DevOps Engineer (Vodafone Innovus)
Join Us
Vodafone Innovus, founded in 2004 in Athens, Greece is an ΙοΤ Applications Provider, pioneer in the ΙοΤ Cloud Services field, providing advanced end-to-end Solutions to a global audience.
Vodafone Innovus offers, across 20 countries, a wide array of ΙοΤ solutions such as:
- Real time company Fleet Management
- Fixed Asset Management e.g. Soft Drinks and Ice cream Cabinets
- Mobile Asset Tracking for transportation and SVR use
- Gas/Solar/Energy Remote Metering
- Design and manufacture of highly customized telemetry devices
What you’ll do
This role is responsible for working closely with software, QA, and systems engineers to understand requirements and prototype, architect, implement, operate and update DevOps solutions accordingly. The jobholder must be flexible to constant business and technology change, with the ability to interact, engineer and collaborate efficiently with a wide range of stakeholders.
Key accountabilities and decision ownership:
• Establish a portfolio of DevOps processes, practices, and tools to empower and support delivery teams in continuous deployment, continuous integration, and rapid delivery across value streams
• Facilitate team activities during implementation, software configuration, integration, release build using solution deployment tools
• Create and implement automation and orchestration tools with infrastructure teams or cloud providers
• Educate and foster self-service and efficiency wherever possible, automating the processes of provisioning and maintaining continuous integration environments, integration/QA testing, security & configuration
• Ensure availability, scalability, maintainability, monitoring of systems for operations
• Extent monitoring tools to cover zoning SLA needs & engage on L2 incident management activities remote/on-premise
• Assume ownership for application/container patching
Who you are
Core competencies, knowledge and experience:
• Advanced ability to analyze and interpret complex problems or processes, identify and understand requirements, and develop solutions
• Strong problem solving and design thinking skills, and ability to produce out-of-the-box ideas and innovative solutions
• Strong relationship building, persuasion, and collaboration skills, acting as enabler for coordination of activities between technical teams and building of cross-functional relationships quickly and confidently
• Agility and willingness to track, assess, and incorporate practice and technology developments into day-to-day working
Must have technical / professional qualifications:
• At least 2 years of professional experience in a relevant role
• Automated software and infrastructure deployment and configuration management
• Agile and DevOps Software development experience
• Strong Linux distribution experience
• Strong understanding of network protocols, client-server communication and networking
• Strong Virtualization and IAAC technologies, e.g. Proxmox, KVM, Terraform, Puppet
• Familiarity to Jenkins & CI/CD pipelines
• Knowledge of at least one scripting language (ie Bash, Python)
• Good knowledge of NoSQL databases preferably Cassandra
Not a perfect fit?
Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.
What's in it for you
Competitive pay, bonus & remuneration package
• Private Health & Medical Insurance
• Hybrid way of working: a blend of 60% remote and 40% office-based working, including the option to work up to 20 days from abroad
• Remote work equipment to help you create a comfortable, ergonomic workspace at home
• Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings
• Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual orientation or length of service
• Spirit of Vodafone Day: one day each quarter dedicated to your personal development
• Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day
• Needless to say, we cater for your communication wherever you are
• Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking
• Special employee offers and discounts
#LI-Hybrid #Vodafonespirit #Togetherwecan
Who we are
We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.
Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.
If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.
Together we can.