Azure Devops Architect

Job Purpose and Impact

The DevOps Engineer is a key position to strengthen the security automation capabilities which have been identified as a critical area for growth and specialization within Global IT’s scope. As part of the Cyber Intelligence Operation’s DevOps Team, you will be helping shape our automation efforts by building, maintaining and supporting our security infrastructure.

Key Accountabilities

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to understand and evaluate business requirements.
• Implement modern engineering practices to ensure product quality.
• Provide designs, prototypes and implementations incorporating software engineering best practices, tools and monitoring according to industry standards.
• Write well-designed, testable and efficient code using full-stack engineering capability.
• Integrate software components into a fully functional software system.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Proficiency in at least one configuration management or orchestration tool, such as Ansible.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and logging services.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent exp
• Knowledge of public cloud services & application programming interfaces
• Working exp with continuous integration and delivery practices

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant exp whether in IT, IS, or software development
• Exp in:
•  Code repositories such as Git
• Scripting languages (Python & PowerShell)
• Using Windows, Linux, Unix, and mobile platforms within cloud services such as AWS
• Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) / platform as a service (PaaS), microservices, Docker containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins
• Databases such as Postgres, SQL, Elastic

Infra360 Solutions is a services company specializing in Cloud, DevSecOps, Security, and Observability solutions. We help technology companies adapt DevOps culture in their organization by focusing on long-term DevOps roadmap. We focus on identifying technical and cultural issues in the journey of successfully implementing the DevOps practices in the organization and work with respective teams to fix issues to increase overall productivity. We also do training sessions for the developers and make them realize the importance of DevOps. We provide these services - DevOps, DevSecOps, FinOps, Cost Optimizations, CI/CD, Observability, Cloud Security, Containerization, Cloud Migration, Site Reliability, Performance Optimizations, SIEM and SecOps, Serverless automation, Well-Architected Review, MLOps, Governance, Risk & Compliance. We do assessments of technology architecture, security, governance, compliance, and DevOps maturity model for any technology company and help them optimize their cloud cost, streamline their technology architecture, and set up processes to improve the availability and reliability of their website and applications. We set up tools for monitoring, logging, and observability. We focus on bringing the DevOps culture to the organization to improve its efficiency and delivery.

Job Description

Our Mission 

Our mission is to help customers achieve their business objectives by providing innovative, best-in-class consulting, IT solutions and services and to make it a joy for all stakeholders to work with us. We function as a full stakeholder in business, offering a consulting-led approach with an integrated portfolio of technology-led solutions that encompass the entire Enterprise value chain.

Our Customer-centric Engagement Model defines how we engage with you, offering specialized services and solutions that meet the distinct needs of your business.

Our Culture 

Culture forms the core of our foundation and our effort towards creating an engaging workplace has resulted in Infra360 Solution Pvt Ltd.

Our Tech-Stack:

• Azure DevOps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Docker, Active Directory (Microsoft Entra)
• Azure IAM and managed identity, Virtual network, VM Scale Set, App Service, Cosmos
• Azure, MySQL Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash), 
• Azure Security, Security Documentation, Security Compliance, 
• AKS, Blob Storage, Azure functions, Virtual Machines, Azure SQL
• AWS - IAM, EC2, EKS, Lambda, ECS, Route53, Cloud formation, Cloud front, S3
• GCP - GKE, Compute Engine, App Engine, SCC
• Kubernetes, Linux, Docker & Microservices Architecture
• Terraform & Terragrunt
• Jenkins & Argocd
• Ansible, Vault, Vagrant, SaltStack
• CloudFront, Apache, Nginx, Varnish, Akamai
• Mysql, Aurora, Postgres, AWS RedShift, MongoDB
• ElasticSearch, Redis, Aerospike, Memcache, Solr
• ELK, Fluentd, Elastic APM & Prometheus Grafana Stack
• Java (Spring/Hibernate/JPA/REST), Nodejs, Ruby, Rails, Erlang, Python

What does this role hold for you…??

