Automation/ QA Engineer

DevOps Engineer

The Dev Ops Team is about ensuring all the Opayo Web Applications are delivered through Development, Test and Productions environments in an automated Continuous Delivery manner.  Opayo is a high transactional environment and applications are available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The team ensures that the Opayo core applications are maintained, monitored and issues are responded to and resolved in line with departmental SLAs.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

  • Maintaining and supporting Opayo Payments Applications, using monitoring tools to detect failures and investigating/resolving issues and writing custom monitoring scripts
  • Working with the development teams to help design new products and architecting new solutions
  • Monitor Live environment to detect failures and investigate/resolve issues
  • Work closely with the Development & Test Teams to deploy software releases
  • Support production systems as required inside and outside of standard working hours.
  • Reducing the overhead of BAU and manual tasks and replacing them with automated solutions
  • Actively contributing to the process of continual improvement, with regard to self, team and the systems you support
  • Actively participating in departmental projects as per the technology roadmap
  • Working with 3rd parties and partners to ensure product compliance and stability
  • Extensive experience of AWS
  • Extensive experience of scripting languages
  • Extensive experience of monitoring tools (SumoLogic, New Relic)
  • Extensive experience of automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform)
  • Extensive experience of working in a DevOps support model
  • Experience of working in a highly available, high transaction, production environment
  • Demonstrable experience communicating in a fast-paced, results-oriented, team-based environment