Job Description

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Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

PE Positions: 12

Department: Technology (Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation)

Location: London/Manchester

Reports To: Lead DevOps Engineer

Direct Reports: n/a

Background: This is an exciting time to join Dentsu as we focus on becoming a 100% digital economy business through content, media and commerce. We are well placed to build capability, scale and sustainable

growth as a high performance business. Our strategy is driven by our unique culture with one vision (to innovate the way brands are built), one set of values and a unique operating model which

drives collaboration, client focus and attention.

Within the Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation function at Dentsu, we are developing key initiative that will drive technology strategy, rationalisation and impact;

The Dentsu Tech Platform Engineering initiative will be responsible for providing platform services, frameworks, blueprints and tools that enable all Dentsu development teams and beyond with

the essential capabilities to rapidly deliver robust, scalable and secure applications for use by our operational teams, and our clients.

Role Overview: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be a subject matter expert in DevOps practices and tooling. You will have a background in infrastructure engineering and a track record of designing and

delivering large-scale, highly available systems. You will be a strong advocate for the team and share assets, ideas, designs, approaches and successes with other product delivery teams. You will

be able to balance your engineering skills with strategy and design leadership.

We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial

intelligence, and containerisation. We need our leaders to be versatile, fearless, free thinking, innovative, disruptive, enthusiastic in taking on new problems and inspirational to their reports and peers

alike.

Responsibilities:

Collaborate closely with leads to deliver secure, reliable, robust and scalable solutions.

Identify and implement DevOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers, both within Platform Engineering and Technology as a whole

Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud

platforms

Troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in development, test and production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuning

Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies.

Continually collaborate, inspire and think outside of the box to conceive of and build solutions to place Dentsu ahead of the curve and be a leading contributor to DevOps innovation within the

industry.

Key Skills and

Experience: Must be from a UNIX / Linux sys-admin background

Expert knowledge in container orchestration technologies (emphasis on Kubernetes)

Expert knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing

Experience in one or more popular CI platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis, Brigade)

Experience with Helm package manager

Strong experience in at least one major cloud platform

knowledge of Ansible and Terraform

Strong TCP/IP skills

Good understanding of PKI

Expert scripting skills (bash/sh/ksh)

Experience in another language (e.g. golang, javascript, python, Perl)

Candidate

Profile: A thought leader, not afraid to challenge and disrupt pre-conceived ideas and approaches.

A passionate advocate of automated testing and continuous deployment

Ability to quickly learn and adapt to emerging techniques, frameworks, and platforms

Able to switch easily between strategy/leadership/management and hands-on engineering responsibilities

Excellent communication, stakeholder management and collaboration skills
Location:
DGS India - Mumbai - Thane Ashar IT Park
Brand:
Dentsu
Time Type:
Full time
Contract Type:
Permanent