Technical Specialist - Cloud & Open Source at Derivco

Technical Outputs

• Design, deploy, develop, and configure solutions for server, network, application, and compliance automation.
• Work with or lead a team to break down solutions into small tasks that can be completed autonomously
• Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code.
• Designing solutions that will operate at scale.
• Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
• Deep experience with either AWS or physical datacenter infrastructure (such as hardware load balancers, imaging systems, out of band management, DNS).
• Manage mission critical, large scale service in a global organisation.
• Strong technical knowledge of large scale, complex platforms.
• Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
• Sysadmin knowledge of DNS, network topology, routing, Docker, ELK, RabbitMQ, NoSQL.
• Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus including: the CAP Theorem, Microservices, and the Twelve Factor Application principles.
• Provide input into product selection and standards, design, and certification.
• Run, maintain and schedule upgrades of mission-critical shared infrastructure.
• Provide feedback regarding development and engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices.
• Create and/or contribute to deliverables, technical and non-technical, that are required to support DevOps transformations.
• Requirements gathering for design, development and deployment
• Root cause analysis and improvement solutions
• Performing audits and analysis of existing products for the purpose of ensuring proper configuration management and consistency.
• Adhere ITIL guidelines for Incident, Problem, and Change Management
• Ability to work with 3rd party vendors (i.e. Microsoft, Amazon, etc) for escalation of issues
• Define and create standard operating procedures that are compliant and auditable
• Is able to absorb rapidly new technical information, business acumen, and apply it effectively.
• Experience in one of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
• Ability to make key decisions as they relate to service disruptions and problems.
• Expertise in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, excellent communication skills, and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Monitor production alerts, investigate, and solve for both the short and long term.
• Scale systems sustainable through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
• Manage the solution design (as the design authority) with high level architecture of software Technical Outputs
• Design, deploy, develop, and configure solutions for server, network, application, and compliance automation.
• Work with or lead a team to break down solutions into small tasks that can be completed autonomously
• Participate in the design of service automation in cloud towards Infrastructure-as-code.
• Designing solutions that will operate at scale.
• Driving adoption of new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
• Deep experience with either AWS or physical datacenter infrastructure (such as hardware load balancers, imaging systems, out of band management, DNS).
• Manage mission critical, large scale service in a global organisation.
• Strong technical knowledge of large scale, complex platforms.
• Experience handling large numbers of diverse systems with configuration management systems like: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
• Sysadmin knowledge of DNS, network topology, routing, Docker, ELK, RabbitMQ, NoSQL.
• Familiarity with distributed systems is a plus including: the CAP Theorem, Microservices, and the Twelve Factor Application principles.
• Provide input into product selection and standards, design, and certification.
• Run, maintain and schedule upgrades of mission-critical shared infrastructure.
• Provide feedback regarding development and engineering methodologies, standards and leading practices.
• Create and/or contribute to deliverables, technical and non-technical, that are required to support DevOps transformations.
• Requirements gathering for design, development and deployment
• Root cause analysis and improvement solutions
• Performing audits and analysis of existing products for the purpose of ensuring proper configuration management and consistency.
• Adhere ITIL guidelines for Incident, Problem, and Change Management
• Ability to work with 3rd party vendors (i.e. Microsoft, Amazon, etc) for escalation of issues
• Define and create standard operating procedures that are compliant and auditable
• Is able to absorb rapidly new technical information, business acumen, and apply it effectively.
• Experience in one of the following: C, C++, Java, Python, Go, Perl or Ruby
• Ability to make key decisions as they relate to service disruptions and problems.
• Expertise in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• Systematic problem-solving approach, excellent communication skills, and a sense of ownership and drive.
• Engage in and improve the whole life-cycle of services, from inception and design, through deployment, operation, and refinement.
• Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, capacity planning, and launch reviews.
• Monitor production alerts, investigate, and solve for both the short and long term.
• Scale systems sustainable through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Practice sustainable incident response and postmortems.
• Manage the solution design (as the design authority) with high level architecture