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Director, DevOps Engineering

Bengaluru, IN
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Job Description

We are seeking for an experienced Director, DevOps Engineering in our Bangalore, India office that will play a significant role in the oversight of our infrastructure services. The Director of DevOps Engineering will oversee the build and automation tooling to maintain a SaaS solution deployed in the AWS infrastructure. You will be organizing and overseeing the writing of software to configure servers via automation (not manually installing/configuring them each time). You won’t be deploying code; you will build tools so that anyone in engineering organization can deploy and/or update the code into a functional solution.

Responsibilities:

  • Experience of line managing a technical engineering team
  • Ability to mentor and develop team members
  • Make sure we have appropriate resourcing to fulfill the agreed upon roadmap
  • Specify resource profiles when hiring replacements or for a new position
  • Provide advice, coaching, and educational opportunities to the team
  • Effective time management and prioritization skills
  • Standardizing deployments of our applications
  • Work across Engineering teams
  • Day to day management and maintenance of our cloud infrastructure
  • Assisting our current development team with DevOps activities
  • Ensure our platform delivers the required levels of resilience and performance

Skills & Requirements

We are looking for people who:

  • Previous experience of working in a SaaS company
  • Experience working with AWS (ideally holding relevant AWS certification) and Linux
  • Excellent knowledge of web security including IAM
  • Understanding/experience of delivery of cloud-based technology solutions / continuous integration and automation technologies, git workflow and deployment pipelines
  • Experience with containers (Docker, rkt) in microservices environments (DC/OS, Kubernetes)
  • Experience with configuration management frameworks like Terraform, Chef, and/or Ansible
  • Enjoy building things and shipping them, truly making them work
  • Continually move the company’s technology and processes forward
  • Learn how things work, just for fun or out of curiosity… and then improving them
  • Excellent problem solving and communication skills

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