DevOps Engineer - Language Weaver Team

About RWS:

RWS Holdings plc is the world’s leading provider of technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services. We help our customers to connect with and bring new ideas to people globally by communicating business critical content at scale and enabling the protection and realization of their innovations.

Our vision is to help organizations interact effectively with people anywhere in the world by solving their language, content and market access challenges through our collective global intelligence, deep expertise and smart technology.

Customers include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 18 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific, and North and South America across the technology, pharmaceutical, medical, legal, chemical, automotive, government and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from offices across five continents.

Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

For further information, please visit: www.rws.com

About The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity to operate a high-end scalable next generation solution at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering, within microservice environments. As part of our team, you will have a significant impact in transforming cutting-edge research and Big Data technologies into real products. Your ability to learn and understand the challenges of building products from the ground level-up will be put to the test while ensuring quality for the implementation of high-level, high-visibility applications using the latest, bleeding-edge technology.

 What you’ll be doing:

·         Build and operate one of world's largest machine learning infrastructures

·         Work closely with science, development and product teams throughout the dev lifecycle and
deployment process, to ensure high-quality releases and successful outcomes

·         Responsible for application deployments, monitoring, and overall service availability

·         AWS: management of EC2, S3, and related technologies

·         Configuration and management of: DC/OS (Mesos/Marathon), Elasticsearch, Kafka, Hbase, Docker containers, Java services

·         Participate in on-call support for internal and customer-facing applications

·         Release management using Jenkins, Nexus and local Yum package repositories

·         Config management and orchestration using Ansible

·         Log management and analytics with the ELK stack

What we’re looking for:

·         Capable to independently investigate, and solve complex software issues with minimal supervision

·         Strong team player with excellent communication, documentation and problem-solving skills

·         3+ years of relevant experience in similar roles

·         Senior-level experience with Linux system administration, including networking, performance tuning,
troubleshooting and internals

·         Familiarity with Amazon Web Services and Docker represent a major advantage

·         Experience working in an Agile environment

·         BS degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent practical experience

What makes you a great fit:·         

·         Experience with Ansible and Docker

·         Experience with AWS platform or other Cloud platforms

·         Strong Linux knowledge·         

·         Experience working with large-scale workflows and distributed processing systems

 

Life at RWS - We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives  us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch 
 As a company focused on connecting people through language, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our company culture. RWS is an Equal Opportunities Employer and we are committed in ensuring that all employees work in an environment free from all forms of harassment and discrimination and one that actively promotes teamwork, diversity and trust. All employees have a right to be treated with respect and dignity. RWS operate in a manner for the inclusion of all - any form of discrimination is expressly prohibited. Employees are selected and promoted on merit alone and no other factors whether race, gender, age, religion, marital status, gender identity or disability are taken into consideration. 
We are proud to work in a company where all can succeed and grow their career and while RWS operates in accordance with all local employment laws, if local law enables any form of discrimination this is against RWS company policy and we will adhere to the highest standard.   

Recruitment Agencies: RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes.  Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees.  Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.                                          

“RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.”