DevOps Engineer

About Akkodis

Akkodis, is a global leader in the engineering and R&D market that is leveraging the power of connected data to accelerate innovation and digital transformation. With a shared passion for technology and talent, 50,000 engineers and digital experts deliver deep cross-sector expertise in 30 countries across North America, EMEA and APAC. Akkodis offers broad industry experience, and strong know-how in key technology sectors such as mobility, software & technology services, robotics, testing, simulations, data security, AI & data analytics. Akkodis is part of the Adecco Group. Akkodis is a commercial brand under which both AKKA and Modis entities operate.

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate will:

·       Guarantee the technical solution for software delivery, infrastructure & deployment

o   Software Delivery from Source Code to Deployment packages

o   System architecture & PaaS implementation.

o   Define and develop the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in development, quality assurance, and production environments, respecting established rules.

o   Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

o   Satisfy security requirements.

·       Secure the product operability.

o   Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.

o   Guarantees that the product underlying architecture is state of the art.

o   Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.

·       Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

·       IT System skillset:

Roles & Responsibilities:

The candidate will:

·       Guarantee the technical solution for software delivery, infrastructure & deployment

o   Software Delivery from Source Code to Deployment packages

o   System architecture & PaaS implementation.

o   Define and develop the means so that products are correctly and continuously integrated and deployed in development, quality assurance, and production environments, respecting established rules.

o   Support delivery teams with automated tools and scripts to provision infrastructure resources (compute, network & storage) in a simple and efficient manner.

o   Satisfy security requirements.

·       Secure the product operability

o   Understand the functional context of the product up to the point of challenging functional decisions.

o   Guarantees that the product underlying architecture is state of the art.

o   Ensures that operational best practices (supervision/monitoring, backups, archives, log management) are implemented.

·       Ensure the software team is informed and aware of operational constraints, and if required trains the team on those topics.

Essential Skills & Qualifications:

·       IT System skill set:

o   System Administration skillset (services, ssh, user management, file system)
DevOps tooling advanced skillset
o   Extensive hands-on working experience (at least 3 years) with Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm and ArgoCD

o   Administrating GitLab CI/CD

o   Developing and maintaining Ansible Playbooks and Modules

o   Developing and setting up CI/CD pipelines (closely work with development team to develop CI pipelines and CD deployments into private data centers and public cloud)

o   Scripting experience in Bash, PowerShell or Python

o   Code documentation using Markdown

·       Infrastructure as code skillset:

o   Automate deployment and configuration using Ansible or Terraform or equivalent

o   Working knowledge on VMware, HyperV and Proxmox

·       Network basics:

o   Good working experience with NGINX and HAProxy configuration and deployment

o   Familiar with commonly used network commands (e.g. curl, telnet, netstat)

o   LAN architecture (CIDR, vLAN, routing, NAT)

o   DNS and SSL (internal, external)

·       Security:

o   Secrets management using various vaults (HashiCorp Vault, Kubernetes secrets)

o   Password-less SS

Behaviour:   Produces Ingenious, astute design, with an open mind       Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Able to fluently communicate with local project team and external stakeholders.       Collaborative team players preferred