8+ years' experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
Proven ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision. Someone with drive to actively pull work and deliver.
Experience operating within large enterprise environments.
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
Experience delivering large-scale transformation and migration projects.
Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration.
Strong Unix/Linux troubleshooting and support experience.
On-premises infrastructure experience.
Understanding of server lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and operational support.
Experience working closely with Unix, Middleware, Database, Network, and Security teams.
Strong Bash scripting capability.
Strong Python development and automation skills.
Experience automating operational, deployment, and infrastructure processes.
Configuration management and infrastructure automation experience.
Significant experience with:
Designing, supporting, and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
Implementing DevOps best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Source code management and branching strategy expertise.
Troubleshooting & Operations
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
Experience supporting production and non-production environments.
Ability to identify root causes and drive issues through to resolution.
Experience supporting engineering teams with build, deployment, and platform-related issues.
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
Access control, authentication and authorisation, e.g. PAM and IDAM
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
Automation and platform provisioning expertise.
Networking & Security Concepts
Good understanding of relational databases.
Oracle administration or support experience highly desirable.
Ability to troubleshoot connectivity and performance issues.
Monitoring & Observability
Monitoring platforms e.g. DataDog
Performance analysis and troubleshooting
Understanding of observability principles.
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Transformation & Migration Experience
Experience delivering one or more of the following:
Red Hat/Linux migration programmes.
Platform modernisation initiatives.
CI/CD tooling migrations.
DevOps transformation projects.
Enterprise infrastructure upgrade programmes.
Data centre migration projects.
Examples relevant to your environment:
Jenkins to GitLab migration.
Nexus to Artifactory migration.
Vault platform migration.
Legacy platform modernisation.
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Tooling Experience (Highly Desirable)
Experience with some or all of:
Artifact & Package Management
HashiCorp Vault or equivalent enterprise vault technologies
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Preferred but not essential:
Candidates should understand:
Change management processes
Audit and compliance requirements
High availability and resilience requirements
