The Role: One of our major client is looking for a DevOps Engineer who will be able to provide technical support for the end-users, have a good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wide SLAs, as well as having experience with the processes and techniques for logging, monitoring and following up on production incidents to join their team.Essential functions:
- Good understanding of Java/OpenShift/Kubernetesor any Container Orchestration/AWS
- Good scripting knowledge with an aim atinfrastructure as code is beneficial
- Responsible for developing and configuringsystems to deploy, host, monitor and run variousapplications across both cloud and on-premisessolutions
- Good understanding of delivering pipelined basedautomation for CI/ CD across the SDLC
- Focus on creation and facilitation to achieveOperations Support, automated end to endmonitoring of services and data checks acrossmultiple applications
- Experience with the processes and techniques forlogging, monitoring and following up on productionincidents
- Experience ensuring that Service Level Agreements(SLAs) are known and communicated to the feature
team and other stakeholders - Good understanding of automated monitoring to achieve various outcomes based on system wideSLAs
- Able to provide technical support for end-users inGermany and World-wide
- Development of features in collaboration withexternal development partners in Munich.
- Travel to Munich
- Meet with end users and gather requirements
- Identify common sources of end-user errors andpropose improvements
- Develop systems solutions in line with quality anddelivery requirements
- Enforce code quality based on set standards (CodeQuality Assurance
- System testing/parallel runs
- System implementation focused on implementingsystem wide requirements for infrastructure andmonitoring
- Troubleshoot defects reported by end-users
- Assist in resolving issues escalated by helpdesk
- Stand-by availability on a rotation basis for usersupport during business hours
- Release Management
- Create user stories for DevOps issues & AWS
- Code quality checks before deployments
- Non-Functional testing and monitoring
Skills and Experience: Essential Qualification:
- Qualification in IT Business Analysis (Diploma / Degree)
Experience required:
- 5-8 years?? experience in relevant programming
language - On premise virtualisation technology expertise
- Experience in testing (manual or automated testing
- Web and digital project experience advantageous
- Agile working experience advantageous
Key Accountabilities: Functional skills:
- Understanding of integration between differenttechnologies
- Coordination between development and supportenvironments
- Assisting with the business case
- Planning and monitoring
- Eliciting requirements
- Requirement??s organisation
- Translating and simplifying requirements
- Requirements management and communication
- Requirement??s analysis
- Document requirements in appropriate formatdepending on methodology followed
- Assist with identification and management of risks
Technical Skills:
- Experience in APM as well as Log Aggregation likeDynatrace, Grafana, Datadog or other monitoringsystems
- No Ops and/or Git Ops
- JAVA EE / JAVA (exposure)
- Scripting and pipelining
- Service Now, ITSM or similar Ticket ManagementSystems
- Restful services
- CI/CD (Continuous Integration/ContinuousDeployment) management and Automation
- Build Tools (Maven/Gradle/Gulp/Grunt/Web Pack)
- SQL (Oracle, Postgres or DB2) and Non-SQL(MongoDB/DynamoDB)
- TDD (Test-Driven Development) / BDD (BehaviourDriven Development)
- Experience with Liferay Applications
- Experience with AWS Technologies & Hosting.
Advantageous:
- ITIL (or similar) certification
- AWS DevOps experience
- Working in an Agile Environment
- IoC / Dependency Injection
- Python, Typescript, NodeJS
- Exposure to Liferay 7.0 +
Personality and Attributes: Soft skills:
- Problem solving capabilities
- Ability to work as part of a team
- Ability to work interdependently as well asindependently and to submit deliverables on timeand with excellent quality
- Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills withthe ability to communicate effectively (both verbally
and in writing) with both technical and non-technicalcolleagues / users - Strong ability to understand and interpret businessneeds and requirements with an aptitude to moveconcepts through to proposal and successfulimplementation
- Strong presentation skills
- Above-board work ethics
- Flexibility to take up different tasks in the project
- Ability and willingness to coach and give training tofellow colleagues and users when required
- Willing and able to travel internationally