Senior DevOps Engineer

Project description

If you always ask yourself how we can improve your developer experience, and continuously improve overall IT experience. In this DevOps role you will have responsibility for creating systems and tools to assist the Software Development Team with building and deploying software, conducting automated testing, and assisting with first-level production support. In addition, you will have responsibility for creating systems and tools to assist the Infrastructure and Software Development Teams in provisioning, configuring and deploying virtual infrastructure, including load balancers, servers, workstations, databases, etc.

Responsibilities

• Participate in full lifecycle development of software and implement all DevOps procedures to support the CI/CD process including the automation of the build, test, deploy pipelines and configuration management.
• Employ best practices for designing automation processes and utilities that can be easily used by the development teams.
• Design and develop a best practice release management process that employs separation of control and proper approvals.
• Evaluate and monitor infrastructure resources to guarantee proper operation of the CI/CD pipeline.
• Closely partner with the security and infrastructure teams to incorporate corporate standards into the CI/CD and provisioning processes.
• Maintaining source control management system and integrating it with software build and deployment.
• Responsibility for the build environment: resolve build issues, help coordinate complex software test environments and software releases.
• Triage of software issues from the Help Desk, disseminating requests to developers as appropriate and assisting with the deployment of fixes and enhancements.
• Monitoring of Systems' operational processes, escalating and facilitating failure resolution as appropriate.
• Design, execution and monitoring of automated testing and regression suites, reporting results as appropriate.
• The successful candidate should have:
• Obtained a computer science or similar system technology/engineering degree.
• 5+ years of experience of working in a collaborative Development environment.
• An understanding of the role and application of revision control systems regarding development, software build, testing and deployment, experience with Git being a plus.
• A practical understanding of the software development life cycle and iterative software development processes.
• Working knowledge of software development source control, build, debugging, deployment, log management/monitoring/alerting, scripting and software testing.

Mandatory Skills

• 5+ years of experience of working with the full software development life cycle and designing/developing best practice CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Action, test automation, static code analysis, Artifactory and release management processes.
• 3+ years of application development background with Java
• Experience with containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, K8s, OpenShift).
• Experience with application telemetry, monitoring and alerting solutions (Splunk, LogicMonitor, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Insight or similar).
• Proficient in at least two of the following Windows batch/PowerShell, bash, Python and Jenkins/Ansible/Puppet/Terraform (IaC).
• Good understanding of deployment of various platforms such as web/REST API, messaging bus/queue, application services, Microservices and Cloud Serverless components/managed platform.
• A curiosity concerning technology and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Experience with code-quality (SonarQube, Github Enterprise Advanced Security, Jfrog Artifactory Xray).
• Experience working with relational databases/SQL and no-SQL, other database technologies are a plus.
• Experience with Cloud solutions Azure (VNet, private Link, Blob storage, Azure SQL, Web App, Data Factory, ACS, AKS, ARO).
• Strong experience with managing and support of Windows Servers.
• Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, NAT, firewall, load balancing, etc).
• Experience with administration of Linux Servers.
• Other cloud solutions i.e. AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB/NLB)