DevOps Technical Lead

Company Description

About Arcadis:
Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Our Products Want to Say ‘Hi’!:

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CurbIQ helps cities across the world address a similar challenge: understanding how their curb space has been designated, what the exact regulations are, and when or where these regulations apply. By digitizing curbside regulations, CurbIQ helps cities better understand how their curbs are working today and provides a platform to improvise operations.

HotSpot integrated mobility platform simplifies commuting and makes it more efficient for organisations to provide their customers, residents, or employees with intuitive travel solutions. By digitising parking, transit, taxi, and merchant resources, users can easily track their travel expenses, pay for parking tickets, schedule taxis, and pay for public transit all in one easy app.

Job Description

Are You the Rockstar We are Looking For?
Arcadis Development teams within our Digital Intelligence division deliver complex solutions and push the limits of technology solutions. Our talented groups of systems professionals do more than just write code and debug – they make a significant impact on the design and development of state-of-the-art projects. We are looking for a Devops Technical Lead to join our growing and dynamic product team.

Responsibilities:
• Proficiency in working with a variety of operating systems, including Windows and Linux.
• Building, securing, and maintaining on-premises and cloud infrastructures.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of production systems.
• Configuration and maintenance of secure infrastructure, including address translations, port security for firewalls, and ensuring compliance with security standards.
• Creating disaster recovery plans and monitoring network backups.
• Collaboration on defining security requirements and conducting tests to identify weaknesses.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing issues, and providing operational support.
• Implementing CI/CD pipelines and automating configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
• Enhancing development and release processes through automation.
• Automating alerts for system availability and performance monitoring.
• Supporting and improving container-based development practices.
• Building deployment and testing pipelines using Jenkins, CloudFormation, and Puppet for automated provisioning of cloud infrastructure.
• Understanding and applying static code analysis tools (e.g., SonarQube).
• Prototyping solutions, evaluating new tools, and engaging in incident handling and root cause analysis.
• Enforcing DevOps practices in collaboration with software developers.
• Leading the automation effort and maintaining servers to the latest security standards.
• Contributing to maturing DevOps culture, showcasing a methodical approach to problem-solving, and following agile practices.

Qualifications

Qualifications You’ll Need to Have:
• 8+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps in Linux-based systems.
• Expertise in troubleshooting system issues causing downtime or performance degradation.
• Proficiency in Agile software development methodologies, including Change Management and Release Management.
• Willingness to learn and research technologies and solutions to build new tools that gets the job done.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms: AWS (EC2, EBS, VPC, ELB, SES, Elastic IP, Route53) and Azure
• Hands-on experience in infrastructure as code (IaC): Terraform preferred.
• Experience with Microservices Architecture and using Kubernetes
• High availability setups for databases such as PostgreSQL
• Understanding of network technologies and networking in general
• Proficiency in DNS management and setting up HTTPS certificates and SSL tunnels.
• Routine security scanning for malicious software, suspicious network activity, and protocol analysis to identify and remedy network performance issues.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Ansible, GitHub, GitOps (ArgoCD)
• Experience developing and managing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub actions.
• Proficiency in code versioning tools like Git.
• Strong knowledge of containerization
• Scripting experience with Bash and Python.
• Experience with application and infrastructure monitoring tools: Prometheus, Grafana tools, Node Exporter, and Sentry.
• Load testing using JMeter.
• Log analysis and monitoring in distributed application scenarios.
• Understanding of web applications, web-related protocols, service-oriented architectures, and web services.

Additional Information

Work Benefits:
• Work in a fast-paced dynamic environment.
• Work with and be mentored by technology leaders.
• Work in a meritocratic environment and rapidly grow your career.