Position: Architect DevOps (Azure + AWS)
Company: Grid Dynamics
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Client wants to stand up a new cloud foundation and container ecosystem as well as deployment automation in order to support a variety of existing and new applications, during this period of rapid change. In addition, client wants to optimize the cost of the on-premises and cloud infrastructure hosting the current portfolio with a business case to showcase savings opportunities resulting from migration and modernization.

Client has asked Grid Dynamics to help establish a standard approach to a well-architected cloud foundation, common delivery (DevOps) processes and an MVP cloud environment blueprint to improve efficiency.

Grid Dynamics sees this as an opportunity to establish a platform team and offer a good developer experience to be able to attract developers to adapt and modernize applications during the divestiture.

Details on tech stack
- Azure + AWS
- Kubernetes, Istio, Consul, Vault, Prometheus, Terraform

Min requirements to the candidate
- Experience in handling automated deployment CI/CD tools.
- Experience with architecture composition and maintaining
- Able to compose roadmaps and organize teams to work with the proposed plan.
- Maintain and control documentation organizations.
- Must possess excellent knowledge of infrastructure automation tools (Kubernetes, Istio, Consul, Vault, Prometheus, Terraform)
- Hand-on experience in working with  Azure and AWS.
- Must have strong expertise in operating Linux/Unix environments and scripting languages like Python, Perl, and Shell.
- Ability to review deployment and delivery pipelines i.e., implement initiatives to minimize chances of failure, identify bottlenecks and troubleshoot issues.
- Previous experience in implementing continuous delivery and DevOps solutions.

 Current team size, their locations and whether team is going to grow?
4-6

What tasks the candidate will work with?
to help establish a standard approach to a well-architected cloud foundation, common delivery (DevOps) processes and an MVP cloud environment blueprint to improve efficiency.