DevOps Engineer

Posted 26 October 2023
Salary £50000 - £60000 per annum + On site - Benefits
LocationLondon
Job type Permanent
Discipline Technology Leadership
ReferencePB2610_1698337236
Contact NamePaul Butterfill

Job description

This global London based bank seek a DevOps Engineer to ensure the Streamline software development and operations processes for banking systems. Implement and manage continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for applications

KEY OBJECTIVES

  • Enhance collaboration, automation, and efficiency in the software development lifecycle.
  • Ensure the reliability, scalability, and security of banking applications and services.
  • Monitor and optimize the performance and availability.
  • Implement and manage containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

MAIN DUTIES

  • Cloud/On Premise Administration
  • Deploy updates and fixes and provide Level 2 technical support.
  • Access management - create application users, and roles and assign rights.
  • Build tools to reduce the occurrence of errors and improve customer experience.
  • Perform root cause analysis of production errors and resolve technical issues.
  • Develop scripts to automate virtualization.
  • Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance.
  • Maintenance of Faster Payment, CHAPS, and other bank payment rails
  • Disaster Recovery Drill
  • Management of Kubernetes (the Platform that runs the NDBS applications)
  • Cloud updates and upgrades
  • Manage Application integration endpoint.
  • Crystal Report Systems and generation of batch and ad-hoc MIS
  • Cloud Database Management

EDUCATION & TRAINING

A Bachelor's or master's degree in an IT related field

ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

  • Experience of AWS cloud system including but not limited to Elastic Kubernetes Service, Elastic Beanstalk, CI/CD pipeline, Github, Lambda, Terraform, Cloud watch, Cloud Trail
  • Experience of using Monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana)
  • Hands on experience of Database Management systems ORACLE RDS, Aurora PostgreSQL, SQL Server Hands on experience of Operating Systems (Linux/Windows)
  • Hands on expertise of scripting (Shell, Bash, Python)
  • Good knowledge of writing SQL for Financial Reporting.
  • Understands middleware & API gateways
  • Good Knowledge of API, MQ & SFTP services.
  • Experience of working and supporting mission critical systems with maintaining 24x7x365 uptime
  • Experience of managing IT incidents and Disasters.
  • Good Knowledge of applying application patches and validate them.