Mashreq - Assistant Vice President - DevOps

Responsibilities :

• Managing the DevOps Chapter for Wholesale Digital Studio applications.
• Create Azure DevOps Pipelines by ensuring project and change release(s) are packaged as per standards, seamless deployments across all environments without change or modification.
• Responsible for adhering ISG and Audit standards.
• Develop scripts to automate DevOps functions, source code checking with continuous integration, automated test tool configuration, automated deployment (Zero Click Deployments).
• Monitoring and managing infrastructure resources of DevOps, Web, and Mobile Applications.
• Setup, Configure and Maintain the DevOps tools like Sonar Cloud, Twistlock, Veracode.
• Setup, Configure and Maintain Kubernetes services, Storage services (NFS) for entire wholesale digital studio web applications.
• Plan and execute Disaster recovery for applications.
• Manage new DevOps tool set and implementing DevOps strategy for Mobile Applications.
• Design a DevOps strategy to migrate from App center to Azure DevOps.
• Recommend and facilitate implementation of infrastructure enhancements as required to maintain systems performing in response to business growth.
• Maintain and enhance the previous DevOps implementations.
• Collaboration with ISG and CCOE teams on latest changes and implement in DevOps area.
• Designing a secure application-release automation process to make security an integral part of the CI / CD pipelines both on-perm & Azure cloud platforms.
• Hands-on Experience in CI / CD pipelines, Kubernetes deployment and implementing the DevSecOps processes.
• Constantly looks for better ways of solving technical problems and designs the solution, not afraid of challenging the status quo.
• Identifies bottlenecks in coding development and deployment processes.
• Leads knowledge growth effort of platform configuration management and troubleshooting.
• Collaborates with the rest of DevOps team to deliver consistent and holistic solution to the organization.
• Help debug and fix any problems with the infrastructure and applications.
• Design and maintain CI / CD pipelines for automating the build, test, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure that applications are designed with scalability, reliability, and operability in mind.
• Participate in incident management and post-mortem reviews to analyse root causes, implement preventative measures, and improve system reliability.
• Continuously evaluate and adopt best practices, tools, and technologies for improving reliability, performance, and efficiency.
• Contribute to the development of operational processes, documentation, and knowledge sharing initiatives to enhance team productivity and :
• Overall, around 8+ years of experience with IT Infrastructure and or Application development.
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer / architect or in a similar role.
• Proficiency in scripting and programming languages.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
• Experience in Continuous Deployment (CI / CD).
• Experience in Containerized deployments using Docker.
• Strong understanding of Systems, Kubernetes, Databases, Redis, Network, Storage, Firewalls, CDN infrastructure on Azure / AWS or GCP platform.
• Experience on Splunk or similar application / infrastructure logging for day-to-day log management & production issue troubleshooting.
• Understanding of industry standard monitoring platforms and ability to troubleshoot production issues through the observability platforms.
• 4 to 5 years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes and continuous build & integration on Kubernetes Clusters.
• Hands on experience on related tools such as Azure DevOps, Gitlab, GitHub, Jenkins, Veracode, Maven, Ant, Git, Sonar, Twistlock etc.
• Currently practicing DevOps methodology.
• Excellent coding and scripting skills (Java, Java Spring Boot, react preferred) and experience with implementing high-scale cloud architectures using modern, cloud-based container platforms (PaaS / SaaS).
• Working knowledge of deployment automation solutions.
• Strong Expertise of cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS or GCP) and cluster management tools like AKS / EKS or GKE.
• Experience in Agile Development, with specific Solution Architect (or similar) experience preferred.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability solutions to proactively identify and resolve performance issues, bottlenecks, and service degradation.
• Experience as a DevOps on a cross-functional agile team.
• Understands relationship with Product Owner, Scrum Master, Design Lead, and rest of technical team.
• Effective communication skills with ability to align the organization on complex technical decisions.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Passionate about technology and excited about the impact of emerging / disruptive Us :

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