Specialist DevOps Engineer

Meet our Team

We represent Hitachi Vantara to enterprise clients across industries, establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services and solutions. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers; success that is celebrated and shared. Our solutions bring value to every line of business and we need people like you to build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our value proposition.



We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to manage the development and deployment of our company's software products. The ideal candidate should have a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle, excellent communication skills, and extensive experience in software development and system administration. The Senior DevOps Engineer will collaborate closely with the development and operations teams to ensure that the development process runs smoothly, and the software is released efficiently and reliably.

Responsibilities:

Develop and maintain the company's software development and deployment pipelines using industry-standard tools and methodologies.
Work closely with development teams to ensure code is written, built, and deployed efficiently and reliably.
Automate and streamline software development and deployment processes to reduce time-to-market and increase reliability.
Work with cross-functional teams to identify and troubleshoot issues and provide solutions in a timely manner.
Continuously improve the performance, reliability, and security of the company's software products and infrastructure.
Collaborate with the security team to ensure that security is integrated into the software development and deployment process.

Qualifications:

• 9+ years of solid infrastructure administration experience, designing and implementing virtualization and highly automated CI/CD pipelines in a DevOps setting
• Expert-level experience in automating CI/CD Pipeline with scripts plus release management using following tools
• Experience with build scripts using tooling such as Maven, Gradle
• Experience with DevOps pipeline tools - Jenkins, Gitlab. Skilled at use of Jenkin API and plug-ins.
• Experience with Image Registry for Operating System and Container Images - Artifactory, Nexus
• Experience with Source Control Management tools - Gitlab and BitBucket
• Experience with tools for configuration management - Ansible, Bash
• Experience with metric monitoring and alerting tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Experience of supporting software development CI/CD pipeline with multi-stage automated testing in a modern, containerized Kubernetes environment.
• Strong experience with Python, Bash, and Automation tools such as Ansible and Helm.
• Initiative to meet deadlines and deliver high quality results without supervision.
• 3+ years of experience as a Linux systems administrator, preferably with CentOS and Ubuntu
• Broad experience in DevOps best practices with on-prem and cloud.
• Passionate operational mindset with hands-on experience diagnosing and troubleshooting systems.

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what's now to what's next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.

Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we'd love to hear from you.

Our Values

We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs.

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge