Arηs is a fully independent group of companies specialized in managing complex IT projects and systems for large organisations, focusing on state-of-the-art software development, business intelligence and infrastructure services.

We are composed of 13 entities across 8 countries that are unified by the Arηs Group, with more than 1750 consultants.

This corporate structure enables us to respond quickly to market changes and customer requests, and to communicate and make decisions without layers of bureaucracy.

Our success can be attributed to the synergy among our nine complementary entities, combined with our methodologies, which are based on the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and the Scrum agile software development framework.

Established in 2016, the Greek entity Arηs Developments Hellas aims to extend Arηs Group activities dedicated to the European market providing high-quality services in Software Development, covering the entire application development lifecycle: starting with user requirements, business process redesign and specifications, to continue with development, testing and application maintenance.

We are currently looking for a DevOps Automation Engineer to join our growing team in one of the biggest European organizations.

Tasks:

• Maintain and improve our Docker/Kubernetes infrastructure, both in the cloud (e.g. Azure) and on-premises (Rancher)
• Plan, test and develop infrastructure and application automation
• Implement automated deployment and configuration
• Support day-to-day activities of deploying servers and applications
• Support continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Establish and maintain procedures to the deployment of information systems
• Monitor and maintain the supporting configuration management infrastructure
• Technical review, assurance and design for deployment
• Improve the existing Puppet infrastructure (secrets management, split of code repository, hub-and-spoke architecture, etc.)
• Design, implement and maintain the build/release infrastructure
• Develop and improve deployments with Terraform, Ansible, Powershell, Python, etc.

Who you are:

Mandatory:

• More than 9 years of experience in ICT (e.g. as developer, system administrator, software engineer, infrastructure engineer, DevOps engineer, etc.) 
• A minimum of 3 years of experience working in an international/multi-cultural environment 
• A minimum of 3 years of experience with systems and IT operations 
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in Linux/Unix Administration, preferably Red Hat 7+
• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with Kubernetes
• A minimum of 3 years of experience working with an agile methodology
• Excellent knowledge of Kubernetes. Deployment, configuration, management and troubleshooting of Kubernetes clusters. (like rke, rancher, k3d or k3s)
• Excellent knowledge of application containerization, packaging and deployment on Kubernetes clusters (helm charts, operators, pipelines).
• Good knowledge of DevOps principles and best practices (continuous delivery, continuous integration, continuous deployment, use of automation to improve efficiency, feedback loops, fail fast, etc.) 

Desirable:  

• A minimum of 2 years of experience working with Terraform or Ansible
• Good knowledge of cloud computing
• Certification: CKA, CKAD.
• Kubernetes (e.g. Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, etc.)
• Certification: RHCSA/RHCE