Back End Development Operations Engineer

Uniphar are looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to assist in the maintenance and expansion of our platform and infrastructure. The ideal candidate will possess skills in maintaining a Java-based application built using Spring, and an ability to maintain, support and improve the infrastructure through which the application is built, tested, deployed and monitored.

Working as part of an agile team, the DevOps Engineer will liaise with colleagues contribute as an individual developer, and work with the Technical Architect and other stakeholders to understand and improve our operations over time. There is a diversity of requirements on our road map, and the chosen candidate can expect to alternate focus between contributing towards the development of the application's suite of RESTful API's, using best practices such as TDD and CI/CD, and improving the surrounding infrastructure, delivered in AWS using Aurora, EC2, ELB, Terraform, Tomcat, Apache, and other associated technologies.

Responsibilities

• Work with colleagues to identify requirements for features.
• Maintain and expand our suite of RESTful APIs
• Apply SOLID design principles and TDD to implement new features in our Java-based platform leveraging Spring and Hibernate.
• Design alterations to our MySQL database schema, using Flyway for versioning.
• Undertake Proofs of Concepts for new technologies.
• Support the evolution of our CI/CD Pipelines, currently delivered using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, S3, Make, EC2, Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
• Help keep our Infrastructure up to date with evolving cloud landscape, and improve our offering across such features as backups, monitoring, networking, alerting, security, versioning, deployments, etc.
• Participate in code review, daily remote standups, and fortnightly retrospectives, demos and
• planning meetings.
• Help establish agreed standards and ways of working. Improve documentation to ease the developer experience.

Requirements

The requirements listed below should be interpreted as a guide, and we encourage applications from candidates who have experience only across a subset of these items provided they have demonstrated an ability to learn new technologies and have an appetite for growth:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience working with AWS - ELB, RDS, EC2, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, VPN, Route 53, S3, Cognito, etc.
• Linux experience.
• History working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong ability to code in Java.
• Knowledge of, and ability to apply, good coding practices (SOLID design principles, design patterns, TDD, etc) to produce modularised, extensible, easily-understood code.
• Familiarity with Spring and enterprise-level coding considerations - transactions, memory usage, aspect-oriented programming, logging, security, role-based access control, etc.
• Experience designing and implementing RESTful APIs.
• History using version control (git), build and dependency management (Maven).
• Familiarity with RDBMS (MySQL) and performance considerations.
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Familiarity with database schema versioning (e.g. Flyway).
• Experience with the Atlassian suite - JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence, etc.
• Familiarity with OpenAPI/Swagger, Postman
• Familiarity with authentication technologies - JWTs, OAuth, OIDC, MFA.

Uniphar Background

Uniphar Group is a rapidly expanding diversified healthcare services business with a global footprint and a proud heritage in Ireland. Since Uniphar became a publicly listed company in 2019, the Group has grown organically and through a series of strategic acquisitions, which continue to strengthen Uniphar's international reach. With a workforce of more than 3,000 spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and medtech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines and treatments around the world.

Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world's best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Uniphar Supply Chain & Retail, Uniphar Medtech and Uniphar Pharma

Uniphar Pharma

Pharma is a global division operating across US, Europe, APAC and MENA, bringing a range of pharma services to manufacturers across the product life cycle. We leverage this platform to provide unlicensed medicines, or medicines that are otherwise difficult to source. In addition, we commercialise launch and established brands to HCPs on behalf of pharmaceutical clients across the globe. The core to this division is providing equitable access to medicines globally.

Culture at Uniphar

From our leadership team and across all of our divisions, Uniphar lives and breathes four key culture pillars:

1.We have a People First approach, we do the right thing and take a stand for our people.

2.We foster a strong Entrepreneurial Spirit where Adaptability, Commitment & Resilience is embodied in our way of working.

3.We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people.

4. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Join Uniphar and be part of an inclusive, innovative, and growth-oriented team. Check out our EVP to see why you should join us:

How we'd like to work together

As we are a global team, there is flexibility to be based in one of Uniphar's offices or work from home. There may be a need for face to face meetings in other locations, as needed. There may also some flexibility required in order to interact with colleagues or clients in their time zones (i.e. it's not a '9 to 5' type of job). In return, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it through our Hybrid Working philosophy.