Job description

DevOps Engineer – Daily Rate Contract – Flexible WFH Options in Ireland

**Candidates must be based in Ireland - Sponsorship will not be provided by our client**

Stelfox is partnered with a global client looking to hire a DevOps Engineer, who is open to daily rate contract work. Our client is a market leader in IT security & networking products who are looking for a contractor to work in a key area of their Irish operation, facilitating DevOps best practices, building/ configuring/ securing infrastructure and cloud components through Infrastructure as Code.

What's in it for you:

Excellent quality of work.
Working with highly successful teams, developing & enhancing market leading products.
Very flexible working model, no on-call required.
Daily rates - €500-€550 per day
Initial 12 month rolling contract on offer - Long-term opportunities for renewal past initial term.
Very strong pipeline of work in a growing/ expanding global operation.

Responsibilities:

Contribute as a DevOps team member focused on modernization and automation specific to containerization and public cloud/on-prem infrastructure-related technologies.
Design and implement orchestration/workflows that integrate multiple services to provide self-service fully automated services.
Be responsible for working on building, automating, and supporting application and infrastructure deployment services.
Identify and implement process improvements and documentation.
Develop and document operations and run playbooks.
Guide and mentor teammates from a technical perspective
Own your projects from definition to deployment, and be responsible for the quality of everything you deliver.

Required qualifications/ experience:

BS or Associate's Degree/Technical Certification or equivalent job experience required.
4+ years of experience using tools/technologies to develop infrastructure as code (IAC) such as Terraform, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Azure Resource Manager, AWS CloudFormation, GCP Cloud Deployment Manager, etc.
4+ years of experience using or integrating CI/CD technologies such as GitHub, Gitlab, Jenkins.
3+ years of experience working with Kubernetes, docker and/or other container-related technologies.

Nice to haves:

Experience in system administration for OS (Linux, Windows) and/or middleware (web servers, application servers, database) etc.
Experience with scripting tools such as Bash, Python, Go, PowerShell.
Experience with one or more Public Cloud Providers (Google, Amazon, Azure).
Experience with on-premise infrastructure is nice to have.
Working knowledge of Google Suite Tools, Atlassian Confluence, and JIRA.
Cloud or other relevant technical certifications.

New requirement - Apply for immediate consideration

If you are interested in hearing more please apply, email ryan@stelfox(dot)com or call 01-6348229 to discuss in strict confidence

Please note:

We have a number of similar positions currently, and in the future, which we would like to discuss with you should you indicate your interest in this role. When we receive your application for this role, we will contact you to advise you of our process for other similar positions.

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We look forward to working with you.