Job Description

Business Unit:

Cubic Corporation

Company Details:

Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We\xe2\x80\x99re the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.

Job Details:

Job Summary: The DevOps Engineer is involved in all aspects of the Cloud transformation process to create a bridge between development and operations by applying a software engineering mindset to system administration situations. You will be responsible for not only supporting and maintaining the Cloud platform, but you will take an active part in improving the solutions using modern containerization technologies and Infrastructure as Code.

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the uptime of client infrastructure and applications \xe2\x80\x93 including availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, emergency response, and capacity planning.
• Involvement in ensuring the end-to-end availability and performance of key services and building automation to prevent problem recurrence.
• Involvement in current manual deployments and alerts handling processes.
• Assisting in the roll-out and deployment of new product features and installations.
• Finding scalability bottlenecks and areas for performance improvements.
• Contributes to the creation and maintenance of documentation for the solutions produced.
• Involvement in GOC Program transitions, assisting project teams in enhancing commercial opportunities and mitigating risks.
• Triaging and solving service issues and outages.
• Contributes to the design and planning of AWS cloud solutions (VPCs, EC2, EKS, microservices architecture), and Azure solutions (Network security groups, Azure Firewalls, Site to site VPN\xe2\x80\x99s, Virtual Machines, AKS, containers, microservices architecture)
• Involved in the implementation of standard delivery processes for customer environments to improve the quality and simplify support
• Contributes to GOC Technical Wave Initiatives, driving operational effectiveness strategies and transformation savings
• Comply with Cubic\xe2\x80\x99s values and adherence to all company policy and procedures. In particular comply with the code of conduct, quality, security and occupational health, safety and environmental policies and procedures.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities listed, the job holder is required to perform other duties assigned by their manager from time-to-time, as may be reasonably required of them.

Minimum Job Requirements:

Skills, knowledge and experience:

Essential

• Experience in DevOps and System Administration
• Experience working in an agile environment
• DevOps skills: Terraform, Ansible, , Vault, Helm Chart, Docker
• Platform: Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience creating and deploying infrastructure as code using automation scripts.
• Experience of continuous integration/continuous delivery and deployment tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy and GitHub Actions.
• Understanding of enterprise system architectures.
• Experience with scripting and deployment automation.
• Experience with both on-premise and cloud environments.
• Experience administering Linux and Windows operating systems.

Desirable

• Experience of programming languages: Powershell, Python.
• DevOps Skills: CloudFormation, Packer, or GitHub Actions.
• Terraform, ARM Templates, Ansible, Packer, Vault, PowerShell, Helm Chart, Docker
• Kubernetes cluster, Azure AKS, Azure, Linux and Windows operating systems

Education and qualifications

Essential

• A university degree in a numerate subject (e.g. Computer Science, Maths, Engineering, Natural Science) or relevant work experience.

Desirable

• ITIL awareness to Foundation Level or above

Personal Qualities

• Relationships: The successful candidate must be able to uphold high professional standards with Cubic\xe2\x80\x99s internal and external customers as well as staff at all levels of the organisation. The candidate will also be required to work with third parties and Cubic suppliers and must have excellent communication skills.
• An enthusiasm for new technologies and their application for both business and consumers.
• Embraces winning the customer obsession ethos
• The tenacity to keep going when things get difficult, an optimistic and upbeat personal manner.
• Diligent, with attention to detail. Able to problem solve and find effective and timely resolutions.
• Customer focused and comfortable with dealing with executive level managers.
• Able to juggle multiple tasks with deftness and attention to deadlines.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal skills with a willingness to share knowledge, coach and collaborate effectively with individuals and other departments
• Approachable, adaptable and able to work on their own or as part of a team.
• A natural curiosity and a passion for learning new skills. A continuous improvement mindset.
• Analytical problem solver who can quickly & accurately identify key issues.
• Be a technological cloud advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business

The description provided above is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities and requirements. Duties, responsibilities and requirements may change over time and according to business need.

Worker Type:

Employee

Cubic