Linux Devops Engineer

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Location - Remote working initially/London
Duration - 6 months
Rate - £600 - £650pd (inside ir35)

My financial services client is looking for a Linux Devops Engineer to support the Acquiring platform, the role requires the engineer to work as part of a team driving the positive profile of the team that fully supports the values. Activities will include designing, coding, testing, deploying, documenting large and/or complex Ansible playbooks and Puppet modules from supplied specifications using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result.

Working alongside the Infrastructure and Development teams to coordinate cross-department change, ensuring optimum service availability whilst maximising the throughput of required change, responsibilities will include the following:

*Designs, codes, tests, corrects and documents large and/or complex Ansible playbooks and Puppet modules from supplied specifications using agreed standards and tools, to achieve a well-engineered result.
*Create/modify Ansible playbooks for installation and setup of software products including: Oracle Grid Infrastructure, Oracle Database, IBM Middleware, Oracle Middleware, AWS, etc.
*Working with complex Puppet configurations in large infrastructure environments
*Building new physical and virtual Servers
*Take ownership of new initiatives and defining requirements and acceptance criteria for Proof of Concepts and taking suitable solutions into Test, Pre-Production, and up to Production environments.
*Deliver all solutions with an "automation first" approach that reduces and ultimately removes the need for any manual intervention for builds and deployments - ensuring consistency and speed for all environment delivery and change.
*Generating innovative solutions in work situations; applying "out of the box" thinking and challenging the status quo in dealing with work problems and opportunities
*Mentoring and training of engineers as required
*Define, develop and maintain documentation knowledgebase
*Proactively identify improvements and enhancements to working practices
*Compliance with incident resolution best practice
*Ability to work within an agile environment
*Ability to troubleshoot and support 3rd line recovery actions working with BAU teams

What you bring:
*5 years+ Linux system administration
*3 years+ of Hands-on experience in writing Ansible playbooks
*2 years+ in working with Puppet in complex configuration and environments
*Good knowledge and understanding of infrastructure concepts like, Routing, Firewalls, VIP's, bonding, SAN, multipathing, NAS, NFS, DNS, Active Directory etc.
*Working experience with GIT and GitHub for version control and continuous integration and continuous delivery of infrastructure.
*Good understanding of security, securing operating systems and secure coding
*VMWare hands-on experience
*Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
*Track record in delivering work to schedule and specification
*Degree level education (in related subject of computing, maths, science, engineering) or equivalent
*Good communication skills

Added bonus if you have:
*Experience in building infrastructure using Docker, Kubernetes
*Basic knowledge in AWS Could technologies
*Load balancing technologies (F5, ELB and cloud based)
*Experience of card processing security and applications within the finance industry (PCI-DSS)
*Good understanding of code profiling for capacity management like, memory utilization, CPU utilization etc.
*Experience of Gradle

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Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Spring Technology
Published at
29.07.2021
Project ID:
2173082
Contract type
Freelance
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