MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE

• Ensure scalability, performance, and reliability of large-scale, cloud-based applications and infrastructure
• Establish monitoring and observability solutions and address performance bottlenecks, errors and other issues
• Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines to facilitate seamless and efficient delivery of software updates while minimizing downtime
• Develop and implement strategies to enable zero downtime deployments
• Resolve incidents promptly to minimize service disruptions
• Create and enforce best practices and standards for the deployment and management of applications, databases, and other resources
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including developers, DevOps engineers, and QA engineers, to drive continuous improvement and innovation

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE / TECHNICAL OR FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Minimum of 10 + years of relevant experience

• Good knowledge of IT infrastructures, cloud operations, as well as the design, implementation, and management of highly available and scalable infrastructure

• Proficiency in Azure services, Terraform, observability tools, techniques for monitoring and troubleshooting distributed systems
• Experience with zero downtime deployment strategies and DevOps tools (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI, Github)

• Independent and self-driven personality, taking responsibility and owning tasks

• Possesses good problem-solving skills and structured way of working

• Openness to try and learn new technologies and skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills, being able to communicate problems to non-technical audiences