Head - Operations - UIDAI

Educational Qualifications: BE/B Tech/ M.E/M Tech/MS/MCA/MSc.

Overview:

- To lead the operations of UIDAI's critical infrastructure, primarily hosted on Open-stack on-premise Private Cloud architecture, ensuring 24/7 availability of Aadhaar services.

- Manage a team of experts to design application deployment architecture to ensure high availability.

- Manage a team of experts to provide infra-deployment guidelines to bake into app design.

- Ensure robust security, scalability, and reliability of UIDAI's data centres and networks.

- Participate in architectural design review sessions, develop proof of concepts/pilots, implement projects, and deliver ongoing upgrades and enhancements.

- Revamp applications for AADHAR's Private Cloud Deployment in today's constantly shifting digital landscape to increase operational efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs.

Role & Responsibilities:

Drive innovation & Technology transformation:

- Align with the Vision, Mission and Core Values UIDAI while closely aligning with inter-disciplinary teams.

- Lead Cloud Operations/ Infra team in fine-tuning & optimization of cloud-native platforms to improve performance and to achieve cost efficiency.

- Drive solution design for RFPs, POCs, and pilots for new and upcoming projects or R&D initiatives, using open-source cloud and infrastructure to build a scalable and elastic Data Center.

- Encourage & create an environment for Knowledge sharing within and outside the UIDAI.

- To interact/ partner with leading institutes/ R&D establishments/ educational institutions to stay up to date with new technologies and trends in cloud computing.

- Be a thought leader in architecture design and development of complex operational data analytics solutions to monitor various metrics related to infrastructure and app operations.

Cloud Architecture Design & Implementation:

Lead the design, implementation, and deployment of OpenStack-based on-premise private cloud infrastructure.

- Develop scalable, secure, and highly available cloud architectures to meet business and operational needs.

- Architect and design infrastructure solutions that support both virtualized and containerized workloads.

Solution Integration, Performance Monitoring & Optimization:

- Integrate OpenStack with existing on-premise data centre systems, network infrastructure, and storage platforms.

- Work with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of cloud solutions in UIDAI.

- Monitor cloud infrastructure performance and ensure efficient use of resources.

- Identify areas for improvement and implement optimizations to reduce costs and improve performance.

Security & Compliance: - Implement security best practices for on-premise cloud environments, ensuring data protection and compliance with industry standards.

- Regularly perform security audits and vulnerability assessments to maintain a secure cloud infrastructure.

Communication, Collaboration & Documentation:

- Collaborate with internal teams (App development and Security) to align cloud infrastructure with UIDAIs requirements and objectives & manage seamless communication within tech teams and across the organization.

- Maintain detailed live documentation of cloud architecture, processes, and configurations to establish trails of decision-making and ensure transparency and accountability.

Role Requirements:

- More than 15 years of experience in Technical, Infra and App Solutioning, and at least 7+ years of experience in spearheading large multi-disciplinary technology teams working across various domains in a leadership position.

- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.

Must have demonstrable experience in application performance analysis through low-level debugging.
- Experience on transformation projects for On-Premise data solutions, open-source CMP - OpenStack, CloudStack.

- Should be well versed with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts with a focus on extreme automation & infrastructure as code (IaC) methodologies & have led such teams before; including exp on Gitops, and platform automation tools like Terraform, Ansible etc.

- Strong knowledge of Linux-based operating systems (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat, etc).

- Strong understanding on the HTTP1.1, Http2 with gRPC and HTTP/2 (QUICK) protocol functioning.

- Experience in System Administration, Server storage, Networking, virtualization, Data Warehouse, Data Integration, Data Migration and Business Intelligence/Artificial Intelligence solutions on the Cloud.

- Proficient in technology administration, remote infrastructure management, cloud assessment, QA, monitoring, and DevOps practices.

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Extensive experience in Cloud platform architecture, Private cloud deployment, large-scale

] transformation or migration of applications to cloud-native platforms.

- Should have experience in building cloud-native platforms on Kubernetes, including awareness & experience of service mesh, cloud-native storage, integration with SAN & NAS, Kubernetes operators, CNI, CSI, CRI etc.

- Should have strong expertise in networking background in terms of routing, switching, BGP, technologies like TRILL, MP-BGP, EVPN etc.

- Preferably, should have experience in SAN networking & Linux networking concepts like networking namespaces, route tables, and ss utilities.

- Experience on Cloud and On-Premise Databases like Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, Big Table, RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, Oracle, Teradata, MySQL, DB2, SQL Server.

- Exposure to any of the No-SQL databases like Mongo dB, CouchDB, Cassandra, Graph dB, etc.
- Experience in ML Ops pipeline is preferable.

- Experience with distributed computing platforms and enterprise environments like Hadoop, GCP/AWS/Azure Cloud is preferred.

Experience with various Data Integration, and ETL technologies on Cloud like Spark, Pyspark/Scala, and Dataflow is preferred.