Senior Devops Engineer - Devops, Azure, Java, Ansible, jenkins

Company Description

Rave Technologies – A Northgate Public Services Company, is a software services company that works with small and medium sized organisations. We are a part of Northgate Public Services Company which is based in the UK.

Based in Mumbai, Rave Technologies’ end to end product/application engineering services help address challenges in the product or application development life cycle. These services include Requirement Analysis, Software Architecture, Design, Development, Testing and Maintenance with specialized services in Cloud/SaaS Migration, Usability Engineering, System Architecture and Design, and Independent Testing solutions.

Job Description

Experience (years):

7-10 Yrs

Industry / Technology background:

Software Development and DevOps experience (any domain).

Location:

Mumbai

Working Hours:

Full Time

Required

Key Functions

• Knowledge of DevOps culture
• Lead the design and development of high quality, scalable DevOps Solution
• Provide technical support, mentoring and inspiration to team
• Participate in design reviews and recommend improvements
• Recommend new devops technologies to ensure quality and productivity.

Key Objectives

• Solution provider, help in making design decisions, troubleshooter for the team

Competencies

Essential:

• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
• Strategic thinking – able to identify a technical vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions and issues in the short, medium and long term
• Influencing and persuading - able to present sound and well-reasoned arguments to convince others. Adapts to the situation and can draw from a range of strategies to persuade people in a way that results in agreement or behaviour change
• Communication – able to communicate and collaborate effectively with wider team members located elsewhere within the India and UK, and to get the message across as appropriate to the audience and the nature of the information
• Managing relationships and team working - able to build and maintain effective working relationships with a range of people. Works co-operatively with others to be part of a team, as opposed to working separately or competitively
• Enthusiastic approach – able to demonstrate an enthusiastic and pro-active approach to software development
• Delivery Focus – able to produce high quality software products in accordance with agreed delivery plans and sometimes within aggressive budget and timescale constraints
• Adaptability – able to work flexibly and imaginatively in a changing and evolving project environment with regularly changing requirements.

Technologies Hands-on Experience (Years) Priority

CI/CD: Jenkins 5+ 1

Cloud: Microsoft Azure 3+ 1

Configuration Mgt: Ansible 5+ 1

Build/Package Management: Maven,Gradle, npm 5+ 1

Scripting: YML, Groovy, Shell 4+ 1

Web Server: nginx 5+ 1

OOPS: Java 5+ 1

OS: Linux, Windows 5+ 1

Deployment strategies 4+ 1

SCM: GitHub 5+ 1

Containerisation: Docker, Kubernetes 4+ 1

Release Management 4+ 1

Desirable:

Technologies Hands-on Experience (Years) Priority

TDD Experience (Junit / TestNG) 3+ 2

BDD Experience (Cucumber / Selenium) 3+ 2

App / Web Server Installations 3+ 2

Software configuration 3+ 2

JavaScript OR PERL 2+ 2

Experience of working with mixed onshore/offshore development teams 5+ 2

Experience of working with the Scrum Agile development methodology 5+ 2

• Experience of working under a formal DevOps team
• Experience of working on an Defect / Requirement Management Tool (eg: Jira, Mingle)
• Work flexibly and imaginatively in a changing and evolving project environment.

Responsibilities

• Produce technical specifications and designs based on high level product requirements.
• Work collaboratively with Development and Operation team.
• Get involved in coding of critical components.
• Create and execute comprehensive scripting for DevOps
• Support and maintain developed DevOps Solution to meet agreed service level targets and quality objectives
• Ensure that work complies with the agreed development methodologies and processes.
• Get involved in designing and developing POCs as needed.
• Adopt and promote the consistent use of new technologies within the solutions being developed.
• Identify risks associated with solution development projects and recommend means of mitigating these risks.
• Actively contribute to the continuous improvement of development processes that enhance the performance and quality of personal and team deliverables
• Provide technical guidance in design and development activities to more junior development team members and promote best practices via code reviews and workshops as required.
• Present technical subjects to team members, members of the wider development group and project stakeholders to aid understanding.
• Carry out methodical investigations into technical problems to identify the root cause and proposed solutions to resolve them.