DevOps Specialist
Knutsford
Duration: until end of the year
IR35 status: Mandated PAYE
Job description:
This resource is required to assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes, moving away from obsolete technology (Cloudera), upgrading to RHEL 8, and contributing to improving the stability and observability of the platform. The role also involves providing advanced analytics tooling and services for modeling analytics.
Responsibilities include:
1. Supporting production application support in AWS, with experience in incident and change management.
2. Deploying and releasing applications and infrastructure in production following run books.
3. Supporting CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and Java applications.
4. Participating in on-call support on a rotational basis.
5. Proactively identifying improvements and working with multiple teams to implement them.
6. Migration of existing applications to Cloud and building new applications on Cloud.
7. Building automation jobs for CI/CD, development, build, and deployment on Cloud.
8. Building and supporting Cloud platforms (internal/external) and complex multi-tiered environments.
9. Working with a broad infrastructure technology stack including Linux, Windows, RDBMS, Networks, JBOSS, Micro-Service Architecture.
10. Supporting test environments and resolving issues.
11. Delivering seamless DevOps infrastructure changes from development to production.
Essential Skills:
* Strong scripting and integration skills (e.g., Shell, Python, Chef, Perl).
* Build engineering and automation of deployments.
* Experience with DevOps tooling: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, JIRA, Stash, GIT, TeamCity, Nolio.
* Cloud technologies: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS.
* Deploying and configuring JBOSS, SpringBoot.
* Extensive Jenkins experience managing CI pipelines.
Desirable Skills:
* Knowledge of microservice architecture APIs.
* Good understanding of infrastructure, app servers (JBoss), and databases.
* Active Directory (AD) authentication and integration.
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
* Experience with AppDynamics, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana), Splunk.
* Understanding of code quality and security gates (e.g., SonarQube).
* Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.
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