CI-CD Architect

at  Ericsson

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CloudRAN PEU EE&S pipeline services team leads the way in providing the best developer experience and making continuous delivery of Cloud RAN value to customers possible. The pipeline services team is intended for developing, maintaining, and supporting CI/CD infrastructure, CI/CD flows, data visualization, and security to support the development of cloud-native applications which are built using container technology and orchestrated using Kubernetes. This new development methodology aligns Ericsson with the industry direction, enabling faster time to market through instant reuse, and collaboration and providing an opportunity for early alignment across Ericsson applications

SKILLS AND BEHAVIORS:

• Proven experience as a Configuration Management Architect with a focus on cloud environments.
• Expertise in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools, especially Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of security principles in cloud environments.
• Proven experience working with the open-source community.
• Excellent scripting and programming skills.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.
• Relevant certifications in cloud technologies and DevOps are a plus.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As CloudRAN moves towards a microservice architecture and SRE way of working, a CI-CD Architect plays a pivotal role in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining robust configuration management processes in the cloud environments, ensuring the consistency, reliability, and security of our software environments. This role focuses on ensuring consistency across the end-to-end systems and ensures tools and processes used are based on cloud-native principles. Ownership of the open-source component strategy also lies within this domain. This role ensures highly available and repeatable systems and has scalable systems that are secure and compliant. This role brings together various stakeholders – customers and suppliers - and works as a liaison between customers and the team. This role keeps automation at the center of all activities and streamlines the CI/CD framework.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead design and implementation of configuration management processes in cloud environments, ensuring seamless integration with our DevOps practices.
• Design, develop and maintain CD/CD pipelines and all its elements.
• Champion Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Own container orchestration solutions (CaaS).
• Own Version Control and Change Management systems and way of working.
• Collaboration and Communication with various stakeholders.
• Drive an open-source strategy for cloud-native toolsets.
• Keep Security and Compliance in the equation for every element of the system.
• Own Scalability and Performance Optimization.
• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution.
• Drive a documentation and training strategy.