Job Description

Management Level F

Business Division: IT

Business Function / Department: Product & Engineering

Job Title: Staff DevOps Engineer

Reporting to (Job Title): Engineering Manager

• Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.
• EQ India began its operations in 2014 as a Global India Captive Centre for Equiniti, a leading fintech company specialising in shareholder management. Within a decade, EQ India strengthened its operations and transformed from being a capability centre to a Global Competency Centre, to support EQ\'s growth story worldwide.
• Capitalising on India\xe2\x80\x99s strong reputation as a global talent hub for IT / ITES, EQ India has structured the organisation to be a part of this growth story. Today, EQ India has evolved as an indispensable part of EQ Group providing critical fintech services to the US and UK.
• EQ\xe2\x80\x99s vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

• The staff engineer role is a senior technical role within the team. With a keen interest in technology, innovation and collaboration they keep their knowledge current, continuously seeking to design, build and deliver better than yesterday. Lead Engineers seek to create industry-leading solutions in a way that moves the products forward. They are keen to explore how advances in technology might support on-going continuous improvement and provide input to the department strategies, practices, toolkits and processes

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Ensure you adhere and supporting your Squad in adhering to the over-arching Software Development Lifecycle and Agile TOM aligned to your Home
• Develop and maintain software development processes, standards, and best practices to ensure consistent delivery of high-quality software products
• Foster optimisation of the engineering lifecycle through a systematic knowledge management and continuous learning process to better enable the organization to meet market and client needs
• Mentor and guide all engineers within your home and assist with technical challenges as needed
• Show a sense of ownership & pride within your squad and the wider home to deliver high quality work and Institute a self-directed and high-performance culture in the team
• Involve yourself in the development of a strong talent pipeline throughout your wider home by helping the Manger Engineer in hiring, internal movements, succession planning, talent reviews etc.
• Take an interest in and where possible show advocacy for the reduction in technical debt across the estate and mission, supporting the Manager Engineer and Product to prioritise the reduction of technical debt appropriately
• Show an interest in articulating the technical roadmap, the overall vitality of the product, architecture overview documentation and the validation of our platforms in the product pipeline

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following experience, skills and behaviours:

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads the assessment, analysis, planning and design of release packages, including assessment of risk.
• Liaises with business and technology teams on release scheduling and communication of progress. Conducts post-release reviews.
• Ensures that release processes and procedures are applied and that releases can be rolled back as needed.
• Identifies, evaluates and manages the adoption of appropriate release and deployment techniques, processes and automation tools.

Qualification/skills required:

• Any technical graduation; engineering, computer science, etc.
• Preferred, post-graduation in advanced computer science subjects and MBA in Systems
• Experience in engineering development for a Product SaaS organisation
• Experience of having led conceptualization and development of a portfolio of products or SaaS based products
• Skills: Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Blue/Green Deployments pattern, Configure and maintain infrastructure (build agents, hosting servers etc.), Complex multi-tier enterprise environments ,Configuration management and automated provisioning, Scripting Containers, Micro services, Source code control, Configuration of firewalls, load balancers and other network equipment, Good understanding of infrastructure and application security, Database administration - backup/restore/execute querie, Azure Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Azure DevOps, Classic Pipeline, YAML Pipeline, TFSVC, GIT, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, Microsoft (Windows Server, .Net), Technology stack, Powershell, VB Script, Wix, NUGet, Jenkins, Puppet, Docker, Terraform, Docker, MS SQL databases

Benefits:

Being a permanent member of the team at EQ you will be rewarded by our company benefits, these are just a few of what is on offer:

• 3 days of additional leaves on & above statutory requirement along with 2 days of voluntary leaves to pursue the CSR initiatives
• Business related certification expense reimbursement
• Comprehensive Medical Assurance coverage for dependents & Parents
• Cab transport for staff working in UK & US shift
• Accidental & Life cover 3 times of concerned CTC

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks.

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