AVP, DevOps Lead at Global Atlantic Financial Group

Summary:

The Assistant Vice President of DevOps – Data will be responsible for integrating the project functions and resources across the product life cycle, right from planning, building, testing, and deployment to support. The Assistant Vice President will design and implement efficient procedures and pipelines for software development and infrastructure deployment, manage and deploy various key data systems and services. The Assistant Vice President will also expand and optimize the data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimize data flow and collection for cross-functional teams. The Assistant Vice President will work with Cloud engineers, Data Engineers, System Administrators, Data Administrators, and Architects to find opportunities to leverage DevOps technologies to process large volumes of data. The role will work closely with the business stakeholders, data architects, and IT teams to support data strategy initiatives and will ensure optimal data system performance and architecture is consistent throughout the strategy. The Assistant Vice President will also work with DevOps engineers to build CI/CD pipelines for Infrastructure as Code and automated deployment. This role requires a highly motivated individual with strong leadership capability, technical ability, data capability, excellent communication, and collaboration skills, including the ability to develop and troubleshoot a diverse range of problems.

Responsibilities

• Build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline) for Data Infrastructure using Terraform, Gitlab CI/CD.
• Build containerized application platform using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Select and deploy Gitlab CI/CD tools and pipeline.
• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and Data infrastructure.
• Deploy updates and fixes, install and maintain software, services, and applications by identifying system requirements.
• Maintain environment by identifying system requirements, installing upgrades, monitoring system performance, and building automated processes.
• Define and set development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
• Review, verify, and validate the software code developed in the project.
• Identify and deploy cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
• Plan the team structure, activities, and involvement in project management activities.
• Lead a team of DevOps engineers at both onsite and offshore.
• Set goals and conduct performance reviews for direct reports.
• Understand business objectives of the company and create cloud-based solutions to facilitate those objectives.
• Build pipeline to migrate systems from on-premise to AWS cloud.
• Maintain system performance by performing system monitoring, analysis, and performance tuning.
• Upgrade systems and services and develop, test, evaluate, and install enhancements and new software.
• Communicate with technology teams and stakeholders and build applications to meet project needs.
• Troubleshoot incidents and manage root cause analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
• Minimum of 12 years of experience in DevOps engineering.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience with Terraform and Gitlab CI/CD.
• Minimum of 5 years of AWS Cloud experience, including AWS EC2, ECS, VPC, AWS EMR, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue, AWS Batch, AWS RDS, and Redshift.
• Experience with CloudFormation and Infrastructure as Code software.
• Experience with jFrog Artifactory for hosting and managing binaries and artifacts.
• Experience with programming languages such as Python and JavaScript.
• Experience with building container platforms using Docker.
• Experience with building and maintaining container platforms using Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile software development using JIRA.
• Experience in multiple OS platforms with strong emphasis on Linux and Windows systems.
• Experience with OS-level scripting environments such as KSH shell, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Experience with version management tools and CI/CD pipelines.
• In-depth knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol suite, security architecture, and securing and hardening Operating Systems, Networks, Databases, and Applications.
• Experience supporting and optimizing data pipelines and data sets.
• Knowledge of the Incident Response life-cycle.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• This position is not currently eligible for visa sponsorship now or in the future.