Automation Engineer - Managed Services

This vacancy is for experienced automation engineers with a background in enterprise organisations working with Agile Software development, infrastructure and operations teams. It will be advantageous to have exposure to supporting Continuous Delivery into Dev/Test, pre-production and production environments.

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day responsibility for infrastructure automation, working within DevOps, Agile and waterfall projects across Endava’s clients• Managing and maintaining environments in on-premises or public cloud infrastructure:
     o VM / Tenant creation using Heat, Ansible, Puppet or similar tools
• CI/CD pipeline tools provisioning, configuration and maintenance including Jenkins or similar 
• Liaison with either client or in-house support teams (who typically maintain post-Dev environments) where appropriate:
     o Installation/Handover of products to be deployed in Production and UAT environments
     o Transition of new production infrastructure to ongoing support services
     o Ensuring that development and production environments remain as synchronized as possible
• Working closely with the product development teams to understand and implement any project specific requirements. Including attending SCRUM stand-ups and planning sessions as required
• Continuously looking to improve and enhance the infrastructure
     o Upgrading software and tool versions
     o Knowledge of and evaluation/installation/adaptation of new tools
• Automation of all common tasks using scripts / tools (where possible)

Qualifications:

• System administration of Linux and/or Windows environments
• Reasonably fluent in at least two out of the following scripting languages -Bash/Python/Perl/Ruby/Go/Javascript/Powershell
• Virtualization/containerization technologies (Vagrant, Docker, LXC etc)
• System configuration frameworks (Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Powershell DSC)
• Continuous Integration tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, Sonar, Nexus repository manager). Other Agile toolsets (Jira, Taiga)
• Source Control and Dependency Management (GIT, SVN)
• System monitoring (. Nagios, cricket, grafana, ELK)
• Knowledge of web server and application server configuration (NGINX, Apache, Tomcat)
• Good network knowledge (VPN, Firewalls, etc)

Following skills would be a plus:

• Experience in supporting LDAP / Microsoft Active Directory environments
• CloudFormation/Terraform/Azure Resource Manager or similar
• Cloud computing software (OpenStack and Ceph)
• Kubernetes / Docker Swarm / DC/OS (Mesos + Marathon)
• Content Management system (Drupal)
• Message Brokers (rabbitmq, kafka)
• Javascript runtime env (Node)
• Database administration knowledge (MySQL, POSTGRESQL, Redis, MS SQL)