Responsibilities

• Design the architecture, infrastructure set up, deploy and manage applications on AWS based on customer needs
  
• Work closely with the development teams to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture, leading to stable, well-monitored, performant and secure applications.
  
• Design next-generation application strategy using cloud-native and serverless architectures
  
• Identify performance bottlenecks and optimize the application performance using solutions like database indexes, Varnish, Memcache, Redis, CloudFront etc
  
• Automate deployments (CI&CD) and other repetitive tasks using Shell/Python scripts or tools like Capistrano, Jenkins, CodeDeploy etc and implement auto-scaling and automated backups
  
• Implement configuration management for development, test, and production environments using tools like Chef/OpsWorks, Puppet, Ansible etc
  
• Control infrastructure costs by continually looking for opportunities to right-size servers and services
  
• Manage permissions, backup and performance across different databases like MySQL, MSSQL, Postgres etc
  
• Act as technical and cultural change catalysts, accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of the DevOps best practices and techniques
  
• Innovate, audit, and monitor application and infrastructure and identify opportunities to improve performance
  
• Manage, mentor and provide technical guidance to the team
  

Requirements

• At least 7 years of experience in DevOps and Enterprise Applications deployments on  public cloud like AWS and Azure.
  
• Experience in a modern software development environment that is Agile and incorporates DevOps practices
  
• Hands-on experience on various AWS services like: EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudTrail
  
• Experience in systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation
  
• Hands-on experience with DevOps Tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Maven
  
• Well-versed with shell scripting and Web-Servers (Nginx, Apache etc)
  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  
• Self-starter and ability to deliver under tight timelines
  
• Comfortable to contribute both as a lead as well as an individual
  

• Exposure to various tools like Nagios, NewRelic, Loggly, Log Stash, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, DataDog, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, Trac, Wiki etc
  
• Prior experience in managing infrastructure for public-facing web-applications.
  
• Prior experience in handling client communications
  
• Knowledge of programming languages and databases