25-05-2016 | EXPIRA LA 24-06-2016
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This vacancy is for experienced pubic cloud engineers with a background in supporting critical infrastructure to join our technical teams providing support to major managed service clients.
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Responsibilities:
- involvement in archirecture and project definition working with software and infrastructure architects to define requirements;
- offering 3rd line support - investigating and fixing problems escalated from 2nd line support;
- working closely with Agile software development teams to participate in development projects, providing and maintaining public cloud environments;
- providing support for automated deployments;
- configuration of dashbourds to capture performance metrics and KPIs;
- capacity management making use of cloud tools such as auto-scaling and monitoring;
- ensure that technologies operate at optimal efficiency by implementing a series of scheduled procedures according to good practice recommended by vendors and relating to the infrastructure and technologies on which the services exist;
- perform health checks of infrastructure bu reacting to CloudWatch alarms an using available data such as performance metrics / graphs in CloudWatch, checking system logs, ensuring data snapshots are being taken as per schedule, as well as performing restores from backups on request;
- use JIRA for tracking issues/tasks and ensuring relevant stakeholders are informed through JIRA, as well as through attending scrum session;
- attending problem meetings with clients and internal managers;
- on-call support
Match Your Skills
The successful applicants wil be highly technical, good team players and able to work calmly under pressure, be quick to learn and have a positive approach; they will need to be one of the top technical problem solvers within the company, as well as being good at expressing their ideas to management, customers and other technical people.
Mandatory Skills:
We are looking for people within at least 4 years' experience on similar roles though we are willing to make exceptions for exceptionally skilled candidates. The successful candidate will already be in a role where they locate and then resolve deep technical problems, in as many as possible of the following technologies:
- AWS Technical Professional accreditation
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- previous experience working within a Managed Services provider (MSP)
- experience and skills with configuration management / automation tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt
- understanding and awareness of the concept of "Infrastructure-as-Code"
- good understanding of virtualization technologies including VMWare
- multi operating system knowledge and security awareness
- familiarity with software versioning tools including tools including GIT, Subversion
- familiarity with JIRA and Confluence;
- some experience and knowledge of scripting, eg. Bash shell scripting, python, Windows PowerShell, VB etc;
- awareness of Continuous Integration/Delivery concpets and CI tools such as Jenkins / TeamCity/Bamboo
- ITIL incident management and use of ticketing systems
- excellent English skills, both spoken and written
- good written and verbal communication skills
- attention to detail, always looking for improvements to processes and tools
- able to work on own initiative
Desirable skills:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
- VMware Vsphere 5/6 Professional
- Microsoft Azure
- experience and knowledge of container technologies, eg. Docker, LXC
- understanding of application deployment and release management best practices including Blue/Green deployment
- awareness of CI / CD tools including software build tools such as Maven / MSBuild, Artefact repository managers such as Nexus / Artifactory
- OS packaging ( RPMs, MSI) and other DevOps tools such as Vagrant
Endava is a well-established IT Services company, with over 600 staff operating from our headquarters in London and offices in the UK (London, Oxford), USA (New York), Romania (Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Iasi) and Moldova (Chisinau).
We design, implement and manage business-critical systems and digital services for the financial services, telecommunications, media & entertainment and professional services sectors.
Endava is a fast growing organisation where you will find an international environment and rewarding opportunities. You will be involved in challenging projects for some of the world’s leading companies and use proven technology practice.
We always aim to attract the most talented IT professionals as well as experienced business specialists. We foster an environment of learning and sharing, encouraging our staff to develop relevant skills and increase performance. We value proactive professionals and support them in developing their leadership talent.
