DevOps Engineer - Melbourne, Australia - COGNIZANT

    COGNIZANT
    COGNIZANT Melbourne, Australia

    Found in: Talent AU C2 - 1 week ago

    Cognizant background
    Full time
    Description

    Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses.Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at or follow us @Cognizant

    Position Summary:

    • Provide technical innovation and thought leadership to guide environment/operation and development teams in the automation of operational processes.
    • Guide engineers to implement solutions in complex enterprise environments.
    • Design, build, and implement automation of provisioning, configuration, monitoring, security, and deployment of applications in the automated environments.
    • Ensure all components are built to provide quality, security, scalability, stability, efficiency and reliability, ensuring compliance with client processes, and governing standards.
    • Recommend and implement DevOps practices which are sustainable and considered the best fit for the client's need.
    • May provide estimates and project planning for projects.
    • Manage, monitor, and report on documented technical risks and issues associated with components of projects.
    • Provide expertise and technical consulting to client projects in a way that builds and maintains professional relationships.
    • Deliver to agreed client expectations and project plans and ensure appropriate escalation of issues/ risks, etc.
    • Undertaken internal and external thought leadership activity to promote CDB and DevOps.
    • May undertake people leadership and management.

    Mandatory Skills:

    • Proven experience as a Senior Developer, Operations or DevOps Engineer focusing on bridging the gap between developers and operations for large complex clients.
    • Understand fundamental principles of distributed systems, security, networking, virtualization, Storage, database, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
    • Experience with containerization and associated microservice tooling such as Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, Mesos/Marathon, DC/OS, and Nomad.
    • Experience in provisioning tools such as Terraform, ARM Templates, GCP Deployment Manager, and Cloud Formation.
    • Extensive experience in Linux/Unix (e.g. Ubuntu, RHEL, SUSE) and/or Windows Server.
    • Experience in working and troubleshooting network infrastructure and systems (e.g. TCP/IP networking, DNS, SMTP, DHCP, DNS and others).
    • Experience in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, VMware or OpenStack.
    • Experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, and PowerShell.
    • Experience in distributed applications such as Cassandra, Consul, etcd, HDFS, Hadoop, Cloudera, Elasticsearch and/or Kafka.
    • Experience in logging and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, InfluxDB, Nagios, Splunk, Elasticsearch, Sysdig, New Relic, and Grafana.
    • Experience in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, and Desired State Configuration.
    • Strong understanding of software development lifecycle in traditional and agile practices.
    • In depth understanding of systems architecture to deliver services.
    • Proven thought leadership activity in internal and external environments.

    Duties and Responsibilities:

    • Proven consultancy experience gained on large and/or complex projects preferably within Tier 1 or 2 organisations.
    • Proven thought leadership experience and passion for sharing technology knowledge and best practice.
    • Proven experience in the technical leadership and guidance of team members (desirable).
    • Excellent communication, presentation, and relationship management skills.
    • Ability to effectively report and manage risks and issues.
    • Ability to operate within agile/iterative project management methodology processes such as SCRUM.

    Salary Range : >$100,000

    Next steps :

    If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you Please apply directly with us.

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    About Cognizant

    Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at or follow us @Cognizant.