DevOps Engineer

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A rare opportunity for a Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer to join a high-profile global company that specialises in human touch technology. As a DevOps Engineer will be working on uptime, configuration, database administration, security, supporting internal users and test in a Windows and Linux environment.

This is ideal for a Systems Administrator / DevOps Engineer who is looking to further their career and develop their skills by working on the full product development lifecycle of a global product.

Key responsibilities:

· Install, configure, maintain and repair computer hardware, operating systems & applications

· Working with the development teams where necessary to identify and squash bugs

· Maintaining and improving the software deployment and configuration system

· Backend support of the technology stack MEAN & LAMP

· Ownership and responsibility of projects

· Investigating trends in monitoring data to identify potential bottlenecks

· Database administration

· Monitoring and reporting of system status

· Improving security of the infrastructure and platform

· Automate infrastructure launch and network security configuration mainly including cloud based environments

· Automate the production test process

· Collaborate to build and improve continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous deployment processes

· Automate release management for different technologies

· Manage the baseline configuration and changes through appropriate change control mechanisms

Essential skills:

· Web server support and configuration (MEAN and LAMP)

· OS knowledge Linux (CentOS and Ubuntu) and Windows (various flavours)

· Mongo and MySQL database administration

· Solid command line and bash scripting skills

· An understanding of the TCP/IP stack and networking logic (LAN/WAN/WLAN) as well as VPN management and support

· Experience with log management systems

· Experience with monitoring tools

· Experience of Jenkins as Continuous Integration tools

· Experience of GIT and SVN tools (ideally GitLab)

· Great communication abilities on multiple levels (i.e. technical, business and customer contexts)

· Providing input on decisions around solutions and direction whilst considering other views and compromising when appropriate

Desirable/ beneficial skills:

· Virtualization (Vsphere by VMWare)

· Experience with Terraform

· Some understanding of OO approaches to software design

· Previous experience of supporting development teams

· Management, configuration and use of issue tracking and collaboration software

· Experience with PHP and Python programming languages and frameworks

· Active Directory management

· Selinux