DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:
The Role:

One of our major client is looking for a DevOps Engineer who will be able to provide technical support for the end-users, have a good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs, as well as having experience with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on pr...

POSITION INFO:
The Role:

One of our major client is looking for a DevOps Engineer who will be able to provide technical support for the end-users, have a good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs, as well as having experience with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on production incidents to join their team. 

Essential functions:

• Good understanding of Java/OpenShift/Kubernetes or any Container Orchestration/AWS
• Good scripting knowledge with an aim at infrastructure as code is beneficial
• Responsible for developing and configuring systems to deploy, host, monitor and run various applications across both cloud and on-premisessolutions
• Good understanding of delivering pipelined based automation for CI/ CD across the SDLC
• Focus on creation and facilitation to achieve Operations Support, automated end to end monitoring of services and data checks across multiple applications
• Experience with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on production incidents
• Experience ensuring that Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are known and communicated to the feature 
  team and other stakeholders
• Good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs
• Able to provide technical support for end-users in Germany and World-wide
• Development of features in collaboration with external development partners in Munich.
• Travel to Munich
• Meet with end users and gather requirements
• Identify common sources of end-user errors and propose improvements 
• Develop systems solutions in line with quality and delivery requirements 
• Enforce code quality based on set standards (Code Quality Assurance
• System testing/parallel runs 
• System implementation focused on implementing system wide requirements for infrastructure and monitoring
• Troubleshoot defects reported by end-users
• Assist in resolving issues escalated by helpdesk
• Stand-by availability on a rotation basis for user support during business hours
• Release Management
• Create user stories for DevOps issues AWS
• Code quality checks before deployments
• Non-Functional testing and monitoring

Essential Qualification:

• Qualification in IT Business Analysis (Diploma / Degree)

Experience required:

• 5-8 yearsâ?? experience in relevant programming 
  language
• On premise virtualisation technology expertise
• Experience in testing (manual or automated testing
• Web and digital project experience advantageous
• Agile working experience advantageous

Functional skills:

• Understanding of integration between different technologies
• Coordination between development and support environments
• Assisting with the business case
• Planning and monitoring
• Eliciting requirements
• Requirementâ??s organisation
• Translating and simplifying requirements
• Requirements management and communication
• Requirementâ??s analysis
• Document requirements in appropriate format depending on methodology followed
• Assist with identification and management of risks

Technical Skills:

• Experience in APM as well as Log Aggregation like Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog or other monitoring systems
• No Ops and/or Git Ops
• JAVA EE / JAVA (exposure)
• Scripting and pipelining 
• Service Now, ITSM or similar Ticket Management Systems
• Restful services
• CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) management and Automation
• Build Tools (Maven/Gradle/Gulp/Grunt/Web Pack)
• SQL (Oracle, Postgres or DB2) and Non-SQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
• TDD (Test-Driven Development) / BDD (BehaviourDriven Development)
• Experience with Liferay Applications
• Experience with AWS Technologies Hosting. 

Advantageous:

• ITIL (or similar) certification
• AWS DevOps experience
• Working in an Agile Environment
• IoC / Dependency Injection
• Python, Typescript, NodeJS
• Exposure to Liferay 7.0 +

Soft skills:

• Problem solving capabilities
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to work interdependently as well as independently and to submit deliverables on time and with excellent quality
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to communicate effectively (both verbally 
  and in writing) with both technical and non-technical colleagues / users
• Strong ability to understand and interpret business needs and requirements with an aptitude to move concepts through to proposal and successful implementation
• Strong presentation skills
• Above-board work ethics
• Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project
• Ability and willingness to coach and give training to fellow colleagues and users when required
• Willing and able to travel internationally

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