DevOps Engineer

Opportunity for a DevOps engineer who is passioned about Kubernetes, comfortable working with a diverse range of teams. Company provides web, mobile, IT infrastructure and retail solutions to market with a wide focus on various technologies and delivery models.

Team works in agile sprints to deliver software on technology stacks such as .Net, Vue.js, PostgreSQL and Kubernetes microservices.

Position is a Hybrid role based in Dublin. Benefits include Health and Pension.

Essential requirements of the role

• Experience using Ansible and Terraform in production environments, good knowledge of bash and Helm charts.
• Understanding of Kubernetes management using kubectl, kubeadm, etc, and advanced K8S concepts (workload and admission controllers, security features, RBAC and design Kubernetes native apps).
• Understanding of of managing a on-premise infrastructure and self hostedenvironments and other support services.
• Experience in infrastructure monitoring (metrics, alerts, logs, etc) using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana (New Relic and/or ELK).
• Ability to work with the development teams to define areas of improvement.

Desirable requirements of the role

• Experience with Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline, PostgreSQL, Redis, ClickHouse and their replication.

Key responsibilities

Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate the process of software building, testing, and deployment.
• Ensure smooth and consistent code integration and delivery.
• Maintain Jenkins (server and agents) as Navi's chosen CI/CD tool for product.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC):

• Use tools like Terraform and Helm charts to automate infrastructure provisioning and management to target servers (self hosted).
• Maintain and version control infrastructure configurations.

Monitoring and Logging:

• Set up and maintain monitoring tools to ensure the health and performance of applications.
• Implement logging solutions to troubleshoot and analyze application issues.

Collaboration and Communication:

• Work closely with development to ensure seamless integration and delivery of software.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across different teams to achieve a cohesive development and deployment process.

Automation and Scripting:

• Develop and maintain scripts (e.g., Bash, Powershell) to automate routine tasks and processes.
• Ensure repetitive tasks are automated to enhance efficiency and reduce human error.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement security best practices in the CI/CD pipeline, infrastructure, and deployments.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.

Database Replication and Failover:

• Ensuring database snapshots are stored.
• Implementing and maintaining the proper data replication between database instances.
• Testing DRP processes to ensure smooth failover of key systems (Patroni).

If interested please forward on updated CV to [email protected]