Contracting Roles - Devops Netherland

LOCATION: AMSTERDAM, NL

DURATION: 3-6 MONTHS

TITLE: DEVOPS ENGINEER

JOB DESCRIPTION:

- Selected candidate will look after application monitoring, make changes to Java code. 5+ years exp required.
- Some of the main responsibilities are listed below, we expect you to be able to cover more than half of them.
- Monitoring and supporting the production environment.
- Automating the installation and integration of different components.
- Capacity management of file systems and databases used.
- Owning backup/restore and disaster recovery processes.
- Ability to analyze DB performance and make necessary performance tuning suggestions.
- Streamlining our development process from code check-ins all the way to deployment into production in collaboration with Dev colleagues.
- Evolve our approach for monitoring and alerting towards preventive monitoring.
- You will participate in DevOps teams and software release cycles in collaboration with the Commercial Banking business and its support functions, all within a DevOps way of working.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

- We operate according to a Scrum Agile development process and strongly believe in the DevOps approach to delivering IT solutions.
- The focus is on high-quality mission-critical software delivered in time using iterative development with regular milestone demos to the business, so that at the end there are no surprises about what we build.

DESIRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

- IT (Master/Bachelor) technical degree.
- Proven track record in this role, preferably in an international environment.
- Good knowledge (or at least keen interest to gain it) of some of the following areas: payments, cash management and financial markets is vital for this position.
- Sound knowledge of relational databases and ideally have looked after the operation of a critical production installation of Oracle including its performance tuning as well as backup/restore scripts and processes.
- Excellent knowledge of at least one modern Scripting language (Python, Ruby, Groovy). Knowledge of Python is big nice-to-have.
- Good knowledge of modern application Servers such as Nginx, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere.
- Good knowledge of enterprise level networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, SFTP, Proxy, Firewalls).
- Excellent knowledge of OS fundamentals with the ability to apply it in the context of modern operating systems, eg RHEL, CentOS etc.
- Good knowledge and real-world experience in provisioning environments with tools such as Puppet, Chef, Docker.
- Knowledge of NoSQL data stores such as Cassandra, while not mandatory, is a strong nice-to-have.
- Experience in the inner workings of the JVM, while not mandatory, is an important nice-to-have.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery using modern OSS tools such as Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Sonar.
- Performance/Capacity/Availability Monitoring, knowledge of well-known OSS tools in this area (such as Ganglia, Nagios, Graphite, and JMeter) is a big nice-to-have.
- Basic knowledge of Scrum.
- Able to work under pressure, no 9-5 mentality, willing to be on stand-by outside of office hours.
- CISSP certificate is a very important nice-to-have.