DevOps/Automation Engineer (Kubernetes)

Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 6 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

   Responsibilities:

• Ensuring the CI/CD Platform design aligns with industry best practices for scalability, security, and performance.
• Update existing application and infrastructure designs of CI/CD Platform.
• Design, maintain and improve our Containers Platform, both in the cloud (e.g. Azure) and on-premises (RKE2/Rancher)
• Creating re-usable pipelines, pipeline templates and robust automation scripts to build, release and update applications and infrastructure components.
• Ensuring repeatability and ease of management for future deployments.
• Packaging applications using Helm-Charts
• Upgrade application servers and agents, at least twice per year.
• Support the Development teams (C1-2) on their CI/CD tasks.
• Offer training and knowledge transfer sessions to ensure smooth usage of our CI/CD Platform.
• Measure and report on metrics like cycle time, time to value (TTV), uptime and error rate, and team retention rate.  Reports on CI/CD Usage

Mandatory:

• Bachelor's degree plus 10 year's of relevant experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in CI/CD Platforms.
• A minimum of 3 years in Azure DevOps Server administration.
• A minimum of 2 years on application deployments on Kubernetes.
• Expertise and knowledge in Azure DevOps Server and Service administration.
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD Pipelines creation and configuration. Knowledge of DevOps principles and best practices (automation, pipelines, improve efficiency, feedback loops, fail fast, etc.).
• Excellent knowledge of application containerization, packaging and deployment on Kubernetes clusters (helm charts, operators, pipelines).
• Good knowledge of infrastructure as code tools (IaC) tools and methodologies, such as terraform or puppet.
• Certification: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• Very good command of English equal to B2 according to CERF level.

Desirable:

• Certification: Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert [AZ-400]