Top 5 Mandatory skills:
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Terraform enterprise, Ansible)
- DevOps Tools (Jenkins, Rancher-Kubernetes, Artifactory, Git, Any CD tools preferably Harness)
- Ability to provisioning and configuring the above(1-2) in VMware on premise , or VMC on AWS
- General understanding of Kafka (or any other pub/sub messaging works)
- General Network and data storage/data distribution in VMWare and AWS
Ness is seeking an Sr DevOps Engineer / Lead. This role will assist with building out an on-premises failover environment and onboarding of all critical Renaissance applications in clearing, settlement, and risk pillars. Customer is required by regulators to demonstrate the ability to run all clearing and risk systems through internal datacenter ( “On-Prem”) and to be able to switch all production functionality running through On-Prem within the predefined SLA. The newly developed clearing and risk systems takes advantage of scalability, ease of provision, and the reduced cost offered by cloud services (AWS) and the cloud offered Multi-Region as Disaster Recovery (DC) strategy.
Responsibilities:
- Work in the DevOps team, to build new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment: S3, Kafka, Data Store .
- Work with DevOps team to establish connectivity between new failover shared services and existing shared services: Secret, identity, LDA, DNS, Artifactory, Jenkins, Splunk services
- Work with DevOps team to automate deployment DR strategy Automation of data replication between Cloud and failover environment required between all applications
- Continuously improve the processes and the DevOps team using thoughtful, calculated approaches to identify opportunities, and challenge those around you to strive for perfection.
- Ideate solutions to complex technical challenges; code, test, troubleshoot, debug, and document the solutions you develop. Use agile software development model to produce well-designed programs, scripts, and tools required to provision, configure, and monitor new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment
Key Skills:
- Specializing in Cloud Infrastructure Modernization, virtualization, data center setup, DR & BC Strategies, and DevOps
- Experience in on-premises data center operations, AWS hosted data center and operations management
- Certified AWS architect, with hands-on experience on VMware ESXI, VMware Cloud Automation Center and other virtualization technologies (Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere (on-prem and AWS) set up, workload deployments and monitoring)
- Experience in setting up VMware Cloud on AWS in lieu of datacenter. Few use cases like below
- Cloudian Object Storage on VMware as a replacement for AWS S3
- Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem
- Pilot SQL DB (CockroachDB) to run in AWS and On-Prem and the data replication between them
- Hands on experience with migrations tools
- Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks – especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible.
- Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages.
- Experience managing helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (k8s)
- Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus.
- Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure
- Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like Maven/Gradle, Java, and distributed message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
- VMware ESXI, VMware Cloud Automation Center, AWS, VMWare Cloud, DevOps tooling etc.