Job Description

Summary


In details, the position encompasses duties and responsibilities as follows:





We are looking for a Hosting Engineer who will play a key role of deploying and operating Kubernetes as well as driving automation within a team of highly skilled engineers to deliver IT operational excellence.



The role will suit a hands-on DevOps engineer with Kubernetes and infrastructure experience looking to grow their career by taking responsibility of key Infrastructure artefacts. The role will report to the Hosting lead and will play an essential part in ensuring that the current Infrastructure landscape is operating at the correct levels following DevOps best practices and infrastructure as code.



The successful candidate will be an effective communicator and collaborator, have high attention to detail and a pragmatic and "can-do" attitude. They will have experience in working with Agile technologies and will have good knowledge of scripting methodologies and techniques.



The ideal candidate disposes of:


Primarily responsible for deploying and operating on-premises Kubernetes environment and for driving automated management of the infrastructure hosting estate (Cisco UCS, Virtualisation, Storage, Backups and Linux) using tools such as Ansible, Terraform and GitHub. Work closely and collaboratively with various stakeholders to ensure that deliverables are in alignment with DevOps capabilities/best practises. Manage support and escalations, incidents and root cause analysis. Support, influence and guide external service providers/internal work streams to a successful outcome. Develop and implement administration standards and procedures. Advocate for automation and Infrastructure as Code.

Skills:



5+ years' experience with Kubernetes and DevOps toolset; Ansible, Terraform, Git, GitHub, etc. operating IT infrastructure Experience with Tanzu is especially desirable Experience with VMware vSphere environments in an enterprise environment. Experience with Cisco UCS and MDS is highly desired Experience with Storage technologies, such as fibre channel networks, NFS and object storage. Experience with PureStorage and CommVault. Experience with Red Hat Linux (RHEL 7, 8 and 9) administration. Understanding of network technologies like firewalls, switching, routing, TCP/IP, WAN, LAN. Ability to think strategically and perform risk analysis. Ability to accept change and adapt organizational change and shifting priorities. Good communication skills with the ability to convey technical issues to all levels. Builds and maintains strong relationships with leaders, customers, and team members.

Experience with Terraform and Ansible Working knowledge of hybrid environments, preferably Azure. Project management experience Understanding of Intel Windows server technology (Windows 2019/2022) Understanding of current and emerging Microsoft Technologies Disaster recovery experience * Previous ITIL exposure