DevOps Engineer in UK

This DevOps Engineer is responsible for enhancing the overall productivity of the Ansys Discovery development team.

In this role, the candidate will work hands-on with developers and testers to provide build and deployment services for the Ansys Discovery products, enhance and refactor code, and investigate methods to improve product stability and developer productivity.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage build, testing, and distribution systems

• Explore methods and technologies to improve efficiency of the Discovery development team

• Migrate workloads to utilize cloud resources

• Enhance and refactor application code • Manage continuous integration and VDI systems • Liaison with corporate build, testing and dev services teams

• Automate deployment of the system for testing and production use

• Perform performance testing and optimization of the deployment

• Actively participate in project planning, design brainstorm sessions and team meetings

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 2 years’ experience or MS, or adequate work experience

• Experience with system administration, IT, or software development

• Hands-on experience in creation and deployment of containers

• High proficiency in C# and object-oriented programming principles

• Solid understanding of Windows and virtualization

• Highly motivated with a willingness to learn new technologies and make architectural decisions

• Strong team player who thrives in an open and collaborative environment and is committed to meeting team goals

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Build and source code management tools such as Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Jenkins, Git

• Containerization technologies such as Docker

• Configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet

• Package management tools such as NuGet, Conan

• Cloud APIs such as AWS or Azure