Vodafone Hiring for DevOps Engineer – Observability and Monitoring Job at Auckland Full Time

Uia mai koe te pātai, he aha te mea nui o tēnei ao? Māku koe e kii atu he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.
If you asked me, what is the greatest thing in this world, I would say it is people, it is people, it is people.

Ko mātou tēnei – our organisation

At Vodafone, we’re committed to providing you with a friendly workplace environment where you can manage home and work balance through our leading flexible working practices. We value the diversity of thought, perspective and backgrounds our people bring to work with them every day. Our vision is to create a better future for Aotearoa New Zealand through remarkable technology that simplifies lives and businesses. We support our communities through the Vodafone New Zealand Foundation with an ambitious goal to halve the number of disadvantaged rangatahi in Aotearoa by 2027.

Ko tō tūranga – your role

We are seeking a technical enthusiastic to join the DevOps Tools and Platforms team and focus on observability and supportability. In this role, you will define and execute on a road-map to improve supportability of the Observability Platform Service and improve the customer experience through documentation, AIOps and self-troubleshooting tools and feature-set.

Ko tō mahi – what you’ll do

• Shape a culture where the chapter thrives, and our delivery teams succeed
• Drive continuous learning, excellence in execution, and elegance of technical solutions
• Create and implement platform strategies with Product Owners, and Technology Managers
• Contribute technical expertise to support team delivery outcomes
• Define and track success metrics for observability and supportability.
• Design and write automation software to provision; upgrade and monitor a large global fleet of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters deployed in a public cloud
• Build, maintain, and ensure timely delivery of our high-volume event log pipelines.
• Create libraries, tools, and automation to help ensure that critical event data gets to the right place.
• Encouraging a culture of Observability at Vodafone NZ – help suss out problem areas and consult on improving visibility into our systems.
• Prototyping tooling interfaces or building new features for engineering use cases.
• Improving auto-remediation in our logging infrastructure to avoid recurring failures.
• Teaching engineers or customer experience agents how to use our tools to introspect their systems.
• Participating in the Monitoring Infrastructure on-call rotation, triaging, and addressing production issues as they arise.
• Participate in release cycles of our offerings, deploying code to integration, staging and production environments, integrating with continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) tools, monitoring, and change management
• Create and maintain standard operating procedures (SOPs) for performing maintenance tasks, applying configuration changes, and remediating problems in our environment

Na tōu rourou – what you’ll bring

• Strong development background and have previously built and designed automation solutions. This would have included a variety of tools, such as Kubernetes, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, OpenShift etc.
• Help design and deliver DevOps/CD pipeline solutions for a mix of internal and external environments
• You would have done your time in an operations role and understand how to make life easier for those around you.
• You will have spent time working in an Agile environment and have experience working with a SCRUM team.
• Strong development background and have previously built and designed automation solutions.
• Knowledge of working in a cloud environment (Azure/AWS)
• Experience managing Linux servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS, or Fedora hosted at a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Compute Engine (GCE), or Microsoft Azure
• Experience with enterprise systems monitoring; knowledge of Prometheus is a plus
• Experience with enterprise configuration management software like Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience programming with at least one object-oriented language, preferably Golang, Java, or Python

Nā mātou te rourou – what you’ll get

• Vodafone is leading the way by ensuring you can have a truly balanced life. Most roles allow flexibility to work from home and flex your hours to ensure you have time for those priorities outside of work.
• A fully subsidised Southern Cross Regular Care policy, which usually cover 80% of health expenses up to the policy limit, to provide health insurance cover for you and your family.
• 4% KiwiSaver employer contributions, an extra 1% more than the statutory minimum. You choose how to save for your Retirement either via KiwiSaver(KS) or SuperCash (superannuation allowance as a cash allowance paid with your salary). You can change between these at any time.
• Laptop, unlimited data plan, market leading cell-phone for business or personal use
• Discounts on Vodafone products, services and much more!

Joining the Vodafone whānau will stretch you, challenge you and provide opportunities you’ve been seeking to expand your career. You’ll engage in unique workplace experiences, be exposed to exciting and innovative technology, and gain opportunities for learning beyond Aotearoa

Me mahi tahi tātou mo te oranga o te katoa.
“We are better together, collectively”

Please note that Vodafone New Zealand is currently shut down for the Christmas break. We will respond to applications on and after the 13th of January.

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