IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for platform development, maintenance, and support, acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay at the forefront of DevOps technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Design logical architectures and translate them into physical infrastructure.
• Support teams in aligning their stories with available platforms, ensuring secure service deployment.
• Perform platform build/support activities, including developing hardened base containers.
• Identify and advise on best practices and delivery risks.
• Assist engineers with service topology discovery and define QA and deployment pipelines.
• Promote adoption of new tools and improve support processes.
• Collaborate with AWS to assess applications, software, and hardware.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud native services with third-party tools.
• Optimize existing services for performance and reliability.
• Build and manage VPC environments for various stages like Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.
• Automate deployments using infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
• Support containerization tasks, especially with Docker.
• Implement agile working practices.
• Architect, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, demonstrating leadership within the team.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and automation.
• Experience with autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter, and Crossplane is a plus.
• Strong scripting skills in Shell and Python.
• Experience with monitoring and metrics platforms such as Datadog and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments, assessing application security, and establishing standards.
• Experience with Nix is desirable.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, engaging with stakeholders to align solutions with business needs.
• Innovate and suggest solutions that improve efficiency, user experience, and market differentiation.
• Manage tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
• Develop automated test suites supporting CI/CD environments.
• Design solutions based on business requirements and produce clean, testable, high-quality code.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications

Proficiency in AWS, Cloud, Java, and related technologies.

Additional Technologies and Experience (Nice to Have)

• Nginx, IPv4 Networking, Software engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node), Test automation, Relational and non-relational data technologies.

Personal Traits

• Passion for technology
• Initiative and self-learning
• Team player with ownership mindset

Certifications (Advantageous)

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
• ITILv3 Foundation Certificate