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 the development, maintenance, and ongoing support of the platform. The role acts as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay updated with the latest DevOps tools and technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD pipelines.
• Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical implementation.
• Support teams in mapping their stories to available platforms, aiding in secure service deployment.
• Build and support platforms, including developing hardened containers.
• Identify and advise on best practice deviations and delivery risks.
• Assist engineers in service topology discovery and defining QA and deployment pipelines.
• Promote adoption of new tools to enhance integration approaches and support processes.
• Collaborate with AWS to assess applications and hardware.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud-native services with third-party products.
• Improve existing service configurations for better performance and stability.
• Build and manage VPC environments for various stages such as Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.
• Automate deployments using infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
• Support containerization and troubleshoot related issues.
• Work within agile methodologies.
• Design, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters; lead team efforts.
• Utilize Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, and Automation tools.
• Implement autoscaling solutions on AWS, such as Karpenter.
• Experience with Crossplane is a plus.
• Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.
• Proficient in Shell Scripting and Python.
• Use monitoring platforms like Datadog and Prometheus.
• Follow security best practices in cloud environments and assess application security.
• Knowledge of Nix is desirable.
• Work independently and collaboratively with stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Propose innovative technological solutions to improve business processes and user experience.
• Manage tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
• Develop automated test suites to support CI/CD environments.
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements.
• Write clean, testable, high-quality code.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Azure, Java, Cloud, Cyber Security.

Nice-to-Have Technologies and Experience

• Nginx
• IPv4 Networking
• Software engineering skills in C/C++, Java, Python, Go, Rust, Node.js
• Test automation
• Relational and non-relational data technologies

Desired Personal Traits

• Passion for technology
• Initiative
• Self-learning ability
• Team player with ownership and contribution mindset

Certifications (Advantages)

• 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