Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong experience in setting up CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Artifactory, and Terraform., Proficient in deploying applications on Kubernetes with Rancher or Harness., Familiarity with AWS services, particularly S3 and data replication., Experience in on-premises data center operations and cloud infrastructure modernization..

Key responsabilities:

Set up CI/CD pipelines for application deployment within the DevOps team.

Build shared infrastructure services for on-premises failover environments.

Automate deployment strategies and data replication between cloud and on-prem environments.

Continuously improve DevOps processes and ideate solutions to technical challenges.

Job description

Description

Position at Ness USA, Inc.

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 Architect setup CI/CD pipeline for application deployment
Work in the DevOps team, to build new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment: S3, Kafka, Data Store
Work with DevOps team 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

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, Rancher, and Harness. It's also important that they have experience with deploying on Kubernetes using Rancher or 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.
Must be able to create solution architecture for the microservices and platform stack
Ability to conduct PoCs independently on futuristic design and enhancements in Rancher/Kubernetes deployments
Experience with Rancher RKE2 K8s clusters and orchestration platform
K8S cluster management, Monitoring, operational tools integration
K8s cluster and secrets management integration
K8s Calico CNI configuration and troubleshooting experience
K8s CSI plug-ins with object, file and block storage vendors
Kubernetes backup solution and support
S3/Cloudian object storage for shared infrastructure
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 SQL DB (CockroachDB) to run in AWS and On-Prem and the data replication between them
Hands on experience with migrations tools
Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks – especially Terraform Enterprise and Ansible.
Hands-on experience writing testable scripts using Python or other languages.
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