Senior DevOps Software Engineer Viana do Castelo

Senior DevOps Software Engineer
Viana do Castelo
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo District, Portugal

act digital is a multinational company present in 12 countries, which combines local agility and global expertise to act as a strategic partner for our clients in delivering customized and scalable solutions.

In Portugal, we have around 120 clients and a team of over 400 people, working on projects in sectors as diverse as Banking, Insurance, Transport, Aviation and Energy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for designing, building, and optimising the automation processes for provisioning infrastructure and applications – via
  -
  - code (Ia
  C)
• Standardise and streamline build and release pipelines – CICD
• Configure and administer platforms and services
• Support operational activities by ensuring platforms and infra for pipelines are optimal, recoverable, and easily scalable to meet the capacity demands
• Provide incident management oversight – root cause analysis, stakeholder communications,
  - mortems, and manage preventative measures and resolutions
• Actively involved in regular deployments of platform and pipeline artefacts to ensure frequent and incremental value delivery while avoiding unnecessary accumulation of technical or operational debt
• Ensure security, high availability, and disaster recovery are always front of mind
• Continuous monitoring of cost and risk – with a view to reducing and mitigating
• Ensure production and
  - production environments stay in sync through the alignment of stable standards, code and configurations
• Identify relevant emerging trends and build compelling cases for adoption e. g. tool selection
• Involved in Po
  Cs, prototypes and innovation spikes to seek directional outcomes
• Engage with peer reviews of your own code, and peer review other engineers’ code
• Help define and champion strategies and best practice to support best in class engineering practices and operational efficiency for all services.
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping to grow our collaborative environment.
• Identify and assess risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty in the design, system, or process including the impact of change.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

• 6+ years of experience in a similar role is essential
• Proficient with CICD toolchains (e. g. Azure Dev
  Ops, Jenkins, Git, Artefactory etc. )
• Proficient in one or more scripting languages for automation (e. g. Linux Bash, Power
  Shell, Python)
• Proficient in provisioning platforms via Ia
  C techniques (e. g. Terraform, YAML, Azure Resource Manager (ARM))
• Working experience configuring, securing and administering platforms in Azure; knowledge in Cloud infrastructure and networking principles (e. g. Azure Paa
  S, Iaa
  S)
• Demonstrable knowledge of working with distributed data platforms (e. g. Azure ADLS, Data Lakes)
• Experience working with vulnerability management and
  - inspection tooling (e. g. Snyk, Sonar
  Qube)
• Possess an “automation-first” mindset when building solutions; considerations for
  - healing and
  - tolerant methods to minimize manual intervention and downtime
• Ability to work autonomously in an environment of constant change.
• Experience building/maintaining an API-led
  - driven architecture, e. g. using Azure Event Grid, Azure Functions is desirable
• Cluster image container management (e. g. Azure Container Registry) is desirable
• Good understanding of network configuration – DNS, Routing, VPN, Firewalls, Endpoint management is desirable
• Experience of including vulnerability management within the deployment pipelines – for package dependencies and containers is desirable
• Experience in implementing custom Data Observability, capturing telemetry to understand the health of data and pipelines better is desirable
• Familiarity with Microsoft Azure Dev
  Ops is desirable

LOCATION

• Remote from Portugal or Brasil

LANGUAGES

• English (C1) - mandatory