DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Expert

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About The Job

Reporting to the Product Line Exec, the DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Expert is responsible for the design and delivery of features and solutions that cover multiple GIP products. The role involves requirements gathering and working with product owners and technical design leads to create a high-level solution design (HLD) that can be implemented by the GIP build teams into low-level designs (LLD) and implementation via agile sprint delivery. A portion of the role covers solution design related to GIP configuration data and documenting its lifecycle within the product department. This role ensures the accuracy, consistency and integrity of configuration data across products and platforms within GIP, and collaborates with product build teams to streamline configuration data usage throughout its lifecycle. The primary focus is high-quality configuration data that can be trusted in all automation processes that GIP is responsible for (e.g., server and database provisioning, in-place upgrades, auto-healing). The role also initiates improvement initiatives with the various GIP product owners.

Responsibilities

• Is responsible for the creation of GIP solution designs:
• Requirements gathering of new feature requests that span multiple products in our product department.
• Consider the GIP product roadmap and collaborate with product owners and technical leads to create high-level designs or blueprints.
• Protect simplicity and avoid unnecessary technical complexity.
• Ensure product teams translate high-level designs into low-level component designs.
• Contributes to PI planning and drives solution delivery, understanding dependencies and negotiating with multiple product teams during sprint planning.
• Identify priorities, track agreed solution areas, and detect blockers in delivery.
• Focus on GIP configuration data management: identify sources, define operational processes, and ensure consistent data usage across products.
• Maintain relationships with other product lines regarding data exchange; contribute to GIP reports and dashboards using configuration data.
• Propose control mechanisms (reports, monitoring, alerts) to detect inconsistencies and define corrective actions.
• Identify metadata that provides value and define feeding mechanisms toward data repositories for consumption.
• Propose GIP service improvement initiatives, understand operational product usage, and identify opportunities for AIOps automation.

Qualifications & Experience

• Proven experience in IT product engineering and/or operations in large-scale, international contexts with technology evolution challenges.
• Experience in a similar role with the ability to work with senior subject matter experts, listen to experts, and inspire new solutions.
• Understanding of the capabilities of the product department and effective cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to present high-level solution design proposals to architecture governance bodies.

Technical Skills

• Strong general knowledge in IT and data center architectures across network, infrastructure, database and middleware, web architectures, automation tools, and cloud integration.
• Experience building designs for both on-premise and public cloud environments (AWS and Azure) and ability to collaborate with cloud experts.
• Familiarity with Scrum, Agile, and DevOps methodologies.

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong organizational and technical skills with the ability to manage competing demands.
• Disciplined, methodical, adaptable to changing circumstances, and able to handle unexpected demands.
• Ability to motivate across multi-cultural teams, with excellent presentation and communication skills for varied audiences, including executives.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work with minimal direct guidance.
• Customer-centric, results- and delivery-oriented; fluent in English.

What We Offer

AXA brings together the expertise, cultural diversity and creativity of over 8,000 employees worldwide and is committed to equal opportunities in all aspects of employment and to promoting Diversity & Inclusion by creating a work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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