Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer
Park Royal, London.

ITH Pharma specialises in the provision of Parenteral Nutrition, chemotherapy and CIVAS. Our team provides flexible services with batch and bespoke items for adults, paediatrics and neonates to both NHS and private hospitals. The successful candidate will be joining a forward-thinking organisation where sharing ideas and developing their people is how they have built their success.
We operate an in-house software development team to develop and maintain our in-house bespoke IT systems and further develop and innovate the systems we use.

We are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to further strengthen the team.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Documentation: Writes specifications and documentation for the server-side features in Confluence.
• Systems analysis: Analyses the technology currently being used and develops plans and processes for improvement and expansion. He can also provide support for urgent analytic needs.
• Development: Develops, codes, builds, installs, configures, and maintains IT solutions and Infrastructure as code (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Testing: Tests code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline and minimize errors using CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Deployment: Uses configuration management tools such as Ansible to automatically deploy updates and fixes into the production environment.
• Maintenance, troubleshooting: Perform routine application maintenance to ensure the production environment runs smoothly. Develops maintenance requirements and procedures.
• Monitoring and Observability: Monitors servers, applications and clusters for failures, system crashes and resource usage, etc using tools like Prometheus, Grafana or Elastic Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana).

FURTHER DUTIES WILL INCLUDE:

• Improve monitoring on our application servers which we are currently lacking.
• Re-implement high availability on database and tomcat to achieve continuous delivery with almost zero-downtime.
• Automate repeating tasks where necessary.
• Create an ideal dev/test environment.
• Manage AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Continuous release and deployment

BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCE

• BSc in Computer Science, IT, or equivalent area of technical study (IT experience can substitute for a degree)
• Excellent AWS experience is essential
• Familiarity with containers and container orchestration services, especially Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with agile software development
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Version Control Systems (SVN or Git), Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
• Experience in using configuration management, monitoring and logging tools such as Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana or Elastic Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana).
• Extensive experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as Linux and/or PowerShell
• Solid experience with cloud-solutions like AWS, GCP or Azure is a strong advantage
• Able to work individually or part of a team

In return you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, the role is based in North London and is based on a hybrid model with some remote working.
Please apply now enclosing a copy of your cv and salary expectations.