Sr Devops Engineer

The candidate should possess the following attributes and abilities:

• Team Player
• Ability to work independently, under pressure and with tight deadlines.
• Quality oriented and finding a balance between speed and quality of work.
• Taking initiative and responding quickly to the needs of the customers & stakeholders
• Going above and beyond the basic job requirements.
• Innovative and challenges ideas & practices constructively, striving to continuously improve
• Good communication skills
• Good written and spoken English

Required Technical Competencies:

Most important :

• Proficient with various software package managers (e.g. rpm, war, docker, npm,…), i.e. how to build them, and able to quickly grasp new package managers of other types (e.g. go, etc)
• Proficient reading, understanding, and troubleshooting Java applications/JVM (threadumps, heapdumps, etc)
• Proficient with SQL and some DBA experience (MySQL, Postgres)

Required:

• Proficient with Linux, including related IT environment
• Proficient with automation and scripting (e.g. Python, shell)
• Proficient with servlet containers such as Tomcat
• Proficient with Web Services (REST/SOAP).
• Experience with Docker
• Ability to solve complex problems quickly and completely, and document solutions
• Experience with user support

Assets:

• Experienced with binary management systems (Artifactory, Nexus)
• Experience with automated deployment framework (e.g. Ansible)
• Experience with source versioning (GIT) and unit testing (jUnit).
• Experienced with using Agile development methodology (Scrum, Scaled agile, Kanban).
• Experience with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins.