Elsevier Hiring for Lead Devops Engineer at Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Full Time

Job Description

At Elsevier, in Bangalore and around the world , we are building something special. As we try to do things right, we are working to build a culture that values the rightness of good DevOps – the speed, agility, cost savings, higher quality, etc.
DevOps is a key position within the Technology, Infrastructure, and Operations group. The incumbent in this role will play a critical part in developing a Centre of Excellence responsible for delivering shared solutions for infrastructure operations across our estate. To fill this role successfully, the candidate will need a strong background in cloud technologies, DevOps, and infrastructure automation, as well as a deep understanding of a broad set of modern scripting and OO programming languages. AWS skills are a plus.

In addition to the technical skills required in this position, a well-developed sense for working with people is important. As a member of t he DevOps team, you’ll be working with a broad swathe of contributors across Elsevier’s Technology organization , as well as a num ber of key folks in our vendor s ’ services and technologies teams. Importantly, we’re looking for an evangelist, a leader, a partner, and a teammate. A person that can talk the talk and walk the walk. The formal part of the description is below.

Responsibilities (fancy words describing SRE/DevOps things you’ll need to be good at) :

• Ensure optimal construction and implementation of CI/CD pipelines .

• Build automation supporting the effective management and consumption of cloud resources
• Design and author soft infrastructure assets using IaC best practices

• Collaborate effectively within agile dev squads delivering continuous improvements in customer outcomes.
• Provide effective solutions through the applied integration of infrastructure, software, and software delivery best practices
• Operate and maintain software systems across the full breadth of the SDLC
• Setting, communicating and achieving business objectives through the team
• Empower and support team to achieve both their business and personal objectives
• Strong problem-solving experience involving leading teams in identifying, researching, and coordinating the resources necessary to effectively resolve complex project issues
• Strong communication using the most appropriate medium
• Stakeholder management including senior and executive management, customers, etc, presenting information in a concise and effective manner
• Promote and support both Agile methodologies and our teams ways of working
• Drive cost savings
• Drive Automation wherever possible

Must Haves (things we’ll ask you to tell us about when we talk) :

• 5+ years DevOps experience in large, multi-product environments
• 5+ years using modern scripting and OO programming languages as a contributing member within an agile dev squad
• 3+ years authoring CI/CD pipelines, automation elements related to infrastructure composition , deployment orchestration , and monitoring
• Experience in AWS Architecture ideally with an accreditation
• Experience using Terraform as an AWS automation technology with strong hands on Kubernetes, clusters orchestration etc
• 2+ years leading people

Nice to Haves (even more things it’d be great if you knew about) :

• Comfortable presenting and communicating ideas to key stakeholders and engineers alike

• Experience of cloud migration activities either Public or Private
• Hands on experience of implementing infrastructure and service based monitoring solutions
• A good understanding of the security controls required to host applications and services in the cloud
• A good understanding of release management techniques within a cloud hosted environment

• Source code version control systems, e.g. GitHub

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