Devops Lead Administrator

DevOps - (Covering Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible)

As a Cloud DevOps expert, your key focus will be the Design, Implementation, Configuration, and Development of the CICD solutions by using various cloud automation tools (Terraform, Azure DevOps, Ansible, etc). Strong attention to detail is a must, as is the ability to think outside the box. Working with internal and external partners, you will manage and improve existing CICD Tools, build new services and work closely with the support teams to ensure new services are transitioned to operations, stabilized & follow-through service improvements. 

• Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider (ideally GCP and Azure).
• Expert understanding of DevOps and Automation principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools.
• Security and Compliance, e.g., IAM and cloud compliance/ auditing/monitoring tools.
• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills.
• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards.
• Excellent skills in at least one of the following: Terraform, Jenkins, Chef, Shell Scripting, Python, Azure Devops
• Experienced in full automation and configuration management using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, Azure Devops

 Essential Skills

• Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience (ideally GCP and Azure) - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, SDN (VPC and XPN)
• Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat
• Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) tools such as Azure Devops, Jenkins etc.
• Experience working within an Agile environment.
• Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, PowerShell, Shell script
• Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)
• Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools. 

Desirable Skills

• GCP and Azure Certifications - ideally professional
• Linux Certification
• Windows Server Certification
• ServiceNow