Consultant Software Engineer - Puppet

Consultant Software Engineer - Puppet

About Société Générale Global Solution Centre
Société Générale is one of Europe’s leading financial services groups, combining financial strength with innovation and sustainable growth. SG GSC, a 100% subsidiary of Société Générale, was established in 2000 and now employs over 12,000 professionals across Bangalore and Chennai. We focus on Application Development, Infrastructure Management, Business Process Management, and Knowledge Process Management for Société Générale’s global business lines.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

What You Will Accomplish In This Role:

Responsible for planning, creating, and maintaining Puppet Infrastructure to enable rapid development and deployment.
Improve and innovate with our existing CI/CD tools or integrate new tools into the pipeline.
Work closely with development and IT operations to enable us all to work smarter and faster.

Responsibility:

Puppet Infrastructure setup, PDK build, Manifests coding, Spec unit testing, Code validation.
Responsible for handling complete project & administration (Development, Release & Support)
Manage and administrate various DevOps tools and create POC for implementation.
Develop innovative ways to deploy cloud application reliably anytime of the day.
Develop, maintain and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes. 
Would be involved in shipping the validated code to different production environment.
Be a team player and educate your peers about best practices around infrastructure, automation and above all deployments

What You Bring To The Table:

Solid Experience in CMS: Puppet (Ansible experience is a plus).
Experience in maintaining, debugging, optimizing, and improving internally developed applications using the technologies such as (Databases: MariaDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL - Languages: Python, PHP)
Strong Experience with Linux system administration.
Experience in Private and public cloud environments.
Ability to analyze existing puppet code and modify as per requirements, troubleshooting, can migrate the module from traditional to cloud environment. 
Support services before they go live in production through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
Find areas of existing manual intervention, and replace with automation where possible
Automating the installation and upkeep of build tools and dependencies.
Design and develop tools to monitor CI/CD pipelines.
Strong interpersonal communication skills (including listening, speaking, and writing) and ability to work well in a diverse, team-focused environment with other SREs, developers, Product Managers, etc.
Excel in a fast-paced, agile environment supporting multiple projects using a wide variety of technologies
Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Development teams to ensure a smooth and trouble-free roll out of releases.
Desire to find problems and fix them proactively
Demonstrated knowledge of most of the following: monitoring, alerts, logging, build/deploy, scaling, self-healing, auto-testing, cloud security.
Be ready to be part of 12x7 rotation for escalations, work with your counterparts in overseas team to hand off or take on active issues

Experience
10+ years in Systems Administration/DevOps role.
Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime environment.
Passion for the “fail fast, fix fast” and “script everything” methodologies DevOps encompasses.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status

At Société Générale, we are convinced that people are drivers of change, and that the world of tomorrow will be shaped by all their initiatives, from the smallest to the most ambitious. Whether you’re joining us for a period of months, years or your entire career, together we can have a positive impact on the future. Creating, daring, innovating, and taking action are part of our DNA. If you too want to be directly involved, grow in a stimulating and caring environment, feel useful on a daily basis and develop or strengthen your expertise, you will feel right at home with us!

Still hesitating? 
You should know that our employees can dedicate several days per year to solidarity actions during their working hours, including sponsoring people struggling with their orientation or professional integration, participating in the financial education of young apprentices, and sharing their skills with charities. There are many ways to get involved.