Dev Ops Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

The DevOps engineer's roles and responsibilities are a combination of technical and management roles. It is essential to have excellent communication and coordination skills to successfully integrate various functions in a coordinated manner and deliver the responsibilities to ensure uninterrupted service at scale..

Core responsibilities include:

• Configuration and ongoing support of GCP infrastructure serving a SaaS application.
• Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Setting up tools and required infrastructure
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
• Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
• Incidence management and root cause analysis
• Coordination and communication within the team
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• Mentoring and guiding the team members
• Monitoring and measuring customer experience and KPIs
• Managing periodic reporting on the progress to the management

Pre-requisite skills required for a DevOps Engineer role include:

• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure
• Excellent understanding of GCP, AWS, Github, Javascript
• Configuration and managing databases such as PostgreSQL, Mongo, Google Firestore, BigQuery
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Strong working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services. Kubernetes, CircleCI, Github, and JIRA.
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
• Mastery of networking concepts such as NAT, DNS, TLS, IPSEC, L7 Load Balancers, etc. Familiarity with troubleshooting tools like Wireshark, Burp, Postman, gcloud, kubectl, etc.
• Familiarity with multiple scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and PHP