Description
Senior DevOps Engineer
£pd umbrella | Sheffield | 6 months | Inside IR35
My government client is looking for a talented Senior DevOps Engineer to assist with an exciting 6 month project in Sheffield.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices; assist in the building of a complex story; and act as a technical Product Owner developing medium-long term strategies for product lines - identifying, testing and championing the adoption of emerging technologies.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Help build and run user-centred, open source, web systems to serve a variety of citizen and government needs
- Be responsible for automating the deployment of systems that follow standard patterns, or components of systems that are more complex
- Manage infrastructure for multiple environments through code
- Build tools to automate infrastructure management tasks
- Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team and community, both developers and non-developers
- Help build and maintain a diverse, inclusive culture across the development community, growing awareness, inclusivity, and balance
- Occasionally participate in 2nd line support during office hours, and sometimes out of hours (for which you'll be paid an allowance and further hourly payment when on call)
Skills & Experience:
- Experience of modern development and deployment techniques, including continuous integration and continuous delivery
- An understanding of version control (ideally with Git)
- Experience working in agile environments
- Experience defining a solution using configuration management tools such as Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt
- Awareness of how to set up and maintain continuous delivery and deployment pipelines using CircleCI, Jenkins, or similar
- Awareness of the use of containers, distributed schedulers, and minimal operating systems
- Worked with cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, Or Google Cloud in a production system
- A systematic approach to solving problems
- Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, TLS, etc
- An awareness of the use of programming languages such as Python, Javascript, etc within a production codebase
- The ability to quickly learn new tools and techniques and willingness to pick the right tool for the job
- The ability to manage technical debt appropriately and proportionately
- Knowledge of open source principles and technologies
- Experience of mentoring and supporting your colleagues, whether one-to-one or in groups
This is an urgent requirement and my client is looking to move quickly for the right Senior DevOps Engineer.
Please direct any questions to Ashleigh Roberts at Berkeley Square IT or apply now for immediate consideration.