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Role Overview

• We're looking for a talented DevOps engineer to help us build out our customers' products and solutions on Google Cloud Platform. The role is not just about being able to write the code, but also being able to architect, integrate and institute best practices to the DevOps competency at DotModus. We value a DevOps Engineer as someone who helps us build our customer products and solutions on any cloud platform. We’re not only looking for someone to do the work. We’re looking for someone who can provide technical leadership for the team. Someone who knows and who will advocate for best DevOps practices, ideas and successes with other product delivery teams. The technologies which will be most advantageous would include systems design, networking, data storage, security, artificial intelligence, container orchestration and most importantly automation. We’re looking for someone that has the technical expertise, someone who can get their hands dirty to design, test, deploy and maintain DevOps solutions,  but also someone who can lead and mentor a team 

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with other Leads in Data Engineering (Lead Architect, Lead Automation Tester) and other Technology functions to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable solutions which can be built, tested and deployed through the Route to Live and into Production using continuous integration / deployment.
• Allocate your team’s workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders.
• Responsible for detailed design and oversight in the team deliverables.
• Identify and implement DevOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers, both within Data Engineering and Technology as a whole
• Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud platforms
• Troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in our development, test and production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuning
• Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies

Candidate Profile

• An individual thinker, not afraid to think outside of the box and to challenge preconceived ideas.
• Self-starter and disciplined to take ownership of critical areas for continuous improvement.
• Proven experience managing DevOps teams and mentoring engineers
• A passionate advocate of continuous deployment
• Industry experience working with Big Data platforms
• Knowledge of microservice architecture
• Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging techniques, frameworks, and platforms
• Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Technical Skills Required

• Must be from a UNIX / Linux background
• Understanding of protocols and how they work. (TCP/UDP/gRPC)
• Experience in message bus (Preferably Kafka)
• Expert knowledge in container management technologies (emphasis on Kubernetes)
• Expert knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing
• Expert in configuration management tooling (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience in one of more popular CI platforms (e.g. Github Action,Jenkins,Bamboo, or Travis) required.
• Experience with Helm package manager required
• Strong experience in at least one major cloud platform required
• Experience with Draft and Brigade an advantage
• Expert knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform required)
• Good understanding of PKI required
• Expert scripting skills required (bash/sh/ksh)
• Experience in another language (e.g. Golang, Javascript, Python, Perl) an advantage
• Experience in advanced monitoring models. (Prometheus an advantage)
• Experience in using and manipulating API’s, API documentation. (Swagger, Postman) an advantage.
• Distributed logging frameworks. (Greylog, rsyslog, logstash).
• Visualization experience advantage (ELK, Grafana, Splunk).
• RHCE an advantage

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Role Overview

• We value our SRE experts as individuals who are passionate about SysOps and DevOps. As an SRE engineer you will be working on improving the reliability and stability of production level components. This involves alerting and monitoring of solutions, performing risk analysis to ensure the optimal uptime is adhered to and automating the deployments of the infrastructure through various stages in the development pipeline to ensure continuous delivery. There is an opportunity to grow your skill set in interesting technologies like kubernetes, prometheus, hadoop, trifacta, graphana and more. With a focus on DevOps and SysOps you will get the opportunity to grow your career with like minded team members all working towards the same goal of constantly improving the platform. Your background might be in SysOps / Systems Administration/ Network Administration / IT Infrastructure  / Operations Support / Infrastructure Engineer / Support Engineer or you’re starting to explore the DevOps Environment..  

Responsibilities 

• Collaborate with other SRE Engineers and other Technology functions to deliver secure, reliable, robust, scalable solutions which can be built, tested and deployed through the Route to Live and into Production using continuous integration / deployment.
• Allocate your team’s workload and manage the expectations of key stakeholders.
• Identify and implement DevOps/SysOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers.
• Visualizing metrics through dashboards hosted in Graphana.
• Ensure platform uptimes are adhered to by using monitoring tools to automatically surface valuable alerts.
• Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment.
• Troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in our production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuning
• Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies

