Lead Cloud Engineer

Minimum 7 years of DevOps and Cloud experience, preferably in a Software product company. Has familiarity with the retail industry domain. Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems Job requirements: Experience in Azure DevOps is must Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines. Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing Perform automatic backup / restore of production database Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effective manner Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members Ensure that all SOC2 policies related to DevOps are followed and evidence for controls are maintained and submitted on time Contribute to the Organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building Essential Skills & Qualifications: Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps, BitBucket Pipelines Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc. Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al. Knowledge of SonarQube or similar tools for static code scanning Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems Certification in at least 1 public cloud system Strong interpersonal communications skills. Mentor the team and guide towards excellence Demonstrates attention to details. Has the ability to work in a lightweight process environment. Is self-motivated and capable of high performance in a periodic iteration cadence. Takes ownership of tasks and executes. Collaborate effectively with a distributed team. Mentor and develop junior talent Identify skill gaps for the junior team members and recommend certifications/trainings to address them Graduate or Post Graduate in Engineering / Computer Applications