About this role
At Alstom, we understand transport networks and what moves people. From high-speed trains, metros, monorails, and trams, to turnkey systems, services, infrastructure, signalling and digital mobility, we offer our diverse customers the broadest portfolio in the industry. Every day, 80,000 colleagues lead the way to greener and smarter mobility worldwide, connecting cities as we reduce carbon and replace cars.
OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE :
Alstom are now looking for the DevOps Architect, who will be working on the infrastructure design and the configuration and the operations of the Data Platform, within a lean startup pathway and in collaboration ofsoftware Architects and API Architect.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Prepare product technical design and architecture. Contribute for design review, code review and change management.
- Own entire DevOps lifecycle of product – ensure smooth code integration, optimize release management process, automate and manage deployment environments – On-premise and Cloud.
- Troubleshoot and provide technical support and guidance to users of the product who will mainly be railway system architects, data scientists, data engineers.
- Constantly mentor team members to adopt better cloud techniques and constantly improve the system design.
- Create a well-informed cloud strategy and manage the adaption process. ( Azure and on-premise)
- Standardize the software development release management process.
- Write and maintain product technical documentation – Release process, upgrade process, patch management.
- Provide guidance to data platform users on best practices to develop container based applications that can be deployed on-premises as well as on cloud and support Data Science/Data engineering teams with production workloads and best practices of deployment.
- Analyse technical choices with data backed decisions and alignment to product strategy.
Qualifications & Skills:
EDUCATION
- University background: Bachelors/Master’s degree in computer science & information systems or related engineering.
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:
- Outstanding Technical leader with proven hands on in configuration and deployment of DevOps towards successful delivery.
- Capability to guide and support other devops engineers.
- Be Innovative and be aligned to new product development technologies and methods.
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting
- Proven capabilities with worldwide teams
- Team Player with prior experience in working with European customer is not mandatory but preferable.
Ref: Leadership Dimensions:
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES & EXPERIENCE
- 14+ years in IT and/or digital companies.
- Excellent understanding of Ansible, Terraform, Python
- Experience in Scripting (PowerShell/ Python/ Bash) to create reusable components
- Good to have Go programming experience in Kubernetes.
- Expertise in designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
- Strong technical problem-solving skills, and analytical skills to define architecture and approach for DevOps
- Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Mandatory knowledge on Kubernetes. Knowledge in rancher is a plus.
- Mandatory experience of developing helm charts and Kubernetes operators.
- Experience with Azure cloud-based provisioning, deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting and related automation technologies
- Understanding of platform security best practices and how to implement & monitor
- Experience in cloud technologies & tools, Service Models, and Deployment Models
- Experience in security protocols, digital certificates, SSL/TLS, Key and secrets management
- Experience digging through logs and metrics to triage and fix incidents - systematic problem-solving approach with a sense of ownership
- Good understanding of concepts including Networking, Routing, Load Balancing, Redundancy, Disaster Recovery, VPN, Firewalls, etc.
- Strong in source control/configuration management including Git, and GitLab; familiarity with Azure DevOps and Visual Studio Code a plus
- Experience working on SUSE harvester/openshift mandatory
- Experience on AKS is mandatory
- Previous experience as platform architect/solution architect is preferred
Important to note
As a global business, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that celebrates diversity across the 63 countries we operate in. We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace for everyone