The top DevOps jobs to apply for now
'DevOps engineer' second on list of biggest increases in demand in the jobs market. So, who's hiring right now?
There is a lot of hype around DevOps, the integration of developers who build and test IT services, and the teams that are responsible for deploying and maintaining IT operations.
Indeed many, such as Specsavers global CIO Phil Pavitt, were suspicious when they first heard the term, believing it to be "just another Gartner gimmick".
But Pavitt, as well as John Lewis IT director Paul Coby and Greater London Authority IT chief David Munn are convinced that there is merit in using DevOps, albeit they're all in different stages of implementing the approach.
The approach has also meant the introduction of a new job title - the DevOps engineer.
When Computing looked at the top tech jobs for 2016, DevOps engineer came second on the list of biggest increases in demand between 2014 and 2015 (according to CV-Library), indicating that many organisations that are adopting DevOps methodologies are attempting to hire people who have worked as a developer and in operations - most likely those that have already been working in a DevOps environment.
Computing has had a look at some of the top DevOps jobs to apply for in the UK right now:
Company: Dyson
The job title: DevOps engineer
The role: To provide technical expertise and operational support to Dyson's web and Internet of Things infrastructure.
Responsibilities include:
Building, support and maintain multiple development and production environments hosted on internal and public cloud solutions for a full software development lifecycle. Developing and implementing automated processes to ensure that environments are consistent, are scalable and fast deployment can be achieved.
Required skills include:
AWS, provisioning and auto-scaling of EC2 servers and resources, use of CloudWatch for system monitoring, SQL and NoSQL databases, bespoke APIs and web services, Microsoft Windows 2008/2012, Linux (Ubuntu) and software development.
Salary:
‘Competitive'
Link to job spec.
Company: Argos
The job title: Junior DevOps engineer
The role: Improving the automated application deployment lifecycle for software releases across the enterprise for multiple applications across various portfolios.
Responsibilities include:
Working with everyone involved in software development projects, being supportive of developers and tests as they set up their build dev/test environments, working with the wider digital development community to improve software engineering processes.
Required skills include:
Configuration management tools including Chef, Puppet and Ansible. Automated builds like Maven and Ant, continuous integration tools such as Jenkins and Git, Linux environments, experience working in an agile development environment, and passion for operations.
Salary:
£40,000
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The top DevOps jobs to apply for now
'DevOps engineer' second on list of biggest increases in demand in the jobs market. So, who's hiring right now?
Company: Expedia
The job title: DevOps engineer
The role: Driving build automation and continuous delivery for Expedia Worldwide Engineering.
Responsibilities include:
‘Aggressively' becoming a critical team member by learning the team's current workflows, build technologies, automation and challenges.
Design, implement and maintain continuous build and deployment mechanisms, leveraging innovative programmatic solutions and automation.
Required skills include:
Recent coding experience in Java or .Net, some experience using DevOps tools such as Team Foundation Server, Jenkins or DeployIT, cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or OpenStack and some experience in configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible or others.
Desirable skills include knowledge of XML, CSL, REST, SOAP, some experience in load balancing technologies, monitoring tools, Splunk and Akamai Technologies.
Salary:
Not specified
Company: Sony Computer Entertainment Europe
The job title: DevOps engineer
The role is to support development, testing and hosting of a wide variety of web services being developed at Sony Computer Entertainment Europe R&D. As part of an operations function split between California and London, the role involves supporting a team developing business-facing websites and web services, including the Sony Computer Entertainment Developer Network.
Responsibilities include developing and improving the automated deployment pipeline and supporting and defending the availability of services in production.
Skills required include:
Seven+ years of experience and a Bachelors degree. The candidate must have worked on projects involving administering Linux distributions, management of load-balanced web apps or services, interaction with configuration management tools, and enabling continuous integration and delivery.
Sony notes that opinions about tools and technologies including Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Docker, Redis, MongoDB, Jenkins, CoreOS, Vagrant and RHEL are worth bringing up in applications.
Salary:
Unspecified