Junior DevOps Engineer

About Luxoft
Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 23 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications. DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.
​​​​​​​Luxoft Romania has been established since 2001. We currently have approximately 2500 employees working from different locations in the country.

Skills:
Technical skills required:
- Good knowledge of a programming or scripting language - preferably Python, Groovy, or Bash
- Linux administration skills
- Basic knowledge of networking - TCP/IP stack

Soft skills required:
- Very good written and spoken English
- Work effectively in a distributed team
- Problem solving attitude, ability to analyze business requirements and propose fixes
- Willing to learn and deliver using a wide range of technologies
- Good communication skills and team player

Other beneficial skills:
- Understanding of Software Engineering, Computer Science and Agile/Scrum principles
- Experience of working in an Agile software development environment with CI, CD using Git, Bamboo/Jenkins and Scrum
- Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining CI tools such as Jenkins
- Understanding of containerization and virtualization concepts
- Hands-on experience using Docker, LXC, LXD, KVM, VMWare
- Exposure to configuration management tools such as Ansible
- Knowledge of a general purpose programming language such as Java or Golang
- Understanding of Object Oriented Programming concepts
- Experience using the APIs of Atlassian products: Bitbucket Server, Jira, Confluence
- Experience building and supporting highly available and scalable infrastructure

Project Description:
You will be part of a multi-national team responsible with the development of the next generation solution for Data Center networking that simplifies configuration of network devices by implementing an SDN (Software-Defined Networking) controller.
The solution targets Data Centers of large organizations, including private/hybrid/public cloud environments. It is addressing the needs of users requiring an easier option than switch-by-switch, CLI-based approaches and can automate time consuming tasks.
The controller uses microservice architecture, the components will communicate via REST APIs and will also provide a user-friendly web-based user interface on the front-end.

We are looking for a DevOps engineer to join our team. The product is at the beginning of it's lifecycle, and we are streamlining the DevOps processes in order to sustain the growth of the development effort.
This covers the areas of Configuration Management, Source Code Management, build and Continuous Integration, Artifact Management, Orchestration and Deployment.
You will have the opportunity to work with the latest technologies in the industry, be involved in selecting the right tools, and contribute to defining the processes.
Part of the technology stack used is Ansible, LXC/LXD and Jenkins.
Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include:
- Work effectively with several agile teams to define the CI/CD processes according to their requirements
- Automate the provisioning of new development and test environments: hardware servers, VMs and containers
- Automate end-to-end system builds and deployments
- Automate integration with 3rd party tools
- Periodically monitoring of CI/CD infrastructure, report issues and statuses, deal with space and performance
- Keeping documentation of the infrastructure environment up to date