Senior DevOps Engineer at DigiOutsource

What you’ll be doing

As part of your role, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing leadership and accountability for work you undertake.
• Articulating your work and ideas
• Adapting to fast-changing business requirements in a dynamic environment
• Taking on ideas and responding to feedback from the business and other technical experts
• Researching and implementing new technologies within the DevOps space to improve the process of code deployment to our environments, seeking to eliminate inefficiency using relevant technology solutions.
• Following a source control culture within the configuration of servers and applications where environment configurations are stored in code for a fully automated process.
• Participating in a 24/7 support roster to support applications after hours, training other DevOps team members to resolve issues and reduce the dependency on yourself or other tech teams after hours.
• Taking part in daily stand-ups with the DevOps team and your assigned Dev teams to receive work and supply updates, and provide input with respect to design, monitoring, deployment, resource, and security requirements.
• Attending Development meetings at project inception to ensure DevOps standards are adhered to, especially with respect to logging and monitoring of application health and compatibility with infrastructure design, security requirements and compliance and best practices.
• Maintaining knowledge of the inner workings of all applications within your portfolio, ensuring that all system dependencies are documented.
• Designing and Architecting Kubernetes Infrastructure: Develop and implement Kubernetes infrastructure designs that align with the organization's requirements for scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Automation and Orchestration: Leverage Kubernetes to automate deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, integrate Kubernetes with other automation tools, and streamline the deployment process.
• Performance Optimization and Monitoring: Implement monitoring and observability solutions to track the performance and health of Kubernetes clusters and applications. Identify and address performance bottlenecks, optimize resource allocation, and ensure high availability.
• Security and Compliance: Implement security best practices for Kubernetes environments, including access control, network security, and compliance with industry standards. Manage secrets, encryption, and vulnerability management within Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaboration and Mentoring: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support application development, deployment, and operations. Provide mentorship and coaching to junior team members on Kubernetes best practices and complex technical challenges.
• This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities.
• You may be required to complete other reasonable duties in order to achieve business objectives.

Essential skills you’ll bring to the table

The necessary skills that we require for this role include:

• The ability to rapidly learn and master new technologies.
• Experience using Microsoft Azure products & technologies.
• Expertise in Kubernetes: In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with Kubernetes, including cluster architecture, deployment, scaling, and management.
• Containerization Technologies: Proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker, container orchestration, and container runtime environments.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies for defining and managing infrastructure as code.
• Cloud Platforms: Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, and experience in deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters on these platforms. AKS, EKS or GKE
• CI/CD and Automation: Proficiency in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment, testing, and release management.
• Monitoring and Observability: Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or similar solutions for tracking the performance and health of Kubernetes clusters and applications.
• Security and Compliance: Understanding of security best practices for Kubernetes environments, including access control, network security, encryption, and compliance with industry standards.
• Collaboration and Communication: Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams, provide mentorship, and contribute to technical discussions and decision-making processes.
• Analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Experience working with Agile methodologies and DevOps principles.
• Experience working with development teams.

Desirable skills you’ve got up your sleeve

It would be great if you also have some of the following skills:

• Previous experience in the online gaming or casino industry
• Knowledge of database management systems NoSQL, backup strategies, and scaling database clusters.
• Proficiency in VMware vSphere, which is the suite of server virtualization products that includes vCenter Server (centralized management platform) and ESXi (hypervisor).
• Experience with Cloudflare managing CDN, DNS, security features like DDoS protection and WAF, bot management, rate limiting, and Zero Trust access solutions.

Our values are non-negotiables

• Our culture is underpinned by core values that are linked to key behavioural competencies.
• Along with the below behavioural competencies, these are essential for all employees in order for you to embed in and drive our culture forward.

These competencies are:

• Adaptability
• Ownership and accountability
• Initiating action
• Resilience
• Team orientation
• Integrity
• Innovation