Senior Devops Engineer

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic DevOps Engineer to join our exciting new team in Belfast. The DevOps Engineer will oversee the provisioning of virtualized and Azure Cloud servers for new projects. In addition, part of the role will include working with CI/CD infrastructure, tools, and techniques. There will be opportunity to help refactor existing architecture for greater automation within internal development teams and clients to provide quality software and systems design principles. You will be working with bleeding edge technologies in real world scenarios.

• Responsible for internal development infrastructure which includes improving and refining both our internal and clients existing infrastructure.
• Responsible for operational activities related to hardware infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
• Define and implement appropriate automation of operational activities.
• Documenting, tracking frequency, producing solutions and runbooks, and knowledge sharing of incidents.
• Consistent and innovative application of knowledge, skills and competencies towards successful configuration and management.
• Support the integration of new infrastructure technology in to existing cloud.
• Post-mortem reviews and reports.
• Estimation of effort required to complete complex engineering problems.
• Designing solutions for new and old problems.

• Third level qualification in Computer Science/IT/Software Engineering

• 3+ years’ experience in tool sets such as Java, JMS, Web Services, REST and JSON, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Github, and Jenkins or Bamboo.
• CI/CD tools which include orchestration tools for release and deploy (Jenkins, Octopus, Team City)
  Concepts of Rest, SOAP and API.
• 3 + years’ experience with managing Windows server environments.

• Strong technical, hands-on, experience to support application development, infrastructure/OS, and operations that leverage such technologies as Java, .NET, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Bamboo, Ansible.
• Understanding of High Availability, other technologies, and principles that support business continuity.
• Familiar with SCM such as GIT, VSTS, SVN.
• Strong familiarity with microservice architectures and best practices for running in a container orchestration environment.
• Possible experience in both RDBMS and NoSQL.
• Good scripting experience in one or more of; C#, ANT, Python, Bash. Automation scripts such as PowerShell.
• Solid experience with cloud technologies and platforms such as AWS or MS Azure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and hands-on experience with onshore and offshore team members.
• Strong self-management skills with ability to effectively collaborate with peers and management.
• Strong technical experience with open source technologies and infrastructure environments.
• Workflow management using JIRA / VSTS for backlog and issue management.
• Relationships with other hosting/cloud providers such as Rackspace, Verizon, AWS, etc.
• Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Professional attitude, has developed a reputation as a trusted advisor.
• Good client-facing skills, experience in developing partnerships with the team and client and collaborating with others to exceed client expectations.
• Good problem solving skills with experience in proposing different options and solutions for approaching and resolving issues.
• Adaptable, responds positively to changing business issues and sees change as an opportunity to improve performance.
• Excellent communication skills, adapts style accordingly and demonstrates an understanding of the audience’s perspective.
• Uses discretion when dealing with sensitive information.

• All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship (unless stated otherwise in the job description).

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ours peers through good times and challenges.
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits such as medical and dental insurance, pension, life assurance, employee wellbeing programme, sports and social events, birthday hampers and much more!
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”