Puppet Engineer - Puppet Deployment Specialist

PUPPET ENGINEER - PUPPET DEPLOYMENT SPECIALIST

We are looking for experienced Puppet Engineers' to work on a long term project for a major EU organisation in The Hague. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a long term contract where you will be working in a senior role in the team.

YOUR TASKS WILL INCLUDE:

- Technical review, assurance and design for deployment
- Prototyping of deployment in sandbox (manual steps)
- Scripting of deployment (puppet, bash, RPM etc.)
- Testing and bug fixing deployment
- Documentation of the deployment steps
- Release promotion
- Release packaging
- Release deployment (dev test install environments).

Qualifications:

- Minimum 7 years of experience in Technical review, assurance and design for deployment
- Experience in Scripting of deployment (eg puppet, bash, RPM etc.)
- Experience in release promotion, release packaging and release deployment
- Linux - knowledge of RHEL* 6.x/7.x administration, handling Linux services and filesystem management
- Puppet - knowledge of Puppet 4 configuration management tool*. Creating or editing modules, maintaining Hiera datasets
- GIT- knowledge of version control principles for software release management. Knowledge of branching, merging and creating release branches/tags
- Maven (RPM plugin and versioning basics) - familiar with maven tool and basic knowledge on configuring pom.XML files for RPM packaging
- TFS - familiar with Team Foundation Server platform for code management and release
- Bash Scripting - familiar with bash Shell Scripting techniques
- RPM packaging - familiar with RPM package creation (package versioning, preparation and post run steps)
- YUM repositories - familiar with YUM binary repositories configuration and rpm package signing
- DevOps principles - familiar with Continuous Integration/Delivery principles, agile software development methodologies

This is a very exciting opportunity to work for one of the most important EU organisations so please apply below!

PUPPET ENGINEER - PUPPET DEPLOYMENT SPECIALIST