Description
DevOps Engineer /Infrastrucutre Engineer / Cloud EngineerIve got a fantastic role for the right peson. This role would see the ideal DevOps engineer gain exposure to both AWS and Azure.
Key responsibilities and accountabilities:
- Maintaining infrastructure using configuration management tools
- Ensuring maximum system uptime
- Ensuring that all systems are working at optimal levels
- Ensuring effective operation of high availability & fault tolerant solutions
- Ensuring continued stability through ongoing security updates & patches
- Perform system and application vulnerability scanning
- Troubleshooting & resolving complex issues
- Proactively responding to technical issues; received directly or through the trouble ticket system
- Using trouble ticket system to track and prioritise workload and report to stakeholders
- Continuously fine-tune & automate infrastructure, deployments, monitoring & other routines
- Working collaboratively with the Development team (e.g. deployment of code releases to Production)
- Contribute to the design & development of infrastructure solutions
- Support the development and integration of new technologies and system requirements
- Develop automation strategies
- Support new technology planning and implementation
- Working with the latest technologies to monitor and automate environments
- Create and update technical documentation
- Participate in the design, implementation and execution of backup and disaster recovery plan for infrastructure solutions
- Ensure adherence to security requirements
- Adhere to policies, procedures and standards
Qualifications & Experience:
- Experience of being a successful Linux engineer
- Experience of working with Amazon Web Services & Solutions
- Has held a variety of technical roles
- Previous successful experience of virtual and cloud environments
- Broad range of technical knowledge
- Solid background in monitoring and optimising IT infrastructure
- Working with configuration management tools - Ansible or Puppet
- Scripting for scheduled routines and infrastructure efficiencies, ideally Bash or Python
- Knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, DNS, LAN/WAN, VPN, Routers, Switches and Firewalls.
- Understanding of cloud security (Securing applications and infrastructure)
- Comfortable using *nix command line
- Experience administrating MySQL and familiarity with LAMP/LEMP architecture
- Use of ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana) Implementation & Configuration
- Familiarity with version control systems
- Use of team collaboration system and/or workflow management tools, e.g. Jira/Confluence
Desirable Technical Skills:
Languages: Shell scripting, Python
Version Control Systems: Git, Bitbucket
Automation/Build Tools: Puppet, Docker, Ansible, Packer
Provisioning tools: Cloudformation/Terraform
App & Web Servers: Apache, Atlassian JIRA & Confluence
Databases: MySQL, RDS
Virtualisation: Amazon AWS/EC2, Vagrant, Docker
Platforms: Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Amazon Linux/Ubuntu), Mac OX, Windows
Network/Infrastructure: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, AD
Monitoring: Datadog, ELK, Observium, CloudWatch
DevOps Engineer /Infrastrucutre Engineer / Cloud Engineer