Job Description

• Must have a minimum of 4 years of DevOps experience.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and tuning (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL).
• Design and lead implementation of CI/CD, automated testing, test-driven-development for software components.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and lead the implementation and maintenance of DevOps practices (continuous integration, continuous deployment, automated testing, test-driven-development) for software components.
• Design, develop and maintain resilient, secure, and efficient software driven infrastructure to meet telco-grade availability requirements.
• Monitor production platform availability, stability and performance and troubleshoot/fix issues; automate operations activities
• Manage the capacity of the development and production infrastructure supporting our software components
• Scale infrastructure to meet rapidly increasing demand
• Collaborate with developers to bring new features and services into production
• Develop and improve operational practices and procedures
• Develop an open source code collaboration strategy (Git, CI/CD) with other Bell development teams, 3rd party partners and open source initiatives to drive speed of development across cross-functional teams.
• Design, implement, test, integrate and document software components

Critical Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in IT, software engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of four (4) years of DevOps experience in highly complex environments.
• Extensive experience with Linux administration and tuning (Ubuntu, CentOS, RHEL).
• Proficiency in Shell and Python is a plus.
• Proficiency in building and running apps within Docker.
• Solid Java development & architecture background (Microservice architecture, Spring boot)
• Strong experience delivering and operating large, distributed, and resilient (micro-services) software systems in cloud environments such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm or Openshift.
• Strong experience in automation tools such as Helm and Ansible.
• Experience in CI/CD implementations (e.g. Gitlab, Jenkins) to develop the fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with monitoring software such as Zabbix, Grafana, ELK and Prometheus.
• Strong aptitude for innovation; can recognize opportunities for improvement in day-to-day work and take appropriate actions; ideally an enthusiastic individual who can act as a change agent
• Strong interpersonal, collaboration, oral and written communication skills;
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to conceptualize and think abstractly, and work and manage in a technically complex environment.

Preferred Competencies

• Experience delivering and operating services in virtual environments such as Openstack.
• Experience with Internet Protocols (IPv4, IPV6).
• Experience working in DevOps and Agile teams.
• Experience with telecom charging/rating architecture