OSS DevOps Engineer

Your day to day:

The OSS DevOps Engineer provides support and collaborates with software developers to deliver and enhance Vodafone’s Central OSS Automation services within the VNO customer portfolio. The role ensures a smooth transition of solutions from the development environment to the operational environment by following robust validation, testing, and implementation processes. It includes operating and ensuring the high availability of services, regularly developing automation scripts, and consistently seeking opportunities to optimize existing methods of working.

The engineer implements changes and performs maintenance tasks on the software solutions used by clients, prepares detailed implementation documentation, and updates the configuration or code in accordance with established procedures. The team operates from two primary locations, Lisbon, Portugal, and Bucharest, Romania, ensuring 24/7 service continuity, availability, and stability across various markets and technology domains. These domains include Data Analytics, Automation, Web Portals, Systems Environment and Release Management.

With these activities you will have a great impact on our business:

• Provide technical support for automation applications and systems, ensuring on-call availability approximately once every two months, including during and outside business hours.
• Contribute to planning, assessment, implementation, rollout, and execution of code release phases and change requests.
• Utilize, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and source-code control systems to facilitate efficient deployments and updates.
• Adhere to defined service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Support team knowledge building and skills development to continuously enhance customer service.
• Perform impact analyses, propose, develop, and implement technical solutions to address software functionality issues, resolve advanced technical problems, and enhance the customer experience.
• Foster long-term, sustainable relationships with Vodafone’s internal and external partners to ensure SLA compliance and drive service improvements.

With these skills you are a great candidate:

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and the Agile methodology.
• Minimum of 1 year of technical experience working with cloud-based infrastructure (AWS or GCP), CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins), and version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Basic knowledge of:

• Containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Configuration Management as code using tools like Ansible with Tower UI or AWX UI.
• Messaging systems such as Kafka.
• Databases like Oracle DB.
• Web service technologies, including SOAP/JMS and REST APIs.

• Familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming languages (e.g., Java), scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Perl, Python), and writing PL/SQL database queries.

Sounds like the perfect job? We’ve got even more to offer:

• Hybrid way of working
• Medical and dental services
• Life and hospitalization insurance
• Dedicated employee phone subscription
• Take control of your benefits and choose any of the below options: MEAL TICKETS/ PRIVATE PENSION/ VACATION VOUCHERS/ CULTURAL VOUCHERS within the budget.
• Special discounts for gyms and retailers
• Annual Company Bonus
• Ongoing Education – we continuously invest in you to ensure you have everything needed to excel on the job and enhance your skills 
• You get to work with tried and trusted web-technology
• We let you write your own story by planning vacations: go for a trip, experience new things, have fun and enjoy your 23 days off.
• Special Paternal Program - 4 months of paid paternity leave

Long Description

We recognize and celebrate the importance of diversity and inclusivity in our workplace so that we are as diverse as the customers and communities we serve. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination especially related to but not limited to race, color, age, veteran status, gender identification, sexual orientation, pregnancy, ethnicity, disability, religion, political affiliation, trade union membership, nationality, indigenous status, medical condition, HIV status, social origin, cultural background, social or marital status.

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? We are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. So, if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job advert, we encourage you to apply as you may be just the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help see how your skills fit in. 

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