Description
We have an exciting Job opportunity for Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: London, UK
Job type: Contract
Roles & Responsibilities:
- As a senior DevOps Engineer you will be expected to take a major role in designing, building and supporting our new platforms.
- You will be expected to be able to contribute along our stack, ranging from our cloud platforms to our containerised developer offerings.
- We will expect you to take a keen interest in developing our junior engineers, in addition we would actively wish you to be involved in spreading our culture to the wider technology teams.
- The client engages in critical work for the nation, as such the work you contribute towards our technology transformation will have a genuine impact.
- We expect you to have had substantial experience in a number of DevOps projects and competence with a few key technologies.
Required Skills:
Minimum Criteria
- Extensive Kubernetes experience, including production support.
- Understanding and practical implementation of both CI and CD.
- Extensive cloud automation experience [AWS, GCP or Azure].
- Extensive experience with Linux based systems.
- Ability to develop in one or more languages.
- Previous use of git for source control.
- Willing to mentor junior employees.
- Willing to experiment and fail fast.
- Have a security-first focus, baked-in not bolted-on.
Desirable Criteria
- Previous experience in Python or Golang.
- Previous experience of Ansible and Terraform.
- Understanding of observability and its implementation.
- Understanding and ability to provide quality, automated testing as you develop.
- Ability to design solutions independently.
- Networking knowledge.
- Understanding of data science concepts.