DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Expert

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About the job Reporting to the Product Line Exec, the DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Expert is responsible for the design and delivery of features and solutions that cover multiple GIP products. The role involves requirements gathering and working together with product owners and technical design leads in the creation of a high‐level solution design (HLD) that can be implemented by the GIP build teams into low level designs (LLD) and implementation via agile sprint delivery.

A part of the role will also include the solution design related GIP configuration data and document the lifecycle of this data within the product department. This role involves ensuring the accuracy, consistency and integrity of configuration data across various products and platforms. Inside GIP, the person will work closely with the different product build teams to streamline the use of configuration data and correct processing during its lifecycle.

The primary focus is to have high quality configuration data that can be trusted in all automation processes that GIP is responsible for. Examples of processes are server and database provisioning processes, in‐place upgrade processes (IPU), auto healing processes, ... therefore the person will also initiate improvement initiatives together with the different GIP product owners.

DevOps Infrastructure Engineer Expert:

Is responsible for the creation of GIP solution designs:

Requirements gathering of new feature requests that span multiple products in our product department.

Taking into account the GIP product roadmap.

Working together with product owners and technical leads and creating a high‐level design or blueprints.

Protecting simplicity and avoiding unnecessary technical complexity.

Making sure our product teams translate high‐level designs into low level component designs.

Contributes to the PI planning and driving solution delivery:

Understanding dependencies and negotiating with multiple product teams during sprint planning.

Taking into account agreed priorities and being able to identify what must come first and what can wait.

Follow up of agreed solution areas and detect blockers in the solution delivery.

Focus on GIP configuration data management:

Identifying the root source of GIP configuration data and where it is stored.

Defining the GIP operational processes that use configuration data.

Technically understand how configuration data enters our product line and how it is used by our products.

Maintaining a relationship with other product lines concerning the exchange of configuration data both in and out.

Involved in the creation of GIP reports and dashboard using configuration data.

Making sure our data is used in a consistent way.

Proposes control mechanisms (reports, monitoring, alerts, ...) that detect inconsistencies and defines corrective actions to keep configuration data at high quality.

Identifies metadata created in our product line that can potentially provide additional value inside GIP but also to external stakeholders outside GIP. Defines feeding mechanisms towards the agreed data repositories and makes sure the data is available for consumption.

Proposing GIP service improvement initiati