Release & Deployment Engineer

Release & Deployment Engineer

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We are looking for someone who is passionate about Kubernetes, automation, creative and innovative, with a track record of running and administering workload on Kubernetes, fully automated AWS cloud Infrastructure and CI/CD application pipelines. You must be able to demonstrate a mindset for Open Source technologies and have implemented continuous improvement / continuous delivery effectively. The ideal candidate will be comfortable with infrastructure automation as well as Application Continuous Delivery, applied to either Java, NodeJS or python technologies.

Responsibilities

• Kubernetes Administration - CKA desirable.

• Awareness of industry direction and trends in infrastructure as code tooling and best practices

• Develop and implement systems that aid and facilitate our rapid growth including the implementation of deployment policies, future procedures, configuration management and planning for capacity upgrades

• Implement an on-going cloud cost optimization process

• Implement security best practices

• Working with agile team colleagues, technical leaders and the Scrum Master and Product Owner to build quality solutions that are capable of long term testability and growth whilst delivering focused, value driven changes to a high-quality standard

Skills

• Kubernetes Admin (Mandatory)

Managing the cloud infrastructure as code, using either Terraform or CloudFormation

• Container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes. Experience with running a highly available auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters, integrated CICD tools with k8s, experience with Helm charts

• Knowledge of network infrastructure (load balancers, DNS, NAT servers, bastion hosts, etc.)

• Working knowledge of databases - SQL and NoSQL - MongoDB Atlas

• Maintaining highly available and performant environments.

• Monitoring tools, such as Datadog and Prometheus

• Managing and deploying AWS Load Balancers, RDS, Route 53, CloudFront, S3.

• Managing and deploying Serverless applications: Lambda, API Gateway, MongoDB Atlas

• Familiarity and experience with Agile/SCRUM based development methodology

• Excellent automated builds and deployments experience - Jenkins, Sonar, Veracode, Twislock