Description
ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Glasgow, are currently looking to recruit a DevOps Engineer on a hybrid basis, for an initial 6 month contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of up to £685/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).
Responsibilities:
1. Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
2. Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
3. Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
4. Be proactive on identifying improvements.
5. Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
6. Work with clients with low technical expertise
Essential Experience:
7. 5 years in a hands-on platform engineer / DevOps role working at a senior level
8. Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build experience
9. Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure operate experience
10. Demonstrable experience building Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS
11. Demonstrable experience operating Kubernetes infrastructure on AWS EKS
12. Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes
13. Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
14. Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
15. Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
16. Experience implementing Istio service mesh
17. Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
18. Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
19. AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets)
20. Linux
21. Containers and container orchestration
22. Helm
23. Terraform
24. Git
25. Configuration Management
26. Secrets Management
27. Experience of managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
28. TLS, mTLS
29. Authentication technologies
30. Demonstrable experience of supporting and integrating Spring Boot applications with provided infrastructure components
31. Experience of troubleshooting and proactively identifying issues and threats, highlighting non adherence with industry standards/good practice
32. Ability to utilise existing tooling to troubleshoot complex technical issues and identify root cause
33. Ability to work with production support team to identify issues, highlight appropriate resolutions and implement change to remediate identified issue to live environments
34. Some experience coding in Python, interacting with APIs and supporting Java applications
Desirable Experience:
35. Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
36. Experience with any or all of Terragrunt & ArgoCD
37. Solid understanding of common security principles
38. Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
39. Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)