Vhi Group Service DAC currently have a fulltime permanent vacancy for the role of Senior Platform Engineer - Dev Ops.
This is a unique opportunity to become a lead member of a specialized cross functional team that will work closely with application teams to automate and accelerate the testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably
The successful candidate will be a key influencer in maturing and evolving our continuous integration practices and tools.
As a Senior Platform Engineer DevOps you will:
- Be part of the technical team that will be responsible for the automating and accelerating the testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably.
• Work closely with application development squads to advise and implement new CI Pipelines and advice on operational requirements of software solutions.
- Manage the build and CI server. Configure build projects, and automate processes for environment setup and data flow. Debug issues in these builds with sources from all over our stack.
- Configuration Management. Configure software for various deployment environments. This includes infrastructure and integrating with third party software.
- Environment Setup and Provisioning. Manage our software prerequisites and work with new applications to get them provision and configure environments.
- Deployments. Oversee releases to customer environments.
- Complete code and script updates, as well as resolving product implementation errors.
- Oversee routine maintenance procedures and performing diagnostic tests.
- Document processes and monitoring performance metrics.
- Conform to best practices in network administration and cybersecurity.
- Work closely with QA to managing datasets for QA.
- Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - platform, application and network.
- Influence development teams to build reliable and scalable applications with resilience and self-healing in mind.
- Use DevOps industry best practices and technologies and translate them to work for Vhi best practices.
- Minimum of 7 + Years’ experience in Supporting Enterprise Systems with 3 + Years in a commercial DevOps or Platform roles with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Deep understanding of DevOps automation concepts, practices and procedures.
- Experience in Deploying, Automating, Maintaining and Managing Non-Production & Production environments.
- Experience with programming in Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Go, or similar programming & scripting languages.
- Deep understanding DevOps Tools such as Jenkins.
- Deep understanding Code Repos & Software branch management.
- Deep understanding of integrating code & security quality tools into the pipelines.
- Deep understanding of software\hardware & networking.
- Experience working with large systems that need to scale.
- Experience in handling and solving system outages.
- Practical experience with configuration management tools.
- Practical experience in container technologies like Kubernetes, and Docker is desirable.
- Practical experience with Windows & Linux administration.
- Practical experience with common protocols (eg. TLS, STARTTLS, SSL, HTTPS, SCP, SSH, SFTP, FTPS).
- Analytical; solves problems at root cause and prioritizes effectively.
- Very strong verbal and nonverbal communicator. Adept at explaining complex technical concepts and share your knowledge with diverse audiences.
- Collaborative and team oriented work approach with the ability to gain consensus among a large, diverse group of stakeholders.
- Proven ability to motivate and inspire team members, peers, stakeholders and executives.
- Demonstrate alignment to the Vhi values.