IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for 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 at the forefront of DevOps technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD practices.
• Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical translation.
• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, aiding in secure service deployment.
• Build/support platforms, including developing hardened containers.
• Identify and advise on best practice deviations and delivery risks.
• Assist engineers with service topology discovery and define QA/deployment pipelines.
• Promote adoption of new tools and improve support processes.
• Collaborate with AWS to assess applications, software, and hardware.
• Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud-native and third-party services.
• Optimize existing services for performance and reliability.
• Build and manage VPC environments for various stages (Sandbox, Dev, Test, Production, Training, Support).
• Support containerization tasks, e.g., Docker.
• Follow agile methodologies.
• Architect, design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters; lead team efforts.
• Proficiency in Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, Automation.
• Experience with autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter, and Crossplane (a plus).
• Strong scripting skills in Shell and Python.
• Experience with monitoring platforms like Datadog and Prometheus.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and ability to assess application security.
• Experience with Nix is desirable.
• Work independently and collaboratively, engaging with stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Innovate solutions to improve processes, efficiency, and user experience.
• Manage tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
• Develop automated test suites supporting CI/CD environments.
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements.
• Write clean, testable, high-quality code.

Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications

• Proficiency with AWS, Cloud, Java.
• Additional technologies such as Nginx, IPv4 Networking, C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node, and data technologies are advantageous.
• Certifications like AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Sun Certified Java Programmer, or ITILv3 are a plus.

Role Details

Position: DevOps Engineer - 12

Location: Slough, Berkshire, UK

Salary: £38,000 to £42,000