DevOps Lead - Legal and IPDR Hadoop Operations

AGM-Application Operations

Vodafone Idea Limited is an Aditya Birla Group and Vodafone Group partnership. It is India’s leading telecom service provider. The Company provides pan India Voice and Data services across 2G, 3G and 4G platform. With the large spectrum portfolio to support the growing demand for data and voice, the company is committed to deliver delightful customer experiences and contribute towards creating a truly ‘Digital India’ by enabling millions of citizens to connect and build a better tomorrow. The Company is developing infrastructure to introduce newer and smarter technologies, making both retail and enterprise customers future ready with innovative offerings, conveniently accessible through an ecosystem of digital channels as well as extensive on-ground presence. The Company is listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) in India.

 

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Role Title

Devops Lead -Legal & IPDR Hadoop Ops

Position No

 

Function

Corporate-Technology IT

Sub Function/ Vertical/ Department

Nodal Applications

Band

M2

Reports to Role (Position No)

VP – Data and Analytics Operations -IT – VIL COR-Corporate.

Location

Pune

Date of last update/approval

 

1. Job Purpose (In one or two sentences)

• Manage central operations of Legal on CDP platform and IPDR Hadoop Platform services ensuring critical deliveries to Nodal and law enforcement agencies.
• Accountable to ensure availability of critical Voice, SMS, GPRS CDRs and IPDRs timely and accurately for consumption by nodal and Law enforcement teams.

 

2. Key Accountabilities / Key Result Areas (Max 5)

• Ensure operational excellence and manage a legal system on Cloudera data platform and IPDR platform on Cloudera data platform. Ensure high performance and service excellence for Nodal and Legal teams.
• Ensure adherence to 7 critical IT SLAs, while processing 8+ trillion CDRs daily leading to 50+ Nodal & Legal KPIs, and ensuring adherence to high service performance guarantees through a multi partner engagement comprising of Accolite, Kyndryl, Cloudera and IBM. 
• Manage direct / Indirect team of approx 30+ resources.  Drive multi partner governance to drive service improvements, ensure compliance with service guarantees and communicate service performance to managers.
• Drive excellence initiatives through automations to bring in operational efficiency and leverage AI, ML, RPA, etc technologies to streamline operations, reduce MTTR, process improvements and foster cost efficiency and business benefits.
• Good knowledge of service management, close coordination with delivery and transformation team to ensure smooth and seamless deployment of new IT applications or updates to existing ones.

3. Core Competencies, Knowledge, Experience, Technical / Professional Qualifications (Max 5)

• A technologist with 7+ years of experience in managing Hadoop Big Data technologies viz. Hortonworks Data Platform and Cloudera Data Platform.
• Good knowledge of Cloudera manager and CDP Cluster tuning. Must be proficient with latest technologies viz. MapReduce, Kafka, Kerberos, Impala, HDFS, HBase, Hive, Kudu, Spark, Ice Berg, Yarn and Ozone.
• Should have good knowledge of Parquet, ORC and AVRO file formats Hadoop.
• Experience in managing production environment, including high availability, SLAs, KPI monitoring, performance optimization, real-time ingestions, and data model management.
• Expertise in driving automation initiatives for incident reduction, process optimization, high availability through cutting-edge technologies, fostering an environment of continuous improvement.
• Proficient in analytical, independent thinking with a strong technological background. Skilled in managing application operations, incident & problem management, good knowledge of capacity planning and performance management 
• Proficient in service delivery and streamlining processes and technologies, eliminating redundancies, and optimizing solutions. Proficient in fine tuning of Big data cluster technologies to improve performance. Exposure to Agile, ITIL, and DevOps methodologies 
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills to manage partners and business stakeholders alike.

 

 

4. Key Performance Indicators (Max 5)

• Telecom Knowledge :-- Functional & technical knowledge on telecom flow.
• Deployment Frequency in Devops :-- Demand /projects deployment.
• Change Failure Rate :- % of deployments or infrastructure changes that cause a failure in production, requiring a hotfix or rollback.
• SLA Compliance- % SLA achieved with business clients or end users.
• Cross Functional Delivery.

 

5. Annual Budget Owned / Key Quantitative Parameters like Workforce managed etc.

 

6. Risks, Challenges, Job Context (Short Description)

• Challenges:

- Managing multiple application under Nodal App Devops like SDR, Legal,IPDR,Sahyog.

- Cross-system dependencies with multiple stakeholders.

- Timely upscaling to understand newer systems and processes in the ecosystem.

- Security & compliance

 

7. Job purpose of Direct Reports & Dotted Reports

Direct Report / Dotted Report Position

 

NA

 

 

 

 

 

 

Vodafone Idea Limited (formerly Idea Cellular Limited)
An Aditya Birla Group & Vodafone partnership

Experience Level

Senior Level