We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Linux and DevOps team, responsible for the organisation's extensive Linux, Oracle, PostGres and Microsoft SQL Server solutions. The successful candidate will contribute to the overall success of Eirgrid by working as part of a team of IT professionals, undertaking senior database administration duties and driving project delivery and solution optimisation.
Key Responsibilities:
* Implementation and maintenance of deployment pipelines and deployment strategy from Dev to Production in an on-premise, hybrid or cloud environment.
* Automated installation and configuration of deployment environments using Terraform/Ansible.
* Ensuring code readiness and validation against checklist for code promotion to higher environment.
* Monitoring and alerts configuration to notify of system issues.
* Development Teams enablement for seamless process of promoting code from development to higher environments.
* Maintenance plans development and implementation to address technical issues, seeking opportunities for improvement and efficiency.
* Liaison with Governance & Planning team and business representatives to understand business needs and the wider context of developing and delivering IT solutions.
* Effective stakeholder management of internal and external stakeholders including vendors and service providers.
* Training and mentoring to junior staff.
About You:
* An IT degree or recognised qualification in a relevant technical discipline supported by 5+ years' experience in delivering and/or operating database solutions.
* Strong capability and experience in Azure.
* Experience in building and maintaining deployment pipelines using Terraform, Jenkins, Groovy Scripting.
* Agile frameworks experience - Scrum and Kanban.
* Logging and Monitoring tools experience - Splunk, Dynatrace.
* Configuration Management Tools experience - Chef/Ansible/Puppet.
* Cloud Foundry, PCF experience beneficial.