DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Company Introduction

Our clients is a daily newspaper in Malta.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Introduce processes, tools, and methodologies to balance needs throughout the software development life cycle, from coding and deployment to maintenance and updates;
• Driving the unification and automation of processes;
• Be instrumental in combining code, application maintenance and management, striving to deliver high-quality, fully functional and tested software;
• Development and maintenance of existing technologies powering our flagship website;
• Be involved in improving the architecture of our backend systems;
• Make the systems more resilient, scalable and better performing;
• Be an active developer contributing to the design and optimisation of new modules to complement an already extensively developed content management system.

Experience

• Holding a degree in Software Engineering is a plus;
• At least 5 years’ DevOps experience;
• A minimum of 3 years’ experience with CI/CD;
• At least 3 years’ experience with configuration management tools;
• At least 2 years’ experience with LXD/LXC;
• Experience with Linux system administration;
• Experience with AWS or another public cloud provider;
• Excellent working knowledge of Git;
• Experience working in agile teams, both local and remote;
• Experience with Juju and also working with modern API based PHP applications utilising CakePHP, Laravel or Symfony will be considered an asset.

Personal Skills

• Excellent communication skills;
• A methodological approach to troubleshooting;
• DevOps mindset;
• Be a team player with an eye for detail;
• Ability to quickly assess and address incidents and escalate as necessary;
• Keen on improving product reliability, performance and scalability.