DevOps Engineer (EU)

This is a remote position.

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to join a team for developing a new Entry-Exit System to improve the border control of the European Union. 

About the Project

The Entry-Exit System (EES) will…

• Contribute to the modernisation of the external border management by improving the quality and efficiency of the external border controls of the Schengen Area;
  
• Help Member States dealing with ever increasing number of travellers to the EU without having to increase the number of border guards;
  
• Reinforce internal security and the fight against terrorism and serious crime;
  
• Systematically identify over-stayers (individuals remaining in the Schengen Area after the end of their authorised stay).
  

The EES will provide…

• Precise information in a rapid and automated way to border guards during border checks;
  
• Information to border guards on refusals of entry of nonEU nationals and enable refusals of entry to be checked electronically in the EES;
  
• Precise information to travellers on the maximum length of their authorised stay;
  
• Precise information on who is overstaying their authorised stay;
  
• Evidence-based support to visa policy.
  

As regards access for law enforcement purposes, the the EES will…

• Support the identification of terrorists, criminals as well as of suspects and victims of crime;
  
• Provide a record of travel histories of non-EU nationals including crime suspects, perpetrators or victims of crime. It would thus complement the information in the SIS.
  

Responsibilities:

• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes
  
• Cooperation within the development/DevOps team to help facilitate and improve CI/CD
  
• environment
  
• Working with software developers and software engineers to ensure that development follows
  
• established processes and works as intended
  
• Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps
  
• operation
  
• Troubleshooting techniques and fixing the code bugs
  
• Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating
  
• new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
  
• Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible
  
• Incident management and root cause analysis
  

Qualifications:

• Experience in containerization (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker and Helm charts)
  
• Strong experience in CI/CD using pipelines as code.
  
• 4+ Years of solid DevOps and agile Experience.
  
• Knowledge of virtualization and containerization
  
• Familiarity with HashiCorp Packer tool and VM image creation and distribution
  
• Good understanding of at least one of the following (Java, Python)
  
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills
  
• Experience in Jenkins installation, Management and administration
  
• Experience in using ansible to deploy, configure and manage applications.
  
• Experience working on Linux and/or windows based infrastructure
  
• Strong problem-solving and Troubleshooting skills
  

More details about the project:

https://www.eulisa.europa.eu/Activities/Large-Scale-It-Systems/EES