DevOps Engineer

• Day to day duties include the overall responsibility of CI/CD pipelines, availability and reliability of various platforms and support small multi-disciplined squads to deliver enhancements and new feature of our product.
• Generally, this role will be writing code to automate processes, platforms management, investigating issues and supporting their resolution.
• You will need to have a passion for using software development techniques and experience to diagnose & solve operational problems (application, architectural & infrastructure).
• As member of the DevOps team, this role requires someone to be passionate about their work, researching the latest tools and techniques, analysing if they would be of benefit to the company and streamlining the process and taking control of implementing this.
• You’ll be someone with a passion for proper engineering practice as you will be expected to get on board with the rest of the group efforts in terms of high-availability software (latency, performance and capacity).
• You'll be a positive and friendly individual, who’s keen to learn new skills and quickly be able to provide your input and be an asset on this team.
• We value people with a keen sense of curiosity that can pick up knowledge by themselves and share this newly acquired knowledge.

• Experience with deployment tools such as Ansible / Jenkins.
• Use of modern CI/CD tools for delivery and automation (AzureDevOps, GitLab, ...)
• Solid sysadmin and networks capabilities. (tcp, firewall, Reverse Proxy, Load-Balancer, Web containers (e.g. IIS and nginx)
• Strong knowledge of System administration actross multiple OS (especially Windows / Linux)- Knowledge of database concepts - with experience of PostgreSQL, Oracle & ElasticSearch an advantage.
• Familiarity with virtualization & containerization technologies. (Docker, Kubernetes, Hyper-V, ...)
• Engineering skills using one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, C#, shell script (Linux/Powershell)
• Experience of monitoring, logging and alerting stacks or APMs - such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Solarwinds, Prometheus, Grafana, TICK, ELK And hopefully some of these too.
• Exposure to incident response processes and scenarios.
• Solid verbal and written/diagrammatical communication skills.
• Experience of quality assurance techniques such as load/stress/chaos testing- Proven experience of collaborating with wider stakeholders such as Developers, QA, IT to deliver quality solutions to Production environments.

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