DevOps Engineer
- Recruiter
- Client Confidential
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Competitive
- Posted
- 01 Feb 2019
- Closes
- 01 Mar 2019
- Sectors
- IT
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job title: DevOps Engineer
Organisation: Legal & General Investment Management
Location: London
Salary: Competitive
Posting date: 1 February 2019
Closing date: 1 March 2019
LGIM is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join its London team.
Duties and responsibilities
Key responsibilities of this role include:
- management of Continuous Integration environments;
- managing tools such as Nexus, Jenkins and SonarQube;
- handling upgrades and plugins;
- controlling permissions;
- optimisation of builds;
- managing application and development environments across a mixture of physical and cloud based environments;
- enabling a move towards Continuous Delivery;
- working with Infrastructure and Development teams;
- promoting and spreading automation;
- converging teams on a streamlined set of tools and processes;
- facilitate technical roadmaps;
- being involved in upgrade and maintenance work across systems; and
- resolving technical blockers and liaising with infrastructure teams.
Skills, qualifications and experience
The following are mandatory requirements for this role:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, ideally in the field of Computer Science;
- current and in-depth knowledge of Amazon’s services including EC2, RDS, EBS, ELB and CloudFormation;
- relevant experience of containerisation, using Openshift PAAS and the Gluster File System;
- significant experience of automated software configuration, using Ansible;
- significant experience of Jenkins, Maven, Nexus and SonarQube within a Continuous Integration & Deployment perspective.
- strong scripting skills i.e. Bash, Python etc.;
- relevant RHEL Administration experience;
- a good understanding of Java / JVM-based applications and their internals;
- significant knowledge and experience of containerisation & container orchestration using Kubernetes and Openshift PAAS;
- significant experience of configuring and using Prometheus & Grafana to provide platform monitoring and alerting; and
- relevant experience with Apache Kafka configuration. Management and monitoring.