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DevOps is a key position within the Technology, Infrastructure, and Operations group. The incumbent in this role will play a critical part in developing a Centre of Excellence responsible for delivering shared solutions for infrastructure operations across our estate. To fill this role successfully, the candidate will need a strong background in cloud technologies, DevOps, and infrastructure automation, as well as a deep understanding of a broad set of modern scripting and OO programming languages. AWS skills are a big plus.
In addition to the technical skills required in this position, a well-developed sense for working with people is important. As a member of the DevOps team, you’ll be working with a broad swathe of contributors across Elsevier’s Technology organization, as well as a number of key folks in our vendors’ services and technologies teams. Importantly, we’re looking for an evangelist, a leader, a partner, and a teammate. A person that can talk the talk and walk the walk. The formal part of the description is below.
Responsibilities (fancy words describing SRE/DevOps things you’ll need to be good at):
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DevOps is a key position within the Technology, Infrastructure, and Operations group. The incumbent in this role will play a critical part in developing a Centre of Excellence responsible for delivering shared solutions for infrastructure operations across our estate. To fill this role successfully, the candidate will need a strong background in cloud technologies, DevOps, and infrastructure automation, as well as a deep understanding of a broad set of modern scripting and OO programming languages. AWS skills are a big plus.
In addition to the technical skills required in this position, a well-developed sense for working with people is important. As a member of the DevOps team, you’ll be working with a broad swathe of contributors across Elsevier’s Technology organization, as well as a number of key folks in our vendors’ services and technologies teams. Importantly, we’re looking for an evangelist, a leader, a partner, and a teammate. A person that can talk the talk and walk the walk. The formal part of the description is below.
Responsibilities (fancy words describing SRE/DevOps things you’ll need to be good at):
- Provide hands-on technical direction to support the team and support the growth and development of the team.
- Pair strategic objectives with the professional growth plans of your team members.
- Serve as a key interface with the various technology organizations.
- Remove impediments, provide support, and generally being a good leader for those around you.
- Ensure optimal construction and implementation of CI/CD pipelines.
- Build automation supporting the effective management and consumption of cloud resources.
- Design and author soft infrastructure assets using IaC best practices.
- Collaborate effectively within agile dev squads delivering continuous improvements in customer outcomes.
- Provide effective solutions through the applied integration of infrastructure, software, and software delivery best practices.
- Operate and maintain software systems across the full breadth of the SDLC.
- 5+ years DevOps experience in large, multi-product environments.
- 5+ years using modern scripting and OO programming languages as a contributing member within an agile dev squad.
- 3+ years authoring CI/CD pipelines, automation elements related to infrastructure composition, deployment orchestration, and monitoring.
- 3+ years mentoring /guiding/leading people.
- Experience in AWS Architecture ideally with an accreditation.
- Experience using Terraform as an AWS automation technology.
- Experience deploying configuration management via Puppet.
- Experience with Kubernetes and containerization of applications.
- Experience running and managing big data systems like SOLR, ElasticSearch and Neo4J.
- Comfortable presenting and communicating ideas to key stakeholders and engineers alike.
- Experience of cloud migration activities either Public or Private.
- Hands on experience of implementing infrastructure and service based monitoring solutions.
- A good understanding of the security controls required to host applications and services in the cloud.
- A good understanding of release management techniques within a cloud hosted environment.
- Source code version control systems, e.g. GitHub.
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