DevOPS/Cloud Engineer RQ08613 Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery former MGCS

DevOps Engineer: 1 Role

Responsibilities:

1. Design, build and support cloud environments to create medium to high sensitive digital products with a focus on quality, security, reliability, scalability and application of the industry best practices.
2. Monitor and assess the performance of applications in a cloud environment to ensure solutions are available.
3. Create, test and implement safeguards to maintain data integrity and protect against unauthorized access.
4. Develop and maintain various CI/CD pipelines for the digital products.
5. Provide production support for the digital products, produce Root Cause Analysis (RCA) report and conduct the postmortem for production incidents.
6. Work with partners to establish relationship with their security, operations, and IT teams.
7. Team player with strong communication skills to collaborate and work within a multi-disciplinary team.
8. Comfortable leading discussions and selling your ideas to technical and non-technical colleagues and senior management.

General Skills:

1. Experience in one of the leading cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, etc.
2. Experience in maintaining complex Linux cloud environments, like CentOS, Ubuntu, or CoreOS, to support modern web technologies, APIs and legacy SOAP.
3. Experience setting up development environments and mechanism using tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Maven and Jenkins or similar tools.
4. Experience in scripting languages like Python, Bash, PHP, Java, JavaScript, Node, etc.
5. Experience in build tools - Git, Ansible and Terraform, and how they can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
6. Knowledge of container-based virtualization technology like Docker, OCI, Podman etc.
7. Integration experience in building and using APIs e.g. Azure API Manager, IBM Connect etc.
8. Experience applying industry web, architectural and security standards and best practices.
9. Experience in mobile device management for various versions of cellular and tablets.
10. Experience in configuring logging, metrics, and monitoring stack. Eg. Prometheus/Grafana/ Log Analytics.
11. Experience in provisioning and maintaining SQL databases.

Experience Requirements

Technical Knowledge and Skills - 60%

• Seasoned Azure Cloud expert.
• Experience in Kubernetes production environment.
• Familiar with container-based virtualization technology like Docker, OCI, Podman, etc.
• Knowledge of DevOps tools and techniques and in-depth technical knowledge of system architectures including technical, data, application and network architectures.
• Experience implementing software engineering practices for full software development life cycles (SDLC), including coding standards, code reviews, source code management, build processes, and testing.
• Experience working independently with high-level direction to build and maintain complex cloud environments - Linux VMs and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Experience in configuring logging, metrics, and monitoring stack. Eg. Prometheus/Grafana/ Log Analytics.
• Experience with scripting languages like Python and Bash.
• Experience in build tools - Ansible and Terraform, and how they can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Integration experience using and building APIs e.g. Azure API Manager, IBM Connect etc.
• Worked with relational and non-relational databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL and MySQL.
• Hands on experience writing Kubernetes configuration deployments using (Kustomize/Helm/deployment configs).

Digital Credentials and Trust Services - 10%

• Demonstrated experience with implementing (deployment and configuration) Hyperledger Aries suite of tools and products, including ACA-Py, Mediator, Indy Registry Nodes, etc.
• Has demonstrated understanding and experience with operating and supporting a Hyperledger Aries/Indy environment in an enterprise cloud-based deployment.
• Has experience working with related Open-Source community.

Design, Architecture, Standards and Best Practices - 20%

• Experience in micro service design and implementation of IT solutions from the architectural design.
• Understanding of modern architectural principles for cloud-based solutions.
• Proven experience designing modern architectural patterns to support delivery of complex IT solutions that are reliable, secure, responsive and scalable.
• Experience applying industry cloud and security standards and best practices to your work that can be adopted by others.
• Implemented, and maintained DevOps continuous delivery pipelines to manage from build to deployment and cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as code practices.
• Knowledge of common authentication technologies, security controls, and standard application security tools.
• Experience in securing environments using offensive and defensive approaches.

Leadership & methodologies - 10%

• Experience on a build/run team using agile methods such as understanding of product backlog in sprint planning, experience participating in scrum ceremonies, etc.
• Experience collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team.
• Comfortable participating in design sprints and bringing your product and technical ideas to the wider team.

Closing Time/Date: 2025-01-29, 4:00 p.m. EST

Max submission: 1 (one)

Hybrid: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote

Must Haves:

• Seasoned Azure Cloud expert.
• Experience in Kubernetes production environment (AKS).
• Familiar with container-based virtualization technology like Docker, OCI, Podman, etc.
• Experience working independently with high-level direction to build and maintain complex cloud environments - Linux VMs and Kubernetes/OpenShift.
• Integration experience using and building APIs e.g. Azure API Manager, IBM Connect etc.
• Automation experience within Azure DevOps environment.
• Experience with DevSec Ops - security.
• Experience in build tools - Ansible and Terraform, and how they can be integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

Nice to have:

Prior OPS / Public Sector experience.