DevOps Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

• Work with the DCOE to deliver key technical solutions to the bank in a way that is easily consumable by our development teams
• Have an excellent understanding of the environments currently in use the development teams and provide support to them in their day to day usage
• You understand Infrastructure as Code principles (IaC) and are comfortable developing code to deliver working products (environment + applications + configuration)
• Use this understanding to improve our Infrastructure as Code components (Terraform / Ansible) continually and ensure thorough testing
• Work closely with Security and IT Architects to ensure all solutions are compliant to company policy and are properly introduced to the company
• Understand & Influence how development teams are building and testing their software. Take best in practice guidelines and help them move to newer solutions that the DCOE is delivering

Experience:

• 5+ 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
• Experience using the Atlassian tool stack – Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket & Crucible
• You have a thorough understanding of how the infrastructure is managed and provisioned in virtualized environments such as VMWare
• 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.
• 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

Education:

• Third Level degree or similar qualification