Senior DevOps Engineer

Summary

Join Datacom as a Senior DevOps Engineer and lead automation initiatives, enhancing customer experience and ensuring financial viability. You will implement an 'automate where possible' approach across Datacom's managed services solutions, uplifting automation and delivery maturity. Responsibilities include contributing to automation roadmaps, influencing architectural decisions, and guiding other engineers in executing uplifts across various engineering practices. You will perform hands-on automation tasks, participate in code reviews, and collaborate with various teams to mitigate risks and improve application scalability and reliability. Datacom offers a dynamic work environment with perks such as remote working, flexible hours, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Knowledge of the outsourced IT services market and infrastructure project requirements
• Strong knowledge of various software and performance monitoring techniques
• Strong financial management practices with a clear understanding of the relationship between costs, utilisation, and project revenue
• Working knowledge of common systems monitoring and alerting tools
• Working knowledge of common build, release, and deployment tools
• Knowledge of competing product offerings
• Experience promoting the benefits of implementing DevOps methodologies in an organization and making sure that the IT professionals are well-trained to implement these changes
• Experience in maintaining the end-toend production chain for smooth deliveries
• Experience using automation tools
• Experience with variety of programming and scripting languages
• Proven experience with modern build, release, and development tools Orchestration expertise in provisioning, private and public cloud, preferably with experience in AWS and Azure automation
• Ability to frequently interact and network with a variety of stakeholders and team members within own area of expertise
• Proficient with modern DevOps Tools and utilities
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong presentation and report writing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong consultative and planning skills
• Excellent customer relationship building and management skills
• Strong influencing and persuasive ability
• Ability to escalate with a solution focus
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and align them with client business goals and objectives

Responsibilities

• Delivering an “automation first” culture to enhance customer experience and to ensure continued relevance and financial viability
• Enhancing the Datacom managed services solutions by applying an ‘automate where possible’ approach
• Uplifting automation and delivery maturity across Datacom leveraging agile/DevOps methodologies
• Actively identify and support the automation of labour-intensive repetitive tasks using the abovementioned Datacom automation frameworks
• Contributing to automation roadmaps in conjunction with the Architecture, Tools, Automation and Planning group guidelines and standards and execute within identified milestones
• Influencing architectural decisions, implementing, and managing core infrastructure, developing internal tools, and looking to automate as many processes as possible
• Working with, leading, and guiding other engineers in the execution of uplifts across build engineering, release engineering, configuration management and environment management practices
• Performing hands-on automation tasks to treat infrastructure as code
• Assisting engineers to automate the process of testing various software and minimize errors
• Participating in and/or leading code and design reviews
• Providing execution of activities related to infrastructure, security, continuous integration, continuous deployment, IT operations and metrics
• Collaborating with other System Administrators, Developers, Testers, Architects and Business Analysts
• Collaborating with operations and development teams to mitigate the risks associated with the product life-cycle and improve the overall scalability and reliability of the application

Benefits

• Social events
• Chill-out spaces
• Remote working
• Flexi-hours
• Professional development courses