DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - Puppet - Ansible - Aws - Docker

DevOps Engineer working onsite at a Central Government Organization as part of a team working closely with many stakeholders to understand the requirements and circumstances that drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.

• Code - development and review continuous integration tools
• Build - version control tools, code merging, build status
• Test - Test and results, determine performance
• Package - Artifact repository - application pre-deployment staging.
• Release - Change management, release approvals, release automation.
• Configuration - infrastructure management and infrastructure as code, tools.
• Monitor - Application performance monitoring and user experience

Job Description:

• Establish and support environments whereby developing, testing and releasing of code, is able to happen quickly and frequently.
• Be able to deploy and maintain product releases and configurations and design, maintain and scale both cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Deploy and automate toolsets into the CI/CD pipeline both cloud and hybrid cloud.
• Demonstrates configuration control and understanding of code repository platform to provide distributed version control within the path to live environments.
• Ability to tune systems improving performance and capacity.
• Understand and configure cloud computing technologies creating and maintaining infrastructure as code.
• Provision and administration of Linux, Windows operating systems hosted both cloud and hybrid cloud.
• Contribute technical knowledge to System Software Roadmaps
• Design core scripts to automate maintenance and alerting tasks
• Provide advice/training/knowledge transfer (and receive)
• Highlight/escalate issues as appropriate
• Provide support for the live systems
• Working with 3rd parties' vendors as part of project delivery
• Design and configuration of alerting & monitoring tools.
• Design and configuration of customized dashboards for Real Time monitoring.

Key Skills:

• Experience working closely with development teams to assess and scope requirements and opportunities for dev/build/deploy improvements.
• Experience with continuous build, automated deployment, testing and integration methodology and tooling experience ie (Jenkins/Maven/Nexus/Puppet, Ansible, Docker Swarm or other similar tools)
• Experience of release and configuration management processes and procedures using Git, Nexus, Puppet tools and repositories or similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging a complex multi-server service common web application/integration architectures (SOA).
• Understanding of functional flows within hosted applications.
• Understanding of non-functional platform requirements
• Operating Systems Administration skills: Linux and Windows.
• One or more Scripting skills ie Ruby, Python, Perl, YAML etc.
• Experience with integrating deployment and automation toolsets into an operational solution.
• Experience in the deployment and configuration of Alerting & Monitoring tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, ELK, and Riverbed etc.
• Experience with Agile tools and methodologies (SCRUM, Kanban, Confluence, Jira, Sprints etc.)
• Experience of designing, deploying and managing technical environments.
• Knowledge of factors influencing performance and ability to tune systems to achieve best possible performance and capacity.
• Working within a product-centric environment.
• Breadth of experience with strengths in application programming, security, operations, networking and design.
• Ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.

Desirable Knowledge, Criteria and Skills

• Managing their workload across multiple concurrent projects each needing DevOps input
• Agile & Scrum Projects and tooling such as Jira and Confluence
• Oracle database
• Full software development life cycle
• Design and configuration of customized dashboards for Real Time monitoring.
• Development environment virtualization, infrastructure as code with in AWS or other cloud provider.
• Networking Firewalls, load balancing, domains, VLAN, subnet etc.
• Configuration and delivery to Cloud environments (eg Oracle Cloud)

DevOps Engineer - Puppet - Ansible - Aws - Docker