Azure Devops Role

Job Description

Company SummaryFirst American (India) is a Global In-house Center (GIC) of the First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF) family of companies, a proud member of the FORTUNE 500 companies and was named one of FORTUNEs 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2020. First American Financial Corporation provides comprehensive title insurance, closing/settlement, property data and technology solutions. First American (India) creates quality solutions for its customers by combining software, back office and knowledge processing operations to fulfill First Americans business requirements. Our priorities are our employees, customers and shareholders - in that order. FAI has been recognized as one among Indias Top 75 workplaces in IT & IT-BPM 2019 by Great Place to Work Institute. Software Services helps build First Americans product suite that encompasses the best in class Title Insurance, Settlement and Mortgage solutions platforms. Leverages technology product stack across Microsoft platform predominantly to develop, enhance and maintain the best in class applications. The R & D division delivers solutions for the title insurance industry leveraging the best of NLP, AI and ML.Job SummaryResponsibilities:Collaborate with Infrastructure, AppDev and Security teams to help design and implement CI/CD tooling platform that includes automated infrastructure i.e Infrastructure as Code (IaC), security control/testing, monitoring and feedback loops.Assist AppDev teams as needed to build, enhance their own Infrastructure and Application Build and Release Pipelines using the CICD tooling platform.Support CI/CD and associated tools in pipelines for development and production environments.Applies his/ her experience of technology solutions, advanced analysis skills and experience in principals of architecture to define appropriate industry solutions and alignment with senior stakeholders across the globe.Support team following well defined Agile/Scrum practices and execute SDLC tasks such as code merge, build and release operations that also include administration and maintenance of tools supporting these efforts.Responsible for governance and support of tools and DevSecOps processes used in CI/CD pipelines.Responsible for writing and executing automation scripts to assist in CI/CD pipelines.Research, learn and adopt new CI/CD tools and develop techniques to increase performance, automation and scalability of Deployment framework.Research and stay current in AWS, Azure, associated technology, vendor products and their interdependencies.Must have experience in AWS and Microsoft Azure technology, associated vendor products and their interdependencies.Collaborate as part of larger delivery teams which may include project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, and change management professionals.As part of IaC, work with cross-functional teams to design, implement and operationalize the corporate golden image bakery for AWS and Azure (Windows and Linux) to provide standard, secure golden images for AppDev to automatically incorporate into their pipeline.Should have a passion for the technology which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.Lead the technical decision making on configuration management, version control, build/ deployment management and automation.Candidate is expected to have a holistic view of technical environments and help forward the organizational infrastructure as a competitive technological advantage. Moreover, candidate is required to have a natural problem-solving ability, sharp reasoning, logical bent and very good grasp on programming fundamentals.Requirements:B.S. in Computer Science, related field or commensurate work experience.Candidate should have around 4-5 years of experience in DevOps space and deep expertise & knowledge on implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment) methodologies with Azure Pipeline, Jenkins, etc.Proven experience in coding & scripting DevOps, Ant/Maven, TSQL, PowerShell, Terraform, Shell Scripting, Python, MS SQL Database management/ administration skills.Experience with System & IT operation Windows and Linux OS administration.Great team player with passion for excellent customer service and innovation.Automation experience with orchestration and configuration technologies such as ARM Templates, Azure DevOps, CloudFormation, Power Shell/DSC (Desired State Configuration), Terraform, Puppet, Chef and Ansible with experience of cloud deployment. Understanding Container configuration and implementation experience with Docker, Vagrant or Kubernetes.Experience with source/ version control tool such as MS TFS, Azure DevOps, Git or GitHub etc.Experience with CI/CD, IaC and tools such as PowerShell, DSC, Terraform, YAML, Python, AngularJS, Node, Packer, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef/ Inspec, RSpec, Nexus and/or Artifactory preferred.Proficient in configuring, orchestrating & managing CI/CD tools - Bamboo, SoapUI, SonarQube, Veracode, Black Duck, etc.Understanding of networking principles and technologies (DNS, Load Balancers, Reverse Proxies), Microsoft Active Directory and Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) preferred.Experience in architecting and implementing large enterprise DevOps solutions. Performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.Problem-solving and thinking laterally as part of Agile team (Scrum or Kanban), or individually to meet the needs of the project.Participate in afterhours maintenance when necessary, respond to emergencies, participate in customer calls when called upon in support of initiatives and incident responseSupporting production applications or workloads in On-Prem and Cloud-based environments.Understanding High Availability and Disaster Recovery principles, patterns and usage preferredUnderstanding Container configuration and some implementation experience with Docker or Kubernetes is desirable.Very Good written & verbal communications skills, interpersonal skills to work with various teams and stakeholders.,

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