Description
As a Cloud Architect you will be a part of our Engineering team that is building high quality enterprise class software for the retail industry.
Job Requirements
- Creating a well-informed cloud strategy and managing the adaptation process.
- Evaluating cloud applications, hardware and software.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for our products.
- Build effective monitoring and alerts for the Production and non-productions deployments of our 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 effective manner.
- 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.
- Adopt Industry Best practices in DevOps.
- Expertise in building/maintaining Jenkins, Azure DevOps or 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.
- 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.
- Expertise in Security hardening best practices like CIS benchmarks, IDS, IPS, Antivirus, Security patching, Network configuration et al.
Good To Have
- Minimum 7 years of DevOps experience, preferably in a Software product company.
- Graduate or Postgraduate in Engineering / Computer Applications.
- Has familiarity with the retail industry domain.
- Expertise in more than one cloud provider like Azure, AWS etc.
- Desire to work on complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.
- Desire to design and build complex multi region, disaster recovery enabled, high availability and scalable systems.
Certifications
Following certifications will be an added advantage for the Cloud Architect role.
- Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
- AWS Certified Solution Architect.
- GCP Certified Cloud Architect.
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Microsoft Azure training and certifications.
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