Senior DevOps Engineer (Contract) at Equal Experts

Description

We’re looking for contract DevOps Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.

We’ve come to see operability as a fundamental tenet of our approach to building and delivering software. The reasoning? The role is not simply about facilitating the continuous delivery of quality software; we focus on the operational requirements we deliver to ensure that software runs in production, as desired.

Our DevOps/Operability Engineers draw on all their experience of DevOps practises in what’s a very hands-on, collaborative role – actively pairing with others to share knowledge and increase the delivery team’s maturity around Operability.

Required Skills

• Collaborative skills; being open to pair programming and working closely with Developers in cross-functional teams
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Scripting language or coding experience (ideally a programming language in addition to shell scripting)
• A strong technical background in build, release and environments, with experience and expertise with software build tools CI tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD
• Strong knowledge of Linux and/or Windows
• Strong knowledge of Cloud Computing providers (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure ARM)
• Strong automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools
• Proven ability to design and support robust build, deployment and configuration management systems for multi-tier JVM & .Net applications (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt)
• Understanding of telemetry practises (monitoring, graphing, alerting, anomaly detection) and tools (e.g., Elastic, Grafana, Sensu, Prometheus)
• Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)
• Experience running software in production