Senior DevOps Consultant

Job Description

Applications management involves overseeing the lifecycle of software applications, including deployment, monitoring, maintenance, and optimization to ensure they meet business requirements and deliver value effectively. 

We are looking for an individual who is willing to build professional relationships with key stakeholders within the company, with the ability to understand complex problems and focus on the best solutions according to the business needs. You will be exposed to a variety of challenges, from technical solutions and design to improving service delivery from an end-to-end perspective.

Responsibilities 

• The Senior DevOps Engineer assists the team in developing the design and specifications based on project requirements for multiple products in the Products and Software Development (P&SD) portfolio 
• Builds and manages cloud services and related software, specifically AWS, GitHub, Artifactory 
• Consults with project and product teams on the best use of cloud services 
• Manages and operates Windows and Linux based systems 
• Builds out new cloud infrastructure (IaC based Bicep or Terraform) 
• Maintains cloud infrastructure by following site reliability engineering (SRE) principles 
• Implements and shares DevOps culture across delivery teams and the broader business 
• Builds and deploys system improvement ideas 
• Responsible for the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process 
• Works with developers to streamline application delivery processes 
• Documents existing processes 
• Applies effective communication skills with team and client interaction 
• Actively involved in regular project planning activities 
• Works closely with the development team to support product delivery by automating the processes on the platform and application layers 
• Works with project stakeholders to create status reports, identify requirements and risks on the project 
• Coaches and mentors team members 
• May provide line management for junior and senior DevOps Engineers, including nurture talent, skills progression, manage performance and build team cohesiveness and engagement. 
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree level or holds a relevant professional qualification, I.e., Bachelor of IT, Computer Science, Software Engineering. 
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles and best practices, and demonstrated ability and openness to working in an agile environment as part of a scrum team 
• Collaborative attitude and the ability to work well with others to achieve a common goal 
• The ability to take the initiative and drive for results 
• Possess strong troubleshooting capabilities and capable critical thinking skills and attitude 
• Excellent time management and organizational skills. 
• Team leader experience on previous projects. 
• Demonstrated training and/or applied experience as coach and/or mentor

Knowledge of and experience using : 

• Cloud : AWS 
• IaC: Azure Bicep, Azure ARM, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation 
• Configuration management: Ansible, PowerShell DSC 
• OS: Windows, Linux 
• Scripting language in (one, or more of): Bash, PowerShell, Python 
• SCM: Azure Repos, GitHub, Bitbucket 
• Web and application servers: IIS, NGINX, Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat 
• Databases: MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 
• CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Jenkins. 
• Monitoring, telemetry, logging: Dynatrace, AppInsights, Nagios, SolarWinds, Splunk 
• Service and Support: ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps 

Nice to have: 

• Experience with APM tooling (Dynatrace, AppInsights) 
• Knowledge regarding OWASP SAMM 
• Experience with security analysis tools (Snyk, Azure Defender, NeuVector,) 
• Certification in Cloud vendor is a nice to have. 

Additional Information

Discover some of the global benefits that empower our people to become the best version of themselves:

• Finance: Competitive salary package, share plan, company performance bonuses, value-based recognition awards, referral bonus;
• Career Development: Career coaching, global career opportunities, non-linear career paths, internal development programmes for management and technical leadership;
• Learning Opportunities: Complex projects, rotations, internal tech communities, training, certifications, coaching, online learning platforms subscriptions, pass-it-on sessions, workshops, conferences;
• Work-Life Balance: Hybrid work and flexible working hours, employee assistance programme;
• Health: Global internal wellbeing programme, access to wellbeing apps;
• Community: Global internal tech communities, hobby clubs and interest groups, inclusion and diversity programmes, events and celebrations.