Position: DevOps Architect (Solution Architecture Group)
Company: Avenga
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2021-04-01T00:00:00+03:00

Project description:

The project's goal is the establishment of solution architecture and technology consulting capabilities within the company. The implementation starts with creating a new department consisting of solution architects that will develop a model, standards, and frameworks for the architecture competency. This department will be responsible for delivering consulting projects, driving research and innovations, and building the company's reputation as a thought-leader of the industry.

Technical requirements:

Hands-on languages: YAML, Python, Bash; nice to have - Powershell
OS concepts: process management, service management, threads and concurrency, sockets, POSIX basics, networking, I/O management, virtualization, file systems.
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, Unix.
Web: protocols, load balancing, firewalls, caching, proxies, web servers, service mesh.
Infrastructure as code: containers, configuration management, container orchestration, infrastructure provisioning, ci/cd tools.
Software and infrastructure monitoring: Elastic Stack, Jaeger, New Relic, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
Microservices platforms: Kubernetes/Openshift, Docker Swarm.
Familiar software engineering ecosystems: .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP.
Practical experience in Site Reliability Engineering.
Cloud Stacks: AWS/GCP/Azure; nice to have: OpenStack, IBM.
Solution architecture: requirements elicitation, architectural tactics and patterns, modeling languages, methods/framework for architecture design and evaluation.
English: upper-intermediate and higher, German is a big plus

Responsibilities:

Delivery of technology consulting projects (e.g. transformation strategies and implementation roadmaps, solution architecture design, technology and architecture assessments).
Participate in the early stages of the customer engagement - supporting sales, account management, presales and engagement teams in opportunity qualification, needs assessment, solution design, proposal preparation.
Contribute to establishment of Solution Architecture governance processes for our key solution engineering projects.
Elevate company's image in the *Ops and Infrastructure related fields, participating in conferences/webinars, contributing to articles/whitepapers, owning thought leadership for the aforementioned fields.
Contribute to the development of the company’s solution architecture design and technology consulting capabilities.