DevOps Infrastructure Consultant

12 month daily rate contract for a DevOps Infrastructure Architect who would be responsible for the development and testing of software defined infrastructure solutions - the design, development and delivery of software enabled and controlled infrastructure elements.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop, support, and improve tools for continuous integration, automated testing and release management.
• Strong knowledge of networks, compute, cloud, virtualization, network infrastructure, telecom networks, circuits, datacentre technologies and best practices.
• Delivery on Service Level Agreements and maintaining solution performance and operation for all software defined infrastructure services.
• Internal and external infrastructure virtualization as well as the latest monitoring techniques.
• Utilize various open-source technologies.
• Use various tools to orchestrate solutions.
• Build independent web-based tools, micro-services and solutions.
• Provide support and training for developers, quality engineers, system engineers, and project/product managers.

Experience Required

• Fluent in at least one Scripting language, preferably Terraform, PowerShell, ARM, python. SHELL or Perl are acceptable
• Proficient in C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Perl or Python, SQL a bonus
• Proficient in different application stack architectures and environments
• Experience with source control management systems and continuous integration/deployment environments
• Experience with automated testing
• Experience with agile development methodologies including Kanban and Scrum
• Experience with multi-threading and concurrency
• Experience with debugging, performance profiling and optimization
• Comprehensive understanding of object-oriented and service-oriented application development techniques and theories
• Experience working across large infrastructure environments and distributed across multiple data centres
• At least moderate UNIX skills

Maintains proficiency in these key areas:

• Cloud Technologies.


• Hardware Architecture (performance testing, monitoring, operations)


• Hardware Benchmarking (Agile, program managements, network management)


• Design (compliance, security)


• Network Engineering (planning, provision)


• Proficiency in more than one specific infrastructure technology

Essential and Desirable Skills

• UNIX
• Windows
• Perl
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Kubernetes

Educational Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or MS in Engineering or equivalent