Intermediate DevOps

Job Description

Business Information:The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center (INOPC) is a competence center with around 1500 skilled engineers who focus on tendering, engineering, planning, procurement, functional system testing, installation supervision and commissioning. However, over the last decade, it has evolved to become the largest engineering hub. The India Operations Centre is a key aspect of the Power Grids business Power Up transformation program. The Hitachi Energy Indian Operations Center team at Chennai supports Hitachi Energys units in more than 40 countries across a wide portfolio of all the four business units in Power Grid business. To date, the team has executed engineering and commissioning for projects in more than 80 countries.Mission Statement:General IT Infrastructure Systems Administration work focuses on installation, configuration, and maintenance of IT systems software and hardware for multi-user server computers and/or personal computing devices including:

• Meeting end user needs by ensuring the uptime, performance, resource availability, and security of the computers managed within established budgets and operational guidelines.
• Acquiring, installing, and upgrading computer components and software and planning for/responding to service outages and other problems.
• Automating routine tasks using scripting and writing basic computer programs to address more complex systems software configuration and enhancement.
• An Experienced Professional (P2) applies practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advanced education and work experience.
• May require the following proficiency: Works independently with general supervision.
• Problems faced are difficult but typically not complex.
• May influence others within the job area through explanation of facts, policies, and practices.

Your Responsibilities:

• Driving collaboration between Infrastructure Operations with the Product Development DevOps team to define and continually improve deployment and upgrade processes.
• Continually improving processes for timely and cost-effective creation and maintenance of new tenants for customer use, and deploying applications to customer tenants
• Implementing and/or enhancing a standard and centralized strategic monitoring solution eliminating multiple monitoring sources and processes
• Delivering high availability auto scaling containerised deployments in Azure/AWS
• Providing mentorship and subject matter expertise for all applications hosted by the Infrastructure Operations team in a 24.7 global support model.
• Documenting application support best practices and processes as per templated laid out by the Infrastructure Operations team.
• For any new Hitachi Energy products getting onboarded to be hosted and managed by the Infrastructure Operations team, take the lead, and become a part of the initial adaptation team for such transitions, work with Product Development and DevOps teams to understand current deployment and upgrade processes and then apply the same to Infrastructure Operations teams standards, identify gaps and suggest and implement improvements through automation and innovation.
• Provide effective 24.7 application and infrastructure support to ensure Service Level Agreements are met.
• Design innovative solutions via automations to eliminate any manual and repeatable deployment and support tasks and improve operational effectiveness.
• Work with Kanban and Scrum methodologies followed by the Infrastructure Operations team.
• Living Hitachi Energys core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your Background:

• Bachelors degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant work experience in an industrial software or operations-focused environment, supporting business critical applications spanning multiple geographies, industries and domain.
• Minimum of 3+ years experience with a DevOps team involved with implementing software deployments in Azure or AWS.
• Ability to thrive in a fast, high intensity, deadline driven environment, dealing with multiple projects.
• Strong inter-personal and communication skills, ability to work with different teams within the organization and with partners, vendors, and customers outside the organization.
• Willingness and flexibility to support a 24.7 support and Devops model by working early morning and late evening hours as necessary.
• Demonstrable experience delivering high availability auto scaling containerised deployments in AWS or Azure.
• Kubernetes & Docker experience.
• In depth understanding of continuous integration, continuous delivery, software configuration management, version control and release management.
• A demonstrable understanding of the full Software Delivery Lifecycle.
• Ability to oversee and mentor junior application administrators, as well as report to management.

Keyskills :
DevopsContinuous Deliveryrelease managementDockerVersion ControlContinuous IntegrationAzureKubernetesAWSsoftware configuration management