Job Description
DevOps Engineer - Glasgow - Public Sector - Outside IR35
Day Rate - Market Rates
Duration - 6 months with a view to extend
Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on building a cloud based platform. You will be expected to be embedded into the Digital team as well as working with the other members of the business.
Responsibilities
* Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
* provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
* ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
* have deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
* Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
* Be proactive on identifying improvements.
* Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions
Skills & Experience Required
* 5+ years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
* Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience
* Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale, ideally using AWS EKS
* Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
* Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
* Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
* Experience implementing service mesh technologies (Istio)
* Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
* Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
* Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers
* Be eligible for SC level Security Clearance
Significant practical experience and able to evidence detailed technical knowledge of:
* AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets), Linux, Containers and container orchestration, Helm, Terraform, Git.
* Managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
* Configuration Management
* Secrets Management
* TLS, mTLS
* Authentication technologies.
Some experience with:
* Coding in Python
* Interacting with APIs
* Production support of Java applications.
Desirable Skills & Experience
* Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
* Experience with any or all of: Terragrunt & ArgoCD
* Experience supporting the build, deployment production support of Java applications
* Solid understanding of common security principles
* Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
* Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)
* Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation
* Existing SC clearance
Please note that a BPSS clearance is required to start this role.
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