Position: Lead DevOps Engineer
Company: Infront X
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2022-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Requirements

Expert knowledge of Shell and Python, intermediate knowledge of Ruby, Node.js, basic experience with GO
Expert knowledge of operation systems (Debian-like, RedHat-like), advanced knowledge of Windows
Advanced knowledge of AWS, intermediate of Azure. Basic knowledge of other cloud providers (like Google Cloud)
Advanced knowledge of Platform Agnostic Configuration and Infrastructure Control and Management
Expert knowledge of networking (routing, protocols, balancing, VPN, SSL/TLS)
Advanced knowledge of StatusCake, SumoLogic, Datadog, New Relic, Prometheus/Grafana. Intermediate knowledge of other monitoring and logs tools.
Expert knowledge of Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, advanced knowledge of other build and deploy tools (Bamboo, GitLab);
Advanced knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
Expert knowledge of web servers (Apache, Nginx, Node.js), experience with other web servers as a plus
Intermediate knowledge of Service Mech (Istio, Envoy, Consul).
 

Responsibilities

Leads DevOps engineers who works within multidisciplinary service teams to help design, build and run services that are scalable, secure and easy to operate
Provides and operates a high quality Continuous Integration environment for internal and external projects, gradually adding Application Lifecycle Management components to allow the DevOps department to rapidly build new systems and services in ways which are secure, available, and performant
Provides an expertise internally within a discipline(s) and may provide strategic direction, guidance and integration of products and services
Serves as a liaison between the business community and the company in order to provide technical solutions to meet user and business needs
Analyses business' operations to understand its strengths and weaknesses to determine opportunities to automate processes and functions
Formulates, defines and provides costing for business processes' redesign and documentation for new technology or changes to existing technology to meet technical requirements, as well as makes recommendations for buy vs. build decisions
Negotiates agreements and commitments by facilitating communication between business unit(s) and information technology from initial requirements to the final implementation
Displays insight in identifying risks and critical issues and develops workable solutions
Ensures standardized, mature change management and release management processes and automate deployment and maintenance procedures using industry-standard scripting languages
Serves as a gatekeeper for infrastructure and system deployments; establishes controls and processes around these functions
Infrastructure Operations and Architecture

Supports and deploys mission critical, customer facing, front-end and back-end production SAAS environments
Improves site performance, monitoring, and overall stability of SAAS platforms
Interacts with the Engineering for supporting / maintaining / designing backend infrastructure for product support
Automation of deployment, customization, upgrading and monitoring through DevOps tools meant for Cloud management
Disaster recovery design, implementation, and maintenance
Proactively monitors server systems
Build and deploy

Planning infrastructure and pipelines for projects, keep all up-to-date, implementing new building and deploying tools and technologies
Documentation

Create infrastructure diagrams that defines platforms, connections, and access
Defines Disaster Recovery plans and reviews with business and technical team members
Create and maintains SOP within confluence for related tasks across accounts, and reviews SOPs with DevOps and Technical Support teams when applicable 
Learning and training

Plans training strategy for the team
Communication

Participating in project planning calls, calls with clients, internal calls, calls with vendors and contractors
Has superior verbal and written communication skills, juggles multiple tasks at once, works independently and can maintain professionalism under pressure.