Vodafone Recruitment 2019

The DevOps Platform Engineer is responsible for the design and implementation of processes and tools to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery, maximizing the speed and quality of delivery across teams

Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Specialist 

• This role is also responsible for automating build, release, deployment, and configuration activities
• This role will work closely with Software Engineers, QAs’, and systems engineers to understand requirements and prototype, architect, implement, operate and update DevOps solutions accordingly
• This role is flexible to constant business and technology change, with the ability to interact, engineer, and communicate collaboratively with a wide range of stakeholders

Key Accountabilities

• Establish a portfolio of DevOps processes, practices, and tools to empower and support delivery teams in continuous deployment, continuous integration, and rapid delivery across value streams
• Create and implement automation and orchestration tools with infrastructure teams or cloud providers
• Educate and foster self-service and efficiency wherever possible, automating the processes of provisioning and maintaining continuous integration environments, integration/QA testing, security & configuration
• Full responsibility of migration and upgrading to new releases
• Ensure availability, scalability, maintainability, monitoring of systems for operations
• Regular update of technical documentation and the team knowledge base
• Advise on new technologies and methodologies by becoming an expert in emerging technologies and tools
• Suggest architecture improvements and recommend process improvements.

Core Competencies

• Strong technological background, with qualification in Computer Science, Telecommunications or equivalent
• Working experience in a DevOps capacity, preferably as a DevOps Engineer
• Database technologies – RDBMS, e.g. MySQL, PostGreSQL, Oracle and NoSQL e.g. Cassandra, Spark, Redis, Mongo,etc.
• Virtualization and infrastructure technologies, e.g. Windows, Linux, VMWare, Xen, KVM, Docker
• Public and private cloud IaaS and PaaS deployment models and technologies, e.g. Openstack, AWS, Azure
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services.
• Strong understanding of network protocols and client-server communication
• Expertise with at least two or more programming languages (e.g. PHP, Java)
• Good understanding of operational processes in the Telecom industry
• Agile and Devops Software development experience
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management tools, e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery methodologies and tools
• Production-readiness assessment of modules and supporting systems