[Data Distribution Platform] DevOps Engineer

We are looking for an engineer with experience in distributed systems to join our team working on a near real-time application used across multiple businesses.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will lead the team’s thinking when it comes to hosting applications in production. You will understand the functional and non-functional requirements and design an approach that will allow us to productionise the new system as quickly as possible, and then iterate to a robust approach. You will integrate with other systems for provisioning, monitoring, and alerting. Working closely with our support teams and development teams, you will help do all this with a high level of automation and reliability. We want to minimize manual processes and strong software engineering proficiency in this role is key.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on an important project, which will have huge impact on our future architecture.

Please note that this role has NAM working hours.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and resolve applications and DB issues escalated by the production support team.
• Develop, build and maintain our CI/CD pipelines to deploy all layers of the architecture to production in a robust, easy-to-use, and automated way.
• Infrastructure audit and capacity planning
• Environment accessibility management.
• Linux administration
• Groovy/Bash/Python scripting
• DB administration
• Participate in planning/grooming sessions, stand-ups
• Management of the Configuration Baseline

Skills

Must have

• You have experience in Linux administration (RHEL).
• You are fluent in Groovy (Jenkins shared libraries).
• You have experience building CI/CD pipelines from scratch for microservice architectures, ideally, with experience in Jenkins, IBM UrbanCode Deploy.
• You have experience in OpenShift/Kubernetes creating, deploying, and supporting Docker images.
• You have experience working with Java/Scala + Maven/SBT tools code in a production system.
• You have experience in Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• You have experience in MongoDB cluster solutions.
• You have high development standards, especially for code quality, code reviews, unit testing, continuous integration, and deployment.
• You are fluent in Bash/Shell and at least one other programming/scripting language, preferably Python.
• You have experience working in fast-paced development environments.
• You agree that verbal and written communication skills are vital

Nice to have

• An ideal candidate would have experience working with Autosys and OpenShift in a production system.
• You have experience in the ELK stack.
• You have experience in Service discovery stack as Consul
• You have experience in InfluxDB, Graphana monitoring

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate