Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
The main task will be to support the creation of an optimal development experience for various digital initiatives with a solid platform in Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure. The initial focus will be to contribute to the ongoing development of existing NRC infrastructure and improve our infrastructure’s resilience, security, performance, and cost-effectiveness. Working on some fast-moving and dynamic projects the position will directly influence NRC’s ability to improve the lives of millions of people in an ever-changing world.

What you will do
You will work closely with other members of NRC’s D Team (Digital Transformation Team) to improve NRC infrastructure (Backbone)’s resilience, security, performance, and automation opportunities. You will provide developers with useful tooling to develop, deploy The position will also contribute to providing strategic direction, development/security standards, DevOps training for other technical staff to improve and leverage overall development practice in NRC. Some of your day-to-day tasks will include;
• Maintain and up keeping of NRC’s Kubernetes (Staging + Production) clusters – hosting global applications, including data backup and restore functions;
• Write manifests and manage automated deployment of application stacks to NRC’s Kubernetes clusters;
• Setup and maintain automated CI / CD workflows (Continuous integration & continuous delivery);
• Prepare technical documentation and specifications on a regular basis;
• Create unit test plans; contribute to functional/UAT test plans as needed;
• Provide technical oversight of external consultants’ work that includes custom design and assist in handover of these to NRC (to ensure long-term ownership);
• Support the recruitment of future NRC technical staff and support the evaluation of external technical consultants;
• Perform data migration and other integration work in a safe and controlled environment – validating these actions before going to live (production) systems;
• Communicate and represent NRC with partners, consultants, and service providers at a technical level.

What you will bring
• Bachelor degree in computer science, software engineering, or related subjects, or demonstrable expertise in the field;
• Advanced analytical skills and problem-solving attitude;
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills;
• Capable of operating in an "Agile" environment and high levels of uncertainty;
• Comfortable working remotely within a geographically distributed team;
• Fluency in written and spoken English. Other languages are an asset;
• Working knowledge of automating infrastructure in a cloud environment, preferably Azure;
• Previous experience in working with infrastructure as code(Terraform) and service mesh (Istio): Ability to comfortably use and configure Istio Service Mesh features, such as:
• Authorization Policies
• Ingress and Egress gateways (with or without SNI proxy-)
• Request Authentication Policies
• Virtual services, Gateways
• Knowledge and implementation of containerization and container orchestration: We use Docker, Kubernetes, Kustomize, etc;
• Preferable skills in Cloud security and cloud network;
• Application operations knowledge (Backups, monitoring, deployment) will come in handy;
• Knowledge of one or more programming language (Go, Python, etc) and/or scripting language would be desired.
Closing: 9 September 2022


Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

Interested and qualified? Go to Norwegian Refugee Council on ekum.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com to apply

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