🚀 DevOps Engineer (Network OS vendor)

Our team is developing a network operating system driving white box switches and routers. The NOS is deployed in on-premise cloud data centre environments of our enterprise and MSDC customers.

Required Qualifications

• Experience operating Linux servers (VMs) at system administrator level (preferably Debian family)
• Network Engineering – Ethernet/IP networking (CCNA or equivalent)
• Knowledge of virtualisation and containerisation (prepare QEMU/KVM VM config, package apps in Docker containers)
• Bash and Python scripting (able to automate tasks with scripts, know how to write a script from scratch, able to interpret and change existing scripts ~10k lines or more)
• SCM (Git) and Git Flow knowledge: branching, rebasing, merge requests

What you will be doing

• Develop and operate software solutions and CI/CD infrastructure used by the software development team, consisting of the following services:
• SSO (self-hosted)
• Corporate VPN (for example, Wireguard, OpenConnect)
• GitLab (self-hosted)
• Build servers: Debian Linux VMs with Docker containers
• Jenkins CI containerised in dedicated Debian VMs
• Mattermost (self-hosted)
• Various nginx based servers in a reverse proxy capacity (alternatively — traefik or Caddy instances)
• ELK stack for centralised log collection and analytics
• Grafana monitoring instance
• JIRA cloud-hosted instance
• Vault by Hashicorp
• Micro API services based on Django or Flask frameworks (typically utilised for runtime state storage for internal services and CI/CD pipelines)
• NetBox IPAM

Game Changing Skills

• Experience with the ELK software stack
• Experience designing pipelines-as-code in Jenkins CI (CloudBees)
• Experience writing scripts in Apache Groovy DSL
• Experience of building service APIs based on Django or Flask frameworks
• Experience writing complex Ansible playbooks (roles, templates with group and host variables, handlers, modules etc.)
• Experience with Python programming (classes, interfaces, decorators, multi-threading, debugging)
• Experience designing and operating a CI/CD DevOps environment
• Extensive experience working with Git SCMs (Git, Gitea, GitLab)

The client can sponsor work visas for Dubai or the role can be based remotely in your home country.

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