DevOps Engineer - Cloud Engineering (R&D)

We strive to give our customers solutions that cover their needs now and into the future. To achieve that, we go the extra mile in terms of service, availability, and commitment. That’s why #WeAreChallengers. We’ve been continuously challenging the boundaries of business technology. Although that technology has changed over time, our singular focus on our customers and our employees has not. We are already outpacing the market by growing three times as fast as our competitors and need talented people to help us on our journey. 

We're on the lookout for dynamic, experienced tech enthusiasts to join our growing R&D - Cloud Engineering team.  

DevOps engineers are the ones that ensure that what we develop at IFS R&D can also run effectively in production and at the same time drive automation of processes spanning from framework development to customer deployment. 

A DevOps Engineer will take the lead in designing, developing, deploying and maintaining new and existing tooling/automation solutions to enable IFS to further drive the reliability and efficiency of its operation platforms. A DevOps Engineer at IFS is a driver of further automation in the area in which the person is working and ensures continued robustness of the team’s daily operations. This work is focused on ensuring that continuous integration, testing, and deployment is facilitated through the use of industry DevOps best-practices and tools. 

A DevOps Engineer uses their technical know-how to support the entire IFS organization to develop services in such a way that they always can be deployed and tested with a high degree of automation. They demonstrate a strong commitment to the service and process quality and take proactive action to prevent issues from arising and resolve them quickly and effectively when they still do occur. 

Duties and Accountabilities

• Identify opportunities for new or enhanced automations to drive efficiencies within the organization, producing designs and plans to address those opportunities 

• Drive the maintenance and expansion of existing automations and related processes in the organization. 

• Create documentation, presentation, and training material 

• Engage with relevant stakeholders 

• Share knowledge, guide, and train colleagues 

• Contribute to activities related to market research and competitive analysis 

• Demonstrable enterprise level knowledge in 

  • CICD Experience (GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, Bamboo) 

  • Container orchestration (K8s, helm) 

  • Infra as Code / Config. Mgmt (terraform, ansible) 

  • Containerization (Docker) 

  • Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, GoLang) 

  • Working with cloud-based infrastructure in Azure (specifically AKS), AWS or GCP 

• 3+ years of knowledge in Linux/Unix/Windows.
• Should be a good communicator, competent in effectively communicating with all technical and nontechnical teams.
• A natural desire to discover and learn new technologies & processes. Proactively taking initiative & responsibility.
• Should be a strong team player, self-driven & have experience working with a geographically dispersed team.
• Willingness to accept challenges and show a high level of enthusiasm.
• Quality assurance experience; Testing, Automation, and Test data management skills.
• A University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software/system engineering, is essential. 

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible. 

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.