Senior DevOps Engineer

SUMMARY:

• Defining and establishing test, development, release, update, and support processes for the organization’s DevOps operations
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and perform any configuration management
• Troubleshooting environment issues and limiting downtime through proactive monitoring
• Embed security controls in the software development life cycle
• Eliminate waste by automating relevant tasks throughout the software development lifecycle
• Implement and manage monitor and logging

POSITION INFO:
Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or relevant
• 8 years working experience as a DevOps Engineer;
• Linux experience a must;
• Working experience in building and maintaining Continuous Integration and Continuous Development (CI & CD) pipelines;
• Experience in design, deployment, configuration and maintaining RedHat OpenShift clusters;
• Experience of open-source technologies, DevOps and Agile principles,
• Extensive experience in GitLab, GitHub, OpenShift, ArgoCD, Kibana, Grafana, SAST, DAST, Sonarcube, 3scales, Kafka, Jfrog;
• Experience in implementing Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools such as AppDynamics, New Relic or similar to monitor application performance metrics, including response times throughput adn resource utilization
• Experience supporting databases and pipeline platforms, Informatica IICS & TeraData, Oracle, Postgres;
• Bash scripting and Ansible automation;
• A solid understanding of configuring and managing databases;

• Source code management: GitLab/GitHub;
• Developing CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins and GitLab ArgoCD or similar;
• Testing: Selenium or similar;
• Containerization: OpenShift, Docker and Kubernetes or similar;
• Configuration Managment: Puppet and Chef or similar;
• Monitoring: AppDynamics/Prometheus or similar;

• Strong collaboration with the Programme teams to understand the software requirements to design and implement different environments and DevOps solutions;
• Design, implement and maintain the orchestration platform considering scalability;
• Eliminate waste by automating relevant tasks throughout the software development lifecycle;
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and perform any configuration management;
• Implement and manage monitor and logging;
• Close collaboration with the Product and Program teams to resolve both non-production and production issues;
• Manage all activities and checklists for releases;
• Troubleshooting environment issues and limiting downtime through proactive monitoring;
• Define and implement DevOps culture within the team and be an ambassador for DevOps culture;
• Define and maintain documentation for knowledge sharing purposes and to eliminate key man dependencies;
• Reduce costs by continuously monitoring the environment and identifying areas where costs can be saved;
• Embed security controls in the software development life cycle
• Defining and establishing test, development, release, update, and support processes for the organization’s DevOps operations;
• Enhance the IT infrastructure’s security protocols by identifying and deploying needed cybersecurity measures by continuously conducting vulnerability assessment and risk management procedures;
• Understanding customer requirements, monitoring, and measuring customer experience and their Key Performance Indicators (KPIs);
• Managing stakeholders and associated external interfaces;
• Managing periodic reporting on project progress to the management, stakeholders, and customers.