Job Description
About the Role:
As a DevOps Engineer, you will be responsible for creating the right environment for your multidisciplinary team to succeed, helping them to self-organize whilst fostering a culture of learning and transparency. You'll be a key part of one of the UK's biggest and most high-profile digital transformation programs, a once-in-a-generation reform of government products and services.
You'll keep pace with the introduction of relevant agile/lean tools and techniques and remove obstacles and blockers that might hinder delivery. DevOps is a culture, approach, and set of practices that apply lean process improvement and automation to enable a flow of working software to its real users. This means looking across organizational functions of Development and Operations that might previously have operated as separate silos.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop high quality and maintainable code with automation first approach.
* Provide in-depth insight into DevOps issues and strong technical experience.
* Maintain an open-minded attitude and ability to rapidly adapt and learn in line with DevOps culture.
* Facilitate workshops, meetings with a variety of stakeholders, show and tell, and drive outcomes.
* Manage technology change, issues, and escalations (external and internal), taking responsibility by owning them until they are mitigated or resolved.
* Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader, demonstrating the right behaviours, dealing with conflict, and helping establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism.
Essential Skills and Experience:
* 5+ years of experience with a broad range of AWS technologies (e.g., EC2, RDS, ELB, EBS, EFS, S3, VPC, Glacier, IAM, CloudWatch, KMS) to develop and maintain an AWS-based cloud solution, with an emphasis on best practice cloud security.
* Expertise in provisioning infrastructure using Terraform and VMs with tools such as Vagrant.
* Solid experience as a DevOps Engineer in a 24x7 uptime AWS environment, including automation experience with configuration management tools.
* Strong scripting skills (e.g., Shell, Python, PowerShell, Perl, JAVA) and automation skills.
* Thorough knowledge of Jenkins and pipeline using Groovy script.
* Experience with Docker containers and Amazon Linux 2023 AMI.
* Experience with system monitoring tools (e.g., Grafana, Alert Manager, Prometheus, and Node exporter).
* Ability to analyse and resolve complex infrastructure resource and application deployment issues.
* Experience with Git, Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for incident and change management.
* Knowledge of Windows System Update Service and DFS Replication.
* Experience with Windows Group Policy Objects and access/permissions control via GPO.
* Experience in automating and codifying the installation of software packages.
* Nexus security scanning and antivirus experience with ClamAV and MS defender.
Desired Skills and Experience:
* Linux system administration experience, including building, hardening, and managing Linux operating systems.
* MS Active Directory configuration and management.
* Firewall and switch configuration and patch management.
* Understanding of network topologies and common network protocols and services (DNS, HTTP(S), SSH, FTP, SMTP).
* Hands-on DevOps delivery experience working on digital or technology projects at a leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.
* AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.
* Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous environments.
* Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
* Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.
* Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually learn new things and develop yourself and others.
* Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail.
* Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly collaborative, team-based environment.
* The right to live and work in the UK, be a British national (ideally not dual nationality) and have lived in the UK to obtain SC clearance.