Responsibilities

• Builds, releases and configures production systems.
• Troubleshoots systems when experiencing issues by identifying what the problem is and finding a resolution.
• Assess issues that might occur in the systems and mitigate them so they don’t occur again.
• Ensures high availability and acceptable levels of performance of mission critical company computer resources.
• Stays current with technological developments in devops best practices and recommends ways for the company to take advantage of new technology.
• Take initiatives to learn new technologies and systems as needed and guide other team members and peers to use it.
• Suggests architecture improvements, recommends process improvements.
• Evaluates new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensures critical system security through the use of best in class cloud security solutions and practices.
• Owns DevOps projects from the beginning till the end without the need for supervision.
• Take technical decisions based on knowledge, experience and evidence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• 7 years of relevant experience.
• A deep understanding of linux based operating systems.
• A clear understanding of web and system security issues.
• Must possess strong scripting skills (i.e. Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl).
• Strong understanding of Version control systems (Specifically Git).
• Strong understanding of SDLC.
• Strong understanding of CI pipelines using Jenkins.
• Excellent understanding of network topologies and common network protocol.
• Excellent understanding of virtualization and containerization.
• Excellent understanding of RDBMS (i.e. MySQL, Postgresql).
• Excellent Understanding of cloud platforms knowledge.
• Hands-on experience using infrastructure as code tools (i.e. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, Terraform, Cloud formation).
• Hands-on experience using one of cloud platform providers (i.e. AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI).
• Hands-on experience using Kubernetes.