Senior/Lead DevOps Engineer Offline

About the project: We are looking to expand our team with an experienced DevOps. Successful candidate will help our client with BAU and Project activities, working as DevOps in cooperation with Application Technology & Infrastructure teams to build and support complex IT infrastructure. Implementing best technology and service practices to achieve high availability and performance of related business applications.

About our team: Rapidly expanding group in Kyiv developing and supporting a range of client projects.

About working environment: Our team primary location is Kiev, working remotely in client environment. Currently the team operates fully in WFH mode.

Responsibilities:

- Provide system support to technology and business teams as needed during development, delivery, and design to guarantee robust, strong, scalable solutions.

- Manage installation and configuration, systems integration, job scheduling and security.

- Perform daily system monitoring: verifying the integrity and availability of all IT resources (servers, storage, networks and other Network connected devices, systems and key processes), reviewing system/application logs for errors, vulnerabilities, and improvements, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

- Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for system and database administration tasks; identify approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale.

- Provide Tier I/II/III support per request; perform troubleshooting and diagnostic tracing.

- Recover from hardware/software failures; coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.

- Maintain operational, configuration, or other process and procedures.

- Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.

- Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

- Adhere to/contribute to best practice standards, continuous improvement.

- Demonstrate leadership and positive attitude.

- Balance concurrent assignments.

- Extensive interaction with various IT Teams.

- Interaction with business users, 3rd-party vendors, and software maintenance support contractors.

- Provide inputs into IT hardware/software planning and End Of Life (EOL) support and the procurement process.

- Attend and participate in various IT meetings as scheduled and provide expert knowledge.

Mandatory Skills:

Ideal candidate should have:

- Excellent knowledge of Windows Server 2008 / 2012 / 2016 / 2019.

- Excellent knowledge of Windows OS tuning utilities and commands.

- Excellent knowledge of configuring Windows OS systems for optimal performance.

- Excellent knowledge of Windows clustering and high-availability solutions.

- Excellent knowledge of Anti-Virus software such as McAfee and Sophos.

- Excellent knowledge of Ivanti LANDESK and Symantec Altiris.

- Excellent knowledge of ThinPrint and EquiTrack (Follow-Me Printing).

- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos.

- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP Networking Protocols.

- Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.

- Excellent knowledge of container orchestration platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.

- Excellent knowledge of version control software such as GitHub and Subversion.

- Excellent knowledge of configuration management software such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and SaltStack.

- Excellent knowledge of "Infrastructure as Code" principles and practices.

- Excellent knowledge of continuous integration (CI) and continuous development (CD) principles and practices.

- Excellent knowledge of applications development using Agile, and DevOps best practices.

- Excellent knowledge of operating system security and auditing methods.

- Excellent knowledge of security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.

- Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.

- Excellent knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle

Nice-to-Have Skills:

- Good working knowledge of RedHat Enterprise Linux (6.x, 7.x, 8.x) and Solaris (10.x and 11.x).

- Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux OS tuning utilities and commands.

- Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux system internals and kernel tuning for optimal performance.

- Good working knowledge of ESX VMWare.

- Good working knowledge of Nutanix HCI.

- Good working knowledge of Rubrik.

- Good working knowledge of EMC, HDS and Pure storage arrays.

- Good working knowledge of Dell PowerEdge, IBM xSeries and Cisco UCS hardware.

- Good working knowledge of EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

- Good working knowledge of Infoblox DNS.

- Good working knowledge of Icinga 2 and OpManager.

- Good working knowledge of IBM Tivoli and Netcool.

- Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity.

- Good working knowledge of BMC Control-M.

- Good working knowledge of CyberArk.

- Good working knowledge of Splunk and IBM QRadar.

- Good working knowledge of Qualys.

- Good working knowledge of SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence.

- Good working knowledge of ServiceNow and Serena Business Manager.