Devops Engineer

Project Description

The service is requested as part of all Henkel projects using or intending to use Devops CI/CD tools. The project has the purpose of setting up, configuring and providing hypercare for the tools of the Continuous Integration & Deployment environment.

Task Description

The scope of services includes the following tasks which are independently performed by the external consultant:

1.    Further development of the existing DevOps toolkit (Linux, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, Selenium, ELK, Prometheus)

• Creation and update of all required documentation related to setting up, configuring and maintaining the tools (e.g. Installation, Operational Manual, Access Control Concept), such as:

o   Installation pre-requisites

o   How to install

o   How to update

o   Monitoring

o   Overview: Environment & Endpoints, Hosts, External Dependencies, Deployment

o   Operations Manual: Core operations, Additional operations, httpd

o   Implementation details: LVM, NFS, Filesystem, User

o   Installation

o   Change history

o   Troubleshooting

o   Incidents

• Coordination of hypercare phase

• Maintenance of the tools and infrastructure

such as:

Monitoring, stabilization, troubleshooting, updates and upgrades

• Additional tools/plugin configuration

• Customization based on application users’ demands, such as:

o   Reconfiguration of tools

o   Adding or changing of project configuration

o   Changes requiring admin privileges

• Environment migration to another hosting provider (probably Azure)

2.    Development and improvement in the area of new Continuous Integration & Deployment (R&D) set-up (e.g. Azure cloud, Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, Jenkins, Nexus, Sonarqube, Selenium, ELK, Prometheus)

• Implementation of new container-based setup

• Implementation the new test automation concept

• Expanding the set-up to a ‘High Available’ set-up

• Developing a new user access concept

• Maintenance of the tools and infrastructure

such as:

Monitoring, stabilization, troubleshooting, updates and upgrades

• Integration of new projects (software projects) and migration of existing projects into new setup. The goal is to establish one standard tool where all Henkel projects should be consolidated with, and keeping up with state of the art technology

• Creation and update of all required documentation related to setting up, configuring and maintaining the tools (see Point 1.)

• Coordination that development guidelines and policies are being followed