Job Description

Overview :

As a DevOps engineer, you are a highly skilled & experienced subject matter expert with a deep

understanding of public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Reporting to the DevOps Architect,

the lead will play a key technical role in the life cycle of projects, with significant interaction with

Architects, Tech leads and project managers. Your in-depth knowledge of DevOps best practices,

concepts and tooling coupled with a practical experience in DevOps, SecOps, and NetOps are

the key qualifying attributes for this position.

What does success look like?

A successful DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure & Platforms will have mastered the arts of:

Implement solutions provided by Cloud Architects, Solution Architects Bridged the gap between Development teams, Infrastructure SME's and other teams to

understand business requirements and deliver high quality outcomes

Maintain & improve stability, integrity and efficiency of Material's DevOps tools and

Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) platforms through

monitoring, optimization and proactive maintenance. .

Successful incident and problem resolution by direction and coordination during business

critical incidents or outages.

Responsibilities

Implementation

Deploy & manage highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud-based infrastructure using

AWS, Azure cloud, and GCP

Use Infrastructure as a Code to define & deploy cloud infrastructure. Translate logical designs into physical designs. You can produce detailed designs and

document all work using required standards, methods, and tools, including prototyping

tools where appropriate.

Implement & manage automation and containerization technologies like Docker and

Kubernetes to streamline application deployment and scaling.

Implement cloud-based network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security, and

performance.

Review and optimize cloud environments to ensure adherence to Information Security

policies and industry best practices.

Contribute to Business Continuity Plan by implementing or improving DR, HA and SRE

for critical cloud workloads.

Deploy and manage on-premises and SaaS source code repositories including Azure

DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket.

Implement systems characterized by managed levels of risk, manageable business,

technical complexity, and meaningful impact with well-understood technology design

patterns.

Manage availability of different service components to ensure they meet business needs

and performance targets.

Create and interpret automation scripts for cloud-based CI/CD pipeline to

deploy/upgrade/patch web applications.

Deploy & promote applications across environments (e.g., Dev, Quality, Staging,

Production)

Deliver tasks based on project objectives; technically support projects to completion. Ensure deliverables are completed within target timeframes with consistently high-quality Prepare documentation and support transition of operational activities

Collaboration

Collaborate with in Material IT groups (DWT, INF, EA) to implement base lines for IaaS

and PaaS platforms, adopting best practices and policies that support and optimize their

respective environments

Collaborate with DevOps architect to support development teams with a full set of

DevOps ALM tools by leading the establishment of the right tooling and processes that will

result in a fully automated release management pipeline to include: the Automated build

process, environment setups, testing scripts, deployments, and production operational

metrics/debugging information (to target developers).

Influential and effective advisor and contributor to change management, minimizing risks

that could be introduced to new or existing environments

Safely execute changes in an interruption-free manner using secure modern infrastructure

capabilities

Promote quality work by bringing multidisciplinary skillset to help connect the dots with IT

service owners, partners and vendors.

Work closely with developers to ensure that applications are deployed, monitored, and

supported in a highly scalable and automated fashion.

Document the process and tasks being taught so it can be standardized and cross trained

across the team

Operations

Streamline DevOps processes throughout the organization, decreasing deployment time,

optimizing monitoring and reducing interruptions.

Monitor & optimize costs with stakeholders to ensure IaaS & PaaS operations are within

budget.

Participate in incident response activities on private and public cloud platforms. Innovate in the automation & reliability engineering space, making new solutions available

for use by our development community

Optimize resource utilization on existing cloud workloads. Estimate costs for future cloud workloads based on project requirements. Assist with cloud ops for existing workloads (scaling, migration, decommission). Troubleshoot and identify problems across systems: including computing, storage,

networking, software, COTS and open-source packages and solutions, and cloud

computing, including IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.

Bring an automation mindset to eliminate mundane or repetitive tasks by providing

objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice on DevOps initiatives.

Analyze current processes, identify and implement opportunities to optimize processes Cultivate a Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery mind set by creating and

managing release pipelines for next generation application development efforts and

ongoing production operations.

Evaluate and establish requirements for the implementation of changes by setting policy

and standards.

Report on established KPIs to ensure performance is measured against expected

business outcomes.

Requirements

Education & Certifications:


Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, or Engineering (B.E/B

Tech/M. E/M Tech), or related field or equivalent experience.

Certification on AWS cloud technologies is mandatory Good to have: Certification on GCP, Azure,; Certified Kubernetes administrator

Functional:

Done it:

o 4 to 5 years of relevant experience in cloud-based infrastructure architecture,

administration and monitoring.

o In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience of AWS

o Proven experience as DevOps engineer.

o Strong understanding of networking, cloud, compute, and storage.

o Strong knowledge of Cloud Governance, focusing on application security, risk

management and collaboration.

o Experience in inter-cloud migration.

o Experience with scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PowerShell or Bash.

o Advanced experience with usage and management of Git version control

technologies (GitHub, Gitlab, AWS Commit etc.)

o Proven experience applying best practices for frontend and backend

infrastructure (web engines, relational databases, storage, network, disaster

recovery, high availability)

o Experience troubleshooting complex issues ranging from system resources to

application stack traces

Know it:

o Hands on in GCP/Azure

o Experience with continuous Integration tools (TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Gitlab

CI/CD, AWS Code Pipeline)

o Working knowledge of automation service provisioning.

o Hands on experience with IAC tools such as Ansible, Chef, Terraform,

CloudFormation, Bicep, Typescript, Azure ARM etc.

o Hands on in containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm,

AWS Fargate)

o Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management

o Secure systems & networks' management through automation, capacity planning,

monitoring, performance tuning and testing

o You are aware of information security at large Networks, Docker security,

Kubernetes Security.

o Strong hardware and software diagnostic skills

Shown it

o Familiarity with web development experience and setup: Apache, Nginx etc.

o Familiarity with Agile/Scrum process using platforms like Jira/Confluence

o Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, ELK/EFK stack

o Demonstrable experience in converting complex business & security needs into

fit-for-purpose, straightforward solutions, with well-managed execution and non

interruptive transition to operations, as well as effective troubleshooting &

escalation handling.


o Demonstrated competencies in system administration. DevOps or systems

knowledge, security protocols for client/server environment.

o Experience supporting at least one of the following databases: MS-SQL server,

MySQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL etc.

o Working knowledge of related technologies including encryption, IPsec, VLANs,

VPNs, routing, firewalls, proxy services, LAN/WAN connectivity

Do it

o Experience on SCM tools like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, AWS Code Commit,

Azure Repos etc.

o Experience in application and systems performance monitoring (Splunk, New

Relic, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch).

o Excellent communication, interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills.

o Continuous application of skillsets in, cloud and hybrid environments adding

resiliency when introducing new and upcoming technologies.

o Experience with API Gee, Kong, or Kafka from an operational perspective will be a

good to have.

o Read and understand release notes and follow the deployment instructions

precisely to ensure zero defects in the deployment.

o Experience on open source/Linux will be good to have.

Competencies:

A communicator, humble and patient individual working effectively with distributed

teams who is equally a mentor and a mentee

A creative mindset that brings ideas to life by leveraging technologies in new ways that

could have high impact in every aspect of operations

A technical player who is trusted to identify challenges and define how to overcome

them.

A multi-tasker and flexible towards work timings, working in a fast-paced environment

without getting overwhelmed easily.

Detail-oriented, always ready to put in the extra effort to deliver polished, well-formed

IT solutions for Material.

Mindful of the employee experience - articulate, confident & well-spoken in all forms

of communication, comfortable to be the voice of our customer to Material IT, and the

face of Material IT to our customers.