Senior DevOps Engineer

About us:

Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.

Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.

Founded in 2013, Amach was created to solve a specific problem in aviation: too much complexity, too little usable intelligence. We help airlines modernise their operating model using cloud, data and Al-delivered by teams with deep aviation domain expertise.

Our goal is to maximize airlines' operational efficiency by optimizing resource use, reduce costs and increase customer experience and satisfaction.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to provide tactical and operational excellence, defining and implementing infrastructure standards and policies, as well as designing and delivering infrastructure solutions and projects that meet business requirements. Supporting the evolution of our customer's infrastructure, you will influence the design and strategic direction of the technology roadmap and cloud adoption. The ideal candidate will have experience with AWS and Terraform.

Required Experience:

• Experience with cloud and cloud migration in AWS
• Experienced with automation tools and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, YAML, python)
• Demonstrable experience managing, troubleshooting and tuning Linux and Windows systems
• Strong analytical, diagnostic and problem-solving skills
• Linux and Windows configuration, management, optimisation and administration
• Strong knowledge of scripting languages (Bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell)
• Experience with Virtualisation, Containerisation and related provisioning tools (ESXi, vCenter, Docker)
• Understanding of agile software development, continuous deployment and DevOps culture
• CI/CD and Version control (Jenkins, GIT)
• A good understanding of TCP/IP networking and networking tools such as DNS, tcpdump and radius
• Experience in automated test coverage, code quality checks (lint) and software metric generation
• Working with Internet technologies such as Firewalls, Load Balancing, Proxies and service clustering
• Experience with distributed service monitoring (SNMP, Shinken/Nagios)
• Experience with modern database systems (MySQL, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
• Extensive experience in security hardening servers and network equipment, including certificate management
• Excellent organisational and time management skills and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Fluent in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Key responsibilities & duties include:

• Manage an international, multi-site production infrastructure powering our customer's services, including design, deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning and security
• Administer Infrastructure services and Operational Support Systems (OSS)
• Maintain a highly available, resilient environment, patching and upgrading software regularly
• Formalise designs, configurations and procedures for system and storage administration
• Identify system incidents and problems. Troubleshoot, resolve and produce root cause analysis of these incidents
• Work with software developers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Significantly contribute to the design, scope and implementation of new solutions for upcoming projects
• Provide significant input into the department’s strategic direction in relation to infrastructure, architecture and operations
• Monitor and maintain equipment and systems insuring maximum performance, security and system integrity
• Establish a baseline for system performance and capacity planning
• Provide tools to support data driven decisions (Elastic Stack, Graphite, Grafana)
• Deliver highly available and reliable solutions (HAProxy, Keepalived)
• Optimise existing tools and processes as part of our continuous service improvement program
• Responsible for implementation and release of system and application changes with relevant change controls
• Responsible for backup, business continuity and disaster recovery of systems
• Our customer operates 24×7 services and the role requires participation in the on-call rota to support out of office hours’ emergency support and routine maintenance
• Service is delivered throughout the HYLAS fleet footprint and occasional international travel is required

What’s in it for you:  

• An opportunity to join a fast-growing company  
• Options for career advancement 
• Learning and development opportunities 
• Flexible working environment
• Competitive salaries based on experience 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.

If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!

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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace. 

Your personal data

Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:

• Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
• Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
• Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
• Accurate and kept up to date
• Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
• Kept securely

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