DevOps Engineer

Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Duration: Contract

Job Description:

Roles & Responsibilities:

A minimum of 8 years' experience in either a software development role where you have some exposure to releasing applications into a production environment or an operational facing role where you've had to deploy and support production type workloads 
Demonstrate good critical thinking skills and able to work with evolving requirements as projects discover their exact needs 
Good communication skills and comfortable with Email, Skype & MS Teams 
Experience using the Atlassian tool stack - Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket

If you've done software development, we would look for:

Good skills in one of the main scripting languages such as python, perl, ruby and their test frameworks.
Strong development background in languages such as Java, Golang, C, C# and a good understanding of their test frameworks 
You have developed applications that have involved the delivery and consumption of API's 
Exposure to one or more cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and you're comfortable with how to provision infrastructure using the portal UI. 
You're aware of tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef and what they do, and it would be great if you had some hands-on experience 
You've seen Terraform code and would be comfortable in how it is executed and debugged Exposure to Docker and orchestration environments such as Kubernetes / OpenShift

If you've been more involved in the operational side of things, we like to see something like the following:

In depth experience of one or more of the cloud providers (AWS / Azure / GCP) and can automate infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates etc. 
Certifications are nice, but hands on experience preferable. 
A thorough understanding of how infrastructure is managed and provisioned in virtualized environments such as VMWare.
You've used configuration management tools like Ansible / Puppet / Chef in anger In depth experience of configuration management orchestration tools such as Ansible Tower / Chef Server Thorough understanding of SSL & Cryptography and solutions to automation and management of SSL Certificates for applications
An appreciation for a test first software development approach, and a desire to ensure there's no surprises at deployment time.