Description:
As a DevOps Engineer you will be responsible for the design and implementation of applications' build, release, deployment and configuration activities. Other responsibilities include working within multi-functional teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implementing/updating solutions, building and executing test plans, provision environments, application performance reviews, assist migration of legacy systems, and triaging and fixing operational issues.
You will contribute to DevOps culture promotion and aide/support the transition to DevOps as a better practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads, manages, and develops their team of people, setting the direction for the team, to deliver high performance.
- Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery, assure and implement deployment strategies and apply different techniques to methods in analysing and resolving problems, working up new practices and procedures or modify existing processes to improve performance.
- Resolve issues to ensure citizen-facing services are repeatable, scalable, resilient and highly available.
- Communicate with a range of people, inside the Department, in other Government Organisations, in external organisations and with the general public to produce comprehensive technical documentation for wider consumption.
- Manage and co-ordinate work across a number of section and support product teams to write code that is simple and flexible to build, configure and deploy.
- Contribute to community discussions about DevOps best practice within Engineering, responsible for providing recommendations based on in depth research and determination of the options. Make and review decisions to progressively improve decision-making.
- Collaborate across teams and liaise with Lead/Senior DevOps Engineers and Technical Architects to investigate technical solutions.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to Software and DevOps Engineer peers.
- Implement a DevOps culture and automation best practices.
Skills/Knowledge Required in order of importance
- Convert technical requirements into solutions
- RHEL, Terraform, Ansible, Git, Gitlab CI
- Modify and maintain legacy systems and code, Standardise systems and code, Evolve systems and code, Automated Testing
- Docker, PodMan, AWS, Azure
- Linux Operating Systems, Bash
- Python
- NGINX, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, Slack, Helm, Deploying, supporting, patching, API’s, Microservices, Kubernetes, ISTIO
- User Testing