DevOps Lead Engineer and Build Master

Are you a smart and enthusiastic Dev Ops developer with leadership qualities who would like to play a pivotal role at a leading software company where the atmosphere is good and your own input is appreciated?

We, the IBM Intelli Magic Team in Leiden, develop specialist software in the field of performance management of mainframe and storage systems. IT departments use Intelli Magic software to manage their storage environment.

To support our software development, we are looking for an in-house Dev Ops engineer who can take responsibility for our test frameworks, build environment, and workflow automation, develop them further, and manage others in the Dev Ops team.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you are responsible for developing the following tasks:

• The in-house multi-platform (Windows, Linux) test frameworks (Perl, Power Shell)
• The build scripts (MSBuild, CMake, Power Shell, C#)

In addition, as a build master you have the following tasks:

• Maintenance and expansion of the build and test automation systems (Team City, VMWare)
• Setting up a new build pipeline in SPS/Tekton
• View the build and test results on a daily basis, troubleshoot issues in the build and test environment, and bring build and test failures to the attention of development.

You also manage two colleagues within an international team

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• You have completed VWO and a bachelor's or master's degree in a science direction, preferably computer science.
• You can understand complex code, extend it accordingly, and come up with ideas for improvement.
• You keep track of new developments and apply them when it is advantageous and opportune.
• You feel responsible for the quality of your work and provide robust and maintainable code.
• You think conceptually about technical design and look for structural solutions.
• You have the following technical skills:
  • Extensive experience in writing and maintaining complex applications in Perl.
  • Proficient in an object-oriented programming language such as Java or C#.
  • Familiar with Power Shell and MSBuild, or you like to master this variety of languages/tools.
• You are friendly and work well with all kinds of colleagues, especially developers and testers.
• You have very good problem-solving skills and dive independently into complex new material.
• You are careful, use checklists, and expand procedures and documentation on your own initiative.
• You are fluent in English and Dutch, or are willing to learn the latter through an intensive course.

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