DevOps Architect

Location: Bangalore, India 

About Us

Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a leading global provider of software solutions for the insurance industry, with a growing presence in the financial services sector. We offer integrated core software solutions and business services, and a full digital suite for the property and casualty/general insurance; life, pension, and annuities; and reinsurance markets. Sapiens also services the workers’ compensation and financial and compliance markets.

Our portfolio includes policy administration, billing, and claims; underwriting, illustration and electronic application; reinsurance and decision management software. Sapiens’ digital platform features customer and agent portals, and a business intelligence platform. With a 35-year track record of delivering to more than 500+ organizations, Sapiens’ team of over 3,400+ operates through our fully-owned subsidiaries in North America, the United Kingdom, EMEA, and Asia Pacific. For more information: www.sapiens.com. 

DevOps Architect Role:

Desired Skills and Experience

• Deep understanding of cloud and cloud native principles and practices
• Hands-on experience with cloud environments - AWS, GCP, Azure
• Deep understanding of CI/CD concepts and practices (Jenkins/Gitlab)
• Provide subject matter expertise on DevOps best practices
• Plan, design, implement, and maintain CI/CD solutions across all environments as applicable and defined by the business needs
• Create and maintain necessary technical documentation and artefacts
• Collaborate with development & product teams to provide expert guidance in solution architecture as necessary
• Participate in defining supporting infrastructure and software tools needed to enable DevOps in an enterprise environment
• Utilize best practices encompassing analysis and emerging concepts in cloud services and automation of deployment pipeline and infrastructure as code
• Participate in the design and architecture of software and infrastructure to ensure projects meet goals for scalability, maintainability, and resiliency as applicable
• Participate in initiatives to define and implement DevOps solutions which includes reference architectures, effort estimates, and costing
• Review existing application hosting environments and provide feedback on potential risks, enhancements, and migration strategies as applicable
• Stay up to date with current DevOps trends and best practices

Familiarity with-

• • Orchestration tools - Docker compose, Kubernetes (k8s), etc.
  • Virtualization and containers - Docker, runc, VMWare, Xen, KVM, etc.
  • Operating systems - Linux and Windows
  • API – Management
  • IDP (Azure AD , Keycloak)
  • Should have experience of deploying WAR and JAR files on JBOSS Application server. Good knowledge of Jboss-cli.
  • One or more configuration management tools - Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Puppet.
  • Version control systems - Git
  • Networking knowledge - Firewalls, VPNs, CNI, proxies & Load balancers
  • Web/Application servers - Nginx, HAProxy, Apache, Tomcat
  • Storage - Object Store, NFS, SANs, RAID, LVM
  • Monitoring – ELK, Grafana, Dynatrace
  • Application security (B2C,B2B , SAML , OAuth)
  • Experience in Scripting languages. (Python/Shell/Groovy/Ruby)
  • 5+ years of experience working on development and production infrastructure
  • 5+ years of experience with complex, high-performance distributed systems in production
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
  • Strong sense of ownership and track record of quality work.
  • Ability to function as an equal peer when working with engineering.
  • Outstanding written and oral communication skills.