Devops Engineer

Manpower Malta is currently seeking a DevOps Engineer for our client. Forming part of the Software Delivery team, the role of the DevOps Engineer is to build, test, and maintain infrastructure and tools to speed up and automate aspects of developing, testing and releasing software, allowing for the continuous delivery of software.

Key Accountabilities / Key Activities:

• Continue to build our portfolio of DevOps processes, practices and tools to empower and support software delivery teams
• Work side by side with software developers to develop and deploy automated test scripts within our CI/CD pipeline
• Ensure availability, scalability and monitoring of critical systems and applications
• Maintain and improve the DevOps infrastructure/tooling suite.
• Monitor, maintain and improve the governance of existing databases (Oracle / MySQL / MSSQL).

Behaviour and Competencies:

• Ability to analyse and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements and develop solutions
• Strong planning and prioritisation skills
• Strong creativity, problems solving skills and ability to apply original thinking to produce new ideas and innovative solutions
• Strong collaboration skills that enable coordination of activities between technical teams
• Willingness to track, assess and incorporate practices and technology developments into day-to-day working
• Ability to acquire new knowledge and learn new skills rapidly

Credentials & Experience:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar position.
• Previous experience in designing, developing, testing and deploying DevOps toolchains to support continuous integration and delivery using a variety of technologies
• Experience with different operating systems, especially Linux
• Experience with virtualisation and orchestration technologies, such as VMWare, Open Stack, Docker Swarm and Kubernetes
• Experience in building and maintaining workflows on a variety of systems, mainly GitLab CI pipelines
• Experience in working with RDBMS such as Oracle, MYSQL, PostgreSQL & MSSQL and will be considered as an asset.
• Object oriented programming and scripting experience will be considered an asset