Principal Architect

DevOps Principal Architect

Hire type: (Contract)

Location: 100% Remote à
15+ years only

Note:- its hands on architect role

Roles & Responsibilities:

Lead the strategy and planning for onboarding and adopting existing AWS centric applications to VMware Environment.
Lead the data, code development, testing, networking, shared infrastructure. DevOps and release activities required to complete onboarding to VmWare infas from AWS.
Work in the DevOps team, to test the new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment including Confluent Kafka-MRC event driven architecture, Redis cache, Cloudian-S3 data store, Flink data pipes and Enterprise PostgreSQL database to ensure they are accessible and functional to be ready for onboarding.
Work with DevOps team to test the connectivity between new failover shared services and existing shared services: Secret, identity, LDA, DNS, Artifactory, Jenkins, Splunk services.
Deploy the risk application on RTOP using the newly developed continuous deployment pipeline on the RTOP shared infrastructure.
Lead team that makes necessary code changes to risk application to make sure they are compatible with RTOP VMware environment.
Lead the strategy for functional and integration testing effort to ensure the onboarded risk application are tested for functionality, integration and end-to-end process testing.
Collaboratively work with other teams in performing in failover, non-functional and operational testing for Risk applications
Understand the difference between developing the risk application on AWS and VMware environment. Then Ideate solutions to complex technical challenges in adopting applications to VMware Environment; code, test, troubleshoot, debug, and document the solutions you develop. Use agile software development model to produce well-designed programs, scripts, and tools required to provision, configure, and monitor new shared infrastructure services for on premises failover environment.
Continuously improve the processes and the DevOps team using thoughtful, calculated approaches to identify opportunities, and challenge those around you to strive for perfection.

Key Skills:

At least 15 years of strong technical leadership, strategy & planning skills
At least 10 years of leadership, stakeholder management and offshore management skills
Ability to lead and collaborate with Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure and Networking teams.
At least 15 years of experience in developing cloud native, microservices-event driven application on-premises (VMware environment and AWS Cloud) and ability adopt the application to both the environment.
At 6-7 years of experience building specializing in cloud/on-premises application modernization/movement/adoption using virtualization, DevOps pipelines, shared infrastructure deployments using terraform and data pipes.
About 5-6 years of experience in building Java streaming application using Flink, Kafka, Java Microservices, Redis Cache, and Enterprise Databases is good to have.
Deep understanding of performing data replication, failover, and DR strategies
Also 5-6 years of experience in collaborating with the functional, integration, non-functional (Performance, Security, Failover), and operational testing
6-7 years of hands -on experience in Maven/Gradle using event driven architecture (Kafka)
Intermediate working knowledge of development tools like distributed message brokers like Kafka, and data streaming pipes using Flink.
Understanding of QA strategy and implementation
Experience in Kafka data replication between AWS and On-Prem
Experience with continuous deployment tools, techniques, and automation frameworks – especially Terraform Enterprise, Ansible, helm charts and deploying into Kubernetes (k8s)
Expertise with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, LogicMonitor, SignalFX, and Prometheus.
Worked on projects involving deployment and management of micro services, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure, VMware ESXI, VMware Cloud Automation Center, AWS, VMWare Cloud, DevOps tooling etc.