DevOps Engineer at Innovative Software Technologies Ltd

About the job
To work in an agile team, building engaging functional systems that maximize customer experience and revenue. Responsible for development against a product backlog, participating in planning, designing, and building features, assuring quality, deploying across environments, and supporting effective operations.
Key skills and accountabilities:

• Develop end-to-end digital products utilizing technologies and tools such as Java / Maven, Python, C ++, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, and Apigee API.
• Develop and utilize CICD Pipeline and Automation technologies and tools such as Azure Pipeline, GitHub, JFrog, Jenkins, Ansible, and Liquibase
• Work with the cloud computing teams to build and run scalable applications as public, private, and hybrid clouds using Cloud Native tools such as ASW Pipeline.
• Demonstrate ideas, products, and features in iteration reviews
• Create new ideas and demonstrate them.
• Work with agile Release Trains
• Ensure commitments are met
• Work in an agile delivery framework using tools like Jira and Confluence
• Hands-on delivery to the highest quality and fixing issues both during development and on production.
• Innovative and open-minded.
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Deploy new code, updates, and fixes
• Provide Level 2 technical support, including root cause analysis for production errors
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar software engineering role
• Problem-solving attitude
• Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

Business Competencies:

• Working With Others
• Consciously takes steps to make the most of every conversation/interaction
• Identifies people’s needs, interests, and motives to be able to influence the decisions they make
• Communicates simply to excite and engage people
• Pro-actively adapts own style and approach to build rapport, and work with others more effectively
• Builds and maintains strong relationships and networks
• Operational Excellence
• Targets effort and resources on high-value, high impact activity
• Focuses on achieving maximum performance and driving continuous improvement
• Thinks about processes and problems cross-functionally and end-to-end
• Uses knowledge of products, technology, process, systems, and policy to solve problems
• Creativity and Innovation
• Finds creative ways to exploit opportunities and solve problems
• Takes risks and pushes what is possible
• Experiments with unorthodox approaches
• Business Know-how
• Uses data and research to make decisions that are competitively and financially robust
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• Collaborative team spirit
• Balances current and future needs
• Thinks and acts like an owner of the business
• Acts in line with legal, regulatory, professional, and ethical standards
• Working With Change
• Responds flexibly to changing situations
• Manages the business and people aspects of change to drive performance
• Project and Programme Management
• Defines scope and deliverables in terms of time, cost, quality, and business benefit
• Schedules activity and identifies resource needs, dependencies, and synergies
• Evaluates progress, mitigates risks, and addresses issues
• Functional Competencies:
• Architecture and Design
• Translates business and customer requirements into technology requirements
• Defines architecture and design of systems and solutions to meet current and future business needs
• Service and solution development
• Develops systems, services, and solutions to agreed specifications
• Testing and Evaluation
• Defines test cases and acceptance criteria based on user requirements
• Reports and interprets test results Assesses the effectiveness of tests and testing tools
• Implementation and integration
• Installs, configures, integrates, and optimizes systems, services, and solutions
• The system, Service, and Information Security
• Implements best practice security measures to ensure the integrity and continuity of systems, services and information Monitors security compliance
• Optimization
• Monitors systems and services to identify performance issues
• Diagnoses problems to clarify faults and recommend solutions
• Restores systems and services to normal operation
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• Performs routine and non-routine maintenance to keep systems and services running
• Takes action to prevent and minimize the impact of incidents, and improve reliability
• Working with partners
• Works effectively with suppliers and partners to influence their plans and maximize value delivery from the relationship.

Must have technical/professional qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent
• At least 3 years of experience in coding in a non-university setting.
• Experience with technologies and tools such as Java / Maven, Python, C ++, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Kibana, Splunk, and Apigee API.
• Experience with CICD Pipeline and Automation technologies and tools such as Azure Pipeline, GitHub, JFrog, Jenkins, Ansible, and Liquibase
• Strong understanding of end-to-end API and microservice architecture and the ability to design, develop and implement scalable, elastic microservice-based platforms end-to-end
• Strong understanding of SOAP, Rest APIs, and Apigee APIs.