Ness Digital Engineering is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer/Lead with 10+ years of experience to lead the charge in steering their AWS cloud, VMware Infrastructure, and DevSecOps services. You will focus on next-generation product innovation, core competency enhancement, and capability building across diverse locations. Responsibilities include architecting global enterprise networking operations, data center management, setting up enterprise-level standards for network infrastructure, shared infrastructure consumed by applications, and security standards. You will technically oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of security measures across the organization's networks, infrastructure, and applications. As a consultant, you will help customers accelerate their adoption of compute, network, storage, and security services. Collaboration with other engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders is crucial to ensure security and reliability requirements are integrated into all stages of the development lifecycle. You will communicate effectively with senior management and other departments, providing regular updates on security and automation initiatives and performance/reliability/availability of network and shared infrastructure.
Good To Have:- Proficiency in scripting and automation tools, such as Python, Bash, Ansible, or Terraform.
- Experience in implementing Network and infrastructure compliance with financial industry standards and regulatory requirements
- Previous experience in Implementing and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Optimize system performance and automate repetitive tasks to improve efficiency
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, and infrastructure as code.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker).
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2.
Must Have:- 10+ years' experience with global enterprise networking operations, data center management, Infrastructure Services in AWS and VMware
- Strong experience with Python scripting
- Relevant certifications such as AWS network certification or VMware Network and Security certifications (Equivalent to CISSP, CISM, or SANS GIAC or related)
- 10+ years of experience in designing network and workload isolation, network segmentation, network security policy definition, and network standards (DNS & Subdomain, routing etc.)
- 10+ Years of compute, network, storage, and security services in both AWS and VMware Environments
- 10+ years’ experience in developing and executing strategies for improving security and reliability across all systems and services
- 8+ Years of experience in setting K8s using Rancher, AWS EKS or similar services
- At least 8+ years of experience in business continuity planning including strategies, implementation, game days, and total cost estimation.
- 10+ years consulting/pre-sales experience to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives
- 10+ years of experiences in making overall recommendation (or proposal) based on customer needs
- 7+ years of experience in security engineering and/or site reliability engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
- 5 + years of experience in shared infrastructure services in AWS and VMware environments such as Kafka Stream, Data Pipes (Flink/Spark/Kinesis), Redis Cache, Apigee (API gateway)
- Strong understanding of security principles, practices, and technologies
- Proven experience with reliability engineering practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and performance tuning.
- Proven experience with DevOps practices such as CI-CD and Infrastructure as a code.