Job Description

Wood Mackenzie has an exciting opportunity for a skilled DevOps Engineer **** to join a dynamic global business to help drive change and innovation. We’re looking for skilled DevOps professionals to help us take our software build, test, and release pipelines to a new level to support a transition of our services to the cloud to ensure rapid release cycle using Continuous Integration and Delivery technologies.

Role Purpose

The principal responsibility of this role is to provide operational expertise within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team and work with the software engineering teams for releasing and maintaining new and existing applications. This encompasses:

• working in partnership with the business and the technology teams, bringing awareness and insight of the different operational constraints / opportunities for projects targeting cloud-based or on-premises deployment.
• design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud and on-prem environments.
• promotion of mutual feedback in cross-functional groups, following SRE best practices within a DevOps culture.
• ownership of continuous integration/delivery toolset or the processes and platforms that use those tools.
• a strong focus on service availability and proactive detection of problems.
• ability to articulate technical and business concepts to different audiences and be able to influence technical decisions with solid metrics collection and proof of concepts

Responsibilities:

• Work with cross-functional teams to design and support delivery pipelines to bring projects live in cloud-based and on-premises environments
• Provide added value to cross-functional teams by raising awareness of operational constraints and opportunities (i.e., auto-scaling, containerization)
• Ensure full coverage of the live environments from a monitoring, performance, and availability perspective, continuously identifying areas of improvement
• Actively participate in an on-call rotation schedule for after hours and weekend support
• Actively participate in team research & development to bring consistency and improve ease of access and maintenance for our tooling
• Work with a continuous improvement mindset, identifying operational processes that could be improved and drafting proposals

Qualifications

We understand every organization is different and professionals have their own unique history and experience, so we don’t expect to find a 100% match of candidate competencies in respect of the tech stack we use in Wood Mackenzie. We list our preferred technologies, but if you have transferrable knowledge and you are willing to learn what you do not know, we will consider your application.

Skill Requirements:

• 2-4 years’ experience with SRE/DevOps
• BS degree in IT/IS/CS or additional equivalent work experience
• Work in an Agile environment supporting multiple software engineering teams for product releases and monitoring/insight into issues.
• Experience of designing and deploying in the cloud (Amazon Web Services)
• Proficiency in Linux administration (RHEL/Ubuntu).
• A DevOps mindset: experience of agile processes (Kanban / Scrum) is important and familiarity with JIRA is very welcome
• Basic experience with Infrastructure as Code.
• Work in a cross-functional, multi-locational team.

Additional Preferred Skills:

• Basic experience with configuration management tools (Ansible/Salt Stack).
• Limited experience with programming / scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and PowerShell.
• Proficiency with command line tools to quickly triage and fix production issues.
• Team Leadership experience.
• Product Management experience.

Additional Information

Wood Mackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

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