DevOps Lead - Backstage/K8s Job

Experience

3-8 Years

Job Description

Backstage Developer – Job Description
Role Overview
We are looking for a Backstage Developer to design, develop, and maintain an Internal Developer Portal (IDP) using Backstage. The ideal candidate will have experience in platform engineering, developer experience (DevEx), cloud technologies, and modern web development.
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

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

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.

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