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The DevOps Lead will be responsible for delivering enterprise-level DevOps solutions and cloud architectures, including systems/network diagrams, reference implementations, best practices, and roadmaps. Collaborating with engineering teams, the role involves enhancing and defining build and deployment processes, and infrastructure, and managing a technically strong DevOps team.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Application Development, Information Security, Infrastructure Provisioning, and Operations teams to establish fully automated build and container deployment processes.
• Manage CI/CD pipeline routines for development, QA, SIT, UAT, and Production environments to deliver one-click deployment solutions.
• Lead the development of automated, containerized application platform solutions emphasizing networking, storage, virtualization, security, logging, monitoring, and high availability.
• Develop immutable infrastructure for DevOps toolchains and templates to support CI/CD pipelines with monitoring and autoscaling capabilities.
• Plan, execute, and monitor deployments to ensure successful delivery while adapting to requirement changes.
• Identify development risks and create mitigation strategies in collaboration with architecture and delivery teams.
• Lead capacity planning exercises to ensure scalable and efficient deployments.
• Guide junior team members on best practices in DevOps methodologies and technologies.
• Drive the adoption of best practices for software development lifecycle automation and enterprise deployments.
• Ensure all deployments meet stakeholder expectations through rigorous verification processes.
• Implement standardized practices for capacity planning and risk mitigation.
• Collaborate with technical and business teams to assess requirements and recommend effective solutions.

Skills/Abilities/Experience:

• Extensive experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (IaC).
• Proficiency in Vault for secrets management.
• Familiarity with the Consul for service discovery and networking.
• Experience with Nomad for workload orchestration.
• Expertise in designing and implementing multi-platform CI/CD pipelines using GitLab, GitHub Actions, Atlassian toolset, Helm, and Argo CD
• In-depth knowledge of multi-cloud and hybrid environments, including AWS
• Proficient in AWS services like EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, and EKS.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Familiarity with Nomad Orchestration.
• Strong background in Ansible, Python scripting, and CloudFormation.
• Automation for auto-scaling and infrastructure monitoring.
• Proficient in AWS serverless technologies and container storage automation for multi-tenancy enhancement.
• Knowledge of implementing monitoring and logging tools for high availability and performance.
• Strong communication skills for effective stakeholder interaction.
• Familiarity with Scaled Agile Framework practices.
• Ability to identify gaps in existing standards and implement DevOps best practices.
• Strong scripting skills for automation (e.g., RedHat/CentOS).

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 + years of solid experience in DevOps system design, tools development, and cloud-native implementations.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering (BE/B Tech) or equivalent experience.
• Successfully implemented enterprise-wide CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment times by 50%.
• Led a team to develop an automated containerized platform, improving application deployment efficiency.
• Implemented Terraform for IaC, resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure provisioning time.
• Enhanced system monitoring capabilities, leading to a 30% improvement in issue resolution times.
• HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate preferred.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect preferred.
• Kubernetes Administrator Certification preferred.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to stand and sit for extended periods.
• Ability to lift 10 lbs. weight.

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