Head of DevOps / Lead Systems Engineer
The purpose of this role is to help our client's team with the development and maintenance of their Data platform either on Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services and other suppliers. This will include the design and implementation of the strategy as we rapidly scale our data capabilities as well as maintenance and continuous improvements of the platform. The role will help build the GCP infrastructure that will support the existing data team in their function and will assist the team SMEs in launching and maintaining all our services
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for developing assigned IT projects within the company
- Responsible for coordinating all assigned IT production and delivery-related matters within project technical boundaries
- Responsible for the alignment of assigned IT projects with each of the other company-involved departments.
- Assigned projects budgetary responsibility
- Thinking within substantially diversified, established procedures, standards and precedents; generally non-supervised.
As a Head of DevOps, you will:
- Develop and deploy new services (Infrastructure as Code)
- Monitor and maintain appliances, dockers, data pipelines, and blockchain nodes in a production environment
- Establish backup, reliability and disaster recovery strategy for data services
- Plan and Implement CI/CD best practices, and automate security as part of CI/CD process
- Work with our engineering teams to secure our computing infrastructure
- Secure and manage accounts across locations
- Create strategies and communicate them in thorough presentations effectively
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of experience in Cloud environments
- Experience working with GCP and AWS. Knowledge of other clouds is a plus,
- Experience with CI/CD, GitOps. You know how to deploy your services reliably and have used related tools to achieve that,
- Experience with monitoring solutions and central logging. Dashboards, alerts development (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Logging, Splunk …)
- Experience deploying and maintaining Data Projects, you understand how data pipelines operate and what the typical SLAs involved
- Leadership experience as lead developer or in a similar function
- Ability to facilitate a solution-oriented approach to developing projects
- Solid understanding of the mobile development life cycle
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively convey complex information at all levels
- Experience with NGNIX, WSGI/ASGI, distributed task managers (Celery), AMPQ clusters (RabbitMQ) or similar services)
- Experience in implementing mobile security on Android, iOS, iPadOS and knowledge of best practices for each platform
