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. To From Record Yes No Always use these settings