Operations Engineer

• Reading
• Permanent
• GBP 40,000.00 to GBP 46,500.00
• Mid
• IT, Development & Engineering role within the Computer Software / SaaS industry

Job Description:

The Role

The DevOps Engineer within R&D is responsible for technical contributions supporting teams of Software Engineers, with the goal of excellent project deliveries to time and quality.

The Engineering Services team within R&D provide agile operational services to all software delivery teams. They build and maintain hardware and software infrastructure for critical engineering services such as issue and task tracking, software configuration management, build and test systems. Their goal is to ever improve engineering practices and efficiencies for all R&D, via the maintenance and enhancement of key engineering resources and the intelligent automation of build and quality processes in a Continuous Deployment environment.

Key Responsibilities

· Providing excellent technical contributions

Solid technical experience is required to analyse, design and implement model software solutions that are maintainable and reusable

· Working with R&D to improve processes and adopting best practices

Reviewing successes and identifying issues to innovate process solutions and align best practices

· Active member of the team, in improving deliveries

A major contributor and shares in the initiatives and tasks required to achieve team goals

· Support creativity and innovation
Support a culture of creativity for growing innovation in software solutions and delivery

· Actively support cross team collaboration

In parallel with making goals and status visible, encourage the team to work together to achieve common goals as well as being proactive in providing excellent “customer service” across functional teams

Skills Profile

Essential

• Continuous Integration tools e.g. Jenkins
• Source Code Management and branching schemes e.g.GIT
• Build and test e.g. Ant, Maven, JSON, Groovy
• Jenkins 2.0 pipelines
• Configuration Management e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Continuous Delivery tools e.g. Nexus, Artifactory
• Quality tools and metrics
• Dashboarding, monitoring and alerting
• Intelligent build promotion
• R&D systems management and automation
• Issue Tracking e.g.Jira
• Virtual development and test environments – V Center / VMWare, HyperV
• VirtualBox,Vagrant
• Cloud services e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP Desired
• Development, integration and automation
• Bash,Python,Perl o HTML,PHP,SQL o Java,C++,C#,C
• Static Source Code Analysis e.g. Coverity, SonarQube or similar
• Code Coverage tools e.g. Bullseye, lcov/gcov
• Networking skills
• Disaster Recovery
• General knowledge of Devops principals

Personal Characteristics

• · Contributes to improvement in an evolving technical environment
• · Experience of software quality, test and development techniques (TDD, BDD, CI etc.)
• · Demonstrates good technical expertise
• · Clear and concise communication skills (verbal and written)
• · Presentation and collaboration skills
• · Understanding of Scrum framework and the complete software development lifecycle
• · Willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies

Other

• · Degree or equivalent experience:
• · Years of experience: 2+
• · Specialised training in: Continuous Delivery/Deployment
• · Scrum, Agile methodologies

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £40,000.00 to £46,500.00 /year

Application Questions

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• How many years of Operations Engineer experience do you have?
• How many years of Scrum, Agile methodologies experience do you have?
• How many years of software quality, test and development techniques experience do you have?
• Do you have the following licence or certification: legal to work in the UK?
• Are you in Reading?
• Do you speak Proficient English (Must)?