Job Details

Responsibilities

Prepare environments, tools and methods for Continuous Delivery and integration through the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
Design and build CI/CD pipelines
Provide support for software engineers working with Agile methodologies, working within the software development team and across collaborating teams.
Share knowledge and promote the DevOps culture across development, testing and infrastructure teams
Contribute to the CD and DevOps practices within Endava to share best practice and develop Endava’s capability
Work on system improvements regarding application deployment and their configuration
Communicate with clients through meetings framed on agile methodologies and daily technical work
Support application releases and infrastructure changes like cloud migrations

5+ years of experience working as DevOps or similar roles. Exceptionally skilled candidates with a strong background in cloud, infrastructure, SDLC automation or similar might be considered.
Grounding in the consequences of operational impact from software delivery
Demonstrable experience of delivering IT transformation projects, working within an organization that has adopted the DevOps philosophy
Strong experience of Continuous Integration/Delivery technologies, concepts, and tools, having worked within a software engineering environment
Understanding of application deployment and release management best practices e.g. Blue/Green, Canary, Dark launch/feature-flagging
Good experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Terraform is preferred
Knowledge and practical experience with Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef or Saltstack

Experience managing or doing automation around infrastructure with at least one of Windows or Linux OS in customer facing environments.
Good knowledge of infrastructure including public, private and hybrid cloud.

Knowledge of networking including TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing knowledge.
Experience and knowledge of container technologies. Docker is preferred
Understanding or experience working with container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes, Nomad or cloud provider orchestrators.
Knowledge of scripting, e.g., Bash shell scripting, Python, Windows PowerShell (DSC), VB etc.
Good understanding of how to monitor a system (capture signals, visualize and analyze, incident management and troubleshooting)
Experience running high availability systems and supporting infrastructure in customer-facing production environments
Strong English skills (B2 or above)

Desirable

Experience working with software build tools such as Maven / MSBuild etc, Artefact repository managers such as Nexus / Artifactory, and web servers.
Knowledge of security best practices for the entire SLDC process.
OS packaging (RPMs, MSI), and other tools such as Vagrant or Packer
Familiarity with Atlassian suite of tools, e.g., Jira, Confluence
Familiarity of testing frameworks and tools, e.g., BATS, ServerSpec
Experience or knowledge of latest trends like DevSecOps, DataOps or MLOps
Awareness of security organizations and benchmarks such as NSA and CIS.