Background:The Smart Enterprise Platform Strategic Engineering Centre (SEP SEC) is one of five SECs within the Group Engineering Centre (GEC) in the company. Its mission is to deepen Data Analytics capabilities, proliferate DA usage group-wide, and to develop common/reusable DA products and tools for both internal and external use by all lines of businesses.
The Product team in DA SEC is developing a common DA platform product that can be adopted by all internal business units in their solutions. We are looking to hire an experienced DevOps engineer to help setup and maintain the product development CI/CD pipeline and integrate open-source Kubernetes and Kubeflow into our product stack. The candidate will also contribute to the design, setup, and maintenance of our on-premise and private cloud development compute infrastructure and DevOps pipeline. In addition, there may be occasional participation required in external customer DA/AI implementation projects. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in automation, infrastructure management, and software development, with a focus on on-premise environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and manage the on-premise infrastructure for software development, testing, and deployment
- Develop and maintain automated deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI
- Create and manage virtualized environments using tools such as VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM
- Manage IT infrastructure hosted on-premise, including servers, storage, and networking devices
- Collaborate with development teams to identify and implement the necessary tools and infrastructure to support continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment on-premise
- Utilize containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes to streamline deployment and management of applications
- Use infrastructure as code tools like Terraform to manage infrastructure and automate provisioning of resources
- Monitor the performance and availability of the on-premise infrastructure and troubleshoot issues as they arise
- Automate routine maintenance and administrative tasks such as backups, patching, and upgrades
- Document processes, procedures, and configurations for the on-premise environment
- Keep up-to-date with emerging trends and technologies in DevOps and recommend improvements to the existing on-premise infrastructure
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 3+ years of experience in DevOps or a related field
- Strong background in automation, infrastructure management, and software development
- Experience managing IT infrastructure hosted on-premise, including servers, storage, and networking devices
- Experience with on-premise infrastructure management using tools such as VMware, Hyper-V, or KVM
- Experience with automated deployment pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform
- Familiarity with cloud computing and containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Nice-to-have: Kubernetes certification (CKAD, CKA)
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Willing and enthusiastic about continuous learning of new technologies
- Ability to obtain required security clearance for defence related work is a cardinal requirement
Good to Have
- Understanding of end-to-end analytics process – ideation/value elicitation, requirements definition, data profiling, analytical modelling, testing, validation, visualization, and deployment
- Experience in deploying microservices, load balancing, HA design & implementation
- Prior experience in secure software system implementations and IAM
- Exposure to Big Data cluster management will be highly preferred
