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/CD
• Articulate 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 hardware
• Develop, coordinate, and administrate AWS infrastructure by integrating cloud native services with third party products
• Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
• Build and manage VPC Environments that cover Sandbox, DEV, Test, Production, Training, Support
• Fulfill containerization (Docker etc) troubleshooting and support task
• Agile ways of working
• This role requires you to know how to architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and be a good leader for your team
• Key technologies: Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, Automation
• Strong experience of Kubernetes
• Experience of DevOps concepts and deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third-party tools
• Excellent Shell Scripting and Python skills
• Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms (Datadog/Prometheus)
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments
• Able to assess security of existing applications and define standards for new projects
• Experience with Nix desirable
• The role requires an expert who can work without supervision while being a good team player
• Work with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/Business teams to understand needs and map them into processes and solutions within the platform
• Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology for differentiation, efficiency and better user experiences
• Ability to work to very tight timescales while maintaining quality product development
• Build a robust automated test suite to support a CI/CD environment
• Work with internal and vendor development/business teams
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements
• Write well-designed, testable, quality code following clean code principles

Skills, Knowledge, and qualification

AWS, Cloud, Java

Role

DevOps Engineer

Location

Slough - Berkshire, UK.

Salary

£28,000 to 30,000

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

The personal traits we are looking for are:

• Passion for technology
• Showing initiative
• Self-learning - Being a team player, i.e. take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledge

Any of the below certifications are advantageous:

• 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