DevOps Lead

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Description

DevOps Lead [Jenkins/AWS/Linux/Java/Chef/Ansible]

Project / Role:
Our client turns ideas into innovative products that connect people, power businesses, and advance the way we live. They are a performance-driven, talented and diverse team that is committed to delivering world-class products for their customers.
They are currently looking for a DevOps Lead. The chosen candidate will be responsible for overseeing the day to day design and implementation of: applications, build/release/deployment, configuration, automation, troubleshooting, and monitoring activities. This candidate should be able to bridge the gap between Development and Operational teams as well as be able to work in fast-paced multi-disciplinary environments.

Main Tasks:
* Guide development and management of CI/CD pipelines. Work with development and infrastructure teams to improve.
* Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, validation and production environments.
* Automate and optimize processes.
* Guide the team to deploy, administer, maintain, and monitoring of AWS cloud services.
* Collaborate with development team to harden, streamline, document, and establish software release processes.
* Monitor and track key health and performance metrics of systems and applications.
* Continue to improve operational processes for better utilization of underlying cloud resources,
* Serve as a mentor for team members.
* Oversee the day to day work of an expanding team in India while being hands on. Serve as the go to between that team and management in San Jose.
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement.

Requirements:
* Must be strong in CI/CD pipeline and hands-on experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
* Must be strong in AWS administration including EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM.
* Must be strong in Linux (e.g. RedHat/CentOS). Windows a plus (Windows Server)
* Must be strong in managing of Web Servers (Apache/Nginx/HA Proxy/Tomcat), Java applications.
* Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills. Able to provide simple solutions to complex problems.
* Ability to evaluate system and application logs, error messages, stack traces to quickly identify and solve production problems.
* Professional commitment to high quality and holding the team to the same.
* Passion for learning new concepts and technologies.
* Detail-oriented individual.
* Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment.
* 8+ years' experience.
* Experience with automation and configuration management using Chef and Ansible.
* Solid background in implementing infrastructure automation and code deployment systems.
* Exposure to scripting and/or software development.

Nice to Have(s):
* Experience with IIS
* AWS certification
* Hands on experience with AppDynamics
* 2+ years prior lead experience; with remote teams

Education:
* Bachelors in Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent.

Reference No.: 917339FK
Role: DevOps Lead
Industry: Computer Networks
Location: Co. Cork
Workload: 100%
Start Date: ASAP
Job Type: Permanent

Feel free to contact us for further information: OR
Start date
05/2018
From
ITech Consult AG
Published at
17.05.2018
Project ID:
1556635
Contract type
Permanent
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