Lead DevOps Engineer - ARA

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team of around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

You’ll be part of a global team supporting multiple SaaS environments that help make the world a safer place. We use Azure as our core, but host on multiple platforms due to specific needs and our rapid pace of development and acquisition. The environment is rapidly changing from IaaS to PaaS to server less. So you’ll need to both apply your current skillsets and learn new things on a daily basis to push the business forward. While you’ll ultimately need a diversity of expert level skills to succeed, having deep understanding and experience in just a couple of areas (monitoring, scripting, automation tools, etc) may just get you in the door to a great career…

Key Responsibilities

• Support application infrastructure to ensure platform is optimized for performance and reliability.
• Build and maintain supporting infrastructure for cloud environments and applications.
• Use a wide range of Azure resources to implement scalable, reliable and cost-efficient services.
• Work side by side with your engineers, guiding critical projects, using your subject matter expertise to solve complex problems.
• Perform and automate system administration services including installation, configuration, maintenance, and disaster recovery
• Identify system level issues related to OS configuration and virtual hardware bottlenecks.
• Automation, auditing, and other tooling for security, compliance, and resource usage - Monitor and improve processes for all deployments.
• Take ownership of operational excellence to establish and maintain business focused KPI’s. Use these metrics not only as a basis for positive transformation, but also as a visible representation of your team’s success.
• Maintain and take ownership of your tasks each sprint ensuring time worked is logged and details are added.

Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate effectively with multiple disciplines.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to drive reliability improvements.
• Proven success managing and optimizing CI/CD for an Azure-based SaaS application.
• Hands-on-experience with common DevOps tools, including Azure DevOps.
• Strong scripting skills with at least PowerShell or Bash.
• Experience with configuration management tools like Terraform.
• Working knowledge of version control/source code management tools.
• Experience working in an agile software development life cycle.
• Working knowledge of databases including SQL and NoSQL
• Strong knowledge of web server configuration and management like IIS or Tomcat.
• Working knowledge of local and wide area networking and associated technologies, e.g. switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs.
• Strong understanding of security principles.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or similar area of study.
• Experience working in a technical fast paced environment with high demand and high standards.
• Ability to assimilate information quickly under pressure.
• Strong planning skills to ensure business expectations are met and projects are delivered on time.

Preferred experience

• Cloud-based networking (VNETs, NSGs, Route Tables, Hub/Spoke based architecture, Private Endpoints, etc)
• Strong understanding of CI/CD (YAML and Classic Pipelines)
• PaaS (Web Apps, Function Apps, Storage Accounts, Key Vaults, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Service Bus, API Management, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks)
• Monitoring (New Relic, LogEntries, Rapid7, Azure Monitoring, etc)
• Some experience with Containers/Docker either for a microservice based architecture or Service Orientated etc
• Git, ARM, Terraform, Ansible, Azure CLI or similar.
• JavaScript, React, C#, Java, PowerShell, Bash or similar.

Work Hours:

• 14.30-23.30 IST
• Remote work

Sphera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all colleagues.

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