DevOps Engineer

Overview

IT Global Consulting Limited

- Seeking an experienced and highly motivated ‘DevOps Engineer’ who is responsible for the development, maintenance and ongoing support for the platform and acting as the internal focal point for a enterprise platform. The person should be self-motivated and ambitious, with an ongoing desire to maintain their knowledge level at the forefront of the DevOps process and technologies.Duties and Responsibilities

Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CDArticulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure.Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers.Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk.Supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines.Driving adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users.Work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to assess applications, software and hardwareDevelop, coordinate, and administrate AWS infrastructure by integrating cloud native services with third party productsEnhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issuesBuild and manage VPC Environments that cover Sandbox, DEV, Test, Production, Training, SupportFulfill containerization (Docker etc) troubleshooting and support taskAgile ways of workingThis role requires you to know how to architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and be a good leader for your teamKey technologies: Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, AutomationStrong experience of KubernetesExperience of DevOps concepts and deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third-party toolsExcellent Shell Scripting and Python skillsExperience with monitoring/metrics platforms (Datadog/Prometheus)Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environmentsAble to assess security of existing applications and define standards for new projectsExperience with Nix desirableThe role requires an expert who can work without supervision while being a good team playerWork with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/Business teams to understand needs and map them into processes and solutions within the platformSuggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology for differentiation, efficiency and better user experiencesAbility to work to very tight timescales while maintaining quality product developmentBuild a robust automated test suite to support a CI/CD environmentWork with internal and vendor development/business teamsDesign and document solutions based on business requirementsWrite well-designed, testable, quality code following clean code principlesSkills, Knowledge, and qualification

AWS, Cloud, JavaRole

DevOps EngineerLocation

Slough - Berkshire, UK.Salary

£28,000 to 30,000Nice to have technologies and experience:

NginxIPv4 NetworkingSoftware engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node)Test automationRelational and non-relational data technologiesThe personal traits we are looking for are:

Passion for technologyShowing initiativeSelf-learning - Being a team player, i.e. take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledgeAny of the below certifications are advantageous:

AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS Certified DevOps Engineer – ProfessionalSun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for J2SE 6.0Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service ..... full job details .....