DevOps Engineer

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DevOps Engineer

This role requires a 'can do' attitude; An individual with a passion for DevOps. Suitable candidates must thrive on the challenges of working in a fast-paced environment and who can help us to release outstanding software. You will work within a wider Build & Release environment. As within this role, your responsibilities will include the building and running of large-scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant systems.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical leadership to a DevOps team solving complex technical requirements
• Implementation of Key Technical Practices to enable Continuous Delivery for Finastra Cloud based Financial Services
• Implementation & Roll out of modern DevOps practices pertaining to Site Reliability & NoOps

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPIERIENCE

• A bachelor or master degree in IT (preferable computer science)
• 8+ years of experience in software development
• 3+ years of experience providing automation for a Java EE application using Pipelines, Kubernetes, Ansible, Python, Unix etc.

MANDATORY SKILLS

• Proven experience implementing a DevOps transformation for an existing Java EE application
• Ability to implement mature Production Deployment practices for a Java EE application related to Zero Downtime Deployments (ZDD) orchestrating live traffic routing, application upgrades, health checks, rollbacks and database versioned & backwards compatible upgrades
• Ability to run Java EE applications on a Container Orchestration Platform (Kubernetes) and handling runtime management (Installs, Upgrades, Day 2 Operations) using Operators or equivalent
• Ability deploying and managing orchestration of microservices using Kubernetes & Helm Charts
• Proven experience implementing a gated delivery pipeline for Java/JavaScript based applications
• Ability to automate using Ansible
• Fluent English skills

DESIRED SKILLS

• Examples of designing & delivering cloud native services using Microsoft Azure.
• Experience satisfying Audit & Compliance requirements (e.g. PCI DSS) as part of a delivery pipeline for a regulated service
• Experience with implementing end to end monitoring and alerting