Senior Software DevOps Engineer

About The Role & Team

You will play a crucial role in contributing to the development of cutting-edge solutions that deliver business insight to borders solutions. You will work alongside experienced professionals, gaining valuable insights and hands-on experience in the field of DevOps within the aviation industry.

What You’ll Do

• Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Build and manage cloud or on-premise infrastructure using IaC tools.
• Monitor system performance and ensure high availability and scalability.
• Lead and mentor junior DevOps engineers, fostering skill development.
• Establish and enforce best practices for DevOps processes and workflows.
• Set up monitoring and alerting systems for proactive issue detection.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure or application-related issues.
• Integrate DevSecOps practices to ensure security throughout the development lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and organizational policies.
• Act as a liaison between development, QA, and operations teams to promote collaboration.
• Optimize application and infrastructure performance, identifying bottlenecks.
• Evaluate, recommend, and implement tools and technologies to improve processes.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for configurations and workflows.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure costs, especially in cloud environments.

Requirements:

• Skilled Build/DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of hands-on experience supporting, automating, and optimizing mission critical deployments, leveraging configuration management, CI/CD, and DevOps processes. Systems must include Linux, Oracle, VMware ESXi and storage.
• Good experience with java build tools (Maven, Gradle and FastLane)
• Good experience with docker tools (Harbour, Docker, Docker-compose)
• Experience in configuration tools Ansible and Ansible Tower
• Experience in Docker or Kubernetes and its eco systems and being able to troubleshoot and automate deployments
• Extensive knowledge in Jenkins, Gitlab and ADO pipelines
• Experience coding in python, bash shell, PowerShell and java at its eco systems
• Strong understanding of application development methodologies
• Experience working with Unix/Linux systems.
• Extensive experience in RHEL and SELinux and its policies
• Networking fundamentals e.g. TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, MAC addresses, IP packets, DNS, OSI layers, etc.
• Expertise in designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
• In-depth knowledge of operating systems e.g. processes, threads, etc
• Systematic problem solving approach, coupled with a strong sense of ownership and drive.
• Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data centre
• Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI).
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation).
• Solid understanding of networking, security, and system administration.
• Knowledge of DevSecOps principles.
• Familiarity with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Splunk.