Position: Senior DevOps Engineer (Azure/Terraform)
Company: Intellias
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2020-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

The company is the 'Michelin star' of the legal world, and law firms invest considerable time trying to be ranked. The customer has 350 staff based in London, of which 250 are researchers, who are experts in given jurisdictions and practices areas. The company is around 30 years old, in 2018 it was purchased by a private equity house with a view to modernizing and growing the business substantially. And that foresees digital transformation of all the corporate processes and flows, which will be our main goal for both in short and in long term perspective.
Customer's strategy is to transform from being a print-based publishing business, with advertising as prime revenue, to an online subscription business with data insight, ranking directories and differentiated content at its core. This means moving from a largely anonymous audience to one that is known, and thus building strategic customer platforms and products of the future.
As a a DevOps Engineer your goal will be
To establish DevOps best practices and help the teams building scalable and efficient services in a cloud environment;
To provide wider support across infrastructure and application initiatives.
To proactively improve the infrastructure by establishing configuration management, cost optimization and automating the provisioning of the infrastructure through continues integration.
To assist the Development teams in DevOps best practices and achieve a continuously deployable system.

Requirements:
Experience designing, building and implementing continuous integration pipelines using Azure/Terraform DevOps, Teamcity or similar
Solid experience with the Microsoft Azure cloud environment
Experience with architectural design, cloud-based deployment, configuration, administration and troubleshooting
Experience with industry-standard tools for infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, visualization, and alerting
Experience with Docker
Proficient automation skills using a combination of scripting and third-party tools
Experience with build technologies, such as npm, Nuget and infrastructure as a code using Terraform
Experience with development. Experience with Python or JavaScript is a bonus
Experience working in cross-functional engineering teams
Excellent knowledge of server and network infrastructure
Knowledge of information security practices
Strong analytical skills, attention to detail and excellent problem solving/troubleshooting
Highly driven, positive attitude, team player, self-motivated and very flexible
Prioritization skills to handle fast passed dynamic environment
Experience working with Agile teams and SCRUM process in a faced paced environment
Upper-intermediate level of English, well-developed communication skills.
Nice to have:
Exposure with Kubernetes or Azure Service Fabric.

Responsibilities:
Improve cost efficiency of the cloud infrastructure by introducing cloud best practices and right scaling the environments
Improve and own the automation of the infrastructure through CI/CD pipeline
Implement and improve monitoring and alerting
Ensure all the services are tagged and naming convention is consistent across the cloud infrastructure.
Assist the development teams by building scalable and highly available systems
Write and review code, develop documentation and capacity plans and debug problems on live and development systems
Ensure problem mgmt. processes are followed as applicable, supporting this by providing information to identify, prevent or resolve ongoing or potential issues
Maintain a level of technical competence, keeping abreast of new technologies and developing skills to remain effective in the role
Contribute/lead continuous improvement of end user computing
Contribute to the team’s ability to make and deliver on their commitments
Technology Stack and Methodology includes:

Microsoft Azure cloud
Azure DevOps, Teamcity
Terraform
Docker, Kubernetes or Azure Service Fabric