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Job Details
Role Overview
Join Kantar as a Senior DevSecOps Engineer and demonstrate brand new DevSecOps practices to improve the security and efficiency of our software systems. Your role will focus on operational flawlessness, security, and mentoring Junior DevOps Engineers.
Key Responsibilities
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Manage and promote code and infrastructure deployment across Dev, Test, UAT, and Production environments, implementing automation wherever possible to ensure seamless operations.
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Develop and maintain standards and procedures to ensure flawless application deployments across environments with minimal or no downtime.
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Collaborate with the QA function to provide sign-off and change management for production deployments.
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Work closely with Developers and DevOps Architects to troubleshoot and resolve issues in deployed systems.
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Design and implement proactive monitoring and alerting strategies to ensure system reliability.
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Create and maintain build definitions and release processes with integrated testing mechanisms.
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Maintain and support build servers to ensure consistent and reliable build processes.
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Coordinate with third-party IT providers to integrate their solutions within our existing infrastructure.
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Serve as the coordination point for blocking issues and problems related to automation.
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Gather requirements for the design, development, and deployment of new solutions.
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Conduct root cause analysis to improve existing solutions and prevent recurrence of issues.
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Implement process engineering and operational improvement initiatives for cloud automation tooling.
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Implement scheduled and unscheduled automation support for various technology domains.
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Evaluate existing applications and platforms, providing recommendations for performance improvements.
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Collaborate with Architects to design service automation in cloud environments, focusing on Infrastructure-as-code.
Capabilities and experience
Experience
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Over 4 years of experience in a DevOps or DevSecOps role.
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Proven familiarity with software versioning control systems such as VSO, GIT, Jira, or similar.
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Extensive experience with IaaS/PaaS/SaaS cloud solutions.
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Demonstrated experience working in an agile methodology environment.
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Proven track record dealing with real-time production systems.
Skills
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Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar.
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Expertise in cloud automation tools like ARM, CloudFormation, Terraform, or similar.
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Advanced knowledge of maintaining Azure DevOps and building robust pipelines.
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Proven expertise in Azure PaaS services, including AppServices, Azure Cosmos, and Function Apps.
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Beneficial experience with Kubernetes.
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Familiarity with DevOps tools such as SonarQube and Qualys WAS.
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Knowledge of automating IaaS operations, including patching VMs.
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Strong ability to articulate technical challenges and solutions.
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Understanding of balancing cost, performance, and reliability in technical solutions.
Personal Skills
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Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of working in a distributed team environment.
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Passionate about the impact of cloud technology on modern business.
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Quick learner with the ability to adapt to project needs.
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Exceptional problem-solving, analytical, and decision-making abilities.
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Comfortable dealing with ambiguous or undefined problems and thinking abstractly.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
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Ability to handle conflicts and difficult situations constructively.
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Positive “can-do” attitude with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
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Hands-on approach to problem-solving.
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Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Educational Requirements
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Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent experience.
Why join Kantar?
We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
Location
Hyderabad, International Tech ParkIndia
Kantar Rewards Statement
At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
