Title: DevOps Engineer
Length: 6 months
Location: Remote
Rate: £625 per day (via umbrella)
You Will:
- Work closely with Development teams to understand and implement their CI requirements bringing new features and improving the current implementation.
- Help Dev teams to figure out issues and work on improving stability of CI platforms like Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Should preach immutable infrastructure concept across dev teams reducing configuration drifts.
- Manage complete stack needed to support CI systems (Jenkins, Gitlab) for teams from VMs / containers to pipeline scripts.
- Automate all aspects of CI stack like virtual infrastructure provisioning using
- Terraform and scripts for reducing manual tasks.
- Be a team player and ready to multitask according to need and priority.
Your skills:
- Experience in building and managing private clouds with VMware vSphere or RHV or oVirt
- Knowledge of Virtualization technologies like ESXi, Libvirt, KVM etc
- Knowledge of modern container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and LXD
- Understanding of High Availability and implementation techniques.
- Knowledge of distributed storage clusters like Ceph
- Understanding of network equipment like switches and technologies like VLANs, DNS and DHCP.
- Experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform.
- Someone with good communication skills who can summaries information, present clearly and set correct expectation within and outside team.
- Someone that demonstrates active and conscious awareness of their environment, sensing and anticipating situations and being able to ask the right questions at the right time.
Desirable Experience:
- Knowledge of compiling iOS and Android apps in CI environments.
- Knowledge of compiling Node.js and npm based apps.
- Experience with creating CI pipelines ( Pipelines-as-code) for Jenkins or Gitlab
- Good understanding of managing CI systems like Jenkins / Gitlab
- Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible.
- Comfortable with some scripting like Shell / Go / Python
