DevOps lead

Responsibilities

• Manage availability, latency and performance of mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence.

• Own the entire infrastructure for Kotak Cherry. Plan, architect and develop architectural approaches and Infrastructure solutions.

• Defining and ensuring adherence for strategy and roadmap to develop CI/CD, Application hosting, Security and Compliance standards and guidelines.

• Manage incident response protocol and provide hands-on direction during service interruptions - Assist with Root Cause Analysis of service interruptions and maintain SLA.

• Be the best engineer, problem solver and ace trouble shooter for the team.

• Manage DevOps and SRE Teams (around 15 members in total) and guide them to achieve above.

Basic Requirements 

• 8+ years of Experience handling Linux Systems at large scale.

• 2+ years of Hands-on experience on Containers & Container Orchestration Tools.

• 3+ years of proven Experience with designing, building, supporting and observing large-scale distributed systems/services/infrastructure

• Strong work ethic, a self-starter and demonstrate a high level of resilience

• Should be highly goal driven and work well in fast-paced, team-oriented environment

• Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer, with a focus on AWS.

• Shell/Ruby/Python scripting knowledge

• Strong written and communication skills

Preferred Qualifications 

• Deep rooted understanding of Linux Systems, Databases and Network concepts

• In-depth knowledge of cloud services, including compute, storage, networking, databases, and security.

• Strong proficiency in infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts and tools, such as Terraform/CloudFormation, for automating infrastructure deployment.

• Familiarity with common web/app/db servers like (nginx, Postgres etc)

• Experience with queue systems like RabbitMQ/Kafka is a plus.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools, such as CloudWatch, Cloud Monitoring, and ELK/EFK Stack

• Proficient with Kubernetes internal architecture, networking and container microservice architectural pattern

• Strong Experience in Microservices Architecture, API GW, Service Mesh implementation and instrumenting XaaC (Infrastructure, Software, Network, Policy, Security) across global scale systems

• Hands-on Experience in defining and driving Disaster Recovery across Platforms.

• Ability to turn technical deep dives into code, networking, operating systems, and storage, with ability to participate in an executive strategy discussion.

• Automation, auditing, and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments.

• Have clear understanding server to server interactions and best practices 

Personality Traits 

• Self-motivated and self-disciplined 

• Acts like a leader 

• Doesn't wait to be told what is to be done. Never feels that's not my job. 

• Picks up the trash lying on floor 

• Behaves like an owner