Description
Senior DevOps Engineer - Contract role - INSIDE IR35 - up to £750 per day - remote working
My client is looking for a senior DevOps engineer to join their Cloud Foundations team on an interim assignment. The team manages Public Cloud Governance, with an additional focus of facilitating cloud adoption and advocating for Cloud Native technologies.
Main responsibilities
- Define and support GCP platform- level and resource management initiatives - from logging to FinOps.
- Maintain and improve GCP and AWS governance and security tooling and various internal systems.
- Support multi- tenant Kubernetes infrastructure for internal customers.
- Help build out internal best practices around public cloud usage and enablement.
- Work with other engineering teams to help them build applications in the Cloud.
- Work closely with other build, production and other infrastructure teams on ensuring smooth migration to Google Cloud Platform.
Skills to create thrills
- Solid SRE/DevOps/Platform engineering experience.
- Experience with some of the following: public cloud governance, Cloud FinOps, distributed compute environments, serverless compute, application development, big data analytics, cloud computing including containerization, hosted services and multi- tenant cloud infrastructures.
- Programming experience preferably with Python or Go.
- Experience working with declarative tools for defining cloud resources, terraform and Helm.
- Good knowledge of SQL, preferably BigQuery.
Bonus skills
- Excellent knowledge of Google Cloud Platform. Certified Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or similar..
- Experience rolling out changes to public cloud governance - GCP org policies or, IAM controls
- Experience building secure and scalable environments within Google Cloud Platform (we use a mix of containers in GKE, Cloud Functions, Cloud Run for deploying our apps).
- Familiarity with modern cloud- native architectures.
- Experience working with public cloud billing data.
- Experience deploying and working with secret management solutions like HashiCorp Vault.
- Working knowledge of containers and orchestration technologies and knowledge of various architectural patterns preferably Google Kubernetes Engine.
- Experience of CI/CD like Drone CI or Cloud Build.
- Knowledge of monitoring systems and frameworks, Google Cloud operations suite, Prometheus or Grafana.
- Knowledge of BI/reporting tools
- Experience dealing with hybrid environments with multiple dependencies.
- Strong Linux and computer networking expertise is beneficial.