Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Slough-Berkshire, UK
Salary: £38000 - £40000
IT Global Consulting Limited is seeking an experienced and highly motivated DevOps Engineer responsible for the development, maintenance, and ongoing support of the platform. The role involves acting as the internal focal point for an enterprise platform. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, ambitious, and eager to stay at the forefront of DevOps technologies.
Duties and Responsibilities
* Work within an agile environment utilizing CI/CD pipelines.
* Design logical infrastructure and understand its physical translation.
* Support teams in mapping stories to platforms, aiding in building and deploying secure services.
* Develop and support platform activities, such as creating hardened base containers.
* Identify and advise on best practice adherence and delivery risks.
* Assist engineers with service topology discovery and deployment pipelines.
* Promote adoption of new tools to improve integration approaches.
* Assess applications, software, and hardware using AWS.
* Manage AWS infrastructure, integrating cloud native services with third-party products.
* Enhance existing services for better performance and reliability.
* Build and manage VPC environments for various stages like Sandbox, Dev, Test, and Production.
* Automate deployments using infrastructure as code tools like Pulumi or Terraform.
* Support containerization tasks with Docker and similar technologies.
* Apply agile practices in daily work.
* Architect, design, develop, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters, providing team leadership.
* Utilize Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, monitoring, and automation tools.
* Experience with autoscaling on AWS, Karpenter, and Crossplane is a plus.
* Deploy CI/CD pipelines using cloud-native and third-party tools.
* Proficient in Shell Scripting and Python.
* Experience with monitoring platforms like Datadog and Prometheus.
* Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments and assessing application security.
* Desirable: experience with Nix.
* Work independently and collaboratively, engaging with stakeholders to align solutions with business needs.
* Innovate to improve processes, efficiency, and user experience.
* Manage tight deadlines while maintaining quality.
* Build automated test suites to support CI/CD environments.
* Design and document solutions based on business requirements.
* Write clean, testable, and high-quality code.
Skills, Knowledge, and Qualifications
* Experience with AWS, Azure, Java, Cloud security.
Nice-to-Have Technologies and Experience
* Nginx, IPv4 Networking, software engineering languages (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node), test automation, relational and non-relational data technologies.
Personal Traits
* Passion for technology, initiative, self-learning, team-oriented, ownership mindset.
Certifications (Optional but Advantageous)
* AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
* AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
* Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP)
* Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
* ITILv3 Foundation
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