DevOps Engineer

K&K Social Resources & Development GmbH is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in the UK who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

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Job Role: DevOps SRE

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Location: London, UK

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Employment Type: Contract (Inside IR)

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Responsibilities:

   • Build, deploy and maintain our infrastructure as code on large scale multi-site deployments using Terraform.

   • Develop CI/CD pipelines to deploy software in a cloud native platform (Azure, Kubernetes)

   • Automate workflows to help pushing the limit of the infrastructure - Troubleshoot issues until root causes are understood on high traffic production systems.

   • Implement and enforce best DevOps and security practices.

   • Be responsible for identifying bottlenecks and improving performance of our infrastructure.

   • Choose, deploy and manage tools and technologies to build and support a robust infrastructure (Monitoring/Deployment/self-healing)

   • Automation of business/deployment/validation processes

   • Develop/Test/Apply software configuration management.

   • Develop/Test/Run Software release procedures/pipelines.

   • Interact with users to coordinate infrastructure changes.

   • Participate in the testing of functionality, operability, deployment, and performance for application or infrastructure changes.

   • Evangelize SDLC processes for infrastructure change.

   • Participate in tool authoring, integration and extension via REST or SOAP.

   • Drive, define and deploy system monitoring with thresholds and actionable alerts.

   • Provide supports for production deployments.

   • Mentor junior engineers and those to whom SDLC over Infrastructure is still unknown

   • Perform tasks related to securing and keeping the products, tools, and processes that you are responsible for securing.

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Qualifications:

   • BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent technical degree.

   • 5-7+ Years experience in a DevOps role

   • Required Skills:

   • Knowledge and hands on experience with Linux (admin, networking, scripting)

   • Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform HCL or Azure ARM

   • Knowledge and hands-on experience with Cloud infrastructure (Azure)

   • Knowledge and hands-on experience with Cloud Native Technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes/AKS, LXC, Helm, Prometheus

   • Understanding Java, JVM and application servers concepts

   • Basic knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, UDP, VPN, DNS, TLS)

   • Basic knowledge of Computer security

   • Demonstrated troubleshooting and problem solving skills

   • Self-motivated & willing to learn

   • Ability to work independently and as part of a team

   • Able to take direction and then deliver work autonomously

   • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal).

   • Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment

   • Comfortable working remotely with people in other geographic regions

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Preferred Skills:

   • Cloud native deployment: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform

   • CI/CD: GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Harness, Jenkins

   • Monitoring: Grafana, FluentD, ElasticStack, Prometheus, SumoLogic, Azure Analytics

   • Database: SQL

   • Storage: Blob, Min.io

   • Linux: Ubuntu, CentOS, Debian

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Note: Applicants for employment in the UK should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.