DEVOPS SPECIALIST - #10523313

Job Purpose

Reporting to the IT Cloud Engineering Lead in Explora Journeys, our recently launched Luxury Cruises line of MSC, the DevOps specialist primary tasks will involve automating large-scale infrastructures, optimizing application deployment processes, and implementing data gathering and monitoring solutions to enhance our services performance and reliability.

Key Accountabilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automation mechanisms and test execution for a large, multi-cloud environment, with a strong emphasis on automating testing processes to ensure software quality.
• Integrate and improve business-specific applications in Explora Journey's infrastructure, employing advanced automated testing strategies to validate application functionality and performance.
• Collaborate with Explora Journeys' architects, operations, and developments teams
• Design and implement infrastructures and applications CI/CD pipelines, including comprehensive automated testing stages to ensure continuous integration and delivery with high reliability and efficiency.
• Operates the infrastructure and application monitoring platforms utilizing automated testing tools to proactively identify and address potential issues.
  
  

Qualifications

General

• 2-4 years of experience in Dev/Ops or SRE
• A bachelor's degree in information technologies or equivalent work experience
• Experience working within Kanban and Agile methodologies as a team member
• Fluent in English, spoken and written; Any other language is an asset
  
  

Infrastructures & platforms

• Proven experience with public cloud infrastructures usage; AWS preferred
• Proven experience with GNU/Linux (RHEL or Debian) usage and administration
• Experience with auto-scaling mechanisms
• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem
• Distributions: EKS (cloud), vanilla (on-premises), and EKS anywhere (on-premises)
• Knowledge in different interfaces plugins (CRI, CNI, CSI, etc.) is an asset
  
  

Tools and methodologies

• Proven experience with GitOps concepts, methodologies, and tools; Ansible, Terraform and ArgoCD preferred
• Ansible: Experience in Python modules development is an asset
• Terraform: Experience with Terragrunt and Go modules development is an asset
• Experience working with GNU/Linux environment and tools
  
  

Development

• Proven experience with Python and Unix shell scripting; Any other language is an asset
• Experience in container files development
• Knowledge in Java development is an asset
• Knowledge in designing and developing serverless applications is an asset
  
  

Monitoring and security

• Knowledge in monitoring & data analysis is an asset; Splunk and Elasticsearch preferred
  
  

Visa Requirements

• Right to work in Italy