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.
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.
Analyze 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 …
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