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Title: DevOps Automation Architect - Shared Services (With CI-CD API Based Automation Skills)

Location: USA, Remote

Ness is seeking an DevOps Architect. 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 :

• As a DevOps/Automation engineer setup CI/CD pipeline for application deployment
• Work in the DevOps team, to build new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment: Kubernetes, Vault, S3, Kafka, Databases
• Work strategically to achieve automation
• Work with different teams 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:

Must have:

• We need someone who's really good at setting up CI/CD pipelines using DevOps tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, Vault, SonarQube, GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, Rancher, Kubernetes, Helm Charts and Harness. It's also important that they have experience with deploying on Kubernetes using Helm Charts and Harness. Plus, they should know about deploying Kafka MRC and using monitoring tools like Logic Monitor and Splunk. And it'd be great if they have experience with AWS services, especially setting up S3 and AWS Artifactory, and know how to do S3 replication.
• Experience with K8 and S3/Cloudian for shared infra
• Hands-on experience with Maven and Gradle builds.
• Hands-on experience on certificate generation tools like Venafi
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Groovy, YAMLs, Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and orchestration
• 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.
• Pilot Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem
• Pilot PostgreSQL to run in AWS and On-Prem and the data replication between them
• Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks – especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible.
• 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.

Good to Have:

• Knowledge of setting up CI/CD pipelines for streaming Flink based applications is an added advantage

We offer our employees exciting and challenging projects across a diverse range of industries, as well as the opportunity to collaborate with a group of forward-thinking, capable partners around the globe.

So, if this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.

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