Sr. DevOPS Engineer

Position: Sr. DevOPS Engineer (10+ years exp only)

Location: 100%Remote

Duration : Long Term contract

Description:

Required Skills: Senior DevOps Engineer, Linux, Unix, [link removed] , AWS, Python, puppet, Chef etc.

Prior banking client or Fintech client experience needed

WONT ACCEPT BELOW 10 YEARS OF CANDIDATES.

Your tasks will include

• Enabling our customers to setup their environments from test to production;
• Designing, developing and overseeing the implementation of solutions that improve the stability, scalability, availability and latency;
• Working hand in hand with our customers onsite (around 50% of the time you will be travelling internationally);
• Taking ownership of project deliverables;
• Creating solutions rather than workarounds;
• Configuring CI & CD systems;
• Ensuring reliability by automation;
• Giving advice on latest security standards;
• Pin-pointing bottlenecks and optimizing performance;
• Resolving incidents and problems;
• Collaborating with our R&D team to improve our product;
• Being a real DevOps Advocate.

Your background

• Bachelor / University degree or equivalent;
• You have been in a client facing position before and feel comfortable in an advisory role;
• You have outstanding analytical skills
• You have designed and/or built mission critical services (large scale internet or cloud-based services);
• Shell, scripting and Python programming experience;
• Expertise with Linux / Unix systems;
• Experience with any of configuration management tools (such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt);
• Experience with any of continuous integration server (such as Bamboo, Jenkins, TeamCity, GoCD);
• You love efficiency and find smart ways to automate tasks for you and your team;
• Knowledge of cloud computing concepts, experience with AWS, or Azure, or GCE;
• Solid understanding of systems monitoring, alerting and analytics (Zabbix, NewRelic, Cactai, Graphite, Log Stash, Nagios, Ganglia etc.);
• Must have working knowledge of Maven and Jenkins;
• Proven experience with production systems and dealing with production issues;
• Driven, focused self-starter who takes ownership;
• Extensive knowledge and experience with automation tools;
• Experience deploying to application servers such as Jetty, Tomcat, JBoss, Websphere in enterprise environments, and working with Relational and NoSQL Databases;
• Experienced with using Agile development methodologies;
• Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).

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