DevOps Engineer – Site Reliability Engineer (4862)

CareerFinders, on behalf of our client, an expanding Information Technology company with offices in Limassol, we are seeking to recruit a DevOps Engineer – Site Reliability Engineer to join their team of professionals. The successful applicant may currently be a Systems Administrator with an interest in DevOps or an operations/automations focused developer. The chosen candidate will help define, build and drive the infrastructure and processes of the cloud deployments with the latest industry standard and tools.

• Defining system availability thresholds: You work with other engineers to define targets and metrics around uptime and service level objectives (SLOs).
• Automating reliability: Use proper tooling to eliminate manual reprogramming, saving time and money.
• Handling the CI/CD and orchestration pipeline, the Release management and versioning strategy.
• Responding to alerts and incidents. We prefer a proactive self-healing approach. However, reactive approach is extremely important. You should be the first to know when something breaks and report to the CTO accordingly.
• Capacity planning.
• Observability. Use application performance monitoring tools to have visibility on all aspects of the system pipeline.
• Managing, maintaining and deploying production and test environments.
• Manage the data base environment.
• Linux and/or windows scripting:
  • Configuring firewalls and networks.
  • Support and development of monitoring and alert mechanisms.
  • Managing and deploying microservices.
  • Be an active member of the product team(s).

• Educated to Degree level in Computer Science/Engineering.
• Team player.
• Reliable.
• Sense of urgency and criticality.
• Clear communication, organization and planning skills.
• Programming or at least good Scripting experience.
• Overall understanding of roles and processes within a Software Engineering environment.
• Working knowledge of production and test environments, configuration and deployment.
• Azure cloud experience.
• Working knowledge with Servers (Linux, Windows).
• Monitoring tools i.e., Nagios, Zabbix, Datadog.
• Network traffic monitoring tools.
• Experience with Firewalls configurations, load balancers etc.
• Capacity monitoring and planning skills
• Good working experience with databases and DB jobs (SQL and/or No SQL).
• Working experience with hardware/software upgrades.
• Vulnerability management and InfoSec excellent awareness.
• Ability and motivation to learn and evolve to a fully automated self-healing DevOps environment.
• Fluent spoken and written command of English is mandatory.
• Security-best practices awareness, implementations.
• Experienced with cloud migrations, implementations and tooling (i.e., Azure).
• Experience with Microservices architecture and concepts, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Management of Queue-based systems.
• Release Management and Deployment experience.
• DevOps environment: Orchestration tools, CI/CD pipeline (i.e. Octopus, Bitbucket, Confluence, Nexus, ELK Stack, Git, TeamCity, CircleCI)
• Working Knowledge of test automation (Selenium) and Agile methodologies.
• Previous experience building tools to support and improve build and deploy processes in a Linux and Microsoft .NET environment.