Australia - Devops Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Colchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to enhance their automation and engineering practices. In this pivotal role, you will drive continuous quality in the software development process, ensuring minimal defect leakage through adherence to shift-left QA principles. You will implement automation strategies within AWS environments, utilizing Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, and focus on operational task orchestration. This is an exciting opportunity to work with a diverse global team, where your contributions will significantly impact the efficiency and success of the organization's operations. If you are passionate about technology and eager to tackle significant challenges, this role is for you.

Benefits

Life assurance

Career development opportunities

Flexible working hours

Diverse range of benefits

Qualifications

• Expertise in AWS and CI/CD pipelines with a focus on automation.
• Strong knowledge of DevOps tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering and automation into the environment.
• Implement best practices across environments and CI processes.

Skills

AWS Solutions Architect professional certification

Agile methodology

DevOps tools (Bitbucket, Sonar Cube, Team City, Testrail, Ansible)

Telemetry and observability platforms (ELK stack, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch)

Database technologies (RDS Postgres, Aurora)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform)

Scripting languages (Python, PowerShell)

Software engineering skills

Effective communication skills

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Education

5+ years of experience in AWS and CI/CD pipelines

Experience in configuration management tools (Ansible)

Experience in coding and scripting solutions (bash, python, PowerShell)

Experience in containerization (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker)

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

Confluence

Job description

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At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to have a connected world, in which our customers trade successfully and make better decisions in every port, everywhere. We use technology and our global network to help our partners connect to a smoother, smarter ocean. Inchcape combines its worldwide infrastructure with local expertise through our global network of over proprietary offices, across countries and a team of more than , committed professionals. Our diverse global customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval, government and intergovernmental organizations.

We have an ambitious growth model and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills & experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.

Business Need / Purpose of Role

DevOps Engineer to drive engineering and automation into environment. To ensure continuous quality is in built into the software development process to minimize defect leakage by strictly adhering to shift-left QA principles and shift-right production testing. Automated approach into DevOps and using experience, recommend improvements and cost optimisation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review and understand ISS enterprise IT and applications architecture, product management and product delivery frameworks.
• Implement and transition from ground up automation and scale within AWS environments with IAC and terraform.
• Focus on automation and orchestration of operational tasks.
• Review and understand product specific architecture, design, and technology stack, define and setup development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations.
• Implement best practices across environments and CI process.
• Configure DevOps tools and monitoring for automation and observability monitoring.
• Site Reliability Engineering, implement processes for analysis and troubleshooting, monitor environments focusing on performance and availability.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline.
• Incident, Problem and Change management and root cause analysis.
• Coordination and communication within the team and with product stakeholders.
• Mentoring and guiding the team members.
• Ownership of DevOps projects and BAU.
• Monitoring and measuring user experience and product KPIs.
• Flexible working providing support out of hours.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• AWS Solutions Architect professional certification.
• Agile practitioner with great experience in using tools like Jira, Confluence.
• Expert level knowledge of DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Sonar Cube, Team City, Testrail and Ansible.
• Expert level knowledge of telemetry and observability platforms like ELK stack, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch and any other APM tool.
• Database technologies preferably RDS Postgres, Aurora.
• Infrastructure as code focused in Terraform.
• Expertise in one or more technologies: XML, JSON, YAML.
• Pipeline as code.
• Rabbit MQ or AWS MQ.
• Scripting languages preferably python, PowerShell.
• Understanding of SDLC, ITIL processes beneficial.
• Effective verbal & written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skills.
• Strong collaborative and partner approach working with global teams.
• Software engineering skills with high tech resilience.
• DevOps mindset and Live site first approach.

Education/Experience:

• + year of experience in AWS and for CI/CD pipeline and all the DevOps phases.
• Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Experience in coding and scripting solutions such as bash, python and power shell.
• Experience in building containerization using Kubernetes or ECS with Docker.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.

Why Inchcape Shipping Services?

We believe in building a diverse and high performing workforce, that works together to provide our customers with the exceptional service they deserve. To reach the highest standards we depend on our people, their welfare, training, and expertise. We realize the value of our staff and know that your unique experiences, skills, and passions will help you to build a rich and rewarding career in our dynamic industry.

Our values are at the center of everything we do, and the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate and fully adopt these:

• Global Perspective - we connect the world and see the bigger picture.
• The Power of People - we rely on the strength of local agent knowledge and relationships.
• Progress - we adopt new thinking and push for positive change in our industry.

In return, we will offer you:

• A diverse range of benefits, depending on your geographical location. Globally as a minimum you will receive:
• Life assurance.
• Career development and progression opportunities.

Plus, much more!

Inchcape Shipping Services is looking for people who are willing to think about the think big. We're looking for people who are ready to take on the most significant challenges of their careers.

If you think that you have the right skills, knowledge, and attitude to join our team, then we invite you to apply to this advert!

Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work documentation depending upon your geographical location.

Inchcape is an Equal Opportunity Employer and equality; diversity and inclusion are at the center of everything we do. We recognize that our customers, colleagues, contractors, and other partners are central to our success and that we work in a diverse society. We acknowledge not only our legal, but also our moral responsibility to ensure all groups have equality of opportunity.

Only applications submitted through the ISS Careers website will be acknowledged.

Please note that as per Inchcape policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from employment, recruitment, staffing, or related agencies unless engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Inchcape will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity.