Head - DevOps - IT

We have a leadership opportunity for Head - Devops with one of our client for Chennai location.

Job Description:

- Heading the TechOps, Service Operations and IT functions within the organization

- Collaborate with internal business units, functional heads and other internal stakeholders to ensure functional goals are aligned and met

- Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time and within budget, and that they meet or exceed expectations.

- Overseeing our cloud hosting environments on both technical and costing front

- Vision and plans to move towards a highly reliable and robust platform

- Provide technical governance and leadership to the functional teams as needed

- Evangelize best operational practices for high performance hosting solutions company-wide

- Support modern technology stack for Engineering team that will deliver new product for continuous rapid agile release cycles (incl. Development, DevOps, Database, EDW, Containers, and Cloud teams)

- Strong passion for automation and driving - Infrastructure as code-

- Identify areas where manual efforts can be minimized and encourage the team to get everything automated

- Work closely with Product Engineering teams to establish operational guidance.

- Be a key approver in release and change management activities

- Responsible for leading the CI/CD maturity journey of the engineering organization

Qualifications

- 13+ years of experience IT and Operations

- Strong experience in managing techops team

- 6+ years of experience on Microsoft Azure and AWS

- Experience working across multiple DevOps projects, generally with a molecular focus on technology landscapes as it relates to cloud and automation efforts;

- Prior experience with configuration management tools like Chef, Ansible, Puppet etc.,

- Expertise level knowledge in working on web based solutions on the cloud (.NET, nginx, Apache, SQL server, mongoDB)

- Ability to, plan, prioritize the work of others, drive, and contribute to multi-dimensional projects across multiple teams

- Prior experience in leading production database engineering team

- Experience in implementing CISO best practices and securing the platform from external threats

- Knowledge of networking technologies such as switching, routing, firewalls, and load balancing

- Proven experience in reducing infrastructure cost by implementing best devops practices and automation where required

- Experience in managing 24x7 production support teams

- Experience with JIRA platform

- Experience in managing IM, CM and RM functions

- Good understanding on internal network setup and be able to manage internal IT helpdesk support teams

- Experience in CDN preferably Akamai

- Rich experience in ITIL tools like Jira Service Desk, ServiceNow etc.,

- Ability to work within a geographically distributed team.

- Experienced in managing teams in agile environment

- Work to continuously improve speed, efficiency and scalability of our systems and environments

- Experience in virtualization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes

- Experience in log management tools like ELK, Splunk etc.,

- Good understanding on database technologies like MSSQL, mongoDB, MySQL and previous experience in managing DBA team

- Strong in monitoring tools like NewRelic, Zabbix, AppDynamics

- Prior experience implementing CI/CD

- Experience using source control systems such as Git

- Ability to manage multiple, concurrent projects and tasks

- Strong written and spoken English

- Demonstrated ability to quickly grasp new technologies.

- Strong leader and a team player who enjoys working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment