DevOps Engineer - SPSE

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Siemens Process Systems Engineering (SPSE), part of Siemens Digital Industries, is the leading provider of Advanced Process Modelling software, services and solutions to the process industries. We help our customers to develop and operate sustainable processes by applying digital twins based on our gPROMS platform technology. This enables them to explore the process decision space rapidly, reduce uncertainty and risk and make better, faster and safer design and operating decisions through deeper understanding of their processes.

Currently employing about 280+ employees worldwide, SPSE has a well-established reputation for thought leadership and technology innovation, achieved through substantial R&D spanning more than two decades. Following its recent acquisition by Siemens, the company is now embarking on a major further expansion of its products and related business development activities.

We offer a role with responsibility, independence, flexibility and to contribute to new ideas. We foster a teamwork culture with great opportunities for personal and professional development to grow your career.

Please visit https://new.siemens.com/global/en/products/automation/industry-software/gproms-digital-process-design-and-operations.html

About the role

The ideal candidate will have the ability to execute exciting projects, spanning a broad variety of technologies. Depending on the candidate's skillset, tasks will vary from virtualised OS administration, Jenkins CI/CD management, test coverage and data administration/visualisation on private and public clouds. You shall have operational responsibility for all DevOps functions across the group covering all locations both domestic and international. Day to day you’ll be maintaining, improving, and administering SPSE’s growing DevOps infrastructure.

National and International travel may be required from time to time.

Area of responsibility

• Support all DevOps operations across the group in multiple locations (i.e. CI/CD systems network infrastructure, security, and more) in line with the DevOps/IT strategy:
• Jenkins CI/CD
• Pipeline development
• Data administration
• Ansible
• Infrastructure-as-code
• Maintain and update DevOps/IT procedures and systems in line with Siemens policy
• Assist with tasks related to Siemens Integration
• Design, introduce and maintain standards and processes that are compliant with our security requirements and regulatory obligations
• Ensuring that systems are documented and kept up to date
• Manage internal and external end-user expectations and communicate well about any changes and/or processes

Your qualifications

• Extensive technical knowledge and experience in managing and maintaining large-scale, highly available business-critical systems within private clouds,
• Exposure to public cloud administration is desirable,
• Experience with a broad range of hardware, software, and server operating systems (Linux and Windows),
• Must be fully able to build, configure, manage, and support several applications in a mixed server operating environment (Linux and Windows)
• Scripting skills (Bash, Python, Powershell),
• Ability to think strategically in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond rationally to changing priorities in a deadline-driven situation,
• Strong planning and organising skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously,
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain projects or issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally,
• Good team player, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative,
• Driven to learn new skills, and processes and effectively implement these into the delivery stream
• Technical knowledge of virtualisation solutions (e.g. VMWare & OpenStack)
• IT compliance, risk management, and information security
• Scripting experience with Bash, PowerShell
• Automation experience
• Exposure to DevOps tooling such as Ansible, GIT/SVN repositories, Jenkins
• Understanding of ITIL
• 5+ years of commercial experience

Working at Siemens Software

Why us?

Working at Siemens means great work life balance and flexibility – whether that is full time in the office, hybrid or fully remote. We are always challenging ourselves to build a better future. We look for the most innovative and diverse Digital Minds to develop tomorrow’s reality and provide all the comfort and benefits employees need to achieve those goals.

Siemens Industry Software is an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate unlawfully on the grounds of age, disability, gender assignment, marriage, and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or trade union membership.

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