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Cloud Automation Engineer - Reading - £100,000 - Permanent

My client, a leading Payments company are seeking a Cloud Automation Engineer who can thrive in a challenging and rewarding work environment. The ideal candidate must be motivated and able to independently design and implement solutions to support the automation requirements of delivery pipelines. This role will be responsible for designing and developing automation that builds systems in private and public cloud environments, for deploying server- and container-based environments, and be able to act as consultant and mentor to colleagues who will adopt and maintain the automation after it is established. The role must have engineering experience in this domain, have good verbal and written communication skills, and be capable of effectively imparting knowledge in one-on-one or group settings. The candidate will work closely at times with all roles who support cloud-based delivery pipelines (Product Developers, DBAs, Networking, Sys Admins, Site Reliability, etc).

Qualifications

The candidate must have substantial experience in the following areas:

*Extensive knowledge of at least one configuration management language (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

*Experience with infrastructure automation (infrastructure-as-code) and code deployment technologies

*Experience introducing open source projects/tools to support delivery of cloud-based services

*Very comfortable with version control and extensive knowledge of code management best practices

*Experience with scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Go, Bash) and SQL scripting

*Very comfortable on the Linux OS command line, and some experience MS Windows Server OS

*Experience with deployment automation of Java application servers (Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat)

*Experience with web server (Apache, IIS) and SSL Certificate management

*Understanding of fundamental security principles for network traffic and third-party software

*Working knowledge of DNS, DHCP, NFS, Windows 2003/2008 domains, TCP/IP, SMTP, IIS, SSL, Internet Infrastructure, and IP informational tools

*Problem triage/solving skills and ability to work independently in order to solve problems quickly and automate processes

*Excellent communication (written and oral), documentation and organisational skills

*A team player with a great attitude and work ethic

Some of the technologies used in the environment that are advantageous include:

*Puppet, kubernetes, Terraform, Git

*ELK monitoring (ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana)

*Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server, 6+

*Oracle, postgreSQL databases

*AWZ, Azure

Required Background and Skills

*Experience with either Puppet, Docker or Kubernetes strongly desired

*Previous experience in building systems with automation tools

*Degree in Computer Science/ related field or equivalent work experience

Cloud Automation Engineer - Reading - £100,000 - Permanent

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