DevOps Engineer

DevOps Engineer - OUTSIDE IR35 - SC Clearance Required

Start date: ASAP
Duration: 12 Months initially
Location: 2 days per fortnight in Portsmouth, rest of the month working from home
Rate: £506 per day OUTSIDE IR35

SC CLEARANCE REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION

Summary

We are looking for a DevOps/Platform Engineer to join a well-established Platform Engineering team that acts as an enabler to allow application teams to practice DevOps via best of class platform, tooling, and standards. The ideal candidate will work across product-focused teams to gather requirements, evaluate tools, implement/update solutions, provision environments, and assist with operational issues. They will also contribute to the community ensuring that the client and DevOps practices evolve in line with technology advances.

Key Skills

1. Kubernetes (3 years min)
2. Helm
3. CI/CD pipelines
4. Linux
5. VCS (ideally Github)
6. Building and maintaining containers
7. Good communication skills both in written and verbal format with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely.
8. Strong soft skills, such as communication, teamwork, problem-solving, and adaptability.
9. Developing common services, manuals, etc. to support delivery teams in taking ownership of their services through the entire development life cycle.
10. Infrastructure-as-code
11. Bash
12. Delivery methods and techniques, including agile scrum experience.

1. RedHat OpenShift
2. Hashicorp (such as Terraform, Packer, Vault)
3. Ansible
4. Observability (such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)
5. Containerised services (such as Postgres, Redis, Kafka, Keycloak, Elk)
6. Experience of doing all of the above at OS or S level.
7. YAML based pipelines.
8. Immutable infrastructure
9. Experience with MOD delivery processes.