Acuity Knowledge Partners, a leading provider of high-value research, analytics, and business intelligence to over 500 financial institutions and consulting companies through our specialist workforce of over 6,000 analysts and delivery experts across our global delivery network.
Job Responsibilities :
Manage and maintain Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Databricks environments and data lake platform. Establish, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes. Investigate and resolve issues related to the application infrastructure, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines.
Desired Skills and Experience :
Candidate Profile
4 to 7 years of experience in a DevOps role preferably in Investment Banking.
Experience in managing and working with Kubernetes environments and observability tools.
Strong knowledge of containerization and orchestration of microservices.
Experience with Docker/Podman, Helm, ArgoCD GitOps tool, Terraform.
Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Azure Redis, and other Azure cloud related technologies.
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Grafana Agent, Azure Monitor logging and observability tools.
Good exposure to Bamboo CI/CD tools, Bitbucket, GIT.
Automation scripting (Bash, Powershell, Python).
Be able to demonstrate a high level of professionalism, organisation, self-motivation, and a desire for selfimprovement.
Ability to plan, schedule and manage a demanding workload.
Nice to have skills:
Implement backup and disaster recovery strategies and participate in annual DR tests and assist with executing the DR test plan
Develop and utilize cost tracking tools and methodologies to provide transparent and accurate financial reporting for all projects. Identify areas where cloud spend can be optimized to reduce wastage and costs.
Good knowledge of scheduling jobs via Apache Airflow.
Good knowledge of Azure Landing zone, Azure networking concepts such as private links.
Good knowledge or experience in deploying and maintaining Azure Databricks infra.
Good Java, NodeJs skills.
Good understanding of Kafka streaming and MongoDB.
Knowledge of DevSecOps practices.
Key Responsibilities :
Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform.
Utilize containerization technologies like Azure Kubernetes to orchestrate and manage containerized applications in a production environment.
Manage and maintain the lifecycle of core application suite that provide common capabilities such as continuous deployment, observability, and Kafka streaming.
Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application issues using monitoring tools.
Collaborate with infra teams to provision and manage infra resources required by FO IT development teams in Azure cloud.
Establish, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the build, test, and deployment processes.
Investigate and resolve issues related to the application infrastructure, continuous integration, and deployment pipelines.
Identify areas that benefit from automation and build automated processes wherever possible.
Design and develop application health dashboards, alerting and notification delivery systems to help with observability of application stack in Azure cloud.
Collaborate with development, testing, and operations teams to gather, understand, and analyze functional requirements.
Implement and enforce security best practices throughout the infrastructure, including identity and access management (RBAC), encryption, and secure network configurations.
Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, Containerization and orchestration of microservices, Docker/Podman, Helm, ArgoCD GitOps tool, Terraform, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Storage, Azure Redis, rometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Grafana Agent, Azure Monitor logging, Bamboo CI/CD tools, Bitbucket, GIT, Automation scripting.