Expert in DevSecOps - Near-site

Company Description

ACT Digital Group is a multinational digital transformation consultancy known for its expertise in accelerating the digital transformation of global leaders in various industries. They operate globally with offices in multiple countries, including Brazil, the United States, Canada, France, Portugal, and Serbia. 

Job Description

WORKING METHODS, ENVIRONMENT AND CONDITIONS
Project duration: 1100 days
Initial contract duration: 60 days
Expected start date: asap
Service delivery mode: Near-Site
Nationality: EU Candidates only!

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE

Following specific expertise is mandatory for the performance of tasks:

•    Designing Business Rules: Hands-on experience in defining, implementing, and maintaining business rules for enterprise systems.
•    KIE Platform Deployment: Proven track record of deploying and configuring the KIE Workbench and Execution Server in production environments.
•    CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for business rule updates and deployment.
•    Large-Scale Rule Management: Managing and optimizing a large repository of business rules in a dynamic business environment.
•    Collaboration with Stakeholders: Working closely with business analysts and domain experts to translate business logic into executable rules.
•    System Integration: Experience in integrating Drools with ERP, CRM, or other enterprise applications.
•    Troubleshooting and Debugging: Strong background in identifying and resolving issues within the Drools rule engine or associated pipelines.
•    Performance Tuning: Experience in analyzing and improving rule execution time, scalability, and system throughput.
•    Version Management and Rollback: Implementing systems for tracking rule changes and safely rolling back to previous versions if necessary.
•    Training and Documentation: Providing training for teams on using Drools and maintaining detailed documentation for rules and pipelines.

DESCRIPTION OF THE TASKS
All the tasks will be related to the consolidation of a Business Rule service used by several components in the scope of Compass Corporate. The interactions with those components are based on Kafka message, hence the need to be familiar with Apache Kafka. The current implementation is based on the Drools (KIE 7.73.0) engine, running in a Springboot service.

Operating the Business Rule service of the “Compass Corporate” environments
•    Provision of expert advice and assistance to the business developers who develop the business rules.
•    Define technical recommendations on how to write business rules for real time use cases.
•    Provision of expert advice and assistance on the CI/CD, configuration and tuning of the Business Rule service.
•    Monitor and proactively address the potential issues of the platform.
•    Provision of expert advice on the best use of Kubernetes container platforms such as PKS / Tanzu / TKGI or AWS EKS, in relation with the Business Rule service.
•    Defining the procedure to migrate the service to AWS EKS with no impact on the business.
•    Linux systems administration tasks and scripting.
•    Monitor system performance and availability, identify and resolve issues that may cause service disruptions, and proactively prevent potential incidents
•    Identify potential security vulnerabilities or compliance issues and implement measures to mitigate those risks in relation with the Business Rule service.
•    Apply best practices of distributed architecture to solve complex integration problems between information systems and K8s microservices.
•    Configure the lifecycle of the microservices in a container-based infrastructure.
•    Define and configure monitoring dashboards.
•    Define and configure the alerting policies for the operation team.
•    Collaborate with team members for operations support
•    Maintain performance of applications and databases
•    Document and provide training on the procedures in place.
•    Enhance automation level.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Following skills and knowledge are required for the performance of the above listed tasks:

•    Deep Knowledge of Drools: Highly proficient in creating, optimizing, and managing Drools rules, rule flows, and decision tables.
•    Rule Authoring and Testing: Highly proficient in authoring complex rules and implementing robust testing strategies using tools like JUnit.
•    Understanding of KIE Platform: Expertise in configuring, deploying, and maintaining the Knowledge Is Everything (KIE) Workbench and Execution Server.
•    Java Development: Strong background in Java programming, as Drools integrates closely with Java applications.
•    DevOps Practices: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI), and deployment practices tailored to Drools.
•    Containerization and Orchestration: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes for containerizing and deploying the KIE platform and rules.
•    Integration and APIs: Proficiency in integrating Drools with external systems through REST or SOAP APIs.
•    Performance Optimization: Ability to analyze and enhance the performance of Drools rule execution and memory usage.
•    Version Control: Expertise in managing rule versioning and maintaining repositories using tools like Git or Bitbucket.
•    Security Best Practices: Understanding of securing the Drools ecosystem, including authentication, authorization, and data integrity.
•    Large scale CEP: (Complex event processing) via clustering

Qualifications

A minimum educational qualification is: Level of education corresponding to Level 8 of the European Qualification Framework which typically corresponds to a Master's degree of 5 years.