DevOps Engineer

The Dev Ops engineer will be required to contribute to version-controlled configuration assets within a Dev Ops team’s existing fully automated continuous deployment solution, to diagnose and troubleshoot infrastructure and deployment issues and work collaboratively as part of the wider organization.

Must be an expert with experience with continuous integration, automated deployment, testing and relevant tooling (Git/Git Lab, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform, Linux, AWS EC2, S3 and EKS are essential)

Key responsibilities include:

Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/Gillam/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running softwareservices

Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value

Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations

Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges

Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed

Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with Third Party suppliers

Familiar working within an Agile working environment

Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation

Mentor junior team members

Essential

Skills:

Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects

Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.

Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as Ec2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etcIn-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.) Mandatory experience in creating automation framework using Ansible Strong in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell Scripting, etc.)Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git

Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as Ready Api, Cucumber etc.)Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably EKS)
Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple environments

Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and application stacks

Experience in defining quality gates (integrating Sonar Qube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline

Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches

Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.)

Desirable Skills Proficient with defect/issue tracking tools such as JIRAKnowledge of Hashicorp Packer for AMI creation and Hashicorp Vault for secrets are desirable

Knowledge of Queues (IBM MQ and RabbitMQ) and monitoring tools (Elastic Stack, App Dynamics) are preferable

Passion for and ability to work with software development teams releasing production-ready

Willingness to take ownership, be held accountable and achieve a good outcome for all stakeholders through effective collaboration

Eagerness to learn enough new tools or tricks required to get the job done

Good attention to detail

Strong written and verbal communications with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels

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