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About IHS Markit

Named ‘Most Influential Tech Analyst Firm in 2018’, IHS Markit is at the forefront of the digital and technological revolution. At IHS Markit, we deliver impactful, real-world analytics and intelligence for industries and markets all around the world – in everything from finance to aerospace. The products, services, and information we provide will uncover more intelligent solutions to today’s most critical business challenges. IHS Markit is a global leader in information, analytics, and solutions for the major industries and markets that drive economies worldwide. We partner with clients in business, finance, and government to help them see the big picture with unrivaled insights that lead to well-informed, confident decisions.

Position Summary

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join the Architecture team, to design and implement the next generation of features for AWS delivery of applications using CICD pipelines as well as support software developers in their implementation phase. 
The role offers extensive business and technical challenges in a highly dynamic and collaborative work environment. A passion for quality and a sense of pride in your work is an absolute must for the role. We work in a niche business domain that is highly complex, and an interest in the business domain is a necessity for the role. The role offers the right candidate opportunities to take ownership of components within the system.

Duties & accountabilities

• Ownership of the implementation (estimation, breakdown of tasks) for business functional specifications through the full software development lifecycle. 
• Ownership of maintenance and support issues as they come up during the project lifecycle pre and post-go-live. Provide technical assistance to other teams – support, QA, business analysis.
• Ability to work with a remote team in a geographically distributed development model.
• Evaluate, apply & adopt new technologies and tools within the DevOps team and across the organization to provide productivity, efficiency, and scalability benefits. 
• Collaborate and share technical and business knowledge with members of the DevOps Team and wider organization. 
• Agent of constant improvement – within the development and across the organization.

Business competencies

Education and Experience 

• B Tech./ M Tech / MCA degree in an IT/ Computer Science or related course is a prerequisite
• Commercial awareness    
• Management requirements    
• Strong interpersonal skills required. Ability to multitask and prioritize work.

Personal Competencies

• Good working knowledge of DevOps processes.
• Experience working with AWS cloud
• Experience with CICD processes
• Knowledge and experience working with GitLab
• IAC experience in Cloudformation and/or Terraform
• Scripting in Unix languages (bash)
• Experience using Monitoring tools such as DataDog and CloudWatch
• Understanding of Metrics, KPIs, and tracing used to monitor application performance

Tooling/Testing

• Working Knowledge of GitLab, branching, and code management
• Practical experience with IAC tooling such as Cloudformation and/or Terraform
• Understands fundamentals of JVM memory management
• Knowledge of Java applications and capable of troubleshooting application issues.

Communication

• Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, and knowledge of development best practices are critical to successful performance in this role

Teamwork

• Ability to collaborate in a team environment. 
• Experience in Agile development methodology is preferred.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time