DevOps Engineer Job Description

The role of a DevOps Engineer (DevOps) is to ensure that developed products are quickly and successfully deployed for customer use. This involves understanding the platform requirements of the software including environmental (memory, disk, CPU, cache…), required 3rd party packages (OS versions, DB release, web servers…), internal dependencies (other software products and embedded packages), configuration requirements (ports, locations, settings…) and security requirements (firewall settings, certificates…).

DevOps bridges the information from Development to Cloud Operations (CloudOps) to make sure all parties are aligned for smooth deployment and successful operation of the products. In many cases, DevOps will produce and maintain any documentation needed by CloudOps to obtain hardware, configure the environment (network, OS, DB…) and set up monitoring for problem alerting. DevOps will work closely with CloudOps on scheduling activities, managing systems and addressing concerns. DevOps will also assist L2 Support when needed to diagnose and correct any environmental issue impacting our customers.

Once these requirements are understood, DevOps is responsible for using various tools (Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, scripts…) to automate the process of deploying the product with minimal manual intervention and maximum reusability, reducing customer impact and downtime as much as practical. DevOps is also responsible for coordinating with Quality Assurance (QA) and Development on how to properly validate that the system is fully operational, including running of automated ‘smoke’ tests, confirming monitoring is in place and any other confirmation that the system is ready for use and configured according to the requirements from Development.

Detailed requirement:

• You possess a desire to learn and understand the ‘big picture’ with attention to detail.
• You have a strong passion to ensure our customers have a rock-solid reliable platform to meet their needs.
• You are ready to jump into new technologies and determine optimal configurations for their use.
• You have a broad understanding of networking, security, and application-status monitoring.
• You exhibit expertise in software development methodologies.
• You are comfortable engaging anyone needed, internally or externally, to get the information you need.
• You have a working knowledge of databases, SQL (Structured Query Language), virtualization and server management.
• You possess a problem-solving attitude and are willing to think ‘outside the box’ to find the best solution.
• You are willing to take a stand on the right way to complete a task but accept management override.
• You can work independently and as part of a team.
• You appreciate structure and consistency, ensuring each step is planned, controlled and documented.
• You love the feeling of getting a deployment out and ready for use.

Primary Skills:

• Hands on Experience in Deployment, creating new build/release.
• Trouble Shooting with Deployments, Artifactory Issues
• CI/CD Automation , GIT, Jenkins, Bitbucket
• PowerShell, Terraform
• AWS: Creation of Instances, Account, EC2 instance etc.
• OS: Experience in Linux OS, Windows OS, and Shell/bash scripts.
• Networking : Good Knowledge in TCP/IP Networking, SSL, Active Directory, SSO, VPN's, DNS
• Any one Log Framework Tools: Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana
• Agile Methodology/Scrum Practices