Celigo - Director - DevOps

Who are we?

At Celigo, we are pioneering the future of application integration with novel new strategies, cutting edge technologies, and of course a diehard team that will go to any length to make your most complicated integrations just work. Our core mission at Celigo is simple: to enable independent best of breed applications to work together as one. We believe that every independent department and every business end user should always have choices when it comes to picking software, and that integration challenges should never stand in the way.

Location : Hyderabad, India

Scope of the Role :

- Celigo powers integration for a large number of customers across the globe through our Integrator.io iPaaS platform. Several millions of transactions flow through this platform on a daily basis to several destinations.

- We own mission critical, large scale services in the area of iPaaS for our customers. The challenges include developing and owning highly scalable services in our production environment on cloud infrastructure.

- We are looking for an experienced, passionate, hands-on leader to manage, grow and establish a state-of-the-art DevOps organization that would enable us to scale seamlessly.

- You will be identifying gaps in our processes and putting the right people, architecture, and solutions in place. You will manage modern, large- scale services in production on cloud in line with Celigos DevOps charter. You will own, enhance, optimize the CI/CD process and be a catalyst to implement Shift Left

- Our criteria of a successful DevOps Director are one who is an energetic leader, results oriented, process and data-driven, and thinks automation-first. They are also technically strong, excited to work with complex production systems, highly collaborative, innovative, passionate about our product & our customers.

What You'll Do:

- Lead the DevOps organization, build and maintain a roadmap to meet business goals, metrics for availability, resiliency, and performance.

- Architect and design scalable, resilient, and secure microservices architectures.

- Lead the organization's cloud-native strategy, advocating for best practices in containerization, orchestration, CI/CD, and DevOps

- Take the ownership of Global Operations and manage the infrastructure, security, and work

towards Five 9s SLA

- Provide transparency on planned deliverables and meet timelines & scope.

- Own the evaluation, procurement and management of all tools for the entire engineering

organization.

- Establish infrastructure engineering best-practices to handle global, 24x7 high-volume, high availability, mission-critical production environments based on measurable outcome

- Adopt automation-first mindset within and among the team members, Implement pipeline as a code, Infrastructure as a code

- Cultivate a high-performing environment for the current talent pool, anticipate future needs and plan growth.

- Responsible for hiring, training, mentoring world-class DevOps engineers.

- Work closely with the Security & Compliance team to help with data points needed for various

audits; also, work closely with the rest of the engineering team to triage and fix any security related gaps identified through programs like HackerOne.

- Bring the next generation architecture, design & build CI/CD pipeline and own release management for the Integrator.io platform working with senior architects and engineers in the team.

- Continuously raise the standard of engineering excellence by implementing best DevOps

practices; drive DevOps culture across the organization, and continuously challenge status-quo through innovation.

What Youll Need To Succeed:

- Masters/Bachelor degree required in Computer Science/Engineering, Software Engineering or Equivalent discipline.

- 12+ years of total experience in Software Product Development organization(s) with at least 6+ years of experience in managing a high-performing DevOps team.

- Proven experience in implementing microservices pattern and cloud native stack to scale

- Hands-on experience in owning and operating mission-critical, large-scale product operations like provisioning, deployment, upgrades, patching and incidents in production on cloud.

- Should ensure high-availability and scalability of our production software by working with

engineering, wherever required.

- Must have working knowledge on AWS. Expertise in networking & compute infrastructure (servers, databases, firewalls, routers, load balancers etc.).

- Demonstrated ability of working in complex technical environments while achieving/exceeding all high availability, security, reliability, performance metrics.

- Good working knowledge in Infrastructure as code (IaC) like Terraform, code/scripting like

Python/BASH, DVCS like Git.

- Good working knowledge with configuration management and automation tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet.

- Deep understanding of security compliance standards and regulations (e.g., SOC2, HIPAA,

GDPR).

- Subject matter expertise in designing, delivering and maintaining CI/CD pipeline(s) with

automation using tools like Jenkins.

- Strong problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills demonstrated in past projects.

- Experience working in an Agile development environment.

- Experience with enterprise monitoring systems is highly desirable.

- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

The Best Candidate:

- Is passionate about building a world-class DevOps organization.

- Has demonstrated a strong ability to manage large distributed systems in production on cloud.

- Brings a solid understanding of how infrastructure software components work.

- Has experience working in globally distributed teams.

- Has worked in a similar fast growth environment scaling through different challenges.

- Enjoys a fast-paced environment, working with a highly talented team and shifting priorities.

- Learns quickly; must know when to listen, and when to take charge.

Why you'll love it here:

- Everything Integrated: We are solving a really hard problem that affects almost every business

on the planet: integrating cloud apps iPaaS Leader.

- Were at an exciting crossroads as we re-imagine the Integration and iPaaS space. This will take teamwork, creativity, strategic thinking, and a willingness to advance the market.

- Take A Stand: Were a company that stands for something.

- Celigo is taking a stand on the initiative to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion

- Work Life Balanced: Starting your first year, we offer a 3-weeks of vacation, plus holidays to

recharge and spend time with family and friends.

- Perks: We offer a strong benefits package, expense reimbursement, recognition opportunities,

and many other cool perks.