Description
Location: London, minimum 2 days a week in the office
Pay rate: £pd Inside IR35 MAX
Duration: 12 months
Position: Dev Ops Engineer
You must be SC eligible to apply for this role (must have been living in the UK for 5+ years with no breaks)
As a Dev Ops Engineer you will have experience in the following:
- Linux Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 7/8, Use, operate, configure, patch and secure
- Security: TLS& PKI, Cloud Security, CIS Benchmarks, NCSC Cloud Security Principals
- Networking: TCP/IP, Routing, DNS, VPC Peering, VPC Endpoints
- Cloud Provisioning: Terraform, CloudFormation, Packer, Cloud-init
- Cloud Experience: Deploying, Supporting, AWS (compute, networking, storage), GCP (compute, networking, storage)
- Virtualisation: EC2, VMWare
- Monitoring and Metrics: Graphite, Prometheus, Zabbix, Alert Manager, Pagerduty, Cloudwatch, Splunk
- Development Languages: Python, Go, Bash, Ruby
- Testing: Unit Testing, Infrastructure Testing
- Containerisation: Docker, Podman
- Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet
- Version Control: Git
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment: GitLab CI, Jenkins
- Container Orchestration: Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm, Docker Compose
- Clustering and load balancing: haproxy, traefik, nginx, service mesh (linkerd, istio, consul connect)
Person specification- the ideal candidate:
- Flexible/adaptable. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
- Takes responsibility/ownership. Proactively removes blockers to ensure that work is delivered. Is able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
- High standards. Is committed to quality and is therefore willing to challenge colleagues and to constantly question their own approach.
- Openness to criticism and ideas. Draws value from collaboration with others. Actively seeks input from colleagues and values a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
- Strategic thinking and visioning. Able to understand and communicate the big picture and use it to prioritise and judge impact of smaller tasks and objectives.
- Creativity/innovation. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems. Isn't bound by the status quo.
- Enthusiasm. Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude, even under pressure.
- Considerate. Enjoys working with and is sensitive to the needs of others. Values a positive working environment.
Candidates must be ready to quickly get to work within an agile multi-disciplinary team of developers, designers, analysts and architects.
We are looking for the kind of person who enjoys a challenge. You will be working with hundreds of microservices across hundreds of instances alongside tens of delivery teams. Day-to-day you will be using your experience and technical skills to support the programme to design, implement, operate and evolve new and existing services and infrastructure. You'll be using well established technologies within strict security constraints, that you're welcome to challenge.
If you have the skills required, then please apply for further information.