Description
We are heading up a recruitment drive for a global consultancy that require a Platform Engineer to join them on a major Government project that's based in the UK.
Description:
Job Title: Platform Engineer/DevOps Engineer (Server Build, Pipelines, EaC)
Max Rate: £586/day
Clearance required: BPSS & financial
Nationality Requirement: RTW UK
Interview process: 1 stage Teams
Location: Glasgow: Remote delivery initially. Some time on site once Covid restrictions ease. Someone who is commutable to Glasgow would be beneficial
Sector: Public
End User: Student Loans Company
IR35 Status: PAYE only
Job Description:
What you/'ll do:
- Build and Administer instances and services in the public cloud for Development, QA, and Production environments.
- Script, test and deploy new versions of environments and target infrastructures.
- Support development and QA across various projects to satisfy their day to day needs.
- Study and implement new tools for increased productivity, security, reliability and performance.
- Develop tools and services useful in DevOps environments such as performance monitoring, security monitoring, deployment/configuration, continuous integration/build Servers and cloud resource creation scripts.
- Create documentation of current and newly implemented environments with associated troubleshooting steps.
What you/'ll bring:
- Windows configuration, management and administration (IIS).
- Linux configuration, management and administration.
- Experience working in cloud environments like AWS and Azure.
- Familiarity with Amazon cloud solutions and architectures (EC2, S3, Cloud Formation, RDS, CloudWatch, SES, and SQS etc). Hands-on experience highly desired.
- Familiarity with Azure Cloud Solutions/Azure DevOps and architectures (Windows VM's, Web Apps, SQL Database, Document Store, BI stack, Virtual Network, Azure AD).
- Architect, build and maintain DevOps solutions for enterprise applications into cloud environments.
- Experience of working on-prem and Cloud DevOps environment.
- Good understanding of CloudFormation and ARM (or similar Infrastructure as Code' technologies)
- Solid understanding of cloud security models and best practices
- Good understanding of modern CI/CD methods and approaches
- User or administrator experience with any/all of Atlassian stack (Jira, Confluence, Stash, Bamboo), TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, New Relic, TrendMicro.
- Strong experience with SQL and NoSQL databases such MySQL, PostgreSQL, DB/2, MongoDB, DynamoDB
- Experience with automation/configuration management using toolsets such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet or equivalent
- Experience of enterprise systems deployed as micro-services through code pipelines utilizing containerisation (Docker), Kubernetes
- Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies and tools
- Working knowledge, understanding and ability to write scripts using languages including Bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell and an ability to understand Java, C#, JavaScript or PHP
- Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
- Experience of networks, security, load balancers, DNS and other infrastructure components and their application to cloud environments
- Expertise in system monitoring and alerting strategies and can draw on their experience to drive improvements in system monitoring with automation, third party tools and frameworks and validating external suppliers
- Cloud certified DevOps and/or Architect.