DevOps Engineer Job

Project Overview

Our client is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor. In addition, one of the world’s leading providers of index fund management. You will be a part of the Platform Engineering Team and work closely with business stakeholders, feature teams and the Platform/DevOps teams across distributed teams, who are building out a container hosting platform with the below technologies. So they need to build the platform and be able to know enough about Java to migrate Java services to that platform.

What you can expect & what we want you to do

• Design, implement and maintain a dynamic infrastructure to support software development, test and deployment using best-in-class tools and practices
• Participate in the design and delivery of a software development toolchain including source control, build tools, QA testing, and delivery and deployment automation
• Support Sprint and Build & Releases and improve our tools and process for Build & Release of Applications 
• Review and assess the risk of changes throughout the release process and ensure quality, while automating Build & Release functions in pre-production, and production environments
• Develop deployment scripts on the platform for integration, orchestration and automated software deployments and code releases
• Application monitoring and administration of the applications and hosting environments to; improve reliability, increase efficiency and minimize downtime
• Defining and implementing full end to end release management and automation solutions using open source and industry leading tools for continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous delivery
• Triage technical issues encountered by applications, the network and/or environment Application Monitoring: Work across teams (Operations, Production Support, Help Desk and the Dev Teams) to define and implement how Applications should be monitored Required Skills
• Researching industry trends, providing strategic direction and advice in tools, technologies, partnerships and accreditations for NTT DATA to maintain a competitive advantage
• Contribute in the planning, grooming and development phases for new & existing products
• Driving the adoption of Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development
• Ensuring continuous improvement by proposing & implementing new processes, designs, frameworks & engineering practices that makes the team more effective

What you are good at & what you’ll need to win

• Bachelor’s degree in Informatics/ or similar field of study/or equivalent working experience is required
• A min 4 years demonstrable experience in a similar role is required
• Experience working with AWS cloud provider,  where AWS environments are second nature to you
• Expertise in Development toolchain support - CI/CD pipelines, container schedulers, and custom applications
• Following and implementing best practices for CI/CD
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code frameworks such as Terraform and Cloud Formation
• Experience working with Jenkins and other related CI/CD tools
• Hands on experience using Docker and building Docker container
• A strong background setting up Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Setting up and monitoring scalable solutions, especially Elastic Cloud solutions, Lambda
• Deployed changes to a fully configuration-as-code Jenkins cluster, tweaking and debugging Pipelines, plugins, and more
• Improve & maintain tools for logging, monitoring, alerting and operational metric dash boarding work closely with mobile developers and leaders to ensure team satisfaction
• Hands-on knowledge of source control management systems (Preferably GIT) with code branching/merging strategies Hands-on experience with Agile, JIRA or various methodologies
• Very good English communication skills, a great teammate with strong analytical, problem solving, debugging and problem solving skills
• Experience working under the agile mindset
• Ability to work independently
• Self-sustaining; self-motivated; independence