DevOps Lead - Backstage

• *Key Responsibilities**

• Design, deploy, and maintain Backstage\-based developer portals.
• Develop custom Backstage plugins, templates, and integrations.
• Integrate Backstage with engineering tools such as:

o GitHub/GitLab

o Jenkins

o Kubernetes

o SonarQube

o Blackduck

o JFrog

• Build and manage software catalogs, service ownership metadata, and documentation.
• Create self\-service workflows for application provisioning and deployment.
• Collaborate with platform, DevOps, security, and engineering teams.
• Automate developer workflows and improve developer productivity.
• Should be able to perform Observability \& Monitoring for Unified log aggregation, monitoring, and real\-time alerting across hybrid and multi\-cloud environments
• Should be able to handle Security \& Access Management
• Should be able to build Metrics, Reporting \& Governance
• Should be able to build the portal with Azure, AWS, On Prem \& Mobile based deployments.
• Should have good knowledge in doing Project Migrations.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Backstage performance and reliability.

• *Required Skills:**

Core Technologies

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• React.js
• Node.js
• REST APIs / GraphQL
• Backstage architecture and plugin development

Cloud \& DevOps

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD pipelines
• Terraform
• AWS, Azure

• *Other Skills:**

• Git and version control
• Microservices architecture
• Software catalog management
• Identity \& Access Management (SSO, OAuth)
• Observability tools (Grafana)
• Security(Armor Code)

• *Preferred Qualifications:**

• 3–8 years of software development experience.
• Experience building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs).
• Knowledge of Platform Engineering practices.
• Experience with cloud\-native architectures.
• Contribution to Backstage open\-source plugins.
• *Required Technical/ Functional Competencies**
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• *Domain/Industry Knowledge:**

• Specialized knowledge of client’s business processes and basic knowledge of technology, platform, product \& DevOps Processes.
• Prepare process maps/workflows/business cases, medium to complex models, apply industry standards \& analyse current\-state, define to\-be processes

• *Requirement Gathering and Analysis:**

• Design a demo system to demonstrate, extract functional/non\-functional requirements \& document it \& system/software specification in complex scenarios
• Analyse the impact of change requested/enhancement/defect fix/conduct technology/business gap analysis and identify gaps in transition requirements, identify modules impacted, features/functionalities arrive at high level estimates/develop traceability matrix.

• *Platform/ Technology Knowledge:**

• Specialized knowledge of implementation on product/platform standards and technologies. Implement processes or configure/customize products and provide inputs in design and architecture and drive adoption of industry standards and best practices.
• Adhere standard processes (CI/CD), scenarios, documents of low\-level design. Analyse/review various frameworks/tools, handle medium to complex modules.

• *Infrastructure Management:**

• Specialized knowledge/develop infra process for on\-premise and cloud, follow its automation standards and best practice.
• Able to develop/execute infra automation scripts \& creates/verify centralized infra\-as\-code process \& plan/develop/conduct test cases, analyses results \& impact, identify root cause for issues.

• *Application Build, Deployment, Testing \& Security Automation Process through CI/CD, Continuous Testing and Continuous Security:**

• Specialized knowledge of application build, deployment, testing, security automation principles and frameworks. Create version control strategy for code \& automation, understanding of usage of tools/technologies for CI/CD/CT/CS processes
• Create pipelines for application build, deployment and integration of testing \& security into pipelines and create monitoring dashboard to examine build and deployment matrix. Create security tasks and integrate.

• *Architecture tools and frameworks:**

• Specialized knowledge of architecture tools \& frameworks. Implement tools \& framework in a complex scenario/conduct tools/customization/tailoring workshop

• *Customer Management:**

• Specialized knowledge of customer’s business domain, technology, and principles.
• Use the latest technology, build it into client engagement and understand the customer business and pro\-actively suggest solutions which leads to additional business.

• *Operations Management including Monitoring and Logging:**

• Specialized knowledge of infrastructure \& application operations including monitoring, logging/reporting through dashboards, automation principles and frameworks for monitoring and logging solutions, design automation process of implementation
• Create matrices for infrastructure and application monitoring.

• *Change \& Release Management:**

• Specialized knowledge of change record (CR) tool, change management activities and their impacts.
• Process steps for submission/review of change records, deployment, post\-implementation review, all the elements of a CAB and ECAB and release management activities
• Able to maintain mandatory change book to reflect/identify changes/changes/review records/classify as low/medium/high risk and authorize the progression of change records
• *Required Behavioral Competencies**
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• *Accountability:**

• Takes responsibility for and ensures accuracy of own work, as well as the work and deadlines of the team.

• *Collaboration:**

• Shares information within team, participates in team activities, asks questions to understand other points of view.

• *Agility:**

• Demonstrates readiness for change, asking questions and determining how changes could impact own work.

• *Customer Focus:**

• Identifies trends and patterns emerging from customer preferences and works towards customizing/ refining existing services to exceed customer needs and expectations.

• *Communication:**

• Targets communications for the appropriate audience, clearly articulating and presenting his/her position or decision.

• *Drives Results:**

• Sets realistic stretch goals for self \& others to achieve and exceed defined goals/targets.

• *Resolves Conflict:**

• Displays sensitivity in interactions and strives to understand others’ views and concerns.
• *Certifications**
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