Senior DevOps Engineer
We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide tactical and operational excellence, defining and implementing infrastructure standards and policies, as well as designing and delivering infrastructure solutions and projects that meet business requirements. Supporting the evolution of our customer's infrastructure, you will influence the design and strategic direction of the technology roadmap and cloud adoption. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS and Terraform.
Required Experience:
Experience with cloud and cloud migration in AWS
Experienced with automation tools and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, YAML, python)
Demonstrable experience managing, troubleshooting and tuning Linux and Windows systems
Strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills
Linux and Windows configuration, management, optimisation and administration
Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell)
Experience with Virtualisation, Containerisation and related provisioning tools (ESXi, vCenter, Docker)
Understanding of agile software development, continuous deployment and DevOps culture
CI/CD and Version control (Jenkins, GIT)
A good understanding of TCP/IP networking and networking tools such as DNS, tcpdump and radius
Experience in automated test coverage, code quality checks (lint) and software metric generation
Working with Internet technologies such as Firewalls, Load Balancing, Proxies and service clustering
Experience with distributed service monitoring (SNMP, Shinken/Nagios)
Experience with modern database systems (MySQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
Extensive experience in security hardening servers and network equipment, including certificate management
Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
Fluent in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Key responsibilities & duties include:
Manage an international, multi-site production infrastructure powering our customer's services, including design, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning and security
Administer Infrastructure services and Operational Support Systems (OSS)
Maintain a highly available, resilient environment, patching and upgrading software regularly
Formalise designs, configurations and procedures for system and storage administration
Identify system incidents and problems. Troubleshoot, resolve and produce root cause analysis of these incidents
Work with software developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
Significantly contribute to the design, scope and implementation of new solutions for upcoming projects
Provide significant input into the department’s strategic direction in relation to infrastructure, architecture and operations
Monitor and maintain equipment and systems insuring maximum performance, security and system integrity
Establish a baseline for system performance and capacity planning
Provide tools to support data driven decisions (Elastic Stack, Graphite, Grafana)
Deliver highly available and reliable solutions (HAProxy, Keepalived)
Optimise existing tools and processes as part of our continuous service improvement program
Responsible for implementation and release of system and application changes with relevant change controls
Responsible for backup, business continuity and disaster recovery of systems
Our customer operates 24×7 services and the role requires participation in the on-call rota to support out of office hours’ emergency support and routine maintenance
Service is delivered throughout the HYLAS fleet footprint and occasional international travel is required