Job Description

About the Inspire Global Innovation Center

Inspire Brands is disrupting the restaurant industry through digital transformation and operational efficiencies. The companys technology hub, the Inspire Global Innovation Center in Hyderabad, India, will lead technology innovation and product development for the organization and its portfolio of distinct brands. The Inspire Global Innovation Center will focus on developing new capabilities in data science, data analytics, eCommerce, automation, cloud computing, and information security to accelerate the companys business strategy. Inspire Global Innovation Center will also host an innovation lab and collaborate with start-ups to develop solutions for productivity optimization, workforce management, loyalty management, payments systems, and more.



The Senior DevOps Engineer position involves developing processes and facilitating code releases or deployments via automated CI/CD. He / she will help identify opportunities to improve the CI/CD process to ultimately get the releases to market quicker. Evaluating how well and reliably systems run is a key part of a DevOps engineers day-to-day responsibilities. The Senior DevOps engineer will work or reducing time spent on repetitive manual tasks by automating those and building useful software plugins that will improve the overall efficiency of the SDLC process.

The expectation from this role is to look for ways to optimize release cycles, remove hidden time drains, and introduce new ways of moving the process along (new applications and other periodic release artefacts). The engineer will be expected to provide feedback from production to reduce time to detect (TTD) errors and time to minimize (TTM) them. Mentoring other team members and periodically training them on new technologies and approaches would be part of this role.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, execute, and streamline DevOps practices.
• Develop end-to-end CI / CD process and follow through with other team members to ensure high quality, defect-free, and predictable delivery.
• Develop advanced CI / CD processes to support Canary, Blue-Green deployments and A/B testing.
• Ensure automated implementation of security via pipelines into all cloud solutions.
• Provide hands-on development, integration and deployment on public cloud environments like Azure / AWS leveraging a variety of tools such as GitLab, Maven, Istio, Consul, etc..
• Design and automate processes with the right deployment tools like Argo CD, Jenkins to speed up software development and deployment process
• Work with the QA team to integrate more complex testing into the CI/CD pipeline to ensure minimal regressions and comprehensive customer-centric testing.
• Participate in internal/cross team meetings, scoping, decision making and technical documentation.
• Collaborate with development teams to help architect, configure, monitor, and support their services.
• Demonstrate excellent trouble-shooting skills and resolve deployment and environmental issues to closure
• Support continuous improvements to existing infrastructure, tools, and processes.
• Train and mentor other team members as needed.

• 5+ years of experience in public cloud services like AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience with Containers, Micro services, service orchestration using one or more of Kubernetes, EKS, AKS
• Experience with automation/configuration management using tools like Chef, Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Strong background in Source Control management tool like Git
• Strong Scripting language knowledge, such as Python, Shell, or Perl.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in Continuous Integration and Delivery.
• Experience in Agile development methodologies and release management techniques.
• Ability to work independently, prioritizing work and meeting deadlines and goals consistently.
• Flexibility in working with a rapidly changing environment on and off hours. Experience in a retail business environment on eCommerce applications would be preferred.
• Strong analytical and logical reasoning skills.
• Familiarity with HA architectures.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or other related discipline.
• Certification in a public cloud environment such as Azure, AWS or GCP.