Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer

As a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer, you will:

• Support and maintain a CI/CD platform used by a large-scale IT engineering organization.
• Manage and maintain CI/CD tooling, supporting automated and self-service onboarding of development teams.
• Work with Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes (K8s), Ansible Tower, CI tools, and software artifact repositories.
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines following DevOps and SecDevOps principles.
• Develop and maintain solutions using Go/Golang as a core development skill.
• Support the infrastructure underpinning CI/CD tooling across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) applications on cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Provide L2 support for critical business applications and technical issues.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, operating system, application, and network-related issues and drive incidents through to resolution.
• Administer and maintain Linux-based environments, including operating-system-level configuration and administration.
• Implement infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), including Ansible playbooks.
• Support infrastructure alignment, standardization, and operational improvements across the development tooling environment.
• Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to resolve issues related to CI/CD platforms and development tooling.
• Manage incidents and implement infrastructure and application changes in accordance with agreed SLAs.
• Contribute to automation and self-service capabilities that simplify the onboarding and usage of development tooling.
• Work with technologies such as Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Nexus Lifecycle, Fortify, Nexus Repository Manager, Confluence, Ansible Tower, and NeoLoad.
• Continuously improve the reliability, security, scalability, and usability of the CI/CD platform.

What You Bring to the Table:

• 6-8 years of overall professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or related roles.
• Minimum 3 years of hands-on Operations/Infrastructure Engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on foundation in cloud infrastructure, particularly Microsoft Azure.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (K8s).
• Strong expertise in Go/Golang.
• Hands-on experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SecDevOps principles.
• Experience with Ansible and Infrastructure as Code, including Ansible playbooks.
• Experience with Ansible Tower is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, particularly system administration and operational support.
• Experience providing L2 support for critical business applications and production issues.
• Experience installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting COTS applications in cloud and/or on-premises environments.
• Experience with infrastructure and application automation.
• Experience troubleshooting network hardware and software-related issues.
• Experience managing incidents and implementing technical changes according to SLA requirements.
• Experience with CI tooling and software artifact repositories is advantageous.
• Knowledge of PostgreSQL or other relational databases is advantageous.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and related development tooling is advantageous.

You should possess the ability to:

• Operate and maintain Azure and Kubernetes-based infrastructure supporting enterprise CI/CD platforms.
• Develop automation and tooling using Go/Golang.
• Design, implement, and maintain reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible and IaC practices.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux environments at the operating-system level.
• Provide effective L2 operational support for critical business applications and infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, network, and platform issues and perform root-cause analysis.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot COTS applications across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Automate repetitive operational activities and develop self-service capabilities.
• Apply SecDevOps and security-by-design principles throughout the development and deployment lifecycle.
• Manage incidents, changes, and operational activities within defined SLAs.
• Collaborate effectively with development, DevOps, infrastructure, and platform teams.
• Learn and expand knowledge of enterprise CI/CD platforms and development tooling while supporting engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities for standardization, automation, reliability, and operational improvement.

What we bring to the table:

• The opportunity to work on a large-scale enterprise CI/CD and development tooling platform.
• Exposure to a broad technology landscape including Azure, Kubernetes, Go, Ansible, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Nexus, Fortify, and other DevOps tooling.
• Opportunities to work across cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, automation, CI/CD, SecDevOps, and infrastructure as code.
• The opportunity to support and improve platforms used by a large community of IT engineers.
• Collaboration with experienced DevOps, infrastructure, platform, and development teams.
• Opportunities to contribute to self-service onboarding, automation, infrastructure standardization, and continuous improvement.

Let’s Connect

Want to discuss this opportunity in more detail? Feel free to reach out.

Recruiter: Giftson Paul Davidson

Phone: +31 20 369 0609 ; Extn : 151

E-mail: [email protected]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/giftsonpauldavidson/