Description
Senior Digital Web Ops
Whitehall Resources are currently looking for a Senior Digital Web Ops based in South Yorkshire for an initial 6-month contract.
* PLEASE NOTE THIS ROLE HAS BEEN DEEMED INSIDE OF IR35*
Technologies:
You will have demonstrable experience of cloud technologies including AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform, plus excellent working knowledge of Linux (including troubleshooting, Scripting and automation) along with practical experience of CI/CD pipelines.
An understanding of version control with Git is essential.
You will:
- 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
- hare 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)
You'll have:
- 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
As a Senior Web Ops engineer, you'll also have:
- 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
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.