This position will cover:

• Help in taking care of the customer landscape by investigating issues.
• Implement metrics inside applications for improvement of the application monitoring
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Discuss/propose/review improvements with the application teams with regards to logging, performance, security.
• Automate the deployment pipeline, prepare development infrastructure for continuous delivery/deployment.
• Work across projects to perform deployments towards Dev/Test/UAT/Production
• Perform system and integration tests on the different environments
• Tackle technical impediments that are prohibiting some teams from continuing their development (like setting up local virtual machines using Vagrant/Docker, solving issues with Git flows )
• Create Jenkins jobs, write Ansible playbooks and scripts to automate manual processes and to monitor systems, applications, endpoints,…
• Work closely with Central IT and Developers and may need to help to solve traditional IT issues (network, database …) and act as a bridge between the two departments.
• Making sure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows established processes and works as intended
• Will participate in technical meetings
  

Core Accountabilities:

• Experience with Java, Linux, Tomcat, Jenkins, SonarQube, Gitlab

• Experience in Oracle database is mandatory
• Experience in Agile Methodologies is mandatory
• Experience in scripting, specifically Groovy, Bash, Python & Perl
• Experience in automating system deployments, and operationalizing production systems through robust monitoring capability
• Experience with Service Orientated Architectures, microservice architectures, dockers, Kubernetes
• Experience in Ansible is mandatory

Essential qualities:

• Experience with Cloud solution
• Experience with using/scripting REST & similar APIs
• Experience with JSON data structures
• 3 years plus experience
• Team player
• Problem solving
• Eager to learn new technologies
• Solutions driven
• Pragmatic mindset
• Flexible mindset, keeping priorities of different teams in mind
• Adaptable to change in priorities
• Ability to take ownership and keep team informed
• Finds documentation important
• Ability to understand decisions although you are not in favor
• Good English language skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with Elk Stack (Logstash)
• Experience with Grafana
• Experience with monitoring tools Prometheus, Nagios, Icinga

• Experience with Atlassian Stack especially Jira & Confluence : ticketing and wiki

Desirable qualities:

• Degree level or equivalent
• International transport / Postal industry knowledge