and implementing technical solutions to accelerate the fulfillment of the business strategic vision.
• Staying up to date on emerging technologies (AI, Automation, Cloud etc.) and trends with a clear focus on productivity, ease of use and fit-for-purpose, by researching, testing, and evaluating.
• Providing POCs and product implementation guidelines.
• Applying imagination and innovation by creating, inventing, and implementing new or better approaches, alternatives and breakthrough ideas that are valued by customers within the function.
• Assessing current state of solutions, defining future state needs, identifying gaps and recommending new technology solutions and strategic business execution improvements.
• Overseeing and facilitating the evaluation and selection technology, product standards and the design of standard configurations/implementation patterns.
• Partnering with other architects and solution owners to create standards and set strategies for the enterprise.
• Communicating directly with business colleagues on applying digital workplace technologies to solve identified business challenges.

Skills Required:

• Good mentorship skills to coach and guide the team on AWS DevOps.
• Jenkins, Python, Pipeline as Code, Cloud Formation Templates and Terraform.
• Experience with Dockers, Containers, Lambda and Fargate is a must
• Experience with CI/CD and Release management
• Strong proficiency in PowerShell scripting
• Demonstrable expertise in Java
• Familiarity with REST APIs

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in Devops.
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science or equivalent degree.
• AWS Certifications is added advantage

We are having an excellent job opportunity for the position for AWS Infra Architect for one of the reputed Multinational Company at Hyderabad.

Mandate Skills : Please find the below expectations

• We need at-least 3+ years of experience as an Architect in AWS Primary Skills
• Designing, Planning, Implementation , Providing the solutions in Designing the Architecture
• Automation Using Terraform / Powershell /Python
• Should have good experience in Cloud formation Templates
• Experience in Cloudwatch
• Security in AWS
• Strong Linux Administration skills

• Ownership of MBSE support Frontline Desk to address the Service Operations requests
• 16x5 monitoring of MBSE Infrastructure environment
• Create CISM tickets based on the predefined standard cases
• Documentation of Service cases and standard operation procedures
• Contribution to the predefined Knowledge database on Sharepoint.
• Communication & coordination with different teams in India & Germany
• Resolve user-reported issues as per the agreed SLA
• Assignment and coordination of CISM tickets to Level 2 & Level 3 support group
• Knowledge of Linux server deployments
• Knowledge of IBM WAS, IBM HTTP server, proxy configurations, F5 servers, client and server certificates.
• Knowledge of writing Linux scripts (Shell/Perl)
• Good knowledge of IBM DB2
• Good knowledge of LDAP protocols, authentication/authorization in IBM Jazz CLM