Product/ DevOps Engineer - Front end

Job Description:
DevOps
- Apply critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve
technical problems (Front End, Back End OR Middleware) with high quality solutions
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle including
- Evaluate analysis, problem definition, business requirements, solution development & provide
recommendations to enable the operational feasibility of solutions
- Quickly produce well-organised, optimized, and documented source code to deliver technical solutions
- Ensure designs & solutions support the technical organisation principles of self-service, repeatability,
testability, scalability & resilience
- Apply general design patterns and paradigms to deliver technical solutions
- Support the development of CI / CD Pipelines (authoring & supporting CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins / similar
tools and deploying to multi-site Kubernetes environments – supporting and managing your applications
all the way to production)
- Use & configure modern observability techniques leveraging e.g. aggregated logging via ELK stack, metrics
via Prometheus / Grafana / NewRElic and tracing using Zipkin/Jaeger
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting e.g. Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes
- Debug existing source code and polish feature sets.
- Work with integrated teams and other developers to improve and evolve technical products and services
- Align all application development & development process to Group Architecture & Infrastructure
guidelines
- Provide input into project & program teams (when required) to plan & manage the development lifecycle
e.g. releases, risk management, testing, integration etc.
- Conduct reviews, performance monitoring & ongoing optimization and maintenance on applications
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies and development practices and continuously evolve
existing knowledge & skill in preparation for cross domain and other experiences e.g. Secure Side, Testing,
Infrastructure solutions etc.
People
- Conduct peer reviews, testing, problem solving within and across the broader team
- Support the people change teams in the development of user material (Customer, Employee & 3rd Party
Adoption)
Risk & Governance
- Identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during & post release)
- Update / Design all application documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk /
governance frameworks
- Participate in incident management & DR activity – applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical
expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
Role/Person specification
Education and experience required
- 3-8 years + experience
- Relevant B-Degree in Computer Science preferred but not essential if minimum requirements of
experience & practical application in the following is evident:
o Automation
o Messaging
o Integration
o Solutioning
o SSL Security
o CI/CD etc.
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Excellent communication, analytical skills and decision making ability in collaborative environments
- Excellent understanding of specific coding / scripting languages e.g. Java, C#, Python, Perl, JavaScript
- Solid understanding of Object Oriented Design and ability to properly apply general design patterns and
paradigms
- Experience with test-driven development and domain driven design
- Solid understanding of messaging protocols and web services like SOAP and REST
- Experience with open-source relational databases
- Knowledge of application server containers: Tomcat, Jetty, JBoss, NodeJS, IIS, .Net Core etc.
- Good understanding of frameworks and libraries like JavaScript, jQuery, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
- Experience with CI / CD tools (like Jenkins, Bamboo, TFS, Azure Devops) and Artifact Management
(preferably Nexus),
- Ability to create and maintain sophisticated CI / CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of version control and related concepts and techniques, particularly Git
- Experience with appropriate unit testing framework(s)
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable with stubbing tools like wiremock and/or hoverfly
- Experience with scripting languages like Bash and/or Python
- Experience with Cloud platforms e.g. Azure, AWS & Google Cloud Platform
- Familiar with OAuth, Open Connect ID and SAML, preferably with an understanding of AD / LDAP /
Kerberos
- Familiar with Containerisation technologies like Docker & or orchestrators like Kubernetes

Competencies:
- Team Working
- Interpreting Data
- Meeting Timescales
- Taking Action
- Producing Output
- Checking Things
- Following Procedures
- Adopting Practical Approaches

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