Lead Software Engineer - Chennai - Gartner - 3

About this role:

The Cloud Center of Excellence is responsible for developing Gartner s capabilities in automating and streamlining IT infrastructure processes and DevOps tasks while improving Gartner s self service capabilities using public cloud platforms and open-source technologies.

You will be an expert contributor and part of the Cloud COE Team; responsible for developing Gartner s capabilities in automating and streamlining IT infrastructure processes and DevOps tasks while improving Gartner s self service capabilities using public cloud platforms and open-source technologies. This team, who has a broad and expert knowledge on many technology stacks and architectural patterns, fosters knowledge sharing and collaboration that results in a unified group strategy. All on the team provide leadership, innovation, timely delivery, and the ability to articulate business value.

What you ll do:

• 7+ years of hand-on experience in AWS services architecture and governance using built in services as well as external tools like Custodian. Experience with python and CDK required.

• Drive cloud native and designed for failure architectures across the enterprise
• Comfortable working with distributed teams and evangelizing the benefits of cloud and automation.
• Strong expertise in leveraging a wide variety of open source technologies
• Automation is in your DNA - not satisfied with performing repeatable work. Automate wherever you can, and ensure enterprise grade scale and security is built into your automation
• Self-Service - develop self-service capabilities so consumers can use the service without requiring manual action
• Create and maintain documentation of enterprise infrastructure topology and system configurations

• Serve as an escalation for internal support staff to resolve issues
• Coordinate with internal staff and schedule maintenance activities, including upgrades
• Work with the DevOps Engineering team to build/use automation tools to provide a fast, compliant list of cloud operations.
• Work closely with App Dev teams to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and oversee Security policy, monitoring, guidelines and compliance for our Cloud Services.
• Create and manage monitoring and alerting processes and procedures to ensure actionable alerts are generated, operated on, and lead to problems being eliminated before impacting customers.
• Optimize AWS/Azure billing by Right Sizing instances, select/manage reserved instances with tools such as CloudHealth and/or CloudNative.
• Focus on building automation to promote platform hygiene and operation excellence

What you ll need:

• Experience delivering solutions in a complex, globally distributed infrastructure
• Expertise with both Linux and Windows technologies and their use in delivering secure, highly available, mission critical enterprise-class solutions
• Demonstrable experience delivering automation and other optimization techniques to modernize infrastructure
• Experience working in a continuous delivery environment.
• Experience managing and implementing Cloud architectures in a DevOps/Agile methodology
• Experience facilitating incident management and system recovery efforts.
• Experience with operating system scripting such as ansible/packer, programming languages, agile project management practices
• Proven ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, iterative development environment

Who you are:

• Enthusiastic about learning new techniques, strong analytical and problem-solving skill
• Good judgment, prompt decision-making ability, responsibility, and accountability
• Commitment to team work as both a contributor and a leader
• Excellent communication, analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills