Devops Engineer

Description

DevOps Engineer - 3months - Chester

My client is a market leader in the online/e-commerce field and have a number of exciting ongoing and greenfield projects which require contract resource.

You will be working across Development and Operations teams to ensure that my client design, engineer and deliver web application platforms to support the rapid and safe development and release of high quality code. Working with the broader DevOps team you will enable the delivery of world-class web applications, on time, to business requirements which are maintainable, scalable, resilient and portable.

You will automate the end to end deployment process, taking responsibility for compute, storage, network, security, scalability, resilience, load balancing, failover, deployment and monitoring.

THE ROLE:
- Design and build a "one-click" deployment pipeline using a combination of Jenkins, RightScale and Puppet
- Design a secure, scalable, operationally robust infrastructure (primarily on AWS).
- Develop solutions that are cloud-agnostic where possible. Ensuring you design solutions with a balance on operations and development.
- Continuously improve and refine the build and deployment process.
- Own the development, QA, staging and production environments and deployments
- Provide leadership on best technology and process practice to drive the development teams forward.
- Provide 3rd line support, including out of hours on-call

KEY SKILLS REQUIRED:
- Jenkins / Hudson
- Puppet / Vagrant / Shell
- Building Continuous Integration / Delivery Pipeline in Jenkins
- Amazon AWS (EC2, Route 53, ELB, S3)
- Redhat / CentOS
- Provisioning and deploying auto-scaling solutions in AWS
- Strong sysadmin coding skills
- Understanding of software configuration issues
- Software build tools - Maven, SBT
- SCM tools and management
- Enterprise-class open source monitoring tools
- Hypervisors and storage
- Host networking - subnets/routing, firewalls, DNS/DHCP
- Ability to demonstrate the design and support of a robust build, deployment and configuration management system for multi-tier applications

DESIRABLE SKILLS:
- RightScale
- Ruby
- Java / JVM tuning
- Testing tools (cucumber-js, junit)
- Administering applications servers, servlet containers and web servers (WebSphere, Apache Tomcat, Jetty, Nginx, Apache HTTP server)
- Big Data platforms, data warehousing
- Openstack private cloud
- Experience with system performance testing and tuning
- Worked with 3 tier applications stack
- Secured applications and OS's to ensure high levels of security
- Used to working with a wide range of teams i.e. development, sysadmin, servicedesk, etc.
- Managing change within a fast paced, live production environment

Contract Location: Chester, Cheshire
Contract Length: 3 months with very likely extension
Contract Rate: £425- £500 per day dependant upon experience

If interested, please submit your most recent CV and I will call you as soon as possible to discuss.