Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer – IFI Operations

The IFI Cloud Service includes a wide array of components including web services, application servers, and databases.  The Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and maintaining our CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, implementation and optimization of CI/CD pipelines to facilitate automated testing, deployment and monitoring of IFI applications and infrastructure.
• Architect and maintain scalable, secure and highly available hybrid cloud infrastructure utilizing infrastructure as code (IaC)
• Develop and maintain provisioning, configuration management, and orchestration solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and other similar technologies.
• Collaborate with development, and QA teams to ensure seamless integration of DevOps practices to support IFI operations
• Implement and support a hybrid cloud environment in Microsoft Azure and on-premise.
• Contribute, leading when assigned, the design and deployment of IFIaaS service initiatives
• Ultimately responsible for IFIaaS application reliability, maintenance, and upgrades
• Contribute to service operations center focusing on proactively analyzing data within toolset to ensure uptime and quality of service
• Perform product evaluations and make product recommendations
• Implement system enhancements (software) and automation opportunities to improve performance and reliability of the IFIaaS solution
• Manage activities with complete integrity and in accordance with the organization’s policies, systems, practices, and programs
• Provide escalation assistance as required to resolve any technology stack related issues that may arise
• Perform incident analysis and problem resolution
• Perform data analysis to measure quality of service and proper scalability of the system
• Collaborating with network architects to design and implement functional company networks
• Working with Networking CoE team to create and implement network security measures
• Coaching and mentoring junior engineering staff
• Conducting regular network performance tests
• Scope Epics, User stories and support with weekly sprint planning
• Dealing with escalated application support issues
• Contribute to the operations support model to support requests and participate in a 24×7 on-call support rotation and off-hours maintenance windows as assigned.
• Other duties and project as required.

Basic Qualifications:  

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• 7+ years of experience in IT deployments
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and deployment strategies.
• Experience working with enterprise level micro-services applications, including deployment and maintenance of the applications in distributed environments.
• Extensive hands-on experience of DevOps tooling (Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Octopus deploy, etc.) networks, network security, high-level managerial skills