DevOps Architect(10+ years Experience)

Job Description

Company Description KENSALTENSI is a technology services company specializing in WEB3 and blockchain solutions. The organization?s expertise extends across diverse domains, with a notable focus on the AdTech industry. KENSALTENSI is committed to innovation and developing cutting-edge technologies that drive growth and efficiency for its clients. The company is dedicated to delivering high-quality solutions tailored to meet unique business needs. Role Be the leader of the devops and system administration team Be an individual contributor and be recognized as an expert that the company would look up to in all infrastructure related areas Provide architectural inputs and insights for product architecture, recommend appropriate cloud services or self managed open source systems along with suitable commercial and technical justification Be able to distinguish and manage contradictions between short term and long term goals while selecting infrastructural components Participate in the technical architecture board to whet system architecture proposed for products being built Be on top of the latest security vulnerabilities being reported and take proactive steps to ensure security of all of the company?s digital assets In case of a security violation, be in the forefront of restoring normalcy, managing the situation and performing the root cause analysis and take appropriate action to prevent repetition Build an excellent team of dedicated experts that can manage the company?s growing internet and on-premise resources Be responsible for all technical infrastructure of the company Be the controller for all technical and other third party cloud services subscribed to by the company Create the DevOps department as an excellent service provider with high reliability and quick turn-around time. Prepare, implement and keep updated the technical deployment architecture Provide troubleshooting support and assistance for production issues Take responsibility and be accountable for the reliable working of all production infrastructure with an uptime of over 99.99%. Ensure uptime for other environments such as Dev, QA, and Pre-production, as per the SLAs. Have a tight control on the infrastructure costs and ensure that optimal configurations are used and unwanted resources are released. Working across engineering teams to enable cost-effective, robust and secure delivery of platform services. Providing feedback to help the team understand technical trade-offs at the architecture, design and planning stage, particularly with respect to technical debt, performance, scalability and security. Performing the necessary platform development to enable and support the engineering team's goals as they evolve over the feature lifecycle, from defining requirements and specifications, developing proof-of-concepts, to ultimately delivering solutions to end users. This includes: Provisioning and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and environment Create and maintain CI/CD systems and pipelines Supporting engineers with training, guidance and standardised protocols for the deployment of new services that apply the relevant best practices Monitoring system health and managing events, alerting stakeholders when necessary Working closely with QA to ensure that systems are engineered such that they are observable and auditable across all relevant dimensions. Guarantee business continuity by ensuring adequate backup is taken as per the requirements of the disaster recovery SLAs Ensure that restoration drills are performed at regular intervals to check preparedness for disaster recovery as well as the quality of backup Ensure the company?s data and databases are well protected Maintain Deployment architecture and infrastructure documentation Key skills and experience At a minimum, candidates must have and experience and understanding with: Experience as a DevOps Architect participating in architecture and design phases of product building Software development at different stages of product development, particularly early-stage prototypes, to minimum viable products Strong experience in infrastructure as code (IaC), software development, and continuous integration Proficiency in system administration and Linux administration CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, AWS CodeDeploy, AWS CodeBuild etc Experience with Relational and NO-SQL databases Should be good with Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, Microservices architectures. Should have fair idea of Database Administration with MySQL, MondgoDB Understanding of networking concepts and protocols Knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Utho, Azure, or GCP Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in a timely manner Excellent communication and collaboration skills Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubernetes Administrator) are a plus