IDP Education Hiring for Devops Architect at Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India Full Time

Job Description

About the company IDP Education Limited is an ASX listed company that is 50% owned by 38 Australian universities and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. IDP’s core business lines include student placement to Australia, US, UK, Canada and New Zealand institutions, English-language testing and training. We are setting out to be the world’s leading platform and connected international student community through building tons of new products to put our customers at the heart of everything we do. For over 50 years our global network of 93 offices has been helping students to achieve their goals through studying abroad. By pursuing a global education at the beginning of their careers, we help them experience life-changing opportunities. For more than 5,000 employees in more than 50 countries, IDP Education is a specialist employer of choice in major cities across the globe. If you share our passion in helping people to pursue their dreams through education and thrive in an innovative agile digital culture then come and join us as we undergo our digital revolution.
Position Purpose : IDP are looking for DevOps Architect who want to do important work, with a totally modern tech stack, in an environment where we are constantly improving our Software Engineering, and importantly we deliver high quality software each sprint.
Is this you?

• My passion for always improving is contagious. I know software development is a team sport, and I think of myself as a sort of software coach. My credibility helps people move forward in their software engineering journey.
• I plan the Work and work the Plan. I like having a plan for where we want to take Software Engineering and roll-up my sleeves to do the hard work to make it so.
• Modern Software Engineering is my passion. I really love all aspects of improving the way Software is engineered, delivered, and operated. Lots of people talk about DevSecOps, CI/CD, Shift Left, SAST, DAST – I know when the right time is to move ahead with each of these for a given team, and how to achieve the outcome, not just the buzzword.
• Senior Leaders Trust me. I’m confident enough to talk truth to power. Leaders know I don’t exaggerate, distort or cover-up news.
• I make things better: I get great joy from helping teams move along the DevSecOps maturity curve. After spending a short amount of time with a team, I understand where they are at in their maturity journey and help them plot their course. I love working closely with Software Engineers to break through any concerns they may have in adopting new approaches.
• People ask for me by name. I have a reputation as someone that people pull in when there is a tough problem to solve. Software Engineers, Developers, Security teams all ask for me to be involved in their initiatives – they know I make a difference.

If so, here is what we are looking for:

• Vision. We are ambitious about our goals for DevSecOps and Modern Software Engineering. It is our belief that accelerating our adoption of the cultures and behaviours associated with these practices is even more important than the industry leading tools that we have available to us.
• Leadership. Change can be hard, but the right leadership can make it easier. Embedding new behaviours and approaches needs a plan, a leader and lots of hard work. We need you to be a person who is motivational, clear in expectations, supportive, driven, and able to cut through blockers and distractions. Your super-power is to leave teams you’ve helped improve be excited about the next step in their journey because they know they are growing and increasing their own impact.
• Accelerated Outcomes. We are determined to accelerate the speed we deliver high quality features. A well-paced energetic drive, that results in Outcomes, is part of your DNA.
• Automation Powerhouse. You know what can, and should, be automated in Software Engineering and Delivery.
• Metrics and Measurement. Across our business we use data to understand how we’re performing. You’ll be smart about using data to drive adoption and measure progress.
• Innovator and Thought Leader. IDP are always looking to improve. We value Software experts who float ideas, improve our standards, share knowledge – you will have a history of these sorts of things.
• Serverless & IaC. With few exceptions IDP utilize AWS Serverless services which continues to give us fantastic flexibility to deliver business features. You will have practical experience with the most common AWS serverless services (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS) or their Azure/GCP equivalents. We do all our provisioning using IaC and are currently migrating over to AWS CDK from Terraform.

About Developing Software at IDP

• IDP does innovation well. We have a constant stream of incremental innovation in our existing products we manage with our SAFe Agile processes. IDP has some “super-power” advantages that contribute heavily to the success of our innovations: We have a powerful mission (we really do change our customers lives), a completely modern tech stack, a skilled and productive in-house software development capability, and innovation focused business leadership – right from the top.
• Our Tech Stack. Our tech stack is largely cantered around the following components: Language: Python; IaC: AWS CDK; Database: PostgreSQL, Redshift; AWS Serverless (Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, SNS); CI:CD: Gitlab; Observability: SumoLogic; Frontend: Angular; CMS: Contentful
• Microservices and SaaS. Many companies are talking about doing Digital Transformations. IDP started in 2017 when a range of best-in-class SaaS solutions were implemented for CRM, Marketing Automation, Contact Centres, Event Management, and e-Commerce to create our Global Platform. These SaaS solutions do much of the heavy lifting for our platform but we do most of our feature innovation in our Microservice/Micro Frontend tooling.
• Event Driven Architecture. IDP began its move to the Event Driven Architecture in 2019. The EDA is now providing major advantages: Our business transactions are real time and fast; we have full observability and fault tolerance built into our standards; and data is available across our entire platform.
• SAFe Agile. IDP utilize many of the ceremonies from the SAFe Agile framework which are well embedded in how we innovate. Our delivery teams are organized in Squads, we utilize Jira, and deliver in sprints.
• Machine Learning. IDP have a very strong Data Science team who work with our developers to build machine learning algorithms utilizing our data advantage. We incorporate algorithms into many of our workflows and microservices.
• Security & Privacy. We build Security and Privacy into all stages of our software development from Architectures, Solutioning, the Development process, and production.
• Architecture and Solutioning. IDP have a strong architecture practice that have modern Architectures and designed solutions to go into the Software Development process.

What our Software does… IDP genuinely change peoples’ lives. Our mission is to help students make the right decisions to achieve their global dreams. As Technologists, each sprint the features we deliver will most likely change at many people’s lives dramatically for the better – it feels good. We have built the world’s largest community of prospective students, who are connected to the largest network of highly trained counsellors, who are, in turn, connected to institutions in major destination countries. IDP Live is our latest innovation in technology and data including a cutting-edge app and platform that connects students with their dreams – the right course, in the right country, at the right