Responsibilities

Job Description

Finastra is looking for an experienced, pragmatic DevOps Engineer who does things the right way and shares our passion for automating, developing solutions, and improve. You will be part of our Cloud Automation within the Architecture and Practices team and will be responsible for empowering business by providing required automation to take our products in Microsoft Azure cloud.

Job Accountabilities:

As a DevOps Engineer you will be part of the Global Technology organization and collaborate with wider product teams, architects, and developers to build required automation and ensure reliable, timely delivery. This group is responsible for providing support and required automation to provision various resources on Microsoft Azure Cloud environment for entire FINASTRA and as such we'll rely on your experience to help us build out the automated, adhering to best-practices and integrating within our ecosystem. In this role you will be supported by the teams of top-notch developers, support engineers and the entire Finastra organization to deliver the best of breed products, services & experience to our clients.

• As a key member of the Cloud Automation team, you will contribute to deliver various automation which will enable various delivery teams to provision required resources on Azure Cloud Platform adhering to standards, guardrails.

• Partnering in design & development of these automation capabilities which will improve profitability for our managed hosting services by leveraging standardized approaches/services and ensuring compliance.

• The role is mix of Azure architecture & Azure Cloud Engineer i.e., sound theoretical knowledge about application/system architecture but more importantly being practical i.e., strong hands-on Azure implementation skills & configuration experience.

• As a DevOps Engineer, the successful candidate will use their knowledge, skills & experience to provide required guidance, hands-on support and assistance as required to the teams in provisioning and decommissioning resources and further help to automate as part of our in-house SelfService Portal platform to remove toil and improve cadence.

• In Customer Technology space, automation opportunities thrive across shared services like security, networking, client connectivity, Infrastructure services, Technology Resiliency and many more.

• The DevOps Engineer will work collaboratively with management, scrum masters, Disaster Recovery engineers, Product Architects, Solution Architects, and the Cloud Automation team members to define, create (scripting), deploy & test various automation activities.

• Provide support to wider organization on deployments done with our own developed SelfService Portal platform.

• Provide support to wider organization on Puppet related issues.

• Develop Puppet modules for automating the installation of specific applications and services (like SQL cluster configuration and specific company applications)

• Support the team leads in development of various automation capabilities which will be utilized within the company.

• Collaborate to improve existing technical/automation capabilities i.e., share solutions/ideas, and provide better value, experience to our internal customers.

• As part of feature development or issue resolutions etc., propose & present ideas (theoretical/conceptual) to the team and wider organization/stakeholders.

• Develop proof-of-concepts of proposed solutions and demonstrate them to wider team as well wider organization.

• Hands-on industry experience of working with configuration management tools with a focus on Puppet and Ansible.

• Hands on experience of working with CI/CD process.

• IT hands on experience and experience working on Public Cloud Platform - preferably Microsoft Azure.

• Good with software programming & scripting tools with a focus on Unix Shell Scripting, PowerShell and Python.

• Working knowledge of Infrastructure as Code e.g., Terraform (preferable), Azure ARM templates etc.

• Knowledge working with some core Azure components for e.g. Virtual Machines, Logic Apps, VNETs, Subnets, NSGs etc.

• Good understanding of networking, especially how it works in Cloud platforms.

• Comfortable working across stack, for e.g., web servers, databases, as well with various IaaS systems and PaaS resources.

• Effective verbal and written communication skills; excellent customer service skills

• Ability to work independently or within a team environment and handle multiple tasks or projects simultaneously.

• Goal oriented and action focused.

• Proactive & energetic.