Description
Job Title: DevOps and Cloud Architect
Location: London, UK
Type: Contract role (Inside Ir35)
Job Specification:
Required skills
The candidate must have proven hands-on experience in all areas outlined below.
- Proven hands-on 8+ years of experience supporting and maintaining on-premises and/or cloud infrastructures or in a DevOps-related role
- Proven hands-on 4+ years of experience working with cloud computing (AWS and/or Azure)
- Minimum 10+ years experience in the software development area
- Proven experience with Systems Administration using Linux (Redhat, CentOS) and/or Microsoft Windows Server, as well as containerized architectures (Docker and/or Kubernetes)
- Vast experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps and Jenkins) integrating with either on-premises or cloud-based platforms
- Must have a solid knowledge of automating processes/code in Python, PowerShell, Rust or another modern language
- Strong experience with Networking and troubleshooting (TCP/IP, DNS, Firewalls, LAN/WAN, Traceroute, Wireshark, cURL and/or related)
- Exposure to IaC and hands-on experience with application and database deployment concepts (Blue/Green, Canary)
- Having a good grasp of infrastructure hardening (cloud and on-premises) and enhancing the SDLC through security tooling (SAST, DAST, IAST, MAST)
- Experience with modern application packaging, deployment, containerization, and other supporting tools (SonarQube, Checkmarx, Jira, Confluence, etc.)
- Previous exposure to logging and monitoring software (AppDynamics, DataDog, NewRelic)
- Highly accountable and takes ownership. Outstanding work ethic, high-integrity and a team player.
Desired skills
- Azure or AWS DevOps or Solution Architect certification
- Experience with software development in any of the following frameworks: .NET Framework or .NET Core, NodeJS, and PHP (Drupal)
- Experience with database automation through DevOps tooling
- Experience with some of the following tools: Ansible/Packer/Puppet/Terraform
- Contributions to open-source projects is a plus