Description
Venesky-Brown's client, a public sector organisation based in Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit 3x DevOps Engineers for initial 6 month contracts on a rate of c.£/day (outside of IR35). Due to the current circumstances these roles will be remote based for the foreseeable future.
Responsibilities:
- Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable, and performant way.
- Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleague.
- Ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable, and secure.
- Have a deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
- Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Skype, Google Docs, Confluence, Jira).
- Adopt current, established ways of working and advise on improving them. The specialist will be pro-active in identifying areas to improve.
- Willingness to carry out day to day operational work.
- Have a no-blame culture and encourage people to learn from their mistakes.
- Take responsibility for their work.
- Share knowledge and experience with other team members.
- Challenge the status quo.
- Be comfortable standing up for their discipline.
- Be able to work with clients with low technical expertise.
- Willingness for after hours work and some weekend work when required (in shifts or for TOIL).
Requirements:
- 3+ years in a practical DevOps role with AWS
- Can demonstrate practical experience with RHEL or Amazon Linux or ECS
- 3+ years coding with Python or Ansible
- Demonstrable experience of Puppet
- Demonstrable experience of using VCS (Version Control System) in team environments (eg Git, GitHub, BitBucket)
- Demonstrable experience delivering CI/CD pipelines, ideally with Jenkins
- Able to demonstrate mentoring colleagues in automation, security, and reliability, within a DevOps context
- Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation
Desirable Skills:
- Hashicorp tooling (eg Terraform, Packer, Vault)
- Infrastructure as Code experience (eg Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation)
- Database experience (ideally in one of MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, AWS Aurora, AWS RDS)
- Containerisation experience (ideally in Docker, AWS ECS, AWS EKS, Docker Swarm, any Kubernetes distribution)
- Can demonstrate a firm grasp of DevOps and Agile methodologies
- Demonstrable experience of Nexus or Foreman
- Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg finance, government)
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.