We are seeking a highly experienced and motivated Lead DevOps with 5-10 years of experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in building, deploying, and maintaining highly scalable, reliable, and performant enterprise-wide solutions. You will be instrumental in driving our DevOps culture and best practices, and ensuring the operational excellence of our critical systems.

Key Responsibilities and Expertise:

• Experience Level: 5-10 Years

• Containerization & Orchestration: Deep expertise in containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, OpenShift), including advanced deployment strategies, scaling, and operational management .
• Java & Spring Boot Ecosystem: Extensive experience and deep understanding of Java, J2EE, Microservices, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud frameworks, enabling effective collaboration with development teams and optimization of application deployments and performance tuning.
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation: Strong experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining robust Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like GitHub, Ansible, Tekton, Harness and similar technologies to ensure rapid, secure, and reliable software delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Extensive hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) for automating the provisioning, configuration, and management of cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
• Comprehensive Observability & Monitoring: Expert in implementing and managing comprehensive monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting solutions using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Splunk, ITRS/AppDynamics, and Jaeger, to provide deep insights into system health and proactively identify and resolve issues.
• Automation: Proficient in identifying, designing, and implementing automation solutions for repetitive operational tasks to enhance efficiency and reliability.
• AI-Driven : leveraging AI tools for troubleshooting issues and applying Generative AI techniques an solutions to enhance DevOps processes.
• Proactive Risk Management: Ability to proactively identify system risks, performance bottlenecks, and security vulnerabilities, and develop effective, data-driven mitigation strategies.
• Technical Advisory & Leadership: Provide architectural and technical leadership, offering recommendations on development methodologies, technology stacks, and tooling to optimize operational efficiency, system resilience, and developer experience.
• Application & Web Server Operations: Proficient in the installation, configuration, performance tuning, and troubleshooting of various application and web servers (e.g., Tomcat, Nginx) in complex enterprise environments.
• Distributed Messaging Systems: Experience in the operational management and support of distributed messaging systems, such as Apache Kafka.
• API Gateway Management: Experience with API Gateway solutions (e.g., Apigee) for managing, securing, and optimizing API traffic.
• Linux Systems Engineering: Expert-level proficiency in Linux/Unix environments, including advanced shell scripting (Bash/Python) for automation and comprehensive system administration tasks.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Communication: Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, and foster strong collaboration across development, product, and operations teams.

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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