Who We Are:
At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to create a connected world where customers can trade successfully and make informed decisions in every port, everywhere. We achieve this by combining our worldwide infrastructure with local expertise, through our global network of more than 250 proprietary offices and a team of over 3,000 dedicated professionals. Our diverse customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors, as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organisations.
Role Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join the team. In this role, you will play a key part in embedding continuous quality into the software development lifecycle, with a focus on minimizing defects through strict adherence to shift-left QA principles and shift-right production testing. Leveraging your expertise in automation, you'll drive efficiency and recommend improvements, including cost optimization strategies to enhance overall performance and delivery.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: London, Fenchurch Street (Hybrid)
Salary: £55,000 to £60,000 per annum
In line with company policy, Inchcape does not provide visa sponsorship for candidates and cannot consider applicants who will require this now or in the future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and understand ISS enterprise IT and applications architecture, product management and product delivery frameworks.
- Implement, transition and scale AWS environments with IAC and terraform.
- Review and understand product specific architecture, design, and technology stack, define and setup development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations.
- Implement best practices across environments and CI process.
- Configure DevOps tools and monitoring for automation and observability monitoring.
- Site Reliability Engineering, implement processes for analysis and troubleshooting, monitor environments focusing on performance and availability.
- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline.
- Incident, Problem and Change Management and root cause analysis.
- Coordination and communication within the team and with product stakeholders.
- Mentoring and guiding the team members.
- Ownership of DevOps projects and BAU.
- Monitoring and measuring user experience and product KPIs.
- Flexible working providing support out of hours if required.
Candidate Requirements:
Knowledge -
- Agile practitioner with great experience in using tools like Jira, Confluence
- Expert level knowledge of DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Sonar Cube, Team City, Testrail and Ansible
- Expert level knowledge of telemetry and observability platforms like ELK stack, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch and any other APM tool
- Database technologies preferably RDS Postgres, Aurora, and MongoDB
- Infrastructure as code focused in Terraform
- Expertise in one or more technologies: XML, JSON, YAML
- Pipeline as code
- Rabbit MQ or AWS MQ
- AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc
- C#, .NET, NodeJS, Web API web experience
- Scripting languages preferably python, PowerShell
- Understanding of SDLC, ITIL processes beneficial
Skills -
- Effective verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skills
- Strong collaborative and partner approach working with global teams
- Software engineering skills with high tech resilience
- Agile development methodologies
- DevOps mindset and Live site first approach
Education, Qualifications and Experience -
- 6+ years of experience in AWS and DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline and all the DevOps phases
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification or Sysops/Devops
- Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible
- Experience in coding and scripting solutions such as bash, python and power shell
- Experience in building containerization using Kubernetes or ECS with Docker
- Excellent knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems
You will receive:
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Employee discount scheme for retail/travel/leisure
- Life assurance cover
- Remote GP and second medical opinion service which gives you, and your family members that live in the same household, timely access to medical advice 24/7, 365 days a year
- Contributory company pension scheme
- Values Award celebration events
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Team building days
Plus, much more!
Why Inchcape Shipping Services?
We believe in building a diverse and high-performing workforce, that works together to provide our customers with the exceptional service they deserve. To reach the highest standards we depend on our people, their welfare, training, and expertise. We realise the value of our staff and know that your unique experiences, skills, and passions will help you to build a rich and rewarding career in our dynamic industry.
Our values are at the centre of everything we do, and the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate and fully adopt these:
Global Perspective - we connect the world and see the bigger picture.
The Power of People - we rely on the strength of local agent knowledge and relationships.
Progress - we adopt new thinking and push for positive change in our industry.
Inchcape is an Equal Opportunities Employer - equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. Working in a diverse society, we recognise that our customers, colleagues, and contractors are central to our success.
Additional Information:
Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work documentation depending upon your geographical location.
To protect the interests of all parties, Inchcape will not accept unsolicited or speculative resumes from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any fees associated with them.
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