R&D Senior Engineer - Azure Cloud DevOps Engineer - IDC

Business Information:

Hitachi Energy India Development Centre (IDC), is a research and development facility with around 500 R&D engineers, specialists, and experts, who focus on creating and sustaining digital solutions, new products and technology. This includes product integration, testing, cybersecurity, and certification.  The India Development Centre is situated in Chennai and Bangalore. IDC collaborates with the R&D and Research centres of Hitachi Energy, which are spread across more than 15 locations throughout 12 countries. In the past 20 years, IDC has secured more than 200 international papers and 150+ patents.

Mission Statement:

We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic.  Hitachi Energy has a proven record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries

Your Responsibilities:

• Able to stay on scope and take responsibility for meeting milestones and deadlines.

• Proactive with suggestions for improvements; thinks laterally; receptive to new ideas.

• Work closely with a dynamic group of people in various time zones.

• You are working on improving our processes for continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, and release management.

• You strive for the highest standards in terms of security.

• Developing, maintaining, and supporting azure infrastructure, and system software components.

• Using your understanding of the different azure tech components to support developers with good advice on how to build solutions.

• Ownership of overall architecture in azure.

• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.

• Provide technical leadership for CI/CD processes design implementation and process orchestration.

• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.

• Monitor and report on compute/storage costs and forecast.

• Manage and orchestrate deployment of a .NET microservices based solution.

• Living Hitachi Energy’s core values of safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.

Your background:

• 3+ years of experience in azure DevOps, CI/CD, configuration management, and test automation.

• 2+ years of experience in; IAC, ARM, YAML, Azure PaaS, Azure Active Directory, Kubernetes, Application insight.

• 2+ years of experience in Bash.

• Solid experience of working with a wide array of azure components.

• Development in Azure, including Function Apps, WebApp, etc.

• Experience of building and maintaining large scale SaaS solutions.

• Wide database experience with SQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL, Redis databases.

• Experience in infrastructure as code automation (ARM, Terraform or similar).

• Understanding of security, network, virtualization, load balancer, storage, and databases.

• Understanding of security concepts, best practices and how to apply them, such as TLS/SSL, and data encryption.

• Experience with Helm charts, docker-compose, in building docker based services, Linux system management,azure Data Factory, WAF, streaming data e.g., Kafka

• Experience with logging & visualization tools such as ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana.

• Experience in at least one programming language (e.g., Python, C#)

• Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.

• Knowledge of big data/analytics.

• Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.