DevOps Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the design, build and operational management of a highly scalable, secure and available infrastructure that enable the company's platform to operate 24x7
• Ensure that the company's infrastructure platforms are secure and can scale rapidly to support growth in transaction volumes during periods of peak business. Limit or eliminate exposure to single points of failure
• Design and build infrastructure platforms with the highest levels of security. Respond swiftly to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities
• Create tools and automated workflow capabilities to enable our software engineers to test and promote code across the different environments and into production with maximum velocity
• Work tirelessly to reduce or remove bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the company's ecosystem
• In collaboration with software engineering and colleagues in Technical Operations work to reduce or eliminate manual or repetitive tasks
• You will work with your colleagues to improve the end to end health and performance of the company's ecosystem
• Work with Engineering and QA teams on solution design, capacity planning and performance
• Promote, document and implement systems infrastructure best practices
• You will work alongside software engineering teams from project initiation to deployment & end of life
• Provide support during out of hours and on call as required by the business
• You will provide hands on support to the software engineering teams during each sprint to enable the migration of services  through to transition from non-production environments into live

Requirements:

• The DevOps Systems Engineer will possess excellent hands on Windows Server, IIS and server orchestration skills; coupled with a great understanding of DevOps principles
• Significant  experience of running services in AWS or an alternative cloud provider
• Scripting skills : PowerShell
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools preferably Ansible
• Experience of NetBackup and VMWare
• Knowledge of Application Performance Management (APM) tools such as NewRelic and AppDynamics
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be calm and work well under pressure
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to work independently; deploying and troubleshooting systems
• Analytical by nature to troubleshoot and solve complex System Engineering problems
• Experience supporting high availability systems and scalable architectures
• Have experience in an internet operational environment, including multiple data centres and hybrid private and public cloud architectures
• Experience supporting network protocols including IP, TCP, HTTP, DNS, SSL
• Server, storage management and virtualization
• Excellent internal customer service, communication, and coordination
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Positive attitudes
• Experience in enterprise level storage and network technologies
• Experience in large database operation environment
• Experience in service management process and practices such as ITIL a plus
• Experience working in an Agile / Scrum environment
• Experience in a continuous delivery environment