Specialist, DevOps & SRE

Title: Specialist, DevOps & SRE (Full-stack Engineer)

Synopsis: Designs and develops internet-scale applications, supporting them throughout their lifecycle while contributing to DevOps practices.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and maintaining top-notch software applications built on private & public cloud.
• Develop and maintain applications using Spring Boot framework.
• Raising the bar on application & infrastructure code quality.
• Strengthening the application and platform Security by adopting security best practices.
• Ensuring the Compatibility and Accessibility conformity along with various Non-Functional Requirements throughout the application lifecycle.
• Automating functional & other quality tests at different layers of the application to uncover issues as early as possible.
• Improving application's ability to continuously integrate & deploy to facilitate frequent and smaller releases with no customer impact.
• Baking Observability into the applications, actively monitoring and resolving issues promptly.
• Monitoring various performance indicators of the applications and making continuous improvements and optimizations.
• Assist in maintaining and enhancing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Help manage and monitor cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Own infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM
• Write scripts to automate routine tasks (using Bash, Python, or similar).
• Implement and manage containerization and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, ECS). 
• Monitor system performance, application logs, and deployment workflows.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Lead vulnerability remediation and security incident support. 
• Document DevOps processes and standard operating procedures.
• Establish and improve SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning.
• Continuously optimize cost, performance, and reliability (FinOps mindset). 
• Select, evaluate, and standardize DevOps tools and platforms. 

Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computing or a related field. 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Software Engineering and DevOps.
• An up-to-date knowledge on industry trends & new developments in programming, application development and lifecycle management.
• A passion for solving problems with innovative & practical solutions.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills with the ability to visualize the outcomes.
• Thorough knowledge on algorithms & data structures.
• Proficiency in at least two high level programming languages such as Java, C#, Python and the ability to quickly adopt languages & techniques.
• Strong knowledge of Java and the Spring framework.
• Experience in designing RESTful APIs.
• Experience with databases such as PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Exposure to any cloud platform (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Ability to craft quality code and automate various types of tests on application components.
• Proficiency in monitoring applications, troubleshooting and fixing application issues.
• Thorough knowledge on the Non-Functional requirements of applications such as Security, Accessibility, Compatibility, Observability & Availability.
• Working knowledge on continuous integration and deployment.