Senior Engineer _ DevOps

Role: Senior Engineer _ Devops Location: India Type of Employment: Contract Work Mode: Remote/Hybrid

We are seeking a talented and experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have 5 to 8 years of hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable DevOps pipelines and infrastructure. You will play a crucial role in optimizing our development and deployment processes, ensuring the reliability and performance of our applications and services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various applications and microservices.
• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on Azure ensuring scalability, security, and cost-efficiency.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. Having used ECS or EKS, or similar tools in the past is a plus.
• Strong notions of security best practices (e.g. using IAM Roles, KMS, etc.).
• Experience with the serverless approaches using Lambda is a plus. For example, the Serverless Application Model (SAM).
• Experience with building or maintaining cloud-native applications.
• Collaborate with development teams to improve deployment processes and increase automation.
• Monitor system performance and reliability; troubleshoot and resolve issues proactively.
• Implement best practices for security, compliance, and reliability across all systems and environments.
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to the overall knowledge sharing within the team.

Requirements

• Previous exposure to large-scale systems design. Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Experience in Deployment on production and down stage environments like Dev, QA/Test.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• 5-8 years of experience in a DevOps or similar role, with a strong background in software development and systems administration.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, or similar.

Good background in Linux/Unix administration

• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Expertise in managing cloud environments (Azure) and infrastructure automation tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, ELK stack, Datadog).
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Preferred

• Experience with microservices architecture and serverless computing.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and practices.

About Excelra

• Excelra’s data and analytics solutions empower innovation in life sciences across the drug development value chain.
• The company’s global and multifaceted team has successfully helped curate and harmonize large volumes of disparate unstructured data; analyse data using cutting-edge AI/ML technologies; and enable data-driven decisions to unlock operational efficiencies and support the life science industry and accelerate drug development.
• The R&D Informatics group at Excelra leverages a variety of technology solutions to enable and/or scale the curation, harmonization, engineering, and analysis of data.
• We help our partners integrate data and analytics across chemistry, omics, clinical trials, and RWE to uncover novel insights and opportunities.
• You will help the R&D Informatics group in this critical and high-growth role at Excelra.

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