A great opportunity for a DevOps Engineer has arisen with one of our clients in Nenagh Tipperary.  You will be in collaboration with a multidisciplinary delivery team, be responsible for the deployment, monitoring, troubleshooting and maintenance of critical enterprise API platform in production.

What you will be doing in the role:

• Deploying, automating, maintaining and managing software on production systems; ensuring the availability, performance, scalability and security of productions systems.
• Achieving a delivery process supporting continuous deployment.
• Build, release and configuration management of production systems.
• Pre-production Operational Acceptance Testing to assure the quality of our products / services.
• System troubleshooting and problem solving across infrastructure and application domains.
• Evaluate new technology options and vendor products.
• Ensuring critical system security through the use of best in class security solutions.
• Contribute significantly to implementing technical solutions and improvements within a collaborative, high trust, solutions delivery team.
• Work independently when required, communicating regularly with stakeholders on solution implementation.
• Provide technical coaching on complex issues to colleagues.
• Be a proactive stakeholder in product quality.
• Ability to analyse and prioritize incidents and determine root cause and thereafter affect resolution of issues in a timely manner.
• Strong verbal, written and organizational skills and a strong customer focus.
• Build a knowledge base on the applications and acquire subject matter expertise on the overall line of business.
• Will perform additional job duties as required.

What you will need in the role:

• 4+ years’ experience in DevOps engineering or similar role.
• Experience and knowledge of one or more of the following technologies - IBM Datapower, Apigee and Drupal CMS.
• 2+ years’ experience with using a broad range of cloud technologies (e.g. AWS - EC2, RDS, ELB,EBD, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS).
• DevOps: Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
• Scripting Skills: Strong scripting (e.g. Python, bash or PowerShell) and automation skills.
• Operating Systems: Windows and Linux system administration.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g. Nagios).
• Problem Solving: Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
• DB Skills: Basic DB administration experience (Oracle, SQL Server, NoSQL).
• Agile Methodologies: Experience with Agile software development methodologies.
• Networking: Understanding network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or other equivalent technical discipline.
• Professional commitment to high quality, and a passion for learning new skills.
• Detail-oriented individual with the ability to rapidly learn new concepts and technologies.
• Strong problem solving skills, including providing simple solutions to complex situations.
• Must be a strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively in a geographically disperse working environment.

The company will provide you with:

• Competitive salary and benefit package.

The Next Step for you:

Should this position be of interest to you please forward your CV to Zsofia Nemeth from Next Generation Recruitment or alternatively call on the main line on +353 1 6629120.

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