Position Title: DevOps Principal Architect

Location: 100% Remote

Duration: Contract

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Must need 15 years

Job summary :

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy and planning for onboarding and adopting existing AWS centric applications to VMware Environment.

• Lead the data, code development, testing, networking, shared infrastructure. DevOps and release activities required to complete onboarding to VMware infas from AWS.

• Work in the DevOps team, to test the new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment including Confluent Kafka-MRC event driven architecture, Redis cache, Cloudian-S3 data store, Flink data pipes and Enterprise PostgreSQL database to ensure they are accessible and functional to be ready for onboarding.

• Work with DevOps team to test the connectivity between new failover shared services and existing shared services: Secret, identity, LDA, DNS, Artifactory, Jenkins, Splunk services.

• Deploy the risk application on RTOP using the newly developed continuous deployment pipeline on the RTOP shared infrastructure.

• Lead team that makes necessary code changes to risk application to make sure they are compatible with RTOP VMware environment.

• Lead the strategy for functional and integration testing effort to ensure the onboarded risk application are tested for functionality, integration, and end-to-end process testing.

• Collaboratively work with other teams in performing in failover, non-functional and operational testing for Risk applications

• Understand the difference between developing the risk application on AWS and VMware environment. Then Ideate solutions to complex technical challenges in adopting applications to VMware Environment; 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.

• Continuously improve the processes and the DevOps team using thoughtful, calculated approaches to identify opportunities, and challenge those around you to strive for perfection.

Key Skills:

• At least 15 years of strong technical leadership, strategy & planning skills

• At least 10 years of leadership, stakeholder management and offshore management skills

• Ability to lead and collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure and Networking teams.

• At least 15 years of experience in developing cloud native, microservices-event driven application on-premises (VMware environment and AWS Cloud) and ability adopt the application to both the environment.

• At 6-7 years of experience building specializing in cloud/om-premise application modernization/movement/adoption using virtualization, DevOps pipelines, shared infrastructure deployments using terraform and data pipes.

• About 5-6 years of experience in building Java streaming application using Flink, Kafka, Java Microservices, Redis Cache, and Enterprise Databases is good to have.

• Deep understanding of performing data replication, failover, and DR strategies

• Also 5-6 years of experience in collaborating with the functional, integration, non-functional (Performance, Security, Failover), and operational testing

• 6-7 years of hands -on experience in Maven/Gradle using event driven architecture (Kafka)

• Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like distributed message brokers like Kafka, and data streaming pipes using Flink.

• Understanding of QA strategy and implementation

• Experience in Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem

• Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks – especially Terraform Enterprise, Ansible, 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, VMware ESXI, VMware Cloud Automation Center, AWS, VMWare Cloud, DevOps tooling etc.