Release/DevOps Engineer

The successful candidate will be accountable for:

Configuration Management: 

• Automating provisioning, configuration, installation, and monitoring across environments.
• Ensuring consistent software versions and configuration standards.
• Configuring new servers to agreed standards.
• Implementing automation for configuration changes.
  

Environment Management: 

• Managing and maintaining all environments.
• Troubleshooting environment issues and ensuring stability and availability.
• Automating consistent environment provisioning and changes with other teams.
  

Change Management: 

• Managing the change and release process; identifying
  and introducing improvements. 

• Facilitating CAB (Change Advisory Board) meetings,
  ensuring that all risks and dependencies in the release cycle are identified. 

• Developing improvements to improve software release cycle times and remove blockers. 

Release Management: 

• Undertaking release deployments (and rollbacks when necessary) during the approved operational release/deployment windows as part of the team rotation. 

• Participating in weekend on-call rotation, identify and escalate operational issues as and when required.  
• Working closely with the wider Development, Infrastructure and Network Security teams to ensure appropriate attention is given to production/system reliability following release deployments. 

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications/skills:

• Minimum of 3 years working experience in a DevOps
  / SRE
  position. 

• Hands on experience working with both Windows and Linux servers; comfortable working on the terminal/command line. 

• Configuring custom/in-house windows services and IIS websites 

• Working with cloud service providers (AWS) 

• Infrastructure as code (CloudFormation/Terraform) 

• Configuration management and provisioning (Ansible) 

• Kubernetes/EKS; ArgoCD will be considered as advantage 

• Scripting (bash /
  powershell / python). 

• Gitlab CI or similar. 

• Basic knowledge of networking concepts, such as protocols/ports,
  firewall rules and subnetting 
• Good command of the English language, both verbal and written. 

The successful candidate will receive:

• Remuneration according to qualifications and experience
• 13th Salary
• Medical Insurance Scheme
• Provident Fund
• Access to MadBenefits app
• Inhouse fitness room with classes
• Birthday Voucher and Birthday leave
• Weekly Monday breakfast
• Access to Wellapy platform