DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Keep repositories up to date with software releases within the DevOps software tooling currently used. As well as innovating and driving for changes that will benefit the entire team.
• Collaboration across different teams.
• Driving for infrastructural improvements that can help improve high availability and scalability of existing and new service offerings.
• Owning and advocating the approach of automation first.
• Delivering on high quality work that meet customer requirements on existing services for other Production department teams such as Business operations, Security. While still being able to drive for improvements of the current process in place.
• Responsible for pushing for changes both in Development and Operations that are essential and necessary to be running a high standard Managed Service.
• Educate other team members both on simple and complex operational and administrative tasks.

Qualifications (the must-haves):

• First and foremost, we want you to love what you do. You’ll need to be a DevOps evangelist within R3 and the community of R3 products, both current and future.
• You’ll have a minimum of 5 years of experience in a DevOps-type role. We’d love to see evidence of other experience too, you might have been a sysadmin, network operations person, or worked in support in previous roles.
• We believe that we work better as a team. You’ll be working in a diverse team of people with a variety of skills and backgrounds, a high level of emotional intelligence will be assumed. People skills are essential.
• You’ll need excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• We operate under Infra-as-Code, which means you are able to pick up and understand code changes on a daily basis.
• Strong experience in DevOps Tools like Terraform, Ansible, Helm to automate Infrastructure.
• You’ll need working experience with at least one public cloud provider.
• You’ll have solid Linux experience. You’ll need to have been deploying infrastructure as code in your previous role (such as Terraform and Ansible) and used automated provisioning and configuration management tools.
• Working knowledge of at least one contemporary scripting language is essential to be able to automate things.
• You must demonstrate proven experience in software development tasks. Ideally a background in Kotlin, Java, or other JVM-based languages are required for the role.

Qualifications (the nice to haves):

• Exposure to Kubernetes clusters in production systems/services would be a plus.
• Exposure to Cloud Native Landscape software.
• An engineering or science degree would be great, but appropriate career experience is just as important. Be prepared to tell us all about that experience.