Sr Associate System Engineering

Job Description:

Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled T2 Support Engineer with 3-5 years of experience in production support for mission-critical, high-performance applications. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Docker, Kubernetes, Microsoft Azure Cloud, Linux, Windows, and networking. This role involves handling user tickets, routine infrastructure-related tasks, and deploying Java-based applications in both on-premises and Azure cloud environments. The job responsibilities are split approximately 40% for support tasks and 60% for infrastructure-related tasks.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Support (40%):

• Production Support: Provide production support for mission-critical applications, ensuring high performance and availability.
• Root Cause Analysis: Conduct root cause analysis for network, application, infrastructure, and service issues, documenting findings for future prevention.
• Application Support: Provide day-to-day operations support for mission-critical applications, including fault management, access management, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and network monitoring.
• Monitoring and Tickets: Monitor systems and analyze tickets using standard monitoring tools, ensuring timely resolution and maintaining system health.

Infrastructure (60%):

• Infrastructure Management: Build, manage, and maintain deployment, monitoring, and operations tools.
• Maintenance and Patching: Support infrastructure and software maintenance, including patching and remediating vulnerabilities.
• Cloud Infrastructure Support: Serve as an escalation point for T2-T3 cloud infrastructure support.
• Azure Management: Deploy and manage Azure resources and handle security vulnerabilities, manage secrets and certificates using Azure Key Vault, and set up private endpoints and routing tables.
• Docker and Git: Manage Docker processes (build, push to repository) and maintain Git repositories.
• Operating Systems Management: Administer Linux and Windows systems, including file permissions, filesystem management, performance tuning, user administration, and troubleshooting.
• Automation and CI/CD: Utilize tools like Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub for automation and CI/CD pipeline setup.

Mandatory Skills:

• Experience: At least 2+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Containerization: Demonstrable experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• CI/CD Tools: Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with monitoring and analyzing tickets using standard monitoring tools.
• Azure Skills: Proficiency in deploying and managing Azure resources.
• Scripting: Basic programming and scripting skills (preferably Python, Bash, Shell).
• Communication: Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills.

Good to Have Skills:

• Microservices: Experience in the development and deployment of microservices.
• DevOps Tools: Proficiency in tools like Ansible, Chef ,sTerraform, Jenkins, Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Nagios.
• Linux Administration: Experience with Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/Rocky).
• Web Servers: Knowledge of web servers like NGINX.
• Source Control: Experience with Git and related workflows.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• Experience: 4+ years of experience in production support and DevOps roles.

Additional Information:

• Interpersonal Skills: Strong interpersonal communication skills (listening, speaking, writing) and the ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders.
• Learning: Ability to gain deep knowledge of complex applications and provide recommendations for best practices and deployment strategies.

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