Senior Devops Engineer

As Senior DevOps Engineer Contractor you will be part of a dynamic and international development team, based in the Amsterdam Area - Netherlands.

Our client develops cutting-edge security solutions for various media and non-media markets.

You will get involved in managing a highly available and fully scalable web services product, which handles huge load with high speed and low latency, by using cutting edge software development and testing technologies based on Java platform. You will be exposed to modern DRM technologies in Media industry and cloud deployments, crypto, and secure protocols to securely communicate with embedded devices.

Responsibilities

- Deployment of releases into test and development environments
- Work to improve overall functionality and performance of the web services and in order to deliver the best customer experience
- Planning, design and implementation of the work
- Configuration and integration, and liaising with a range of key stakeholders
- Act as resource for colleagues and provide assistance to other functional areas such as development and system test and customer support

Work independently with a moderate level of guidance and direction.

Skills and Experience:

- BS / MS Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent
- Professional experience managing high availability Java stack deployments
- Demonstrable experience within Linux/Unix environments
- Excellent knowledge of monitoring tools such as Nagios
- Experience with automation/configuration management systems using e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt
- Experience of networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components
- Ability to code and script (BASH scripting)
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and cloud services (experience with AWS and Docker is required)
- 3 years' experience in Object Oriented Design and Programming
- Experience (2 years) programming in Java EE/SE, frameworks: Hibernate
- Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment
- Excellent verbal and written English communication skills

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