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Job Title: Senior DevOps Architect (Kubernetes, CI/CD, OpenShift, Service Mesh)

Experience Required: 10+ years

Location: Navi Mumbai, India

Work Schedule: 5 days a week in office (alternate Saturdays working)

Job Description

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Architect with extensive expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI/CD, and Service Mesh architectures to join our team. As a Senior DevOps Architect, you will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and managing infrastructure and deployment pipelines in a highly dynamic and fast-paced environment. You will work closely with development and operations teams to ensure seamless application deployments and management in cloud-native environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• OpenShift Management: Lead the deployment, management, and optimization of OpenShift clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security of containerized applications.
• Kubernetes Expertise: Design and implement Kubernetes-based solutions, manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, and resolve issues related to performance, security, and configuration.
• CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI. Integrate the pipelines with Kubernetes/OpenShift to enable automated deployments, testing, and release management.
• Service Mesh Architecture: Implement and manage service mesh solutions (e.g., Istio, Linkerd, Consul), including traffic management, security policy enforcement, and observability to enhance microservices communication, monitoring, and resilience.
• Automation & Infrastructure as Code: Use automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to streamline infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams (development, security, operations) to align on infrastructure, architecture, and DevOps best practices.
• Security: Ensure security best practices are followed across Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, including vulnerability scanning, RBAC, and network policies.
• Performance & Scalability: Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency for cloud-native applications running on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Monitoring & Observability: Implement monitoring and logging solutions with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk to provide insights into application performance and infrastructure health.

Must-Have Skills:

• OpenShift: Proven track record in managing and deploying applications on OpenShift, including cluster management, troubleshooting, and automation.
• Kubernetes: Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting in large-scale, production environments.
• CI/CD Pipeline Expertise: In-depth knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools like Jenkins, GitLab, or CircleCI, with the ability to integrate these tools into Kubernetes/OpenShift workflows.
• Service Mesh: Strong experience with Istio, Linkerd, Consul, or other service mesh solutions, including implementation, traffic management, and security policy configuration.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and integration with Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Containerization & Docker: Deep understanding of containerization concepts, Docker containers, and container orchestration.
• Monitoring & Logging: Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, or Splunk for monitoring and logging in a Kubernetes/OpenShift ecosystem.
• Security Best Practices: Strong knowledge of security practices, including vulnerability scanning, RBAC, network policies, and best practices for securing Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.

Nice-to-Have Skills:

• Cloud Integration: Experience in integrating Kubernetes/OpenShift with cloud-native services and platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Scripting/Automation: Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or Go for automation tasks.
• Microservices Architecture: Understanding of microservices architectures, deployment patterns, and best practices for their management and scaling in a Kubernetes/OpenShift environment.
• Agile/DevOps: Familiarity with Agile methodologies and DevOps culture to drive continuous delivery and operational excellence.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI/CD, and Service Mesh technologies.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a high-pressure, fast-paced environment.

About PoshVine: 

PoshVine aspires to become the world's leading transaction-driven loyalty and engagement platform by providing a mutually beneficial ecosystem for people, banks and retailers. Our products around programmatic offers, rewards, and loyalty help retailers increase contextual engagement and financial institutions increase share of spends, while end-users maximize their rewards and savings. PoshVine works with all the global payment networks and many marquee financial institutions, including 7 of the top 10 banks in India. 

Backend Development at PoshVine:

We are building payment-linked real-time engagement tools embedded within banking and payment journeys. Our core engineering team strives to build solid backend foundations, infrastructure and a solid network of microservices. Apart from regular work, you can expect:

• Freedom to evaluate and introduce new tools, libraries and coding standards.
• Work on developer productivity and platform tooling.
• Evangelise tech and share knowledge in internal and external forums.
• Contribute to Product and Design ideas and implement them like it’s your own product. 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

1. Be involved in product and design decisions, and drive implementations. 
2. Help us scale the payment-linked loyalty infrastructure to every payment product used in India. Develop platform features for/with reusable code.
3. Work with IT/tech SPOCs from Banks and Fintechs to achieve seamless API integrations, resolve concerns, and move forward with program delivery and implementation. 
4. Tag team with internal and external stakeholders to problem solve and work with banks to test out UAT/Production and create a rollout plan for the same. 
5. Perform in-depth research and identify sources off production issues surrounding the application. 
6. Make architectural decisions (microservices, choice of development frameworks and tools, database optimisations, load handling)
7. Proficient in Full stack development skills spanning the entire spectrum from:

1. Database: MySQL, PostgreSQL
2. Backend: Ruby on Rails
3. Front End: Web Development frameworks  (Angular / React / Vue JS)
4. Deployment: Capistrano, Chef, AWS, EC2, Git

You’ll be a good fit if you possess: 

1. A strong product design sense.
2. Good experience in working with Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Python.
3. Proven ability to understand end user requirements, formulate use cases and come up with effective solutions.
4. Good understanding of REST APIs and the web in general.
5. Ability to build a feature from scratch & drive it to completion.
6. A willingness to learn new technology, whatever lets you deliver the best product.
7. Possess excellent data management skills: 
1. How to structure databases that can scale
2. How to optimise database queries
3. Complying with the latest regulations around data for each geography
4. Managing the infrastructure that the data resides on to ensure 99.9% uptime across geographies
8. You are comfortable working on CI/CD toolchain, Kubernetes, etc.
9. 3+ years of experience. 

2.       Proficiency with fundamental front-end languages such as HTML, CSS.

3.       Familiarity with JavaScript frameworks such as Angular JS, React, and Amber.

4.       Proficiency with server-side languages such as Python / Ruby / Java / PHP/ .Net.

5.       Good Understand with database technology such as MySQL, Oracle, and MongoDB.

THE POSITION:

- 3+ years of relevant experience in designing & implementing scalable, resilient backend microservices

- Expert at any backend programming language (Python/GoLang preferrable) and has exposure to API design and scalable architecture

- Hands-on experience on a couple of RDBMS/NoSQL/In-memory DBs

- Great database modelling skills

- Ability to choose the right algorithm, data-structure, and design pattern for the given problem statement

- Knowledge of any cloud based platform like AWS or GCP and scaling on the go

- Understanding of various application security principles and experience with building applications secure by design

QUALIFICATION:

                - We don't care about which college you are from, if you have the power to convert coffee into code, we got you.

• 3+ years of experience with Ruby On Rails.
• Strong Project & Time Management Skills, along with the ability to apply these skills while working independently, or as part of a team.
• Knowledge of blockchain technology, smart contracts and cryptocurrency will be an added advantage
• Experience in fintech domain will be another added advantage
• Bachelor’s degree in computer programming, computer science, or a related field.
• Fluency or understanding of specific languages, such as Java, PHP, or Python, and operating systems may be required.