• Infrastructure as a code (IaC)
• CI/CD and configuration management
• Managing Azure Active Directory (Entra)
• Keeping the cost of the infrastructure to the minimum
• Doing RCA of production issues and providing resolution
• Setting up failover, DR, backups, logging, monitoring, and alerting
• Containerizing different applications on the Kubernetes platform
• Capacity planning of different environments infrastructure
• Ensuring zero outages of critical services
• Database administration of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Setting up the right set of security measures

Requirements

Apply if you have… 

• A graduation/post-graduation degree in Computer Science and related fields
• 2-4 years of strong DevOps experience in Azure with the Linux environment.
• Strong interest in working in our tech stack
• Excellent communication skills
• Worked with minimal supervision and love to work as a self-starter
• Hands-on experience with at least one of the scripting languages - Bash, Python, Go etc
• Experience with version control systems like Git
• Understanding of Azure cloud computing services and cloud computing delivery models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Strong scripting or programming skills for automating tasks (PowerShell/Bash)
• Knowledge and experience with CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Gitlab etc.
• Knowledge and experience in IaC at least one (ARM Templates/ Terraform)
• Strong experience with managing the Production Systems day in and day out
• Experience in finding issues in different layers of architecture in a production environment and fixing them
• Experience in automation tools like Ansible/SaltStack and Jenkins
• Experience in Docker/Kubernetes platform and managing OpenStack (desirable)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools i.e. Vault, Vagrant, Terraform, Consul, VirtualBox etc. (desirable)
• Experience in Monitoring tools like Prometheus/Grafana/Elastic APM.
• Experience in logging tools Like ELK/Loki.
• Experience in using Microsoft Azure Cloud services

If you are passionate about infrastructure, and cloud technologies, and want to contribute to innovative projects, we encourage you to apply. Infra360 offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth. 

Interview Process

Application Screening=>Test/Assessment=>2 Rounds of Tech Interview=>CEO Round=>Final Discussion

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Role Introduction

• This role involves guiding the DevOps team towards successful delivery of Governance and

toolchain initiatives by removing manual tasks.

• Operate toolchain applications to empower engineering teams by providing, reliable, governed

self-service tools and supporting their adoption

• Driving good practice for consumption and utilisation of the engineering toolchain, with a focus

on DevOps practices

• Drive good governance for cloud service consumption

• Involves working in a collaborative environment and focus on leading team and providing

technical leadership to team members.

• Involves setting up process and improvements for teams on supporting various DevOps tooling

and governing the tooling.

• Co-ordinating with multiple teams within organization

• Lead on handovers from architecture teams to support major project rollouts which require the

Toolchain governance DevOps team to operationally support tooling

What you will do

• Identify and implement best practices, process improvement and automation initiatives for

improvement towards quicker delivery by removing manual tasks

• Ensure best practices and process are documented for reusability and keeping up-to date on

good practices and standards.

• Re-usable automation and compliance service, tools and processes

• Support and management of toolchain, toolchain changes and selection

• Identify and implement risk mitigation plans, avoid escalations, resolve blockers for teams.

Toolchain governance will involve operating and responding to alerts, enforcing good tooling

governance by driving automation, remediating technical debt and ensuring the latest tools

are utilised and on the latest versions

• Triage product pipelines, performance issues, SLA/SLO breaches, service unavailable along

with ancillary actions such as providing access to logs, tools, environments.

• Involve in initial / detailed estimates during roadmap planning or feature

estimation/planning of any automation identified for a given toolset.

• Develop, refine, and tune integrations between various tools

• Discuss with Product Owner/team on any challenges from implementation, deployment

perspective and assist in arriving probable solution and escalate any risks to get them

resolved w.r.t DevOps toolchain.

• In consultation with Head of DevOps and other stake holders, prioritization of items, item-

task breakdown; accountable for squad deliverables for sprint

• Involve in reviewing current components and plan for upgrade and ensure its communicated

to wider audience within Organization

• Involve in reviewing access / role and enhance and automate provisioning.

• Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team e.g conducts

regular 1-2-1’s with squad members to provide support, mentoring and goal setting

• Involve in performance management ,rewards and recognition of team members, Involve in

hiring process.• Plan for upskill of team to know about tools and perform tasks. Ensure quicker onboarding

of new joiners/freshers to team to be productive.

• Review ticket metrics to measure the health of the project including SLAs and plan for

improvement.

• Requirement for on call for critical incidents that happen Out of Hours, based on tooling SLA.

This may include planning standby schedule for squad, carrying out retrospective for every

callout and reviewing SLIs/SLOs.

• Owns the tech/repair debt, risk and compliance for the tooling with respect to

infrastructure, pipelines, access etc

• Track optimum utilization of resources and monitor/track the delivery schedule

• Review solutions designs with the Architects / Principal DevOps Engineers as required

• Provide monthly reporting which align to DevOps Tooling KPIs

What you will have

• Candidate should have 8+ years of experience and Hands-on DevOps experience and

experience in team management.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, Team player

• Good working experience of CI/CD tools like Jenkins, SonarQube, FOSSA, Harness, Jira, JSM,

ServiceNow etc.

• Good hands on knowledge of AWS Services like EC2, ECS, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, VPC, Lambda,

API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation etc.

• Experience in operating and governing DevOps Toolchain

• Experience in operational monitoring, alerting and identifying and delivering on both repair

and technical debt

• Experience and background in ITIL/ITSM processes. The candidate will ensure development

of the appropriate (ITSM) model and processes, based on the ITIL Service Management

framework. This includes the strategic, design, transition, and operation services and

continuous service improvement

• Provide ITSM leadership experience and coaching processes

• Experience on various tools like Jenkins, Harness, Fossa,

• Experience of hosting and managing applications on AWS/AZURE•

• Experience in CI/CD pipeline (Jenkins build pipelines)

• Experience in containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Experience in any programming language (Node.js or Python is preferred)

• Experience in Architecting and supporting cloud based products will be a plus

• Experience in PowerShell & Bash will be a plus

• Able to self manage multiple concurrent small projects, including managing priorities

between projects

• Able to quickly learn new tools

• Should be able to mentor/drive junior team members to achieve desired outcome of

roadmap-

• Ability to analyse information to identify problems and issues, and make effective decisions

within short span

• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking

• Experience in integrating various components including unit testing / CI/CD configuration.

• Experience to review current toolset and plan for upgrade.

• Experience with Agile framework/Jira/JSM tool.• Good communication skills and ability to communicate/work independently with external

teams.

• Highly motivated, able to work proficiently both independently and in a team environment

Good knowledge and experience with security constructs –

A.P.T Portfolio, a high frequency trading firm that specialises in Quantitative Trading & Investment Strategies.Founded in November 2009, it has been a major liquidity provider in global Stock markets. 

As a manager, you would be incharge of managing the devops team and your remit shall include the following

• Private Cloud - Design & maintain a high performance and reliable network architecture to support  HPC applications
• Scheduling Tool - Implement and maintain a HPC scheduling technology like Kubernetes, Hadoop YARN  Mesos, HTCondor or Nomad for processing & scheduling analytical jobs. Implement controls which allow analytical jobs to seamlessly utilize ideal capacity on the private cloud. 
• Security - Implementing best security practices and implementing data isolation policy between different divisions internally. 
• Capacity Sizing - Monitor private cloud usage and share details with different teams. Plan capacity enhancements on a quarterly basis. 
• Storage solution - Optimize storage solutions like NetApp, EMC, Quobyte for analytical jobs. Monitor their performance on a daily basis to identify issues early.
• NFS - Implement and optimize latest version of NFS for our use case. 
• Public Cloud - Drive AWS/Google-Cloud utilization in the firm for increasing efficiency, improving collaboration and for reducing cost. Maintain the environment for our existing use cases. Further explore potential areas of using public cloud within the firm. 
• BackUps  - Identify and automate  back up of all crucial data/binary/code etc in a secured manner at such duration warranted by the use case. Ensure that recovery from back-up is tested and seamless. 
•  Access Control  - Maintain password less access control and improve security over time. Minimize failures for automated job due to unsuccessful logins. 
•  Operating System  -Plan, test and roll out new operating system for all production, simulation and desktop environments. Work closely with developers to highlight new performance enhancements capabilities of new versions. 
•  Configuration management  -Work closely with DevOps/ development team to freeze configurations/playbook for various teams & internal applications. Deploy and maintain standard tools such as Ansible, Puppet, chef etc for the same. 
•  Data Storage & Security Planning  - Maintain a tight control of root access on various devices. Ensure root access is rolled back as soon the desired objective is achieved.
• Audit access logs on devices. Use third party tools to put in a monitoring mechanism for early detection of any suspicious activity. 
• Maintaining all third party tools used for development and collaboration - This shall include maintaining a fault tolerant   environment for GIT/Perforce, productivity tools such as Slack/Microsoft team, build tools like Jenkins/Bamboo etc

