Lead DevOps Engineer - Build & Deployment - (IFS Technology)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The build and deployment team is the "spider in the web" team at IFS R&D. Team is working on facilitating that the whole solution is building together by owning and promoting the use of modern CI-pipelines and automating delivery of various test environments. The team also has responsibility to help promote DevOps practices throughout the R&D organization.

Duties and Accountabilities:

• Identify opportunities for new or enhanced automations to drive efficiencies within the organization, producing designs and plans to address those opportunities
• Drive the maintenance and expansion of existing automations and related processes in the organization 
• Create documentation, presentation, and training material
• Engage with relevant stakeholders
• Share knowledge, guide, and train colleagues
• Contribute to activities related to market research and competitive analysis 

Qualifications

• 5+ years of demonstrable enterprise level knowledge in these specific areas: 
  • CICD Experience (GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) 
  • Container orchestration (K8s, helm) 
  • Infrastructure as Code / Config. Mgmt (Terraform, Ansible) 
  • Containerization (Docker) 
  • Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, GoLang) 
  • Working with cloud-based infrastructure in Azure or any cloud platform such as AWS or GCP 
  • Knowledge and awareness of security when operating in a cloud-based environment and the considerations for automation 
  • Experience of supporting and building large enterprise cloud-systems at scale 
  • Operational / SRE experience of supporting large-scale enterprise systems 
  • Monitoring & Observability: Expertise in cloud, infrastructure, application, and database monitoring (E.g.: Grafana) for visualization and alerting 
• 5+ years of knowledge in Linux/Unix/Windows.
• Should be a good communicator, proficient in effectively engaging with both technical and non-technical teams, possessing multitasking skills and an innovative mindset. 
• Natural desire to discover and learn new technologies & processes. Proactively taking initiative & responsibility.
• Should be a strong team player & self-driven. 
• Willingness to accept challenges and show a high level of enthusiasm.
• Quality assurance experience; Testing, Automation and Test data management skills (desirable)
• A University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software/system engineering is essential.

Additional Information

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible. 

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important to innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working (our own amazing spaces or those of our partners and customers) to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.