DevOps Architect

Develop enterprise class DevOps solutions, lead delivery teams in customer workshop, coordinate with multiple stakeholders in client hierarchy to engage, understand and articulate requirements for framing end-to-end solution. Has expertise in one or more Public Cloud provider technologies and is capable of embedding these capabilities into existing or new cloud-based infrastructure, platform and DevOps solutions.

As a DevOps consultant you will engage with clients to understand requirements and architect solutions to streamline their development, release, testing and operations. Demonstrate your strengths in innovations, problem solving and continuous improvement areas to spearhead adoption of new technologies, & frameworks with speed in order to provide competitive edge in market addressing business needs.

Candidate must have overall 7-10 years of hand-on experience in DevOps technologies with a Software development and its management background

• Define Cloud based Architecture catering to client needs and requirements
• Lead teams for a discovery and architecture workshop to understand existing development and operational process, influence client architects, and IT personnel to improve Development and operations in cloud
• Analyze Complex application landscapes, anticipate potential problems and future trends, assess potential solutions, Impacts, and align DevOps with cloud roadmap and solution architecture
• Develop and implement DevOps solutions for hybrid scenarios based on cloud services of AWS , Azure , GCP and relevant Open Source/3rd Party technologies when assigned to work on delivery projects.
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies, web application security, and secure coding practices
• Hands on experience in DevOps technologies with a Software development background
• Facilitate mission-critical analysis, extraction, and management of systems.
• Foundations in programming, algorithms, and Software application design
• Do incremental code, build, test, and deployments by streamlining execution and minimize errors
• Experience in container architecture, Docker universal packaging, container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform), and Microservices architecture pattern
• Expert level application deployment experience utilizing modern DevOps technologies ( New Relic, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Salt stack etc.)
• Expertise in working with Source Code Management (GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket)
• Experience in selecting, managing build infrastructure, CICD pipelines with Jenkins to streamline the deployment of applications to Kubernetes and Docker managed containers
• Experience with Scripting (shell, bash, python) on Linux and develop custom workflows and use automation by coding and scripting.
• Good to have programming experience with Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Detect early all the errors, bugs, and issues to tackle them and solve them
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Good to have -Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Good to have-Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management and the customer
• Build automation wherever possible in the DevOps end to end architecture.
• Nice to have experience designing and building applications using REST API
• Agile SDLC experience is preferred, writing stories and delivering features with CI/CD, Scrum
• Guide other architects working with you in the team. Adapt communications and approaches to conclude technical scope discussions with various Partners, resulting in Common Agreements.
• Create and develop DevOPS process frameworks, documents, SOP’s, cook book, automation scripts/tools for to build, implement and manage DevOps process in customer environment
• Lead internal and external initiative to standardize, automate and develop competitive assets and accelerators

Professional Attributes :

• Strategic thinker, have ability grasp new technologies, innovate, develop and nurture new solutions
• Experience in driving consulting workshops, creating content of workshops in short deadlines to C-levels
• Demonstrate thought leadership, create good impacts in engagements, manage time and demonstrate flexibility by adapting to situations
• An ability to follow processes and demonstrate critical thinking and strong problem solving skills
• Excellent team player who can lead/drive team towards success goals
• Strong documentation skill
• Good communication skills both written and verbal with the client

Certifications :

Must Have(any): Azure DevOps Engineer, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert /AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional, Google Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer

Good to have: TOGAF, ITIL, Azure Solution Architect Expert/AWS Solution Architect Professional /GCP Professional

SoftwareOne is a leading global software and cloud solutions provider that is redefining how companies build, buy and manage everything in the cloud. By helping clients to migrate and modernize their workloads and applications – and in parallel, to navigate and optimize the resulting software and cloud changes – SoftwareOne unlocks the value of technology. The company’s 8,900 employees are driven to deliver a portfolio of 7,500 software brands with sales and delivery capabilities in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, SoftwareOne is listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange under the ticker symbol SWON.

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