Head - DevOps - Engineering Services

Head of DevOps Engineering

Job Title : Head of DevOps Engineering

Job Level : Director/VP/SVP

- Our client is a US headquartered NetOps orchestration company that's setting up its engineering team in India (Read Bangalore).

- But the role can be based out of anywhere as long as the candidate is ready to travel for 50% of the month to Bangalore.

- As the head of DevOps Engineering, you will lead our client's platform engineering from the DevOps perspective and play a larger role in engineering leadership in general.

- You will also spearhead initiatives focused on improving end-to-end system performance, scalability, reliability.

- This role will bring scale, opportunities to solve unique problems and the ability to drive significant outcomes for the organization.

What you'll do :

- Work with and lead your fellow engineers to define deployment, configuration and monitoring requirements

- Provide technical leadership to a team of engineers located globally

- Plan, build, configure, and optimize private and public cloud infrastructure for high performance, scalable and reliable consumer website

- Lead root cause analysis and collaborate with Engineering to build instrumentation into our stack to understand real-time performance characteristics

- Lead troubleshooting efforts with production/non-production systems

- Collaborate with the Product Management team to understand performance and availability requirements

Our ideal candidate :

- Bachelor's or advanced degree in Computer Science or a related discipline or relevant experience

- 10+ years of experience in software engineering

- Has to come from development background

- 3+ years of technical leadership experience

- Expertise in architecting, designing, troubleshooting and improving highly scalable and high-performing platforms

- Ability to lead teams and do technical deep dives into infrastructure to deliver highly available services

- Demonstrated expertise in Cloud Computing services (e.g., Amazon AWS, and Docker)

- Knowledgeable in managing MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka, Elastic Search, and Memcache

- Ability to install, configure and maintain Linux hosts and popular open-source applications such as Nginx, Apache HTTPd, Apache Tomcat, and Postfix

- Prior experience using datacenter automation tools such as OpenStack, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, ELK, and Zabbix.

- Experience in automating system administration tasks with scripting tools such as Python or shell is preferred

- Proficient in analyzing and troubleshooting operating system, networking, configuration and performance problems

- Fundamental understanding of Internet networking protocols: TCP/IP, TLS, DNS, HTTP, SMTP

- Clear communication with both technical and non-technical staff

Every person at our client's organisation has a significant impact on their evolving product, team, and culture, which is why they hire the best technical, creative, and operational minds.

Reasons to join our client :

- You get a sense of purpose, ownership at work and some brilliant minds to work with

- Reports to the CTO/CEO with absolute access to the board room

- World's biggest enterprises as your client

- Lastly, they are at 95th percentile amongst top tech paymasters in India

Reasons NOT to join our client :

- You are not hands-on OR have problems rolling your sleeves when situation demands.

- Happy with status-quo

- CEO is a hardcore techie and will consistently push you to bring the latest in tech.

Should this interest you, call Sri in confidence @ nine nine zero one one nine nine eight nine five.