technical architect – devops

Reference: TQ2122_2135_06
Vacancy: 3
Job title: Technical Architect – DevOps
Location: Leicester

Job Purpose:

TESTQ Technologies is an IT services and solutions company whose offerings spans over variety of industry sectors with strong technical, domain and process expertise helping clients grow their businesses and decrease operational costs on continuous basis in an ever-changing business environment.
This opportunity is in the solution design and development arena for Technical Architect – DevOps who will play a major role with the technical design and development of company’s technical offerings. The role is based at our Leicester office with occasional assignments at client locations.

Job Description (Main Duties and Responsibilities):

• You will work with/lead a team of outstanding software engineers to help build, test, and maintain the infrastructure and tools to allow for the speedy development and release of the software.
• Ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats.
• Work with technical teams of test leads, and DevOps colleagues on ways to automate and improve development and release processes to create the best solutions and to ensure the smooth transition from development through to production.
• Take responsibility for the support of the applications you build, including occasional support outside of office hours.
• Responsible for understanding your own work area, be able to quickly get up to speed with issues.
• Engage with the technical team to ensure designs are appropriate and then ensure those designs are implemented by the team.
• Ensure the team is producing high quality, well-tested software that conforms to all technical guidance and standards.
• Ensure any reusable DevOps products created and any innovative work done within the team is communicated.
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team of developers and non-developers.
• Be involved in some of organisation-wide tasks like recruitment process, presales, technical support, and process improvement programs.
• Be involved in identifying technical problems and developing software updates and ‘fixes’
• Professional abilities to build scalable robust and reliable IT and project infrastructures for the clients/organisation.
• Be involved in building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure.
• Be involved in testing and examining code written by others and analysing results.
• Develops and maintains mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems.
• Implements streaming analysis algorithms to generate question focused data sets (QFDs).
• Provides direct and responsive support for urgent analytic needs.
• Participates in architecture and software development activities.
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow.
• Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
• Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered.
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Experience with or knowledge of Agile Software Development methodologies

Key Skills, Qualifications and Experience Needed [The candidate must demonstrate these in all stages of assessment]
• Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
• Familiarity with agile software development in Go, C/C++, Java, JavaScript
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
• Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python
• Experience working on Linux based infrastructure.
• Experience working on Application Deployment tools: Docker, Ansible, Monitor Applications (Nagios)
• Experience working on Source Code Management: Git/CVS/Mercurial
• Excellent understanding of Ruby, Python, Perl, and Java
• Configuration and managing databases such as MySQL, Mongo.
• Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services (AWS)
• Awareness of critical concepts in DevOps and Agile principles
The candidate with Bachelor's degree or above in the UK or Equivalent would be preferred. 

Other Key skills:

• Good analytical and Problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills
• A thorough approach and Self starter
• Focus on quality and delivery 
• Working together in teams
• Leadership and effective decision making
• Flexible Attitude

Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or above in the UK or Equivalent.
Salary: £25620 - £36600 per annum
Published Date: 11 Jan 2021
Closing Date: 10 Feb 2021
Evaluation: CV Review, Technical Test, Personal and Technical Interview and References
Job Type: Full-time, Permanent [Part time and Fixed Term option is available]
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