KEY ACTIVITIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
As a DevOps Engineer, you are accountable for the following:
â—Ź Maintain the technical solutions for applications deployment and maintenance
o Maintain and even improve the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in quality assurance, UAT, production and DR environments, respecting established rules.
o Support software teams on behavior testing, automated testing, and debugging of applications across various environments.
o Support service team with tools and custom scripts for applications maintenance, in a simple and efficient manner.
â—Ź Secure the product operability
o Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.
o Evaluate the system continuously and objectively so that the product with underlying architecture is state of the art.
o Ensure that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.
o Ensure the SLAs are met even during deployment of new versions and hotfixes
â—Ź Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints.
KEY KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
To be successful in your role, you will have demonstrated and/or acquired the following knowledge and experience:
â—Ź System skillset :
o System Administration basics (services, ssh, OS packages management, etc)
â—Ź DevOps tooling advanced skillset :
o Extensive working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization and Kubernetes On-Prem (Not Cloud Based Kubernetes Service)
o Use of ArgoCD and Helm
o Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks
o Scripting experience in Shell, Bash, CMD and Powershell
o Using Jira and Gitlab
â—Ź Infrastructure as code skillset :
o Automated configuration using Ansible
â—Ź Network basics :
o Good working experience with NGINX and HAproxy deployment and configuration
o Familiar with commonly used network commands (e.g. curl, telnet, netstat)
o LAN architecture (CIDR, vLAN, routing, NAT)
o DNS and SSL (internal, external)
o Understand Network ACLs and request firewall access as required
â—Ź Security :
o Secrets management using various vaults (Kubernetes secrets, Hashicorp Vault, etc)
o TLS and mTLS implementation with SSL in and out of Kubernetes
o SSH administration
o Basic understanding on encryption at rest and implementations
Good-to-have Skills:
â—Ź System Administration advanced skillset (IPtables, systemd modifications, advanced kernel tuning, etc)
â—Ź Experience with different options of hypervisors (VMware, HyperV)
â—Ź Experience with Kubernetes Service Mesh (linkerd, istio)
â—Ź Build for the Run:
o Deploy and administrate monitoring and alerting tooling (grafana, prometheus)
o Craft monitoring and alerting thresholds
o Deploy and administrate a log concentration tool (ELK and Filebeat)
o Kafka cluster configuration for maintenance and performance
o Create custom searches and dashboards on Kibana
â—Ź Other useful skills:
o General technical architecture methodology understanding (RPO, RTO, SLA, flow matrix, ...)
o SQL and NoSQL Database administration basics (ex : Database dump, clustering models, deployment architecture)
o Agile methodology and process understanding and experience
o Development skill with one of the following language: Java, .Net
Behaviour:
â—Ź Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind
â—Ź Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to fluently communicate with local and oversea project teams, and external stakeholders.
â—Ź Collaborative team player is a must