Intermediate DevOps (Platform)

Global Relay

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 2 months ago
Your Role:As a Global Relay DevOps engineer you will be integrated within software engineering teams to design, implement and support automated, scalable solutions to ensure reliable, secure and high-quality code is built and smoothly deployed into multiple environments from the build pipeline all the way through to production. Your contribution will have an immediate impact of enabling efficient delivery of world leading software to our customers. The role involves cross-team collaboration; you will be working closely with members of your own team as well as other development teams and key stakeholders to ensure seamless delivery of software.Your Job:Given the varied nature of the role, your time will be split working across the following areas:
  • Automation: Designing, enhancing and implementing reusable CI (Continuous Integration) & CD (Continuous Delivery) solutions using industry best current practices.
  • Operations: Monitoring and ensuring smooth operation of production and test environments by building dynamic dashboards and alerting rulesets
  • Collaboration and Sharing: Collaborating with cross functional teams and finding opportunities to automate their requirements early in the development lifecycle. Sharing your knowledge and solutions within the DevOps community to maximise efficiencies and standardisation.
  • Service Reliability: Troubleshooting and problem solving by reviewing dashboards and logs to resolve issues and applying solutions to stop them from reoccurring.
  • Deployments: Writing and running deployment automation tools using helm, ansible, or other configuration management systems
Some of the technologies that you will interact with include:
  • Containerisation and virtualisation: Docker, Kubernetes/OpenShift, VMWare
  • Build and deployment automation: Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, Maven, Helm
  • Instrumentation and monitoring: Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, Elk
  • Languages and frameworks: Bash, Java, Groovy, Go, Python, React
  • Big data technologies: Cassandra, ArangoDB, Hadoop, Kafka, MongoDB, minIO, Ceph
About You:You have an automation-first mindset. You enjoy sharing your knowledge and have a thirst for expanding your own technical horizons. You are able to work under pressure and you are a keen problem solver with a drive for finding efficient solutions to challenging problems.
  • Minimum 3 years of experience with at least one of each of the following:
  • Python, Java, shell scripting
  • Linux
  • CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLabCI, CircleCI, TravisCI
  • Container technology such as docker
  • Kubernetes or OpenShift
  • Experience applying DevOps practices within the software delivery lifecycle
  • Experience in an operational environment with a solid understanding of distributed systems and troubleshooting network-related issues
  • Excellent understanding of software delivery practices such as Git branching models and configuration management
  • Experience of working in a microservice-oriented environment
It is nice if you have the following:
  • Experience working with Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Helm, Puppet
  • Experience working with VMWare
  • Excellent knowledge of writing Jenkins deployment pipelines, using groovy and Jenkinsfiles
  • Working knowledge of Kafka
  • Practical experience of software delivery practices such as feature toggling, no-downtime deployments and blue-green deployments
  • Knowledge of security best practices within the software development lifecycle
  • Experience with agile development methodologies
  • Excellent knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle
  • Experience working with relational or NoSQL databases

Global Relay