Senior DevOps Engineer

Our ideal candidate is able to work with our product and platform engineering teams to create reliable repeatable and performant infrastructure as well as facilitate product deployments into that infrastructure. Our primary focus is within public cloud where we primarily utilize AWS. Engineers must be familiar with cloud native approaches including but not limited to infrastructure-as-code continuous integration and continuous deployment. Security of our environment is paramount. Ability to work well with others across the organization is highly desired.

Essential Skills and Abilities Highlighted skills are MUST

• Strong expertise with Linux/ Unix
• Strong expertise with java basics
• Strong expertise in Continuous Delivery; strong knowledge of build tools and best practices
• Strong expertise in Agile DevOps environments; advocates INVEST principles
• Expertise with working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) ex: AWS EC2 RDS Aurora S3 Kafka glacier Cloud Formation VPC IAM Route 53 EBS.
• Well versed in engineering software releases for cloud deployment
• Strong expertise in Kubernetes Docker OpenShift Terraform
• Strong expertise in Cloudflare and Akamai
• Expertise with Jenkins Sonar Nexus
• Expertise with automated monitoring and alerting; for example App Dynamics Splunk AWS Cloudwatch Sysdig
• Expertise with IP networking principles DNS certificate management routing and load balancing

• Ability to design and configure infrastructure that responds to production KPIs and traffic (both expected and spikes) for example AWS Autoscaling groups and automated recovery and security
• Maintain the level of reliability required from a high-volume high-availability platform
• Ability to plan baseline and peak capacity to ensure economic service provision with a 5 9s expectation in Cloud environments
• Support deployment of new features into production with zero platform downtime and no impact to end customers that are currently processing
• Have a strong sense of team over self-Practice continuous improvement reducing waste in ways of working

Desirable : Good to have below additional skills

• Experience with design and implementation of monitoring and responsive self-healing resilient immutable platforms
• Knowledge of scalability levers in high volume low latency transactional systems
• Proficiency with SQL relational data modeling and basic database schema design
• Experience with RESTful API design

Qualifications :

• Degree or diploma in Computer Sciences or related fields or equivalent work experience
• 5-10 years of experience as a software engineer and writing Infrastructure-and Configuration-as-Code
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Highly proficient in AWS design and architecture
• Professional level AWS Certification a significant asset
• Highly experienced with Terraform and or AWS CloudFormation
• Experience with Infrastructure- and Configuration-as-Code
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline systems such as Octopus Deploy and GitLab
• Experience with Git in a multi-team environment
• Some experience with containers and containers-as-a-service systems such as EKS
• Experience with log aggregation systems such as Grafana
• Experience with APM solutions and infrastructure monitoring solutions an asset
• Desire to push themselves and learn new things

Preferred technologies:

• Containers
• Git
• GitLab
• Artifactory
• AWS
• CloudFormation/Terraform
• Linux and/or Windows scripting
• Kubernetes

Additional Information :

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package referral bonus;   
• Career Development: Career coaching global career opportunities non-linear career paths internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects rotations internal tech communities training certifications coaching online learning platforms subscriptions pass-it-on sessions workshops conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities hobby clubs and interest groups inclusion and diversity programmes events and celebrations.

At Endava were committed to creating an open inclusive and respectful environment where everyone feels safe valued and empowered to be their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectivesbecause we know that inclusive teams help us deliver smarter more innovative solutions for our customers. Hiring decisions are based on merit skills qualifications and potential. If you need adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time