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 developing, maintaining, and supporting 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 practices.
• Design logical architectures and understand their translation to physical infrastructure.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, aiding in secure service deployment.
• Develop and support platform activities, such as creating hardened base containers.
• Identify and advise on best practices and delivery risks.
• Assist engineers with service topology discovery and define QA and deployment pipelines.
• Promote adoption of new tools and improve support processes for users.
• Assess applications, software, and hardware using AWS.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud native services with third-party products.
• Enhance existing services for better performance and reliability.
• Build and manage VPC environments for various stages like Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.
• Automate deployments using infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
• Support containerization tasks, including troubleshooting Docker environments.
• Work in an agile manner.
• Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, demonstrating leadership.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and automation.
• Experience with autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter, and Crossplane is a plus.
• Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.
• Strong shell scripting and Python skills.
• Experience with monitoring and 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 collaboratively, engaging with stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into solutions.
• Innovative problem-solving to leverage technology for business advantages.
• Work efficiently under tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
• Develop automated test suites to support CI/CD environments.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to design and document solutions.
• Write clean, testable, and high-quality code following best practices.

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

Desired Personal Traits

• Passion for technology
• Initiative
• Self-learning ability
• Team player, ownership-oriented

Certifications (Advantages)

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for J2SE 6.0
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
• ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management