Junior DevOps Engineer

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Developer interested in becoming a DevOps Engineer or a Software Engineer, looking to move into the DevOps function to grow their skills and gain experience in this well sought after sector!

This position will join a growing and dynamic DevOps team, where the Operations Department is currently undergoing development of a new hosted infrastructure stack servicing UK wide clients.

Most software development within the company follows a ‘Lean and Agile’ methodology which places particular emphasis on good communication within the team.

Key Responsibilities for the DevOps Engineer:

• Develop the CLOUD hosted solution to specific contract SLA and assurance requirements (working alongside Engineering, Software and Support teams)
• Work closely with development and support groups to define new monitoring needs
• Secondary platform development and integration for threat protection and vulnerability
• Scanning tools throughout the infrastructure and the management application stack of Prometheus, Graphana and Eleasticsearch with the existing in-house product and technology teams

Technical Knowledge for the DevOps Engineer (experience/training in at least some of the below):

• Cloud General: Openshift/Kubernetes, OpenStack/KVM, Ansible, Consul
• Cloud Visibility: Elasticsearch (Painless/QueryDSL), Logstash, Kibana, Prometheus (PromQL), Graphana
• CI Pipeline: Jenkins, Blue Ocean, Spacewalk, SonarQube, GITlab, NuGeT
• Security: Vault, Nessus, ClamAV
• Linux (RedHat(RHEL), Ubuntu, CentOS, SUSE) – configuration and networking experience
• LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
• HTML and CSS
• C, Python
• GO, YAML, Java, Ruby, JSON, Perl, ZFS filesystem

Key Skills Requirements for the DevOps Engineer:

• Excellent knowledge of programming languages (PHP and/or C/C++) and database systems (MySQL and/or Postgres SQL)
• Previous experience of enterprise datacentre monitoring and alerting
• Solid ability to troubleshoot a variety of performance issues and other problems, from slow disk response to running out of file descriptors
• Ability to troubleshoot network problems from the system perspective – i.e. identifying dropped packets or high latency that traces back to a particular device or network
• Strong understanding of init scripts, creating new filesystems/proc and other sysadmin essentials
• Familiarity with SNMP – understand how to use snmpget and snmpwalk
• Experience using GIT revision management system
• Experience with any metrics application (such as RRDTool, Cacti or MRTG)

If you are currently looking for a new challenge, then please submit an up to date CV by using the ‘apply’ button below, many thanks for your interest.