The Operations Engineer has expertise and experience in Operations or DevOps, and is responsible for either being assigned to a development squad for application infrastructure help/assistance or more broadly working on organisational infrastructure within the centralised Ops Team from a Deployment and Monitoring perspective
Research, analyse and find best practice solutions that align to the program needs
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Ability to work towards helping provide advice to clients and work alongside junior team members to help design improvements to the platform
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Managing and maintaining 100+ AWS instances across 50+ VPCs globally
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Managing a global fleet of tens of thousands of Linux powered IoT devices
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Following system monitoring and responding to alerts to ensure system uptime
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Identifying, investigating and analysing current business processes, procedures and work practices looking at new ways to incorporate into our products
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Work with the team to proactively champion identifying & implementing new initiatives & solutions that enhance our cloud infrastructure
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Comfortable with deployments to a wide range of devices in dev/uat and Prod environments
Qualifications and Experience :
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Highly knowledgeable of AWS
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Solid grasp of advanced containerization concepts including Docker
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Creating training and user documentation and conducting formal training for more junior team members
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Working with a hybrid software stack of microservices and serverless functions
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Strong capabilities in bash and python scripting
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Strong Linux system and network administration skills (we mostly use Ubuntu)
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Automation and templating driven attitude with a good understanding of IaC (such as CloudFormation)
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Experience in configuration management tools
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Experience in monitoring and observability dashboard tools like SumoLogic, AWS CloudWatch
Capabilities:
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Communicates clearly and effectively, both written and verbally, when advising, setting expectations, or suggesting improvements.
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Regularly speaks in public forums.
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Mentors others through code reviews and pair programming.