Duties & accountabilities

The role of Principal DevOps Engineer is primarily focused on building functional systems that improve our customer experience. Responsibilities include:

• Creating infrastructure and environments to support our platforms and applications using Terraform and related technologies to ensure all our environments are controlled and consistent.
• Implementing DevOps technologies and processes, e.g: containerisation, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, metrics, monitoring etc
• Automating always
• Supporting, monitoring, maintaining and improving our infrastructure and the live running of our applications
• Maintaining the health of cloud accounts for security, cost and best practices
• Providing assistance to other functional areas such as development, test and client services.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Strong background of
• At least 3 to 5 years of experience in Linux/Unix Administration in IaaS / PaaS / SaaS models
• Deployment, maintenance and support of enterprise applications into AWS including (but not limited to) Route53, ELB, VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, SQS
• Good understanding of Terraform and similar ‘Infrastructure as Code’ technologies
• Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB/2, MongoDB, DynamoDB
• Experience with automation/configuration management using toolsets such as Chef, Puppet or equivalent
• Experience of enterprise systems deployed as micro-services through code pipelines utilizing containerization.
• Working knowledge, understanding and ability to write scripts using languages including Bash, Python and an ability to understand Java, JavaScript and PHP

Personal competencies

Personal Impact

• Confident individual – able to represent the team at various levels
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Highly organised with very good attention to detail
• Takes ownership of issues and drives through the resolution.
• Flexible and willing to adapt to changing situations in a fast moving environment

Communication

• Demonstrates a global mindset, respects cultural differences and is open to new ideas and approaches
• Able to build relationships with all teams, identifying and focusing on their needs
• Ability to communicate effectively at business and technical level is essential.
  • Experience working in a global-team