About IP
IP (Information Providers Ltd), is an Information Technology Managed Services Outsourcing and IT Contract Staff Resource Augmentation consultancy. The company was established in 1998 and has corporate clients based primarily in the Greater Dublin and Midlands areas. Our IT Managed Services Outsourcing business is designed to allow us to design, control, operate, and fully handle and manage specific IT functions or clients' entire Information Systems (IS). This includes Software Development, DevOps, IT Operations, IT Maintenance, and Support. This provides our clients the opportunity to focus on their own core business competencies, reduce their IT costs, and improve IT efficiencies.
Separately, IP's IT Staff Augmentation business provides long-term contract staff on fixed-term contracts for large multinational companies. Clients find it challenging to recruit specialised IT staff. Costs of recruiting, retaining, and benefits for staff is very significant. Training alone cost an average of €2000 per year, per employee. Integrating new employees to the point of being productive takes over six months. We provide talented staff on demand. We encompass a huge range of the latest leading-edge IT skills; Cybersecurity, Compliance, Cloud Computing, Data Analytics & Science, Networking, AI, Machine Learning, project management, Software Engineers, DevOps, Systems Engineers, etc.
This Role
We currently have an excellent opportunity for Senior DevOps Engineers. It is a really interesting role in a leading-edge high-tech fast-paced environment, with training and development of staff a key benefit.
We invest in your life and career. If you are interested in advancing your career, IP offers a complete and competitive package of benefits that demonstrates how much we care for employees and their families through every stage of life.
Tomorrow's strongest companies are those that have both the skill sets and agility to navigate the constant state of rapid change in business and technology. We believe the best way to ensure these qualities is by hiring very competent skill sets with a desire to advance careers and technical solutions.
Job Duties:
* Implement solutions to manage VM infrastructure via code.
* Engage and improve the lifecycle of our services - from design to deployment, operation, and refinement.
* Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
* Release deployments that have suitably passed quality and security gateways.
* Debug, optimize code, and automate routine tasks.
* Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of services—from inception and design, through deployment, operations, and refinement.
* Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, capacity planning and launch reviews.
* Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and overall system health.
* Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
* Support the application CI/CD pipeline for promoting software into higher environments through validation and operational gating.
* Practice sustainable incident response and blameless post-mortems.
* Take a holistic approach to problem solving, by connecting the dots during a production event thru the various technology stack that makes up the platform, to optimize mean time to recover.
* Analyse and develop observability enhancements to our products monitoring and alerts that help in reducing MTTM.
* Onboard tech assets to real time monitoring tools such as Dynatrace and Prometheus.
* Onboard tech assets to synthetic data transactions, and health checks for auto-failover / failback.
* Enhance our releases deployment automation, rolling deployment, and auto-validations.
* Provide new capabilities to support CI/CD enhancements.
* Share knowledge and mentor junior resources.
Fundamental Skills:
* Strong communication and collaboration skills.
* Understanding of Windows/Linux operating systems.
* Experience in monitoring and logging tools e.g. Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace, etc.
* Experience in monitoring as a code e.g. SplunkSync, rolling deployment and release automation e.g. XLR.
* Knowledge of building CI/CD pipelines with hands-on work done on building pipelines using Jenkins.
* Good understanding of Chef, preferably Chef Habitat, Ruby/Bash scripting.
* Awareness of security implementations, certificate management lifecycle, mutual TLS, SSL handshake, SSH keys, symmetric and asymmetric encryptions.
* Understanding of API authentication mechanisms such as OAuth and MTLS
* Basic understanding of network protocols, network security, WAF.
* Problem solver and solution-seeking approach. Team player.
Beneficial Skills:
* Experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation, preferably Azure but AWS also helpful.
* Experience programming in at least one of the following languages: Java, Ruby, Python, Bash
* Experience deploying and scaling distributed systems on virtual machines.
* Experience in using Docker, Kubernetes, and other container orchestration tools for deploying and managing applications
Other Employment Benefits:
We reward performance and hard work with best-in-class compensation:
* Health plan options
* Training & Development
* Flexible working
* Generous time off
* English language training
* Employee wellbeing
* Free Gym
* Free parking
* Pension
* Bike-to-Work scheme
* and much more …