Devops Engineer

Summary

Join our team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and contribute to the creation and delivery of technology solutions. This remote UK-based role (6-month contract) requires active SC clearance and 5 years of continuous UK residency. You will provide technical support and leadership, working with cloud computing infrastructure and ensuring application deployment in cloud environments. Responsibilities include capacity management, process optimization, information security, and systems design. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, AWS, and various automation tools.

Requirements

• Must have been using Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins & AWS actively in the last 2 years
• A background in automating application deployment and configuration management
• Strong Linux Sysadmin skills
• Containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker & Kubernetes)
• Good knowledge of internet communication concepts and protocols - TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP
• Experience of deploying Continuous Integration solutions
• An awareness of security considerations in web application deployment
• Monitoring / Logging aka ELK, Prometheus / Grafana etc
• Strong AWS knowledge - EC2, EKS, RDS, Aurora, networking, cost management
• Active SC clearance
• UK National (dual nationality not accepted)
• Must have lived in the UK continuously for the last 5 years

Responsibilities

• Conduct investigations and tests of complex software systems to enhance performance or to investigate and resolve matters of significance
• Review completion and implementation of technical products to ensure success and timeliness
• Evaluate vendor capabilities on projects to provide required products or services
• Provide leadership and work guidance to less experienced personnel
• Provide technical consultation to other organizations; interact with senior customer personnel and internal senior management
• Provide the customer base with first level support
• Availability and capacity management. You ensure the correct implementation of standards and procedures, identifying capacity issues, stipulating the required changes, and instigating these. You know how to initiate remedial action
• Development process optimisation. You can identify process optimisation opportunities and drive implementation of proposed solutions
• Information security. You know about information security and can design solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services
• Modern standards approach. You can apply modern standards approach competently and can guide others in its use
• Programming and build (software engineering). You collaborate with others when necessary to review specifications and use these agreed specifications to design, code, test and document programs or scripts of medium-to-high complexity, using the right standards and tools
• Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones
• Service support. You will be able to demonstrate a breadth of understanding of service support
• Systems design. You can design systems characterised by medium levels of risk, impact, and business or technical complexity. You know how to select appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively. You can review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and the integration of multiple systems and technology
• Systems integration. You can define the integration build. You can coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration testing activities
• User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used

Preferred Qualifications

• Automation / Configuration management tools experience, i.e., RedHat, Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Knowledge of IAC technologies such as Cloudformation or Terraform