Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

GSSTech Group

We are looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer with strong expertise in OpenShift, Kafka, CI/CD, Cloud, and distributed systems to join our technology team. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building scalable, secure, and cloud-native platforms in high-throughput environments.

Education

Degree, Postgraduate in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent industry experience)

Experience

Minimum 5+ years of development and design experience in OpenShift/Jenkins, ArgoCD and Kafka.

Technical Skills

Containerization and orchestration (Docker and OpenShift/Kubernetes)

Enterprise and Open Source Redis setup, configuration and support.

Kafka setup and configuration experience with high throughput environment.

Source control (GIT), automated build/deployment pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, Kaniko, Shipwright etc.)

Public Cloud preferably Azure and OCI

Linux OS configuration and using shell scripting

Working with streaming data sets at scale

Public Cloud automation toolset

Cloud Native applications

Understanding of GitOps

Extensive coding experience and knowledge in event driven and streaming architecture

Good hands-on experience with design patterns and their implementation

Experience doing automated unit and integration testing

Well versed with CI/CD principles (GitHub, Jenkins etc.), and actively involved in solving, troubleshooting issues in distributed services ecosystem

Familiar with Distributed services resiliency and monitoring in a production environment.

Responsible for adhering to established policies, following best practices, developing, and possessing an in-depth understanding of exploits and vulnerabilities, resolving issues by taking the appropriate corrective action.

High level knowledge of compliance and regulatory requirements of data including but not limited to encryption, anonymization, data integrity, policy control features in large scale infrastructures

Understand data sensitivity in terms of logging, events and in memory data storage such as no card numbers or personally identifiable data in logs.

Distributed systems

Network fundamentals and host-level routing

Tuning distributed systems

Automated testing, Security engineering practices and tools.

Event driven architecture

Good to have Flink, Beam / Kafka streams, Apache Spark or similar streaming technologies

Functional Skills

Experience in Agile methodology.

Ensure quality of technical and application architecture and design of systems across the organization.

Analytical thinking

Effectively research and benchmark technology against other best in class technologies.

Able to influence multiple teams on technical considerations, increasing their productivity and effectiveness, by sharing deep knowledge and experience.

Self-motivator and self-starter, ability to own and drive things without supervision and works collaboratively with the teams across the organization.

Soft Skills

Have excellent soft skills and interpersonal skills to interact team members.

Strategic Thinking with Research and Development mindset

Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation)