DevOps Architect

My Dublin based client is recruiting for a DevOps Architect to bring Cloud and DevOps solution design experience to our Cloud DevOps team. This role is on a permanent basis.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver DevOps Consulting Solutions to cloud and on-premise
• implementations
• Provide technical leadership across all areas of the build, release and operations, to ensure delivery of exceptional DevOps technical solutions
• Have at least a broad understanding of technology, process, people, and practice for:
• Agile / scrum methods
• Build and release management
• Infrastructure strategy and operations
• Operations service delivery and support
• IT organizational structure and responsibilities
• Business continuity
• Security
• Work closely with Production Operations team to build and support continuous integration, continuous delivery, deployment and maintenance tooling.
• Work closely with Security team to develop security automation and security monitoring to ensure highly secure operations.
• Work closely with other Development and Operations teams to understand complex product requirements and translate them into automated solutions.
• Research and study new technologies and services on Cloud and DevOps and share best practices.
• Document and present DevOps practices to internal team and wider teams to promote DevOps.
• Undertake & own ad-hoc related projects and duties from time to time

Experience Required

• Strong technical foundation in (most of the following tools):

• Agile Tools (Rally, Jira, Version One, etc.)
• Linux and/or Windows
• Virtualization (VMWare, Xen, KVM, VirtualBox, etc.)
• Cloud Computing (AWS, Google App Engine, Rackspace Cloud, etc.)
• Infrastructure Automation (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc.)
• Build Tools (Ant, NAnt, MSBuild, Rake, GNU Make, etc.)
• Continuous Integration Tools (Jenkins, Cruise, TeamCity, Hudson, etc.)
• SCM Tools (SVN, Git, Perforce, Mercurial, etc.)
• Scripting Languages (Shell, Ruby/JRuby, Perl, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
• Application Servers, servlet containers, and web servers (WebSphere, Tomcat, etc.)

Essential and Desirable Skills

• 8-10 years of experience building great software using updated tools with experience in cloud architecture as well
• Strong knowledge of Continuous integration-Continuous Delivery (CI-CD) /DevOps concept and tools
• Visionary skills
• Leadership mindset
• Excellent communication
• Strong operational experience
• Extraordinary distributed & cross-functional headship skills
• Effective problem-solving expertise
• Configuration management proficiency
• Strong knowledge of public cloud offerings (preferably AWS) on network, security, compute, storage and continuous integration

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree degree or equivalent; Computer Science background preferred
• AWS certifications

Working Hours & Benefits

• 38 Working Week
• 23 Days Annual Leave
• Gym Membership
• Option to work remotely
• Flexi Time