Senior Devops Engineer

Overview

Design, implement, operate and continuously improve Canada Life's Integration Platform capabilities, combining software engineering, platform engineering and site reliability engineering practices to deliver secure, scalable and resilient integration solutions.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define initiative deliverables and design secure, resilient, cost-effective solutions that meet business, technical, security and operational requirements.
• Design, build, deploy and support integration platform capabilities including API management, event-driven architectures, messaging platforms, service mesh technologies and containerized workloads.
• Build and deploy event-driven solutions utilizing industry best practices for scalability, resiliency, observability and supportability.
• Execute and continuously improve DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure automation and deployment frameworks.
• Proactively identify areas of friction within development, deployment and operational processes and drive technical solutions that improve efficiency and reliability.
• Partner with development teams to ensure applications and services adhere to platform standards for logging, monitoring, alerting, error handling, resiliency, retry strategies and operational supportability.
• Lead the troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues, performing root cause analysis and driving corrective actions.
• Monitor platform health, reliability, capacity and performance while proactively identifying and mitigating operational risks.
• Work with stakeholders, partners and consumers to modernize existing services and integration solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and lead proof-of-concepts that provide business value and improve platform capabilities.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, standards and implementation guides.
• Mentor and support development teams by sharing integration platform best practices and operational expertise.
• Ensure alignment and adherence to enterprise technology, security, risk and operational standards.
• Design and implement cloud-based solutions that comply with Canada Life's cyber security, data security and risk requirements.
• Participate in after-hours on-call support and incident response activities for critical platform services.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, software engineering, platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), application support, or a related technical discipline within a large and complex organization.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience designing, building, operating and supporting enterprise integration platforms and distributed systems.
• Experience working within cloud-based and containerized environments.
• Experience supporting critical production platforms and participating in incident management and operational support activities.
• Experience working within Agile and DevOps delivery models.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including architecture, development, operations, security and business stakeholders.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, system design, integration patterns and operational best practices.
• Experience with several of the following technologies and practices: API Gateway platforms such as Apigee; event streaming and messaging technologies such as Confluent Kafka, ActiveMQ or equivalent platforms; enterprise integration patterns including APIs, microservices, asynchronous messaging and event-driven architectures; REST and SOAP service development and integration; Java and Spring Boot application development; service mesh technologies such as Istio and Tetrate Service Bridge; containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes; DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, Git, SonarQube, Nexus and Vault; Infrastructure as Code technologies such as Terraform and Ansible; cloud platforms including AWS, Azure or GCP; monitoring and observability technologies including logging, metrics, alerting, tracing and application performance monitoring; Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles including reliability, resiliency, capacity management, automation and operational excellence; designing and implementing standards for logging, error handling, exception management, retries, resiliency and supportability; production support, incident management, root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
• Participation in after-hours on-call support and incident response activities is required.