Reference: TQ2425_2134_394
Vacancy: 1
Location: Leicester
Job Purpose:
TESTQ Technologies is an IT services and solutions company whose offerings span a variety of industry sectors with strong technical, domain, and process expertise helping clients grow their businesses and decrease operational costs on a continuous basis in an ever-changing business environment.
This opportunity is in the solution design and development arena for DevOps Engineer who will play a major role with the technical design and development of the company’s technical offerings. The role is based at our Leicester office with occasional assignments at client locations.
Job Description (Main Duties and Responsibilities):
* Establish and maintain a continuous integration (CI/CD) framework and pipeline to fully automate deployment of highly available and mission-critical applications.
* Understand customer requirements and project KPIs.
* Monitor the processes during the entire lifecycle for adherence and update or create new processes for improvement and minimizing wastage.
* Encourage and build automated processes wherever possible.
* Package and support the deployment of software releases. Create scripts and templates to build and provision on-premises and cloud-based environments for the company’s in-house development team.
* Complete root cause analysis for major/critical incidents and, where possible, resolve or provide workarounds, suggestions, and improvements to mitigate future incidents.
* Participate in the Agile DevOps design, development, testing, and release of new capabilities and features, with a focus on release and post-production support.
Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience Needed [The candidate must demonstrate these in all stages of assessment]:
* 2 to 3 years of experience working as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar field.
* Proficiency with containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes or OpenShift.
* Experience in build and release management using tools and frameworks such as Azure DevOps, Team Foundation Server, Apache ANT, Maven, Jenkins, and Git.
* Experience with middleware technologies (Kafka, Apigee, Azure APIM).
* Experience with Automation CI/CD data.
* Experience with Web Server Technologies (Apache and IIS).
* Experience with Application Monitoring and Event Management (NagiosXI, Elastic Stack, Splunk).
* Understanding of virtualization such as VMWare.
* Excellent communication skills, able to present to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Understanding of both relational and NoSQL database technologies.
* Experience with monitoring and logging tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), or Splunk.
* Understanding of networking fundamentals including IP addressing, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls.
* Ability to work alone and collaborate with your team in designing best-in-class software deliverables.
* Familiarity with IaC tools like Terraform, AWS Cloud Formation, or Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates.
Other Key Skills:
* Good analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Good communication skills.
* A thorough approach and self-starter.
* Focus on quality and delivery.
* Ability to work together in teams.
* Leadership and effective decision-making.
* Flexible attitude.
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or above in the UK or equivalent.
Salary: GBP 50,000 to 65,000 per annum.
Published Date: 02-Jan-2025
Closing Date: 01-Feb-2025
Evaluation: CV Review, Technical Test, Personal and Technical Interview, and References.
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent [Part-time and Fixed Term options are available].
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