Description
DevOps Engineer - Edinburgh - Outside IR35
Day Rate - Market Rates
Duration - 6 months
Harvey Nash's Client is looking for a DevOps Engineer, you will be a part of an ambitious programme of technical transformation of delivering a new internally run system, as well as continuously improving the existing system.
As Dev Ops Engineer you will:
- Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
- provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
- ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
- have deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
- Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
- Be proactive on identifying improvements.
- Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
- Be able to work with clients with low technical expertise
- Some out of hours working may be required during release schedules and hotfixes.
- Working remotely to start. Once the Scottish Government confirms the return to office based working, it is expected we will return to the office on a part time basis/as required.
- Will be expected to attend meetings using MS Teams.
- Expected to make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Confluence and Jira).
Skills & Experience Required
- 3+ years in a practical DevOps role
- Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience
- Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale, ideally using AWS EKS
- Experience with Istio service mesh
- Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp tooling: Terraform and Vault
- Able to demonstrate ability to containerise services using best practices
- Can demonstrate practical experience with RedHat/CentOS/Amazon Linux
- Can demonstrate practical experience with containers and container orchestration
- Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
- Demonstrable experience of using VCS (Version Control System) in team environments (eg, git, GitHub, BitBucket)
- Demonstrable experience delivering CI/CD pipelines
- Able to demonstrate mentoring colleagues in automation, security, and reliability, within a DevOps context
- Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation
- Can demonstrate a firm grasp of DevOps and Agile methodologies
Please note that a BPSS Clearance is required for this post.