DevOps Lead - Pune

Work Location: India, Pune

Job Title: DevOps - Lead Software Engineer

About the Role

The role is for a Lead Software Engineer – Dev Ops candidate with solid and successful background driving CI/CD, automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, monitoring, and original tools development for enterprise software and systems running in clouds as well private datacenters and on on-prem VM and Kubernetes clouds using Python, Groovy, shell scripting, Perl, and Java. This role will design and support continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and the Engineering process for eCommerce websites and apps, retail stores, supply chain, and call center applications through devops tooling and direct support of software engineers in testing and pre-production environments. Through original code and integration, provide enhancements to CI/CD tooling and original applications that accelerate feature delivery by reducing human effort, removing process stop points, increasing repeatability, and providing self-service. The successful candidate must have great communication skills, a passion for Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery, and a strong sense of ownership. A proven track record of designing, developing, and maintaining dependable, repeatable, mission-critical build pipelines, systems and products is a must.

Responsibilities

• Assists in interpreting devops product descriptions and designing and defining the solutions

• Works with Architecture to craft technical designs and drive the evolution of our devops architecture

• Programs original tools, enhancements to existing tools and pipelines, and new services in Python, Java, and Groovy

• Performs peer code review

• Proactively identifies automation and self-service opportunities

• Continuously monitors the health of CI/CD tools and takes corrective action on issues identified

• Responds to trouble reports regarding CI/CD tooling and investigates and corrects issues

• Responds to requests for assistance triaging custom and 3rd party-application environments

• Investigates pipeline and build failures, identifies root cause, corrects

• Supports Production Support in use of release and other tooling

• Researches, designs, implements new technologies within CI/CD and as standalone applications

• Collaborates with feature developers to onboard/integrate applications according to WSI best practices

• Supports development team delivery process through SDLC up to handoff to production support teams

• Collaborates with Infrastructure team to provision and deprovision capacity

• Leads or participates in major updates supporting new requirements and maintaining systems

• Works on many phases of a project or entire projects of high complexity

• Develops and maintains procedures and system documentation

• Contributes to and enforces best practices

• Participates in establishing strategies and standards

• Performs systems resource optimization activities

• Leads or participates in implementation of resources management and monitoring methods, tools and thresholds

• Supports resolution of production incidents

• Provides work breakdown planning and estimation

• Anticipates risks and provides contingency solutions and timelines

• Suggests process improvements and best practices

• Measurably improves processes and best practices to achieve goals

• Interacts with business users, and/or functional peer group and managers

• Works with contract resources, providing guidance and assessing the quality of work

• Actively shares knowledge (technical and professional) through shared resources and informal teachings

• Inspires teamwork and guides the team members in task completion

• Mentors, cross trains co-workers within area of expertise

• Self-directing and provides direction for others

• Achieves team consent and buy-in

• Criteria

• 8 years of relevant DevOps experience

• Docker and Kubernetes stack expertise

• Experience using Helm/Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments

• Jenkins and Jenkins Pipeline expertise

• Programming expertise in Groovy, Python, shell, and/or Java

• Experience with Maven

• git and GitHub Enterprise expertise

• Node/npm experience

• Expertise interpreting Java stack trace and Node error logs

• Bachelors or advanced degree in computer science or related field