Candidate Profile

• An individual thinker, not afraid to think outside of the box and to challenge preconceived ideas.
• Self starter and disciplined to take ownership of critical areas for continuous improvement.
• A passionate advocate of continuous deployment
• Ability to quickly learn and apply emerging techniques, frameworks, and platforms
• Working experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes an advantage
• Good communication and collaboration skills

Technical Skills 

• UNIX / Linux background
• Experience or Understanding of  configuration management tooling (Chef, Ansible, Puppet)
• Experience in container management technologies (Kubernetes or any other)
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code 
• Basic scripting skills (bash/sh/ksh/pearl/python)
• Experience working with or following Runbooks
• Experience in one of more popular CI platforms (e.g. Github Action,Jenkins,Bamboo, or Travis).
• SysOps 
• Understanding of Infrastructure Deployment and Templating (Puppet / Chef / Ansible / Terraform ) 
• Good Infrastructure Principles
• Experience in advanced monitoring models. (Prometheus an advantage)
• Knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing
• Visualization experience advantage (ELK, Grafana, Splunk).
• RHCSA / RCHE Certification an advantage but not a requirement.

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The Role

Software Engineer A Software Engineer is someone who develops information systems by designing, developing, and installing software solutions. You determine operational feasibility by evaluating analysis, problem definition, requirements, solution development, and proposed solutions. If that’s what you do & you’re an expert in Python, C# or JavaScript, let us know and you could be our next to join our team What else do you need?

You have the following technical competencies

• Minimum of 5 years Experience with Software Development, Data Warehousing, Big Data or DevOps
• You have at least 5 years experience in one of the following languages : Python , C# or JavaScript
• Experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience with cloud technologies
• Some experience in the following stack : Kubernetes, Docker, Rkt, apache beam, PySpark, traefik, BigQuery, BigTable, Cloud Spanner or whatever else is the best tool for the job to get the job do

You have the following track record 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or any related field
• Experience as a team leader
• Experience in taking responsibility for delivery and quality.
• Proven ability to lead
• Proven track record of delivering projects successfully
• Experience in breaking down high level Epics into manageable stories for teams
• Experience in architectural design of platform components
• You need to be able to provide input for architectural decisions, based on practical implications of the technologies and not only the theoretical benefits of said tech

  What other personal competencies would you need?

• The ability to solve problems.
• The ability to rotate around a problem, to see if solutions can be gained in different ways.
• The ability to work in an ever changing, unstructured environment.
• The ability to work as part of a team, with vastly differing skill sets and opinions.
• The ability to contribute ideas to the quorum.
• The ability to mentor and provide guidance for other team members.
• A systems approach to thinking, as opposed to a siloed approach. The candidate needs to understand how their work affects the greater system.
• The ability to work without supervision, and take accountability for the work they deliver.
• The ability to liaise with a client, sifting through the fluff and extracting the actual requirements.

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Frontend Developer

As a frontend developer you will work alongside other members of the front end team to build out the various user facing elements of our software. The role is focused on development over design, but you should have a good eye for design and be able to translate designs to code accurately.

You should have a good understanding of HTML, CSS/SASS and JavaScript and experience with Javascript frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular and/or equivalents. The role will include working on a number of different projects, including web-apps, mobile apps, microsites and the company website and intranet.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for project scoping and wireframing
• Develop different views and components that make up a web application
• Developing features for a web application using javascript and javascript frameworks
• Engaging with users to implement better UX experience.
• Attend daily stand ups and work in an Agile environment.
• Assisting the backend developers with API design for front end consumption.
• Testing & QA

Required Skills/Experience:

• 2-5 years progressive development experience (working or self-taught)
• Demonstrable working web portfolio 
• Strong proficiency with HTML, JavaScript, CSS
• Strong proficiency with responsive web design 
• A logical approach to problem solving
• Attention to detail with a good sense of design
• Ability to work with a team of developers, communicating professionally and effectively
• Ability to work individually and meet assigned deadlines 
• Ability to consistently learn and apply new technologies
• Business awareness
• A methodical, investigative and inquisitive mind
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Initiative and self-confidence

Beneficial Skills/Experience:

• Experience working with Angular.js/Vue.js/React
• Experience with version control systems (Git)
• Experience working with Bootstrap
• Experience with web services integration (REST, AJAX)