IT Infrastructure/DevOps Engineer Permanent

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains mission-critical information extraction, analysis, and management systems
• Provides direct and responsive support for urgent analytic needs
• Participates in architecture and software development design and implementation
• Translates loosely defined requirements into solutions
• Uses open source technologies and tools to accomplish specific use cases encountered within the project
• Uses coding languages or scripting methodologies to solve a problem with a custom workflow
• Collaborates with others on the project to brainstorm about the best way to tackle a complex technological infrastructure, security, or development problem.
• Performs incremental testing actions on code, processes, and deployments to identify ways to streamline execution and minimize errors encountered

Qualifications/Skills:

• 10+ years of IT consulting experience as a technical specialist in customer-facing roles.
• 5+ years design/implementation/consulting experience of distributed applications.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with a keen sense of customer service
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills
• Process-oriented with great documentation skills
• Strong hand-on experience in containerization
• Strong hand-on knowledge of programming and scripting languages for CI/CD pipeline and Infrastructure-as-a-Code (IaaS)
• Experience in using service catalog to automate self-service provisioning for large complex environment
• Experience with LDAP/Active Directory and SSO integration
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Good attention to detail
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, and the ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles.
• Bilingual in English and Mandarin to liaise with Mandarin speaking associates in view of business communications.

Education, Experience, and Certification Requirements:

• BS or Master in Computer Science, IT, IS, or equivalent areas
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as Git, Jira, GitLab, or Jenkins
• Familiarity with Terraform to provision Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with CI/CD integration.
• Familiarity with Docker and container orchestration services, especially Kubernetes
• Familiarity with any third party solution integration with Rest/Restful API, API Gateway, and GraphQL.
• Familiarity with agile software development in Go, C/C++, JavaScript
• Application modernization: hand-on experience in transforming monolithic applications into micro services using cloud native services on major cloud services providers.
• Great experience with significant hand-on track records in DevOps lifecycle development:

Planning: task management, schedules.

Coding: code development and review, source code management tools, code merging.

Building: continuous integration tools, version control tools, build status.

Testing: continuous testing tools that provide quick and timely feedback on business risks, performance measurement.

Packaging: artifact repository, application pre-deployment staging.

Releasing: change management, release approvals, release automation.

Operating: infrastructure installation, configuration and management, infrastructure changes (scalability), infrastructure as code tools, capacity planning, capacity & resource management, security check, service deployment, high availability (HA), data recovery, log/backup management, database management.

Monitoring: service performance monitoring, log monitoring, applications performance monitoring, end-user experience, incident management

• Significant experience with Windows and Linux operating system environments
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell or Python