DevOps Engineer – MDM

at  Ivanti

Ivanti are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our DevOps team in Scotland either in a remote role or working from our office in Dundee. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in our mission to enable product development to release and host software effectively and efficiently.

WHO WE ARE

Ivanti are a leading provider of security and service management software. We provide solutions primarily targeted at IT departments within medium to large organizations to help them securely manage their IT infrastructure and service their clients.
Our company history is one of mergers and acquisitions which means we have dozens of products that we develop, maintain and market, offering you lots of opportunities to grow.
We are on a journey to move and improve our main product offerings in the cloud under a SaaS model. We are looking for skilled individuals to help us continually improve.

DESIRED EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years writing code in your IDE as part of a team
• A fundamental understanding of DevOps practices such as CI/CD and DORA metrics
• Code authoring and writing reusable, maintainable code in version control
• Hands on experience with CI Servers / Runners. In MDM we use Jenkins and GitHub actions as our primary runner.
• Experience of working with Containers and Ideally orchestration using Kubernetes
• IaC experience using Terraform, Bicep, Helm Charts, etc.
• Generating documentation using UML and company wiki
• Modern SDLC exposure managed by project management tooling (ADO, Jira, etc.)
• Build & deploy of mobile apps to the marketplace

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Working in a scrum team you’ll collaborate with your colleagues to solve complex challenges whilst overcoming constraints in the form of cost and execution time.
Immediately you’ll be focused on our Ivanti Neurons for MDM product. This product is written in Java, with a Postgres database and a JS framework frontend. It leverages technologies to enable high availability, scale and reporting such as Redis, Nginx and ElasticSearch. We leverage Kubernetes to host the product in the cloud.
Our team leverage the public cloud catalogue using both Azure and AWS to provide a platform for our applications to run on. We also facilitate the deployment and observation of the applications using the likes of GitHub Actions, Terraform and New Relic.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain our Deployment Automation Platform
• Develop pipelines that use versioned scripts / definitions to build and test software components.
• Implement deployment pipelines that can be used to deploy to a variety of different targets. i.e. Test, Staging, Production
• Understand the Definition of Done used by the product development teams and build automation / integrations that help the teams conform to these.
• Build tooling that helps us automate and comply with security requirements / certifications
• Follow industry best practice and Ivanti guidelines to standardise implementation
• Identify bottlenecks in our processes and work with your peers to improve these
• Participate in discussions / code review so the team “levels up” together