Multi - Discipline Specialist

Minimum requirements:

• Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

• IT related Degree (SRE / Cloud technology)

• A minimum of 3-5 years of relevant professional experience in roles such as DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, System Administrator, or similar positions involving infrastructure and operations management.

• Cloud Platform Experience: Hands-on experience working with Azure cloud platform, specifically with services relevant to the tech stack mentioned.

• Familiarity with Azure VMs, AKS, Azure DevOps, and related tools.

• Kubernetes and Containers: Practical experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Experience deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes clusters, including scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code: Strong experience with automation using tools like Ansible.

• Proven ability to write Ansible playbooks, automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration, and manage infrastructure as code.

• CI/CD and DevOps Practices: Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps Pipelines or similar tools.

• Familiarity with continuous integration, automated testing, and deployment automation.

• Linux System Administration: Strong proficiency in administering Linux systems, particularly Red Hat Linux or similar distributions.

• Experience with system installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting in a production environment.

• Scripting and Programming: Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash, Python, or PowerShell.

• Familiarity with at least one programming language for automation, tooling, and infrastructure task.

• Cloud technology ( Azure) stack implementations hands on Exposure to Kubernetes / AKS implementations.

• DevOps pipelines experience

Preferred Certifications

• Springboot , Java , Devops , API integration , Cloud technology implementations

• AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

• Autmation tools: Azure devops and Ansible

• Service Mesh (Istio)

• Elasticsearch, Kibana and logstash

• Jaeger

• Postgresql

• RedhatLinux

• Cloud Playform: Azure services like Azure VMs, networking , storage, Security etc

Technical Knowledge/ Experience:

• Containerization and Orchestration: Strong knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and its management concepts is essential.

• Automation: Experience with automation tools like Ansible and Azure Devops.

• Proficiency in creating and maintaining infrastructure as code using terraform and writing Ansible playbooks for provisioning and configuration management.

• Logging, Monitoring and Tracing: Experience with ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) or similar logging and monitoring tools.

• Understanding log aggregation, log parsing, and creating meaningful visualizations and dashboards for monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Familiarity with distributed tracing systems like Jaeger.

• Linux System Administration: Proficiency in administering Red Hat Linux systems or similar Linux distributions.

• Knowledge of system installation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.

• Cloud Platform: Familiarity with Azure cloud platform and its services, especially those relevant to the tech stack being used.

• Knowledge of Azure VMs, networking, storage, security, and related concepts.

• Scripting and Programming: Strong scripting and automation skills using languages like Bash, Python, or PowerShell. Proficiency in at least one programming language for scripting and tooling purposes.

Technical / Professional Knowledge:

• Banking knowledge

• Business Acumen

• Business writing

• Principles of financial management

• Principles of project management

• Relevant regulatory knowledge

• Relevant software and systems knowledge

• Risk management process and frameworks

• Cluster Specific Operational Knowledge

• Mentoring

• Information Technology concepts

• System Development Life cycle(SDLC)

• Role relevant related technologies

• Service orientated Architecture (SOA)

• IT Solutions Architecture

• IT Infrastructure Architecture

• Knowledge across multiple technologies

• IT Risk and security principes

• Usability and GUI techniques

• Multiple operating system

• Systems Analysis and design

Responsibilities:

• Site reliability engineers incorporate various software engineering aspects to develop and implement services that improve IT and support teams.

• Services can range from production code changes to alerting and monitoring adjustments.

• Actively participate in problem solving (including support escalation cases) which involves technical problem investigation, and management of problem investigation across teams.

• Fulfil standby duties.

• Identify opportunities and implement strategies to increase system reliability and better performance.

• Improve collaborative response to outages by enhancing automation, documentation, tools and modules used by support team

• Consult and provide advice on the use of the multiple technologies.

• Address the needs of the company by deploying, supporting and configuring multiple technologies.

• Develop solutions using knowledge of the technologies.

• Ensure ongoing availability within the SLA requirements.

• Ensure maximum exploitation of the multiple technology features across multiple business initiatives.

• Identify further opportunities for use of the technologies.

• Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise, ensuring personal and professional growth.

• Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems.

• Ensure alignment with emerging technologies, and impact on company technologies and legislative requirements.

• Present to stakeholders on any impact or change to multiple technologies.

• Engage with vendors related to multiple technologies.

• Meet company's needs by presenting on the exploitation of the technologies.

• Become a trusted consultant by providing trustworthy information and acknowledge if advice cannot be provided.

• Expand IP beyond own technology speciality.

• Break down components of end to end design and defined logical units of work.

• Raise unallocated or missing components of design with project lead.

• Validate the individual design components and integrate these into end to end design.

• Ensure test strategy covers full end to end design.

• Provide integration solutions and validate the technical component design.

• Review and approve component designs.

• Consult on the resolution of high impact problem solving across.

• Participate in Severities (Sev's) and provide expert guidance and solutions on technical problems.

• Document and maintain the end to end design.

• Build end to end design and release to stakeholders.

• Ensure alignment to IT strategy to architecture roadmaps.

• Enable skilling and required corrective action to take place by sharing knowledge and industry trends with team.

• Obtain buy-in for developing new and/or enhanced processes to improve stakeholders' businesses.

Originally posted on Himalayas