Description
Container Specialist
Want to be a Game Changer, then join us on one of Europe's largest digitalisations transformation projects with Red Carpet IT Services.
Our international client is undertaking a significant modernisation program of its existing IT systems and architecture and rapidly moving towards a cloud-based IT solution. This includes a significant redesign of their Legacy applications using the latest principles in software delivery. Additionally, the infrastructure to support the modern platform is being overhauled to align with the future vision and values of the organisation.
If you are driven, motivated and wish to share in our client's journey to a smarter and more sustainable future, then now is your chance to grab your dream assignment. We have multiple roles available.
Location: All activities shall be performed 100% Off-Site.
Start Date; April 2021. Duration 1 year with the possibility of multiple extensions.
Working Language is English. knowledge of either German or French is a pre.
Are you searching for a new and exciting challenge and would like to be involved with new & future technologies and play an instrumental role in the success of this project and have the following skills?
Are you an experienced Docker and Kubernetes container management specialist?
Kubernetes cluster management and administration
CoreOS Linux container management
Blue/green and canary deployment
Onboard/manage/decommission cloud-native on-premises implementation (Docker and Kubernetes)
Perform housekeeping activities, such as reacting to alerts, fixing platform health issues, restarting master or worker nodes, extending memory or disk space, clean up disk space, etc
Support on updates and upgrades of operating system used for Kubernetes Platform(CoreOs and Fedora CoreOS) by testing new software with K8s support team or other application and infrastructure teams and running upgrade procedures (eg maintain the ignition files, re-test dynamically storage provisioning processes, re-test FCmultipathing configurations, verify the network configurations, etc).
Common requirements:
Agile scrum experience
Experience working in a large/enterprise environment.
Jira incident and change management experience.
Monitoring (Nagios) and responding to incidents and user requests (Escalation procedures)
Able to assist with and manage hardware incidents and upgrades and perform root cause analysis.
Flexible and Responsive and able to work alone and within large virtual teams.
Able to support and assist application developers and application owners.
Experience working with physical and virtual Servers (VMware)
Perform regular system updates and system patching.
Server security management and incident handling
Document any relevant information about systems and applications gained.
Transfer of knowledge to our client's internal staff or other Contractors as and when requested by client.
Support monitoring teams in alarms troubleshooting and escalation to suppliers.
Perform any other tasks assigned by the client.
Able to create and manage Bash scripts.
On board for service or decommission any further UNIX/Linux requested versions or flavours (eg, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc)