DevOps Engineer

**Job Description:** **Senior Operations Engineer HPC** Respond to and resolve operational incidents, identify root causes for critical issues, and implement strategies to prevent recurrence and improve platform resiliency.  Proactively create and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure high availability, performance, and visibility across all services.  Take a Site Reliability Engineering approach to our services, improving the deployment, monitoring and incident response end\-to\-end.  Solve complex technical problems, with SCP applications, infrastructure and end user’s use of the services.  Administer platform tools like Ansible, Vault, Consul, Prometheus, and Grafana to support core functions like configuration management,secrets management, monitoring, and observability.  Mentor and coach junior engineers in the team, fostering a collaborative and high\-performing culture.  Drive automation for deployment and management processes using GitOps workflows as well as CI/CD pipelines. **Essential Knowledge, Skills, and Experience**  Experienced administering, maintaining and troubleshooting a Linux environment  Competent in automation and bash scripting  Highly customer focused; able to explain IT technical concepts in a manner which non\-IT experts can understand  Hands\-on experience working in a DevOps team and using agile methodologies Plus some of the following areas of expertise:  Hands\-on knowledge of a range of scientific and HPC applications such as simulation software, bioinformatics tools or 3D data visualisation packages  Experience administering and optimising SLURM  Experience deploying and administering OpenStack  Experience with configuration automation and infrastructure as code (e.g.Ansible, Hashicorp Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon Cloud Developer Kit)  Experience deploying infrastructure and code to public cloud, especially AWS  Experience with software distribution frameworks such as Easybuild or Spack  Familiarity with container runtimes such as Docker, Singularity or enroot  Experience with frameworks for regression tests and benchmarks for HPC applications, like Reframe HPC