Cyber Business
Our Cyber business unit is at the forefront of pioneering advanced cryptographic and key management solutions, facilitating the confidential exchange of vital information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic echelons. Join our team and participate in the innovation that ensures the highest security and trust worldwide.
Job Description
Working within the DevOps team provide the software configuration management, build management and engineering tools management to project teams within the Cyber UK Business Unit.
Role Summary
The role, in conjunction with the DevOps / Configuration Manager and the DevOps team, involves working with multiple project teams, each team potentially using different technologies and ranging in size from 2 to 40 engineers spread across several sites. The incumbent will provide robust configuration management and build solutions to multiple (software / firmware) projects within the Cyber UK Business Unit, delivering multiple concurrent research, development and production programmes.
Key Responsibilities
* Develop (from a design) and maintain the continuous integration (CI) pipelines, ensuring that they are operational, fit for purpose and delivering the required outputs for the project team.
* Suggest and implement minor improvements to the CI pipelines.
* Be the primary interface to the project for DevOps, understanding the project's requirements and development processes.
* Perform regular monitoring of the DevOps environment, using dashboards, respond to events that require further analysis and potential remediation.
* Conduct appropriate independent research regarding the evolution of the DevOps environment, feeding back suggestions to the other members of the DevOps team.
* Execute tests within a protype environment for the proving of a proposed change to the DevOps environment, working with the Senior DevOps Engineer to agree the tests and processes to evaluate.
Required Experience, Skills and Qualifications
* A relevant engineering / computer science degree or equivalent experience
Working knowledge
* Version Control Systems (client side) – git, SourceTree, gitextensions, SVN & TortoiseSVN
* Scripting - Python, DOS-CMD, PowerShell, Bash
* Continuous Integration Systems - Jenkins, GitHubEnterprise & GitLab
* Configuration Management Systems - Ansible & Packer
* Task Management Systems - Tools - Jira, GitHub, GitLab
Awareness
* Version Control System (server-side) – Bitbucket, GitHub Enterprise, GitLab & VisualSVN
* Virtualisation Systems - Hyper-V, VirtualBox & ProxMox
Security Clearance
* Candidates must be willing and able to obtain, and maintain, DV security clearance