DevOps Engineer

Key responsibilities include:  Design and implement automated build and deployment solution for Java based micro service applications utilizing Atlassian Jira/Gillam/Jenkins/Artifactory/Ansible and Terraform  Ensuring that the team and client understand operational requirements, and take a shared  responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure for delivering and running software services.  Serve as key liaison between management, technical development/QA teams and Operations  Discover and capitalize on automation opportunities that provide business value  Experienced with large-scale CI/CD implementations and source code implementations  Involve in troubleshooting activities to solve technical challenges  Monitor progress on projects and provides technical direction as needed  Develop effective working relationships with development teams both internal to HMRC and with Third Party suppliers  Familiar working within an Agile working environment  Develop and maintain lightweight systems documentation  Mentor junior team members

Essential Skills:  Experience with Enterprise Jenkins to create reusable pipelines across projects  Understanding of the Linux Operating System, standard network protocols and security hardening.  Proven experience using AWS Cloud Solutions and services such as Ec2, S3, Lambda, EKS, API  Gateway, ALB, API Gateway, Autoscaling etc  In-depth knowledge in Infrastructure-as-code tools (such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.) Mandatory  experience in creating automation framework using Ansible  Strong in one or two Scripting and programming languages (such as Python/Perl, Groovy, Shell  Scripting, etc.)  Knowledge of SCM branch strategies using Git  Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools (such as ReadyApi, Cucumber etc.)  Familiarity with microservices architecture and container orchestration with Kubernetes (Preferably EKS)  Experience in managing and scaling distributed systems in AWS cloud environment across multiple environments  Experience with deploying, supporting and supervising new and existing services, platforms and application stacks  Experience in defining quality gates (integrating SonarQube Static Code analysis, running Regression suites, etc.) In the delivery pipeline  Understanding and experience with a variety of deployment approaches  Knowledge of development concepts (REST, JSON, YML etc.)