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A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Platform Engineer
Requirements
Qualifications:
- BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields
Experience:
- BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 years relevant working experience or Masters coupled with 7 years relevant working experience
- or PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, large scale computing, high performance computing, private cloud and virtual computing (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes)
- Experience with systems administration, provisioning of MAAS, preferably using Linux and open source tools (such as Docker, Helm,Ansible)
- Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).
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Knowledge:
- Proficient in C++ and Python programming languages.
- Experienced in administering application servers, web servers and databases.
- Experienced in integrated security practices such as secrets management into the DevOps pipelines, SSO, platform and application hardening.
- Have some experience of line management.
- Systems Engineering processes.
- Willingness to transition between system development, roll-out and system support and operations
Essential Competency:
- Experience in using infrastructure provisioning tools (such as Docker, Helm, Ansible, Terraform) in a cloud environment or in a virtualized environment (AWS, OpenStack, GCP).
- Working knowledge of the git distributed version control system and related best practices.
- Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).
- Demonstrated understanding and enthusiasm for team based working based on lean/agile principles.
- Ethernet network technologies and management of switches and routers.
- Linux operating system and standard tools.
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