AWS Platform Operations, Officer

Overview

Support State Street's AWS cloud native platform operations as an AWS-focused agile and DevOps SRE engineer, using Infrastructure as Code and operations as code via Terraform and Harness.

What you'll do

• Maintain proficiency in AWS platform foundations and services.
• Manage incidents, changes and problems through ITSM processes.
• Devise solutions and methodologies to reduce MTTRs and increase uptime.
• Refine and enhance continuous monitoring and observability.
• Design and maintain a patch management solution.
• Carry out release management to pre-production and production environments.
• Participate in regular DR activities along with applications.
• Standardize and maintain metrics and reporting.
• Continuously look for cost optimization opportunities.
• Produce show back / chargeback reporting.
• Maintain operations as code practices.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in any Engineering discipline.
• 9+ years of IT experience in a hands-on role, with 3-5 years of experience designing and supporting AWS environments.
• Solid SRE operations experience in an AWS environment.
• Proficiency in Terraform and Harness.
• Understanding of Agile and DevOps.
• Strong understanding of cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code).
• Automation-focused, engineering mindset, with a drive to reduce toil via operations as code and reduce manual intervention.
• Openness and ability to learn new skills and technologies in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated and passionate; team player able to communicate ideas and escalate issues across teams in a timely manner.
• Handling critical issues and timely remediations in high-pressure situations.
• Ability to develop and document deliverables compliant with established company design control and regulatory statutes.
• Strong programming and scripting background in languages such as shell scripts, Python, Java etc.
• Experience designing, coding and deploying Terraform templates / modules with Harness.
• Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Nice to have

• Appropriate certifications demonstrating understanding of core infrastructure concepts as well as data and/or DevOps principles.
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS solutions along with cloud native design patterns and DevOps principles (Infrastructure as Code).
• Hands-on experience in one or more of: Core IaaS (Compute, Storage, Networking, High Availability); Azure PaaS services (Azure Kubernetes Service, Event Hub etc.); Data Platform and Big Data (SQL Server, Azure SQL DB, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Factory / Databricks).
• Automated testing tools experience.
• ServiceNow, Splunk and Grafana knowledge.
• Knowledge of Windows / Linux OS.
• Financial services or regulated industry experience.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.