Senior DevOps Engineer / Lead DevOps Engineer : Performance & Monitoring (IFS Technology)

Company Description

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 6000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to be part of a global, diverse environment; you will be joining a winning team with a commitment to sustainability; and a company where we get things done so that you can make a positive impact on the world.

We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can #MakeYourMoment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

If you want to change the status quo, we’ll help you make your moment. Join Team Purple. Join IFS.

Job Description

The Security, Performance & Observability team makes sure IFS Cloud services are provided on a solid platform. Key focus areas are authentication capabilities, setting up of user access rights for the system, monitoring and performance. This team has strong expertise around driving the performance analysis of IFS Application, middleware server and database.

Currently we are focused on growing the team with an abundance of impactful opportunities.

As a DevOps engineer in our team, you will

• Develop and maintain monitoring and logging solution for IFS remote deployments
• Recommending best monitoring/logging practices for IFS development teams
• Engage in investigating performance issues related to customers and provide recommendations
• Performance testing, tuning, sizing and benchmarking of IFS cloud/ remote deployments and platform and Microservices
• Identify opportunities to automate monitoring, logging, and alerting on cloud/remote deployment/Kubernetes platforms
• Create documentation, presentation, and training material
• Engage with relevant stakeholders
• Share knowledge, guide, and train colleagues

Qualifications

Required competence

• A University degree, or equivalent professional qualifications, in software/system engineering or IT operations
• 4+ years of experience around most of the below skills – ideally in an agile environment
• Knowledge in Cloud platforms (eg: Azure, AWS)
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge in ELK stack / EFK stack
• Knowledge in Kube-Prometheus
• Experience with Linux and fundamentals of Networking
• Experience with performance testing using LoadRunner or JMeter
• Source code management skills - Git/Bitbucket
• A natural desire to discover and learn new technologies and processes
• Ability to prioritize and work as a team and independently
• Effective communication and collaboration skills
• Work with a geographically dispersed team to ensure continuity of support and expertise

Desirable competence

• Observability experience in automated monitoring, logging, and alerting on cloud/Kubernetes Platforms hosting microservices
• A mindset to have Infrastructure As A Code (IAAC) and manage configurations through CI/CD approaches
• Experience in Performance testing, tuning, sizing, and benchmarking of Cloud and platform and containerized microservices

Additional Information

Interviews and selections are being made continuously. If you are interested, apply as soon as possible.

As a step in our recruitment process, all final candidates will undergo a background check, to get us an understanding of our future employees.

We respectfully decline all offers of recruitment and/or advertising assistance.

IFS Fact
IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for customers around the world who manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations. The industry expertise of our people and solutions, together with a commitment to delivering value to every one of our customers, has made IFS a recognized leader and the most recommended supplier in our sector. Our team of 6,000+ employees and growing ecosystem of partners support more than 10,000 customers around the world challenge the status quo and realize their competitive advantage. Learn more about how our enterprise software solutions can help your business today at ifs.com.

We believe that coming together as a community, in person, is important for innovation, connection and fostering a sense of belonging. Our roles have the right balance of remote and in-office working to enable flexibility for managing your life along with ensuring a real connection with your colleagues and the broader IFS community.