Job Abstract

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The DevOps Technical Lead is responsible for technical leadership of the DevOps team responsible for the configuration, deployment, monitoring/troubleshooting and maintenance of the Services Delivery Platform web applications.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Technical leadership for the team of 4 remote DevOps engineers, focusing on the automation, building scalable and extendable pipelines and monitoring for the development teams.
• Manage AWS assets, AWS cost management.
• Create infrastructure/pipelines for new services (SpringBoot, Python, Angular).
• Deploy services on DEV/STAGE/PROD environments.
• Manage the installation and configuration of solutions.
• Troubleshoot failure cases on Dev/UAT and Prod environments.
• Monitor health and metrics using Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch tools.
• Refactor pipelines, scripts to make them stable and reusable.
• Document utilized approaches and solutions.
• Participate in discussions about solutions to support developer applications and needs.
• Mentor junior DevOps engineers and help to resolve technical issues they are facing.
• Participate in release management process across development teams.
• Deploy code and troubleshoot any issue that arises.

Technical Expertise

• Linux / Windows Powershell
• Docker / Docker Swarm / AWS Elastic Container Service
• Ansible / Terraform / GitHub Actions
• Configuration and support AWS, Jenkins, GitHub
• DB: Postgres, Cassandra
• Scripts: Bash, Python / NodeJS or Golang
• Experience with NewRelic, nginx, Tomcat, Haproxy, Consul, Nexus, LDAP, Kafka
• Will be plus: experience with Kubernetes, GPU/CUDA, WebRTC, Forgerock AM

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field.
• Five or more years of DevOps experience with a focus on Microservices deployment and maintenance.
• Excellent technical, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of portal software, design, and development.
• Experience of technical leadership of offshore DevOps personnel.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 4 to 5 years of experience working inside DevOps organization.
• Prior experience determining project requirements and developing work schedules for the team.
• Good technical documentation skills.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Excellent interpersonal skills (communication, conflict resolution, negotiation, etc.) when dealing with internal and/or external audiences at all levels of management
• Use organizational skills to determine prioritization and appropriate multitasking.
• Focus on scope, tone, and quality of processes and their respective documentation, as well as the associated goals, priorities, deadlines, and weaknesses.
• Ability to work independently, with supervision, on a project of varying complexity.

TOTAL REWARDS

• This role is also eligible for a competitive bene?ts package that includes: medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance; 401(k) retirement plan; ?exible spending and HSA accounts; paid holidays; paid time off; paid volunteer days; employee assistance program; tuition assistance; parental leave; military leave assistance; QTS scholarship for dependents; wellness program, and other company bene?ts.
• This position is bonus eligible.
• This job may be eligible for equity.

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