Senior Devops Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Responsible for internal development infrastructure which includes improving and refining both our internal and clients existing infrastructure.
• Responsible for operational activities related to hardware infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Define and implement appropriate automation of operational activities.
• Documenting, tracking frequency, producing solutions and runbooks, and knowledge sharing of incidents.
• Consistent and innovative application of knowledge, skills and competencies towards successful configuration and management.
• Support the integration of new infrastructure technology in to existing cloud.
• Post-mortem reviews and reports.
• Estimation of effort required to complete complex engineering problems.
• Designing solutions for new and old problems.

Job Requirements

Skills

• 3+ years’ experience in tool sets such as Java, JMS, Web Services, REST and JSON, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Github, and Jenkins or Bamboo.
• CI/CD tools which include orchestration tools for release and deploy (Jenkins, Octopus, Team City)
• Concepts of Rest, SOAP and API.
• 3 + years’ experience with managing Windows server environments.

Experience

• Strong technical, hands-on, experience to support application development, infrastructure/OS, and operations that leverage such technologies as Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible.
• Understanding of High Availability, other technologies, and principles that support business continuity.
• Familiar with SCM such as GIT, VSTS, SVN.
• Strong familiarity with microservice architectures and best practices for running in a container orchestration environment.
• Possible experience in both RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Good scripting experience in one or more of; C#, ANT, Python, Bash. Automation scripts such as PowerShell.
• Solid experience with cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS or MS Azure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and hands-on experience with onshore and offshore team members.
• Strong self-management skills with ability to effectively collaborate with peers and management.
• Strong technical experience with open source technologies and infrastructure environments.
• Workflow management using JIRA / VSTS for backlog and issue management.
• Relationships with other hosting/cloud providers such as Rackspace, Verizon, AWS, etc.
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills with experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable, responds positively to changing business issues and sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective.
• Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information