Role: DevOps Engineer

Location: Slough-Berkshire, UK

Salary: £38000 - £40000

IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for development, maintenance, and ongoing support of the platform, acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay at the forefront of DevOps technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical translation.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, building, and deploying secure services.
• Engage in platform build/support activities, including developing hardened base containers.
• Identify and advise on best practices and delivery risks.
• Assist in service topology discovery and define QA and deployment pipelines.
• Drive adoption of new tools and improve support processes.
• Assess applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud-native services with third-party products.
• Enhance existing services for performance and stability.
• Build and manage VPC environments for various stages including Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.
• Automate deployments using infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
• Support containerization tasks with Docker and related technologies.
• Operate within agile methodologies.
• Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters; lead your team effectively.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, and Automation.
• Experience with AWS autoscaling, Karpenter, and Crossplane is a plus.
• Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.
• Strong scripting skills in Shell and Python.
• Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms like Datadog and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and assessing application security.
• Experience with Nix is desirable.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, collaborating with stakeholders and solving business problems innovatively.
• Capable of working under tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
• Develop automated test suites to support CI/CD environments.
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements and write clean, testable code.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications

AWS, Azure, Java, Cloud, Cyber Security

Nice-to-Have Technologies and Experience

• Nginx
• IPv4 Networking
• Software engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node)
• Test automation
• Relational and non-relational data technologies

Personal Traits

• Passion for technology
• Initiative
• Self-learning
• Team player with ownership and contribution to team capability

Certifications (Optional but Advantageous)

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
• ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management