Lead Cloud Engineer

Lead Cloud Engineer 

Be part of something bigger:

Organization is a technology company with deep domain experience in Retail and Supply Chain. Organization brings an innovative approach and solution to Ecommerce operations and fulfillments, focusing on quality, efficiency, and consistency for customers and partners. Organization is rapidly expanding in its digital offerings and is in need of a Lead Cloud Engineer to join the fast-growing, customer-facing digital applications space. Learn more at www.Organization.com. 

As a Lead Cloud Engineer, you will be a part of the Organization Engineering team that is building high quality enterprise class software for the retail industry. 

Job requirements: 

• Experience in Azure DevOps is must

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Organization products 

• Build effective monitoring and alerts for the Production and non-productions deployments of Organization products 

• Plan deployments using Blue-Green switch with Zero downtime 

• Perform Emergency hot fixes as and when required 

• Perform routine security patching of the OS, VMs and other software components 

• Perform security hardening of the computing & networking infrastructure 

• Plan effectively for Disaster Recovery 

• Ensure that the Disaster Recovery Plan is up-to-date and orchestrate periodic DR testing 

• Perform automatic backup / restore of production database 

• Use best practices in DevOps for build, deploy and monitoring in a cost effectivemanner 

• Monitor production systems for any outages, performance degradation or errors / exception 

• Ensure VAPT gets executed on an annual basis and any issues related to the deployment infrastructure are timely addressed 

• Provide inputs on performance appraisal for the team members 

• Keep an eye on evolving DevOps best practices in the industry and plan for their adoption at Organization 

• Ensure that all SOC2 policies related to DevOps are followed and evidence for controls are maintained and submitted on time  

• Contribute to the Organization building functions such as hiring, training, mentoring, team building 

Essential Skills & Qualifications: 

• Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps, BitBucket Pipelines 

• Expertise in Containerization using Docker and Container orchestration using Kubernetes 

• Excellent command over Source Configuration Management tools like GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab etc. 

• Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al. 

• Knowledge of SonarQube or similar tools for static code scanning 

• Expertise in maintaining infrastructure components in a multi data center setup 

• Expertise in at least 2 public cloud systems 

• Certification in at least 1 public cloud system 

• Strong interpersonal communications skills. 

• Mentor the team and guide towards excellence 

• Demonstrates attention to details. 

• Has the ability to work in a lightweight process environment. 

• Is self-motivated and capable of high performance in a periodic iteration cadence. 

• Takes ownership of tasks and executes. 

• Collaborate effectively with a distributed team. 

• Mentor and develop junior talent 

• Identify skill gaps for the junior team members and recommend certifications/trainings to address them 

• Graduate or Post Graduate in Engineering / Computer Applications  

Desirable Skills: 

• Minimum 7 years of DevOps and Cloud experience, preferably in a Software product company.  

• Has familiarity with the retail industry domain. 

• Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems 

Certifications: 

Having some or all the following certifications will be an added advantage for the Senior Manager Engineer role at Organization.   

• CISSP® - Certified Information Systems Security Professional 

• AWS Certified Security Specialist 

• GCP Certified Cloud Architect 

Organization is strongly committed to equal opportunities in employment. We welcome applications from all minority group members, women, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of Organization.