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 platform development, maintenance, and support. The role involves 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 using CI/CD methodologies.
• Design logical infrastructure and translate it into physical setups.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, aiding in building and deploying secure services.
• Develop and support platform activities, including 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 to improve integration approaches and support processes.
• Work with AWS to assess applications and hardware, and manage AWS infrastructure integrating cloud-native services and third-party tools.
• Enhance existing tech stacks for performance and stability.
• 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 involving Docker and similar technologies.
• Apply agile working practices.
• 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 (a plus).
• Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.
• Strong scripting skills in Shell and Python.
• Experience with monitoring and metrics platforms such as Datadog and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments, assessing security and defining standards.
• Experience with Nix is desirable.
• Work independently and collaboratively with stakeholders, including Solution Architects and business teams.
• Innovate 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 needs and write clean, testable, and high-quality code.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications

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

Nice-to-Have Technologies and Experience:

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

Personal Traits

• Passion for technology
• Initiative and self-learning ability
• Team player with ownership attitude

Certifications (Preferred)

• 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