Senior Devops Engineer

SUMMARY:
The purpose and aim of the DevOps team or practice is to facilitate implementation of DevOps thereby improving overall delivery. As the Senior DevOps engineer you are expected to understand the entire lifecycle and assist in implementing flexible, scalable, innovative and modern solutions in support of an Agile SDLC. Continuously enhance the monitoring and measurability of system performance metrics that will provide input into continuous improvement and stabilization efforts.

POSITION INFO:

Responsibilities –

·         Promote DevOps culture and practices across the organization.

·         Understand programming and assist teams with development practices.

·         Do any general software development.

·         Assist in automated testing strategies for development teams.

·         Assist with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery implementation.

·         Effectively leverage all DevOps tooling delivery pipelines.

·         Implement automation for deployment pipelines for applications and configurations.

·         Understands operating systems and can use Linux proficiently.

·         Understands infrastructure and virtualization technologies.

·         Help create strategies around cloud transformation.

·         Help with scaling of systems.

·         Able to implement containerization.

·         Implement CI pipelines in order to facilitate faster delivery.

·         Assist with testing strategies and automated testing implementations to improve the quality of delivered software.

·         Assist in architecting complex, multi-faceted applications across cloud platforms.

·         Assist in improving releases through the practices of DevOps.

·         Implement monitoring to effectively maintain systems.

·         Experiment with new technologies to assist with the cloud transformation journey.

·         In summary, “Be the example” to encourage DevOps culture and improve delivery.

Competencies –

·         Terraform scripting for hardware provisioning.

·         Ansible / Chef scripting for configuration management and software deployment.

·         Gitlab / GitHub as a lifecycle tool for DevOps CI/CD automation.

·         Git and SVN as Source Control Management.

·         Experience using Linux OS and Bash scripting.

·         Kubernetes / Docker for containerization and orchestration.

·         Database knowledge of SQL or NoSQL.

·         IT Security practices and tools.

·         Cloud platforms such as Azure and/or AWS and their respective toolsets.

·         Senior experience with either Java or C#

·         Senior experience with an interpreted language (Python, Ruby).

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