Systems Engineer/DevOps Engineer

This is a great opportunity for young and ambitious people looking to make a career in IT infrastructure solution sales!!Our Client is an IT infrastructure services company, focused and specialized in delivering solutions and services on Microsoft products and technologies. They are a Microsoft partner and cloud solution provider. Our Client's objective is to help small, mid-sized as well as global enterprises to transform their business by using innovation in IT, adapting to the latest technologies and using IT as an enabler for business to meet business goals and continuous growth.With focused and experienced management and a strong team of IT Infrastructure professionals, they are adding value by making IT Infrastructure a robust, agile, secure and cost-effective service to the business. As an independent IT Infrastructure company, they provide their clients with unbiased advice on how to successfully implement and manage technology to complement their business requirements.

As a Systems Engineer/DevOps Engineer, you will work in a proactive environment, ensuring availability and reliability of existing systems, deploying changes, and acting as a technical point of escalation for user incidents.

What you will do:

Providing on-call support within a high availability production environment

Logging issues

Providing Complex problem analysis and resolution for technical and application issues

Supporting and collaborating with team members

Running system updates

Monitoring and responding to system alerts

Developing and running system health checks

Applying industry standard practices across the technology estate

Performing system reviews

Reviewing and maintaining infrastructure configuration

Diagnosing performance issues and network bottlenecks

Collaborating within geographically distributed teams

Supporting software development infrastructure by continuous integration and delivery standards

Working closely with developers and QA teams as part of a customer support centre

Projecting delivery work, either individually or in conjunction with other teams, external suppliers or contractors

Ensuring maintenance of the technical environments to meet current standards

Ensuring compliance with appropriate industry and security regulations

Providing support to Development and Customer Support teams

Managing the hosted infrastructure through vendor engagement

Managing 3rd party software licensing ensuring compliance

Delivering new technologies as agreed by the business

Candidate Profile:

What you need to have:

Experience working within a technical operations environment relevant to associated skills stated.

Be proficient in:

Linux, zsh/ bash/ similar

ssh, tmux/ screen/ similar

vim/ emacs/ similar

Computer networking

Have a reasonable working knowledge of:

Cloud infrastructure, Preferably GCP

One or more programming/ scripting languages

Git

Docker

Web services and web servers

Databases, relational and NoSQL

Some familiarity with:

Puppet, ansible

Terraform

GitHub, CircleCI , Kubernetes

Scripting language- Shell

Databases: Cassandra, Postgres, MySQL or CloudSQL

Agile working practices including scrum and Kanban

Private & public cloud hosting environments

Strong technology interests with a positive ‘can do’ attitude

Be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities

Be good at planning and organising their own time and able to meet targets and deadlines without supervision

Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Approachable with both colleagues and team members

Be resourceful and practical with an ability to respond positively and quickly to technical and business challenges

Be persuasive, articulate and influential, but down to earth and friendly with own team and colleagues

Have an ability to establish relationships quickly and to work effectively either as part of a team or singularly

Be customer focused with both internal and external customers

Be capable of remaining calm under pressure

Technically minded with good problem resolution skills and systematic manner

Excellent documentation skills

Prepared to participate in out of hours support rota