DevOps Engineer

To be successful as a DevOps Engineer you should have experience with:

• Experience with DevOps / CI / CD in an enterprise context coupled with an understanding of PaaS and Cloud deployment options.
• Engineering background that includes experience with DevOps tools and platforms such as OpenShift, AWS, Docker Kubernetes, Jenkins, Gradle, Maven and their equivalents.
• Solid experience with Infrastructure-as-Code, Ansible, Terraform, Chef.
• Proficient developing in a major programming language such as Python, Java.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (Git, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Planning for scalability and capacity needs, optimising resource utilisation, and improving system performance.
• Ensuring systems meet security standards and compliance requirements, mitigating risks and vulnerabilities.
• Collaboration and Participation in the product life cycle, work closely with our product and development teams to integrate SRE best practices in a fast-paced environment to ensure alignment with business goals.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team environment.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Experience working with PaaS products, including some experience of container orchestration / management utilising products such as Red Hat Openshift.
• Experience working with IaaS and/or PaaS products, including some experience of either virtualisation, containerisation, orchestration of compute/network/storage.
• Experience working with event-driven automation through Kafka-based Event Bus.
• Experience working with REST API development and Integration, Database management / Query language.
• Proficiency in implementing monitoring and alerting systems to ensure service availability and performance.