Senior DevOps Engineer, Quality & Support Team RnD Jobs at IFS in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 5000+ employees on all continents. We deliver award-winning enterprise software solutions through the use of embedded digital innovation and a single cloud-based platform to help businesses be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers, but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and accept that there are so many different perspectives in this world. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be partof a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs.

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The Quality & Support team in R&D provides critical services to the R&D organization to ensure the best possible processes are followed, securing quality for all IFS customers. This includes having the right infrastructure, processes, and technologies in place, and making sure results are measured, monitored, and delivered.

The Quality & Support Team is looking for an innovative DevOps engineer with a test automation and quality assurance focus who want to be part of a team of creative and talented individuals. Our team is a mix of software engineers (quality assurance), process managers, and DevOps engineers, all working together to deliver our vision.

DevOps engineers are a major part of ensuring that what we develop at IFS R&D can also run effectively in production and at the same time drive automation of processes spanning from development to customer deployment.

A DevOps Engineer will take the lead in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining new and existing tooling/automation solutions to enable IFS to further drive the reliability and efficiency of its operation platforms. A DevOps Engineer at IFS is a driver of further automation in the area in which the person is working and ensures continued robustness of the team’s daily operations. They focus on ensuring that continuous integration, testing, and deployment is facilitated using industry DevOps best-practices and tools.

A DevOps Engineer uses their technical know-how to support the entire IFS organization to develop services in such a way that they always can be deployed and tested with a high degree of automation. They demonstrate a strong commitment to the service and process quality and take a proactive approach to prevent issues from arising and resolve them quickly and effectively when they still do occur.

Responsibilities

• Design, architect & code fit for purpose automation.
• Identify opportunities for new or enhanced automations to drive efficiencies within the organization, producing designs and plans to address those opportunities.
• Drive the maintenance and expansion of existing automations and related processes in the organization.
• Implementation of existing application test suites into infrastructure as code pipeline and liaising with product teams to identify opportunities for improvements in tests.
• Introduction and maintenance of automated test pipelines
• Create documentation, presentation, and training material.
• Engage with requirement owners & relevant stakeholders.
• Share knowledge, guide, and train colleagues. Provide direction by mentoring & coaching other members of the R&D organization.
• Be a recognized change agent for widespread adoption of DevOps practices & mindset.
• Contribute to activities related to market research and competitive analysis.

• 2+ years of demonstrable enterprise level knowledge in these specific areas:
  • CI/CD Experience (for example, GitLab, Bitbucket, GitHub Actions, ADO, Jenkins, Bamboo)
  • Container orchestration (K8s, helm)
  • Containerization (Docker)
  • Scripting (Bash, PowerShell, Python, GoLang)
  • Working with cloud-based infrastructure in Azure or another cloud platform such as AWS or GCP
  • Knowledge and awareness of security when operating in a cloud-based environment and the considerations for automation.
  • Experience of supporting and building large enterprise cloud-systems at scale
  • Full-stack experience across databases, application/web tier, networking/proxies/firewalls etc
• 2+ years of knowledge in Linux/Unix/Windows.
• Should be a good communicator, competent in effectively communicating with all technical and nontechnical teams.
• Natural desire to discover and learn new technologies & processes. Proactively taking initiative & responsibility.
• Should be a strong team player, self-driven & have experience working with a geographically dispersed team.
• Willingness to accept challenges and show a high level of enthusiasm.
• Quality assurance experience; Testing, Automation and Test data management skills.
• A University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software/system engineering is essential.

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

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