DevOps Engineer

Our client is a quantitative Research Technology Firm actively hiring for several positions. You will be part of the Automation Team embedded within our Infrastructure function, helping to mature our existing infrastructure automation with an emphasis on Infrastructure-as-Code.

In this role, your key responsibilities will be:
Helping to shape and engineer the correct tooling and automation capabilities to enable consumption of our private cloud platform
Defining automation standards, frameworks and reporting
Driving the adoption of Event Based Automation
Working with Infrastructure-as-Code principles, to enable the company to expand its private cloud capabilities
Designing and implementing Jenkins pipelines to perform infrastructure automation tasks
Defining, configuring and deploying Jenkins pipelines from code using Jenkins DSL
Using Ansible for orchestration development, and managing our existing codebase:
- Infrastructure tooling to create the glue
- Defining new workflows to be consumed via self-service
- Developing and managing Go and Python libraries
Enhancing and expanding our Terraform Enterprise platform through:
- Modular developments of reusable infrastructure components
- Maintaining and expanding a catalogue of reusable infrastructure services
- Providing Terraform users with best practises for creating their Terraform code

Who are we looking for?
You will be passionate about automation and technology, particularly in the infrastructure space. The successful candidate should be willing to cross-train in multiple IaC technologies and methodologies.

The ideal candidate will have experience:
Deploying Infrastructure as Code
Writing Python and or Go
With CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI and TeamCity
Writing Ansible Playbooks or similar IaC tool
Storing your code in a shared VCS such as GitHub Enterprise
Applying IaC concepts to configuration management and immutable infrastructure
Upskilling in the latest relevant technologies

Desirable skills and knowledge:
Deploying services on Kubernetes.
Writing HCL (Terraform) code
Creating modules / collections in Ansible
Adding automated checks to CI/CD pipelines
Kafka / Redpanda Message Queue Technologies
Deploying immutable infrastructure

*Please note these positions cannot provide sponsorship and candidates must be able to work on W2 only*