DevOps Engineer

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Working collaboratively with multiple vendors
• Leading complex projects - project management
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Managing infrastructure services delivery, support and excellence
• Working in global IT function with regional or global responsibilities in an environment like Mondel z International
• Working with IT outsourcing providers using frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library
• Working with internal and external teams and leading when necessary

Roles & Responsibilities

• Sets out DevOps Platform strategy and roadmap in line with wider Business & IT strategy to facilitate effective software deployment across the organization.
• Leads the design and implementation of processes, practices and tools enabling CI/CD, maximizing the speed and quality of software delivery and minimizing unit costs across digital platforms.
• Manages build automation, release, deployment, and configuration activities of the DevOps platform, setting appropriate milestones & KPIs and working within an Agile framework.
• Define CICD / Automation security requirements (e.g. least privilege principle).
• Define security testing requirements (such as static/dynamic analysis security testing, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc.).
• Promote security-left (security coding convention, unit tests, static analyzers), so that security should be built into the product, rather than applied to the finished product.
• Manages tool and vendor selection across development automation activities to ensure that tooling is fit for purpose for an enterprise-grade software deployment automation & DevOps platform.
• Owns, leads and drives systems engineering, software delivery automation and CI/CD practices across all digital platforms.
• Follows industry trends and developments to better meet wider business & IT goals and ensure that the DevOps platform ecosystem is at the cutting edge of enterprise-grade software development automation systems.
• Bringing in the right DevOps mindset among the teams developing software, which would mean conducting training on tools and processes that makes software development and testing easier.
• Drive increased maturity on the cloud DevOps capabilities including advanced CI/CD and metrics.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science, Business, a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
• Good knowledge of DevOps CI/CD workflows, tools and integration points and experience integrating security into SDLC.
• Proven track record of architecting/implementing end to end pipelines that cover the entire SDLC.
• Experience of having Implemented CI / CD tools such as GitHub, Bamboo, Jenkins, Connect All and JFrog including the build of pipelines.
• Drive continuous improvement for supported applications, in areas such as monitoring, operational task automation, continuous integration, deployments and performance tuning.
• Investigate and resolve complex and multi-faceted issues, spanning the entire technology stack, which requires working across teams and technology boundaries.
• Proactively improve key metrics, such as up-time, application performance, and other key operational SLOs, SLAs.
• Organized and prioritized work to complete assignments in a timely, efficient manner.
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps platform technologies incl. infrastructure-as-code and containers.
• Good knowledge/experience of the Application Security space and tools.
• Extensive experience with agile methodologies.
• Extensive experience working in a cloud native environment.
• Understanding of software engineering principals.
• Knowledge of containerization tools and approaches would be desirable.
• Ability to communicate and present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to Influence others to achieve buy-in to proposed solutions / recommendations.