DevOps Engineer

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DevOps Engineer - Milton Keynes

Summary: Deploy, automate, maintain, and manage both the on premise and cloud based product environments, to ensure the availability, performance, scalability, and security of environments.

Description of the role

* Build, release, and configuration management

* Collaborate with Dev/QA/Release teams to achieve the CI/CD process.

* System troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains.

* Suggesting architecture improvements, recommending process improvements.

* Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.

* Contribute to the configuration, installation and documentation of client solutions

* Analysis and discovery of application configuration, including infrastructure and run time across client engagements

* Development of detailed designs including logical deployment views during client engagements

* Establish a dialogue with the customer to achieve trusted technical adviser status

* Identify opportunities and communicate them to PM and/or Technical Lead

* Identify potential issues preventing the successful delivery of services or solutions and inform the Project Manager appropriately

* Establish POCs to validate the client solutions

Requirements of the role

* Strong experience with development tools such as JIRA, Fisheye, Crucible, Subversion, GIT, Jenkins, Team City, Maven, Nexus and Sonar.

* Strong experience with Linux, UNIX and Windows operating systems at an administrator or operator level.

* Strong experience in administering Java application servers especially Oracle WebLogic, IBM WebSphere, and JBoss Application Server.

* Strong experience in administering Middleware platforms such as IBM MQ, JBoss Messaging

* Strong experience with Java tuning and troubleshooting.

* Excellent scripting skills (e.g. Python) and automation skills.

* Strong experience in administering/Configuring CI tools such as Jenkins/Teamcity/Nexus

* Hands-on experience with using a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g. EC2, RDS, ELB, S3, VPC, CloudWatch) to develop and maintain an Amazon AWS based cloud solution.

* Hands-on experience of Container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Swarm.

* Hands-on experience as an administrator in the Atlassian product suite, including JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, and Fisheye

* Hands-on experience administering the Maven build tool and a modern source code versioning tool such as Git

* Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Chef or Ansible.