Dublin

Long Term Contract

Negotiable Day Rate

Banking organisation based in Dublin is looking for a number of experienced Senior DevOps Engineers to join their team. This is a hybrid position with a very strong remote component.

Candidates must have previous banking experience.

• As a member of the team you will be working with development teams to ensure their requirements are met and they have a clear migration path to our new infrastructure.
• Supporting application development teams via our enablement squads to ensure our platform is fit for purpose, and developing the pipelines that streamlines application delivery within the bank
• Working with our Architecture and Design teams ensuring all our services are compliant to bank policy and leverage the most from the tooling we're deploying

Responsibilities and Skills:

• Have an excellent understanding of the environments currently in use by the development teams and provide support to them in their day-to-day usage
• You understand Infrastructure as Code principles (IaC) and are comfortable developing code to deliver working products (environment + applications + configuration) for the bank
• Use this understanding to continually improve our Infrastructure as Code components (Terraform/Ansible) and ensure thorough testing
• Work closely with Security and IT Architects to ensure all solutions are compliant to bank policy and are properly introduced to the bank

Candidates must have Development or Operational experience. Requirements below.

Development Experience

• Good skills in one of the main Scripting languages such as python, Perl, ruby and their test frameworks
• Strong development background in languages such as Java, Golang, C, C# and a good understanding of their test frameworks
• You have developed applications that have involved the delivery and consumption of API's
• Exposure to one or more cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and you're comfortable with how to provision infrastructure using the portal UI.
• You're aware of tools like Ansible/Puppet/Chef and what they do, and it would be great if you had some hands-on experience
• You've seen Terraform code and would be comfortable in how it is executed and debugged
• Exposure to Docker and orchestration environments such as Kubernetes/OpenShift

Operational Experience

• In depth experience of one or more of the cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP) and can automate infrastructure using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM Templates etc. Certifications are nice, but hands on experience preferable.
• A thorough understanding of how infrastructure is managed and provisioned in virtualized environments such as VMWare
• You've used configuration management tools like Ansible/Puppet/Chef in anger
• In depth experience of configuration management orchestration tools such as Ansible Tower/Chef Server
• Thorough understanding of SSL & Cryptography and solutions to automation and management of SSL Certificates for applications
• An appreciation for a test first software development approach, and a desire to ensure there's no surprises at deployment time

To apply or find out more please reach out on 01-947 6301/(see below)