DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate will:

Maintain the technical solutions for applications deployment and maintenance

• Maintain and even improve the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in quality assurance, UAT, production and DR environments, respecting established rules.
• Support software teams on behavior testing, automated testing, and debugging of applications across various environments.
• Support service team with tools and custom scripts for applications maintenance, in a simple and efficient manner.

Secure the product operability

• Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.
• Evaluate the system continuously and objectively so that the product with underlying architecture is state of the art.
• Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
• Ensure the SLAs are met even during deployment of new versions and hotfixes
• Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

System skillset :

• System Administration basics (services, ssh, OS packages management, etc)

DevOps tooling advanced skillset :

• Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization and Kubernetes On-Prem (Not Cloud Based Kubernetes Service)
• Use of ArgoCD and Helm
• Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks
• Scripting experience in Shell, Bash, CMD and Powershell
• Using Jira and Gitlab

Infrastructure as code skillset :

• Automated configuration using Ansible

Network basics :

• Good working experience with NGINX and HAproxy deployment and configuration
• Familiar with commonly used network commands (e.g. curl, telnet, netstat)
• LAN architecture (CIDR, vLAN, routing, NAT)
• DNS and SSL (internal, external)
• Understand Network ACLs and request firewall access as required

Security :

• Secrets management using various vaults (Kubernetes secrets, Hashicorp Vault, etc)
• TLS and mTLS implementation with SSL in and out of Kubernetes
• SSH administration
• Basic understanding on encryption at rest and implementations

Good-to-have Skills:

• System Administration advanced skillset (IPtables, systemd modifications, advanced kernel tuning, etc)
• Experience with different options of hypervisors (VMware, HyperV)
• Experience with Kubernetes Service Mesh (linkerd, istio)

Build for the Run:

• Deploy and administrate monitoring and alerting tooling (grafana, prometheus)
• Craft monitoring and alerting thresholds
• Deploy and administrate a log concentration tool (ELK and Filebeat)
• Kafka cluster configuration for maintenance and performance
• Create custom searches and dashboards on Kibana

Other useful skills:

• General technical architecture methodology understanding (RPO, RTO, SLA, flow matrix, ...)
• SQL and NoSQL Database administration basics (ex : Database dump, clustering models, deployment architecture)
• Agile methodology and process understanding and experience
• Development skill with one of the following language: Java, .Net

Behaviour:

• Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind
• Excellent communication verbally and written, presentation and interpersonal skills to work with local and overseas project teams, and external stakeholders.
• Collaborative team player is a must