We're Progress - we offer the best products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications. We are bold, forward-thinking innovators who build solutions that work and care about our customers. We invent and reinvent every day, work together as one, value and respect each other, and cheer our wins. Join us as a Senior DevOps Engineer in Brno.

In this role, you'll be a member of a highly skilled team and use your internal and process automation in software development expertise to support developers and help them find ways to be more efficient through automation. You'll also be mentoring junior talent by delivering workshops, providing conference tips, etc.

We support key systems behind the scenes which are needed for all aspects of the CI/CD pipelines, this includes repos, secret storage, artifactories, metrics, alerting, logging, internal library management, amongst others. We control a lot of this with GitOps flows and use IaC tools like Ansible/Terraform to manage this infrastructure.

What we need help with:
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure
• Dockerization of the environment for creating modular parts of products
• Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools
• Increasing visibility to accelerate incident response MTTR
• Responsibility for legacy systems, too, to replace them with new technology and ensure alignment across teams.

What do we expect from you?:
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
• You can look for appropriate tools to solve the above problems or create them yourself if you can't find them.
• You have an open mind and are available to listen, communicate, and present the solution found and find a common path.
• You have a proactive approach to challenges

Your profile:
• Great knowledge of Linux and Python
• Experience with GitLab, maintenance & CI/CD pipeline creation
• Knowledge of Docker and Docker-compose
• Experience on Infrastructure as code with strong experience in Terraform, Ansible, and other IAC technologies.
• English language - spoken and written
• Interest in modern technologies
• A positive approach to problem-solving, good communication skills 
• Experience with VMware (incl. API), Jenkins (incl. scripting), Terraform, or similar technologies
• Interest in the area of security

So, if you can bring relevant experience and show up with enthusiasm, we’d be happy to hear from you!

What we offer in return is the opportunity to join a great company culture with wonderful colleagues to learn from and collaborate with and to also enjoy:

Compensation: Competitive salary, bonus, and best-in-class Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) with a 27-month lookback.
Benefits: Our benefits package varies depending on the country you are joining us in and is designed to recognize the diverse needs of our people.
Time-off and Leave: Generous vacation allowance, an additional day off for your birthday, and days off for volunteering
Well-being: A global well-being program focused on physical, mental, and financial health.
Focus on Employee Experience: We aim to create an environment where people view their time at Progress as their best career chapter by seeking your feedback, partnering with you and recognizing and celebrating the moments that matter.
Career Growth: We empower you to own your career and personalize your growth with career development tools, internal career mobility, knowledge sharing, and learning opportunities.

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Together, We Make Progress

Progress is an inclusive workplace where opportunities to succeed are available to everyone. As a multicultural company serving a global community, we encourage a wide range of points of view and celebrate our diverse backgrounds. Our unique combination of perspectives inspires innovation, connects us to our customers and positively affects our communities. It is only by working together and learning from each other that we make Progress. Join us!

Description

ActioNet has an immediate opportunity for a Senior Windows Administrator.  This is a remote position.  The candidate must be able to support an East Coast time zone.  

This role provides technical operational support, administration, and maintenance of development, testing, and production infrastructure, middleware, and applications, ensuring services meet operational targets, achieve high availability, and performance. Environment is fast paced with direct responsibility for 130 servers in the client’s vRA/cloud and supporting role for 110 servers in a hosted Production environment. Many servers builds and administration tasks are automated via Ansible and PowerShell.

What is in it for you?
You will serve as the technical contributor for a Windows team supporting a federal client.  You may be required to coordinate work of other Windows admins and serve as a project manager for the Windows Upgrades, making assignments, reporting status, updating tickets, and ensuring tickets and project are moving forward. You will work closely with federal leads and other contractor staff.  

Duties and Responsibilities

• Perform operational support for servers running Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, and 2019
• Configure and manage web servers running IIS, JBoss, Apache, and Tomcat.
• Proactively monitor systems, report/and troubleshoot issues.
• Ensure availability, problem resolution and performance tuning/improvement.
• Perform system changes such as software deployments and upgrades.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues reported by development teams.
• Be available at least one Saturday per month for server patching and available on as needed basis to support work that must be done after hours (e.g., cutover to new Windows 2019 servers)
• Work with the Security Engineering team to proactively harden systems, as well as investigate scan findings and remediate them in a timely fashion
• Document problems and resolutions in Jira tickets and troubleshooting documentation.
• Proactive and skilled at updating procedures on the team Confluence wiki and MS Word documents.  Required to keep Windows documentation up to date. Create and update processes and procedures documentation.
• Develop and implement scripts to automate processes to reduce redundancy and user error. Check scripts into Git, update procedures, and socialize to the team via build procedure update announcements.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams for operational support, software deployment support, on projects, and on process improvements.
• Create reports for management upon request.
• Create and update Group Policy Objects to simplify server configuration/administration
• Utilize tools such as Ansible, PowerShell, and TrueSight Server Automation for patching, security remediation, and software deployments
• Pro-actively work to identify gaps in current tools and processes. Identify, propose, and implement solutions.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years of experience building, administering, and maintaining Windows Server 2012, 2016, and 2019 systems.
• 5+ years of experience in the automation of server build and administration tasks. Expert in PowerShell. Working knowledge of Ansible and Git required. Python a plus.
• 2+ years of experience using Ansible to automate tasks. 
• 1+ years of experience using Git to manage scripts.  
• 1+ years of experience with VMware vRealize Automation (vRA).
• 1+ years of experience managing Zabbix to include creating templates, triggers, and alerts for servers in our cloud/vRA.
• Hands-on technical skills, operational background, problem-solving and analytical skills, troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• 1+ years of experience in application infrastructure administration of the following platforms: JAVA, JBoss, Apache, Tomcat, Microsoft .Net and Nginx.
• Knowledge with clusters for load balancing, redundancy, and high availability.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts such as IP, firewalls, routing and F5. Experience in NFS, SMTP, DNS, and SNMP.
• Knowledge with DevOps, Lean or/and other Agile methodologies a plus. 
• Basic Linux administration experience and experience supporting MS SQL a plus.
• Energetic and positive team player who is highly responsive to customers and management 
• Able to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, technical editing or writing experience 
• BS degree required in a technical program.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Must have the skills to lead Windows automation efforts and be pro-active about continuous process improvement.
• Must be able to communicate and coordinate effectively across multiple teams and translate complex technical problems and propose solutions to audiences of varying technical backgrounds.

ActioNet is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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