Devops Engineer

Glocomms are currently working with one of the largest financial customers internationally who are searching for a Devops Engineer to fulfill a 12 month freelance contract.

Job Description:

1. Have appreciation of production readiness and work with teams to understand user requirements
2. Work to a set of prioritised tasks ensuring regular updates ensuring the target solution remains the key focus
3. Understand phased delivery to ensure work is completed to a defined specification and schedule
4. Help identify efficiencies in processes and contribute to their automation
5. Thoroughly test automated processes ensuring they are robust and meet requirements
6. Contribute to medium and high scale technical projects by contributing to architecture review and design, upgrading and migrating application systems to new platforms.
7. Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, capacity and design issues
8. Document designs and architectures and distribute minutes and meeting actions

Skills Required:

1. Expert knowledge in DevSecOps, SAST and SCA in particular, and familiar with tools such as Fortify and NexusIQ
2. Expert knowledge in CI/CD, Jenkins in particular, with good infra experience in both building the platform as well as creating and configuring pipelines as a user
3. Expert knowledge in Docker and Kubernetes, not only as a user but admin and infrastructure design
4. Good knowledge in source code management including Git, Bitbucket and SVN.
5. Automation - Expertise of automated test and release cycles and server automation tools such as Ansible, BladeLogic, Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Git and integration with security vaults
6. Experience in migrations from legacy platforms to new solutions ensuring technology evolution is maintained
7. Knowledge of programming and scripting methodologies and demonstrable proficiency in writing code in one or more of the following languages; Python, Ansible, Groovy, Shell
8. System administration - In-depth knowledge in Linux/Unix and good knowledge on Windows systems
9. Good general understanding of global infrastructure, firewalls and networking and considerations in these areas.
10. Networks - Good understanding of network principals and practical knowledge of load balancing technologies
11. Understanding of user and server authentication enabling end to end automated release cycles whilst ensuring security is a primary consideration
12. Understand of cloud based platforms and solutions and delivery of PAAS solutions

Desirable IT Skills

1. Security - Knowledge of and API interaction with Cyberark or Hashicorp Vault, Fortify, NexusIQ
2. Build Tools -Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, git and CI platforms
3. Databases - exposure to or skills in SQL Server, Oracle and noSQL DBs
4. Monitoring and log management - Geneos, Splunk, XpoLog, ELK
5. Understanding of application lifecycle and Agile methodology
6. Good tasks management, prioritisation, risk management
7. Appreciation of production processes, including change and release management

Personal Attributes

1. Strong problem solving skills
2. Good interpersonal skills and team player
3. Ability to consider multiple ideas and work to agree on best fit solution
4. Client focused
5. Attention to detail
6. Strong aptitude and interest in technology
7. High energy level coupled with a desire to take on responsibility
8. Able to multi-task