DevOps Engineer, 4+ years experience

General

We are looking for DevOps Engineers to join our client’s Agile team, where they will play a key role in enhancing documentation, refining best practices, and advancing overall process maturity.

 

Responsibilities/Activities

• Work closely with application development teams and vendors to tune and troubleshoot applications
• Actively participate in transforming the design, architecture, and deployment of existing applications to optimize them for a private cloud environment
• Monitor, document, and analyse issues and incidents
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date system documentation
• Configure environments for the application suite
• Deploy application functionality in Test, Acceptance, and Production environments
• Perform OS patching
• Contribute to DR/BCP plans and escalate incidents/problems to the appropriate 3rd line of support (developers, infrastructure, network, DB admins) when needed
• Collaborate with Network, OS, and other DevOps teams to ensure seamless environment integration
• Lead and support the development and implementation of application and system monitoring processes
• Investigate, analyse, document, and resolve production incidents
• Test application functionality in production following patches or releases
• Review and address technical support tickets and calls, update records in the ServiceNow ticketing system, and communicate any sensitive or escalating issues to the team
• Develop and maintain organizational reporting and dashboard infrastructure
• Promote and apply DevOps best practices
• Ensure SLA compliance, system availability, capacity management, and performance KPIs are maintained
• Provide support and guidance to junior team members

Requirements

Technical

• At least 4 years of working experience as a DevOps Engineer
• Strong background working with RHEL, JBoss, Apache Web Server, Oracle SQL, Bash, and Python
• Experience with source control tools (e.g., Git) and PowerShell scripting, including PowerShell DSC for application server configuration
• Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Puppet, YAML)
• Practical experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and using tools such as Azure DevOps, Azure Boards, and Azure Backlogs
• Solid understanding of monitoring tools such as Grafana, Zabbix, Kibana, or Prometheus
• Strong knowledge of UNIX-based systems
• Proven troubleshooting skills, especially with connectivity issues involving firewalls, load balancers, and proxies
• Working knowledge of Oracle and SQL
• Deep understanding of DevOps methodologies and practices
• Excellent skills in producing clear and thorough technical documentation

Education

• University degree in Computer Science or another related field

Others

• Good level of English
• Excellent problem solving/analytical skills and knowledge of analytical tools
• Ability to effectively interface with technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels
• Polite persistence

Nice to have requirements

• Knowledge of ITIL and Agile concepts
• Experience with container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, or OpenShift
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Microsoft SQL Server