DevOps & Cloud(Azure/GCP) - Director

Company Description

• Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers.
• We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.
• United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across truly value.
• Provide thought leadership for the development of Cloud COE agenda and COE management.
• Grow the COE team in India, through internal and external hiring.
• Establish relationships with key stakeholders across Global delivery organization to make Cloud COE a go to function.
• Experience in building/supporting/testing/operating IaaS platforms
• People management
• Cost/budget management.

Job Description

• The Cloud Director must be a deep and hands-on engineer with 16-20 years of industry experience and Must be able to strategize, design implement, and migrate large and complex solutions in the domain of the cloud technologies (IAAS, PAAS, IAC, automation, security, network, CI/CD) on either of the three cloud platforms – AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Must possess the hands-on capability to resolve issues, and challenges of all complexity.
• Must be looked up to by different stakeholders as a thought leader in the domain.
• Director should be flexible to work across industry verticals, across multiple T projects, and across geography Industry-recognized certification preferred. (Solution arch + )
• Execution: Ability to identify critical paths and drive the plans to support one or more complex product and platform deliverables with a commitment to quality and time
• Management: A true "roll up the sleeves and get it done" working approach; demonstrated success as a problem solver, operating as a result-oriented, self-starter
• Communication: Superior communication skills with the ability to present technical topics to non-technical audiences and build partnerships with business area leaders and external solution providers
• Leadership: Ability to maintain high morale, both within the operations group, and externally as well by inspiring trust and a sense of achievement. Shape opinions and build confidence in the teams while facilitating new tool and technology evaluations and introducing new processes and practices
• Judgement: Be able to manage risk identification and risk mitigation strategies associated with the architecture and make sound decisions with limited and incomplete data

Qualifications

• Overall experience of 18+ years in Infrastructure, Middleware Administration, and Cloud with 5+ years in the cloud domain
• Have worked in a client-facing role or at a client location and must be comfortable with client management
• Proven ability to plan and execute change on an enterprise scale, with outcomes that fulfil the original business case
• Able to advice & consult clients for large complex projects or issues cloud
• Able to write assess, write cloud roadmap & adoption strategy
• designing and implementing highly efficient end to end solution on Pubic Clouds (Amazon Web Services, Azure or GCP) for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, keeping in mind the business context
• Cloud Capacity Planning Design, cost estimations and spend optimization
• Data lifecycle and storage management
• Hand on to write code for IAC, automation and CI/CD for public or private clouds
• Strong deep capabilities on tool like, not limiting to : –
• Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet or Ansible)
• SCM (TFS or GIT)
• CI tools (Jenkins or Bamboo)
• Azure Resource Manager, Cloud formation or Google Cloud Deployment Manager , Terraform
• Scripting language: Python, Bash and Shell o Container services like ECS, GKE, EKS, or Kubernetes
• Understands compliance security and risk (safe harbor and law of land)
• Design for failover, high availability, MTTR , MTTF and MTBF
• Must have understanding of SDLC and Agile delivery model
• Report on business and processes metrics
• Awareness of industry trends and directions and its impact on IT services
• Good understanding of emerging technologies, various platforms, tools and products and their respective applications
• Experience of working in/with multi-vendor, 3rd parties, and client teams
• Develop, motivate, empower, and evaluate individual contributors and grow their professional, leadership, and technical skills

Additional Information

• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being