We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineering Lead with 7-10 years of progressive experience to drive our data platform infrastructure automation, CI/CD excellence, and operational efficiency. This role is pivotal in managing and scaling our resilient and performant systems, with a strong focus on empowering microservices architecture. The ideal candidate will possess deep technical expertise in a wide range of DevOps tools and practices, coupled with strong leadership and problem-solving abilities. **Key Responsibilities:** + **CI/CD Pipeline Ownership:** Design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure CI/CD pipeline architecture for microservices applications, ensuring continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. + **Infrastructure Planning & Management:** Lead the design, provisioning, optimization and management of scalable data infrastructure (compute, storage, networking) across cloud , ECS and/or on-premise environments, specifically supporting a data mesh paradigm. + **Elastic Stack Expertise:** Manage and optimize Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for centralized logging, monitoring, and analytics. + **Automation & Scripting:** Design, Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Shell scripts, Python, Java, or other relevant languages to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency. + **Infrastructure Procurement & Lifecycle:** Oversee the end-to-end Solution (SLTN) process for infrastructure procurement, ensuring timely and compliant acquisition of resources. + **Capacity Estimation & Planning:** Conduct thorough capacity planning and performance analysis for microservices and underlying infrastructure to ensure scalability and reliability. + **Access Management & Security:** Design and implement secure machine-to-machine communication strategies and manage infrastructure access, adhering to security best practices. + **Microservices Operations:** Provide operational expertise and support for highly distributed microservices architectures, including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response. + **Governance & Observability:** Implement and enforce data governance policies through automation, and establish comprehensive observability (monitoring, logging, alerting) for data pipelines and infrastructure. + **Mentorship & Best Practices:** Mentor junior DevOps engineers, promote DevOps best practices (e.g., IaC, GitOps, observability), and foster a culture of continuous improvement. + **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work closely with partner development, QA, and infra security teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment processes. **Qualifications:** + Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. + 7-10 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or a similar role. + **Proven expertise in designing and implementing DevOps leadership** + **In-depth experience with container orchestration platforms** like AWS, Openshift ECS (or Kubernetes). + **Strong practical experience with Elastic Stack** (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats) for transaction, logging and monitoring. + **Proficiency in scripting languages (Schell scripting, Python is a must), and strong Java development skills** , particularly for tooling and automation. + Demonstrated knowledge of microservices architecture principles and operational challenges. + Familiarity with machine-to-machine authentication and authorization mechanisms. + Must have knowledge of automation principles and practices. + Experience with job scheduling tools like Autosys. + Familiarity with Helix Blueprint or similar automation frameworks. + Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills. + **Modern Engineering Practices:** Familiarity in modern engineering practices such as Trunk-Based Development, Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Contract Testing, and Agile methodologies. **Good to Have:** + AWS Certifications (e.g., Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps Administrator). + Experience with Kafka and Tibco messaging infrastructure, including best practices for messaging design and operations. ------------------------------------------------------ **Job Family Group:** Technology 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