Role Proficiency:

Act under guidance of Lead II/Architect understands customer requirements and translate them into design of new DevOps (CI/CD) components. Capable of managing at least 1 Agile Team

Outcomes:

Interprets the DevOps Tool/feature/component design to develop/support the same in accordance with specifications Adapts existing DevOps solutions and creates own DevOps solutions for new contexts Codes debugs tests documents and communicates DevOps development stages/status of DevOps develop/support issues Select appropriate technical options for development such as reusing improving or reconfiguration of existing components Optimises efficiency cost and quality of DevOps process tools and technology development Validates results with user representatives; integrates and commissions the overall solution Helps Engineers troubleshoot issues that are novel/complex and are not covered by SOPs Design install configure troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and software Able to automate infrastructure provisioning on cloud/in-premises with the guidance of architects Provides guidance to DevOps Engineers so that they can support existing components Work with diverse teams with Agile methodologies Facilitate saving measures through automation Mentors A1 and A2 resources Involved in the Code Review of the team

Measures of Outcomes:

     Quality of deliverables      Error rate/completion rate at various stages of SDLC/PDLC      # of components/reused      # of domain/technology certification/ product certification obtained SLA for onboarding and supporting users and tickets

Outputs Expected:

Automated components :

Deliver components that automat parts to install components/configure of software/tools in on premises and on cloud Deliver components that automate parts of the build/deploy for applications

Configured components:

Configure a CI/CD pipeline that can be used by application development/support teams

Scripts:

Develop/Support scripts (like Powershell/Shell/Python scripts) that automate installation/configuration/build/deployment tasks

Onboard users:

Onboard and extend existing tools to new app dev/support teams

Mentoring:

Mentor and provide guidance to peers

Stakeholder Management:

Guide the team in preparing status updates
keeping management updated about the status

Training/SOPs :

Create Training plans/SOPs to help DevOps Engineers with DevOps activities and in onboarding users

Measure Process Efficiency/Effectiveness:

Measure and pay attention to efficiency/effectiveness of current process and make changes to make them more efficiently and effectively

Stakeholder Management:

Share the status report with higher stakeholder

Skill Examples:

     Experience in the design installation configuration and troubleshooting of CI/CD pipelines and software using Jenkins/Bamboo/Ansible/Puppet /Chef/PowerShell /Docker/Kubernetes      Experience in Integrating with code quality/test analysis tools like Sonarqube/Cobertura/Clover      Experience in Integrating build/deploy pipelines with test automation tools like Selenium/Junit/NUnit      Experience in Scripting skills (Python/Linux/Shell/Perl/Groovy/PowerShell)      Experience in Infrastructure automation skill (ansible/puppet/Chef/Powershell)      Experience in repository Management/Migration Automation – GIT/BitBucket/GitHub/Clearcase      Experience in build automation scripts – Maven/Ant      Experience in Artefact repository management – Nexus/Artifactory      Experience in Dashboard Management & Automation- ELK/Splunk   Experience in configuration of cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/Google)   Experience in Migration of applications from on-premises to cloud infrastructures   Experience in Working on Azure DevOps/ARM (Azure Resource Manager)/DSC (Desired State Configuration)/Strong debugging skill in C#/C Sharp and Dotnet   Setting and Managing Jira projects and Git/Bitbucket repositories Skilled in containerization tools like Docker/Kubernetes

Knowledge Examples:

     Knowledge of Installation/Config/Build/Deploy processes and tools      Knowledge of IAAS - Cloud providers (AWS/Azure/Google etc.) and their tool sets      Knowledge of the application development lifecycle      Knowledge of Quality Assurance processes      Knowledge of Quality Automation processes and tools      Knowledge of multiple tool stacks not just one      Knowledge of Build Branching/Merging      Knowledge about containerization      Knowledge on security policies and tools   Knowledge of Agile methodologies

Additional Comments:

• Overall operational excellence for all assigned cloud services. Including but not limited to optimizing cost/capacity ratios, proper monitoring, scaling, implementing and validating database DR scenarios, and ensuring regional redundancy of web applications within budget. • Develop effective cloud infrastructure, enforcing good architectural principles, providing technical oversight, and ensuring security best practices are implemented and followed. • Develop and manage Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery process for different types of applications and automate as many processes as possible • Help development teams understand which Azure services to use, follow best-practices from a security and scalability standpoint, and manage cost optimization efforts • Help tune and test applications to discover bottlenecks, optimize configuration, and ensure scalability and high uptime • Support launch efforts and monitoring of production stacks • Manage and support internal customer environments in the Microsoft Azure cloud • Manage the full release process • Manage the open source governance process • Manage handoff to internal Operations delivery organization Required Skills • Cloud infrastructure architecture and principles • Agile & SCRUM methodologies • Azure DevOps pipelines or equivalent • Ansible scripting • Azure Cloud Services, App Services, Storage Services, App Insights or equivalent • Strong scripting and development skills, understanding of code as infrastructure • Strong experience in configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft based production systems • Serverless and VM management expertise required. • Understanding of integrating enterprise environments with cloud environments. • Manage, develop, build CI/CD pipeline, including: o Check code quality o Unit, integration and functional tests implementation o PowerShell scripting for custom tasks automation • Customer-oriented, diligent, proactive, focused on achieving customer’s business objectives as top priority • Able to work successfully both individually and as a team member • Easy-going, friendly, communicative, positive in relations with colleagues, in every situation strives to see opportunities rather than problems • Proficient in 1 or more high level scripting languages (python, powershell, etc) • Good written and oral communication skills