Qualifications 

• Bachelors or Masters Level Degree, preferably in CSE/IT
• 10+ years of relevant experience in sys-admin function
• Must have strong knowledge of IT Infrastructure, Linux, Networking and grid.
• Must have strong grasp of automation & Data management tools.
• Efficient in scripting languages and python

Desirables

• Professional attitude, co-operative and mature approach to work, must be focused, structured and well considered, troubleshooting skills.
•  Exhibit a high level of individual initiative and ownership, effectively collaborate with other team members.

APT Portfolio is an equal opportunity employer

• Designing and building infrastructure to support AWS, Azure, and GCP-based Cloud services and infrastructure.
• Creating and utilizing tools to monitor our applications and services in the cloud including system health indicators, trend identification, and anomaly detection.
• Working with development teams to help engineer scalable, reliable, and resilient software running in the cloud.
• Participating in on-call escalation to troubleshoot customer-facing issues
• Analyzing and monitoring performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Providing analytics and forecasts for cloud capacity, troubleshooting analysis, and uptime.

• Should have strong experience of a couple of years, in leading DevOps team and planning, defining DevOps roadmap and executing as per the same along with the team 
• Familiarity with AWS cloud and JSON templates, Python, AWS Cloud formation templates
• Designing solutions using one or more AWS features, tools, and technologies such as EC2, EBS, Glacier, S3, ELB, CloudFormation, Lambada, CloudWatch, VPC, RDS, Direct Connect, AWS CLI, REST API
• Design and implement system architecture with AWS cloud - Develop automation scripts, ARM templates, Ansible, Chef, Python, Powershell Knowledge of AWS services and cloud design patterns- Knowledge on Cloud fundamentals like autoscaling, serverless
• Have experience with DevOps and Infrastructure as Code: AWS environment and application automation utilizing CloudFormation and third-party tools. CI/CD pipeline setup utilizing
• CI experience with the following is a must: Jenkins, Bitbucket/GIT, Nexus or Artifactory, SonarQube, WireMock or other mocking solution 
• Expert knowledge on Windows/Linux OS/Mac with at least 5-6 years of system administration experience
• Should have strong skills in using JIRA build tool
• Should have knowledge in managing the CI/CD pipeline on public cloud deployments using AWS
• Should have strong skills in using tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes (AWS EKS, Azure AKS), and Cloudformation.
• Experience in monitoring tools like Pingdom, Nagios, etc.
• Experience in reverse proxy services like Nginx and Apache
• Desirable experience in Bitbucket with version control tools like GIT/SVN
• Experience of manual/automated testing desired application deployments
• Experience in database technologies such as PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Knowledge of helm and terraform

• JD: • 10+ years of overall industry experience
  • 5+ years of cloud experience
  • 2+ years of architect experience
  • Varied background preferred between systems and development
  o Experience working with applications, not pure infra experience
  • Azure experience – strong background using Azure for application migrations
  • Terraform experience – should mention automation technologies in job experience
  • Hands on experience delivering in the cloud
  • Must have job experience designing solutions for customers
  • IaaS Cloud architect
  workload migrations to AWS and/or Azure
  • Security architecture considerations experience
  • CI/CD experience
  • Proven applications migration track of record.