Staff DevOps Engineer - Azure + Kubernetes

Company Overview 

10Pearls is an end-to-end digital technology services partner helping businesses utilize technology as a competitive advantage. We help our customers digitalize their existing business, build innovative new products, and augment their existing teams with high performance team members. Our broad expertise in product management, user experience/design, cloud architecture, software development, data insights and intelligence, cyber security, emerging tech, and quality assurance ensures that we are delivering solutions that address business needs. 10Pearls is proud to have a diverse clientele including large enterprises, SMBs and high growth startups. We work with clients across industries, including healthcare/life sciences, education, energy, communications/media, financial services, and hi-tech. Our many long-term, successful partnerships are built upon trust, integrity and successful delivery and execution. 

Role 
We are actively seeking DevOps Engineers to lead with experience in driving end-to-end client onboarding, excelling in infrastructure automation, and showcasing CI/CD expertise. Proficiency in Cloud Providers (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, and scripting is a must for establishing secure, scalable, and efficient environments. 

Responsibilities

• Responsible for onboarding new clients and setting up their pipelines and infrastructure automation end to end 
• Responsible for documentation of system configuration, processes and tools used by the team 
• Ensure both release management and change management process are followed within production environments 
• Have a thorough process methodology and ability to communicate with all stakeholders. 
• Work collaboratively with development engineering to create and deploy a CI/CD infrastructure through (Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, GitLab-CI or AWS Code Pipeline) 
• Develop and implement environments for quality assurance, development, etc. 
• Implement DevOps with Dev team on agile delivery mode 
• Deploy and Support applications on cloud and on-prem environment 
• Responsible for infrastructure security and making sure environments are secure, reliable and scalable 
• Learning and gathering new technologies related to DevOps tools and present to the company to develop and grow the agile development environment 
• Collaborating with developers to make sure the new environments are set up properly and ensure the best practices of DevOps are in place 
• Designing, implementing and testing concurred upon frameworks 
• Prioritizing requests from operations, development and product teams fairly while demonstrating a sense of empathy 

Requirement 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.  
• Atleast 4+ years of DevOps experience 
• Strong documentation skills for system configuration, processes, and tools. 
• Experience with release management and change management processes in production environments. 
• Must have advanced level knowledge of at least two Cloud Providers AWS, GCP and Azure 
• Hands-on advanced-level experience with Docker, Kubernetes, helm charts, and ArgoCD or similar technologies. 
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation 
• Advanced scripting skills in Bash, Python, Powershell, and/or Ruby. 
• Hands-on experience in creating and deploying CI/CD infrastructure through tools like Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, GitLab-CI, or AWS Code Pipeline. 
• Advance level knowledge of web servers including Nginx and Apache  
• Good understanding of DevOps and GitOps practices 
• Experience with capacity planning processes supporting on-premises & public cloud deployment models 
• Experience in monitoring tools to track the health and performance of systems and applications like NewRelic, DataDog, Cloudwatch etc.  
• Experience in implementing log collection, aggregation, and analysis solutions to troubleshoot issues and monitor system activity using Cloudwatch, ELK, Prometheus etc 
• Certification in AWS/Azure or GCP – professional level would be plus 
• Kubernetes certification (CKA) would be plus  
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.  
• Should be proficient in communications both verbally and written 
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.