Description
DevOps EngineerLeeds, up to 2 years, £
Summary of the work
The DevOps Engineer will play a key role delivering and supporting the Data Platform. Working as part of a multidisciplinary agile team, they will support Network, Technical and Data Architects & Engineers to ensure solutions make use of open source technologies, are deliverable and maintainable. Strong collaboration across disciplines is a must.
Maintain and improve the Data Platform utilising their Linux admin skills, develop configuration management, orchestration and virtualisation scripts using but not limited to Ansible & Open stack. Improve platform monitoring using Sensu and Prometheus. Manage code versioning using Git. Work in an agile environment following a prioritised backlog.
Essential Skills
*Experience designing & building systems within a devops culture - particularly experience of optimisation of development and support processes through the use of automation.
*Demonstrable experience applying DevOps technologies: Linux administrator in particular, GitHub, Config Management, Continuous Integration, Cloud technologies, Virtualisation Tools, Monitoring utilities (Sensu or Prometheus), Disaster recovery process/tools
*Experience implementing and supporting digital solutions for Government, Critical National Infrastructure or large-scale industry systems
*Experienced in troubleshooting and problem resolution. Able to dissect a problem to its component parts to identify and diagnose root causes. Able to troubleshoot and identify problems across different technology capabilities.
*System Integration: Integrates and tests components, systems and their interfaces to create operational services.
*Has knowledge of range of the following technologies: Hadoop, Flume, Sqoop, Map Reduce, Hive/Impala, Hbase, Kafka, Spark Streaming, experience with ETL tools incorporating Big Data Shell Scripting, Python
Nice to Have Skills
*Have an understanding of the following network technologies: LAN, WAN, VPN and SD Networks
*Physical Hardware & Cabling set-up experience
*Experience of implementing and supporting BIG data analytics platforms built on top of Hadoop
*Has an appreciation of information security, designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as core part of the solutions and services.
** Please note that SC clearance will be required for this post and therefore you must be eligible to obtain this level of clearance.**
People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
People Source specialise in technology recruitment across niche markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.