DevOps Engineer

An influential SME's in Birmingham , who are looking to expand not ony their DevOps team but their whole DevOps ethos and you will be involved with that. They are looking for a change of Mindset and you will be heavily involved. You will bring your own DevOps experience to this young but talented team

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and support the businesses production, test and development Linux environments.
• Collaborate with the development and software support teams to understand infrastructure requirements.
• Perform the technical elements of businesses' end user software releases, working closely with a dedicated Release Manager.
• Work closely with the support teams to provide knowledge and training.
• Monitoring the Server and Application environment.
• Understand deployment scripts, debug where required, and perform log analysis.
• Fix issues during deployment or coordinate fixes, where necessary.
• Mentor junior team members where required and assist in their development.
• Help to identify, create and/or implement processes or products to assist in support and manage releases

REQUIREMENTS

• Solid experience working as an administrator within a Linux environment, (mainly CentOS/Redhat).
• Configuration and system management with tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Spacewalk or Chef.
• Infrastructure management using HashiCorp Terraform
• Container orchestration with Google Kubernetes, AWS ECS or equivalents
• Distributed key-value store with HashiCorp Consul or etcd
• Database experience preferably PostgreSQL. MySQL is also desirable.
• Strong knowledge of Amazon Web Services or equivalent cloud provider
• Scripting and experience ideally with Python.
• Open source web servers/load balancers, e.g. Apache, Nginx, HAProxy
• Source control tools such as Git or SVN
• Good technical understanding of web services.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking concepts and major protocols.
• Experience with redundancy/high availability solutions.
• It would be a bonus to have experience of administration or deployment to Microsoft environments
• Good understanding of the full software delivery life-cycle using Scrum and test-driven development
• Experience in working within small and medium, fast-paced organisations