Senior DevOps Engineer in Luxoft

We build the platform, which supports client onboarding in global financial institution. This platform includes processing of onboarding requests as they flow from Clients to Sales to Operations and to downstream processing functions. Application functionality is decomposed into business process management, business rules/workflows configuration, reporting / dashboards and workload management functions e.g. work prioritization, SLA management, notifications etc.
Technically solution includes BPM engine, rules engine, reporting engine, metadata configuration components; most of these components are exposed via end-user facing interacting web applications. The platform is used by both external and internal users, it is mission critical as part client experience upgrade roadmap.

Responsibilities

Cooperate closely with the team lead and project manager in all aspects of sprint and release planning

Take an active part in all aspects of the development process including planning, estimation, progress tracking, dependencies detection, issues prevention and solving

Develop infrastructure and environments management plans

Create and execute rollout plan for the software products and services releases

Design, create scripts for automating build & deployment processes

Analyze, estimate, develop and solve complex configuration management problems

Design, develop and test procedures for installation and configuration of the software products and services

Plan, analyze, develop and implement the procedures and scripts for build and/or migration of data/applications/products across different platforms

Participate in architecture review and performance improvements of the existing and future solutions

Facilitate transition to best practices in architectural and operations management solutions

Build and configure the new infrastructure for the solution

Set-up environments, execute performance tuning, perform advanced settings update, assist with the tests preparation processes

Create comprehensive solution documentation

Define monitoring approaches and configure monitoring systems

Contribute to configuration management by defining and execution of respective tasks

Troubleshoot day-to-day user issues on all environments

Skills

Must have

Over 5 years of IT experience as DevOps or related

Strong interpersonal skills: communication, negotiation, listening

Good understanding of technologies used for setting up build pipeline, including, but not limited to: Bitbucket/Gitlab, Nexus or Artifactory, TeamCity or Jenkins, Openshift or Kubernetes or Docker;

Strong knowledge and experience of configuration management, build monitoring and backup systems/solutions

Experience of configuration & optimization Mongo or Oracle (optimization of databases, query plan, etc.)

Experience with configuration of web servers, proxies, load balancers

Experience in scripting language (Shell or Python, etc.)

Nice to have

Experience with continuous delivery and deployment automation IBM UrbanCode Deploy (uDeploy)

Experience in data centers administration (including cloud solutions), good understanding of networking concepts and principles

Strong theoretical knowledge and practical appliance of IT Service Management practices (for example, ITIL), software development life cycle (understanding of Waterfall, RUP, Agile methodologies)

Previous experience in working with the technical teams and management to prioritize and scope scheduled releases is a plus

Knowledge and experience using Java is a plus, as well as understanding of object oriented approach and familiarity with the software development design patterns

Hands-on experience with configuration of PostgreSQL

Hands-on experience with configuration of ELK stack

Hands-on experience with configuration of ITRS Geneos, Sensu, InfluxDB, and Grafana monitoring stack

Experience with Atlassians JIRA/Confluence

Investment banking background

Other

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior