DevOps Engineer

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: London

Salary: TBC - We are booking interviews in next week! Please call or email for a slot

You'll need to have an understanding of Windows and Linux systems and DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team. Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods, and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate, and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes for our customers. Additionally, we're looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and system performance optimization to support seamless integration and testing processes.

The Role:

So, what will you be doing as a DevOps Engineer?

• Design, build, deploy and manage a broad set of IT Infrastructure aligning to customer needs and requirements, while leveraging infrastructure engineering best practices to maintain system reliability and scalability with a focus on automation and repeatability.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripts and integrate those with CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools, prioritising automation to streamline deployments.
• Provide full end to end systems lifecycle management covering architecture, design, deployment and support through to decommissioning and migration.
• Support the integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems, ensuring infrastructure components are robust and interoperable.
• Opportunities to experience the cloud by undertaking deployments in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, addressing potential constraints while optimizing infrastructure performance and security.

Further details:

• Advanced understanding of DevSecOps. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration.
• Expert in Windows and Linux systems administration (Active Directory etc).
• Expert in Virtualisation technologies and concepts - VMware vsphere, ARIA Ops performance monitoring, software defined networking - NSX.
• Advanced understanding of Web proxy servers and configuration - Squid.
• Experience of Automation technologies Terraform and Ansible for complex builds, Packer.
• Experience of CI/CD pipeline builds - Jenkins.
• Understanding of Git/Bitbucket/GitLab integration, coding and branching strategies.
• Proficient in the use and administration of Containerisation technologies - Kubernetes, Docker.
• Proficient in Powershell, bash scripting.
• Proficient in Python.
• Proficient in the use of Networking skills - IPv4 addressing and routing.
• Experience of Logging and monitoring using Zabbix and Splunk.
• Experience of Cloud and AWS concepts and technologies.

Desired Skills:

• Can support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.
• Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on Cloud.
• Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.
• Experience using the AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate integration tasks.
• Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments.
• Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issues.

My client is keen to get this position filled ASAP, so if you feel you have the skills and desire to provide passion and drive as the next DevOps Engineer, this is the opportunity for you!

You will be required to undergo DV clearance for this role.

So, if you are interested in joining a well-established, renowned, globally recognised organisation working with experts in their field as the next DevOps Engineer, hit that apply button now!

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