Western Digital is hiring a

Senior DevOps SRE Professional 9+ years (Ansible /Terraform) CI/CD DevOps

Bengaluru, India
Full-Time

Western Digital reliance on software and software development workflows is growing by leaps and bounds as a leading provider of Storage Solutions. As Secure Development Factory (SDF) Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you will be at the heart of Western Digital’s engineering process, delivering the software development tools and infrastructure that empowers engineering teams to develop and deliver high quality products quickly. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our IT infrastructure and DevOps tools. You will lead by example and collaborate closely with Engineering teams to align our efforts with customer requirements. Your technical expertise, adaptability, and commitment to excellence will drive the success and empower our stakeholders to develop and deliver high quality products faster reducing time to market without sacrificing security, development velocity, stability, code quality or code health.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for technology, a relentless focus on the customer experience and an ability to multitask, assimilate data, make decisions and prioritize complex work while paying attention to the details. Communication with internal customers, vendors and co-workers in a clear and professional manner is an absolute must. This position is open to candidates located in Bangalore, India.

Key Responsibilities

  • Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership to the DevOps infrastructure team, fostering a collaborative, positive and growth-oriented team environment.
  • Architecting and Designing: Play a key role in shaping the architecture and design of systems and applications, aligning them with reliability and scalability objectives.
  • Accountability: Demonstrate ownership of system reliability, meet Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Collaboration: Engage closely with Engineering teams to comprehend customer requirements and jointly devise innovative solutions.
  • Observability and Monitoring: Architect, implement, and iteratively enhance monitoring and observability solutions to achieve effective and real-time visibility into system performance.
  • Best Practices Champion: Advocate for and implement best practices in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and Automation, prioritizing the enhancement of platform stability and performance.
  • Automation Leadership: Drive automation initiatives to streamline processes, minimize manual tasks, and enhance overall operational efficiency.
  • Adaptability: Remain current with emerging technologies and demonstrate the ability to quickly adapt to evolving requirements and challenges.
  • Upskilling: Proactively engage in continuous learning of emerging technologies and contribute to knowledge sharing within the team.
  • Team Player: Foster effective collaboration with team members and actively contribute to cultivating a positive team culture
  • Professional Behaviour: Demonstrate professionalism, integrity, and a commitment to the highest ethical standards.
  • Documentation: Ensure meticulous and well-organized documentation for systems and processes is consistently maintained.

Required Skills and Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Candidates MUST HAVE 9 to 12 years of hands-on experience in DevOps tools and SRE practices.
  • Exceptional analytical, problem solving, troubleshooting skills and the ability to think strategically about technical challenges to manage complex process and technology issues.
  • Positive attitude, strong work ethic, and a team player mentality.
  • Extensive experience in Ansible automation (Research, Write, Maintain, and Optimize roles/playbooks/modules)
  • Proficiency in containerization technologies viz., Docker, Kubernetes.
  • Expertise in shell scripting, Python, and other configuration management tools like Terraform.
  • MUST HAVE Administration experience on DevOps tools such as Artifactory, Jenkins, Zuul, Git/Gerrit, Wan disco SVN, Blackduck, CodeScene, Spinnaker, and SAST/DAST tools.
  • Development and customisation of CICD pipelines and onboarding applications with varying requirements
  • Immense experience in monitoring enhancements and metrics dashboarding using tools such as Icinga, Splunk, Prometheus & Grafana
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Automation First mindset.
  • Focus on embedding Security postures on the systems.
  • Working experience in ha-proxy, load balancers, ldap/sso integration, security endpoint configurations
  • Enormous SME experience in building highly available, scalable, secured, and stable solutions for DevOps tools & services.
  • Must Possess strong documentation skills and can work with rapid change and at a fast pace
  • Very good understanding of Infrastructure at the Server, VMWare, Storage and Networking
  • Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is a plus
  • Good experience in supporting large number of users and developers providing platform as a service
  • Proven ability to influence and/or lead high performing/ geographically dispersed teams

Western Digital is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law poster.

Western Digital thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.

Western Digital is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at [email protected] to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.

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