DevOps Engineer

IT Global Consulting Ltd.; Slough; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consulting firm in Slough is seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to develop and support its platforms. This position requires strong experience with Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD practices. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, able to work independently, and effectively collaborate within a team. A competitive salary range of £28,000 to £30,000 is offered for this role.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Kubernetes and setting up CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent Shell Scripting and Python skills.
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Ability to assess security of existing applications.

Responsibilities

• Work within an agile context using CI/CD tools.
• Support teams to build and deploy secure services.
• Architect, design, and operate a Kubernetes cluster.
• Drive adoption of new tools and improve support processes.

Skills

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Automation

AWS

Shell Scripting

Security best practices

Tools

AWS

Datadog

Prometheus

Nginx

Job description

Overview

IT Global Consulting Limited - Seeking an experienced and highly motivated ‘DevOps Engineer’ who is responsible for the development, maintenance and ongoing support for the platform and acting as the internal focal point for a enterprise platform. The person should be self-motivated and ambitious, with an ongoing desire to maintain their knowledge level at the forefront of the DevOps process and technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD
• Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure.
• Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
• Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers.
• Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risk.
• Supporting engineers in service topology discovery; helping to define QA and deployment pipelines.
• Driving adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration appraches; developing new or improved support processes for users.
• Work with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to assess applications, software and hardware
• Develop, coordinate, and administrate AWS infrastructure by integrating cloud native services with third party products
• Enhancing the tech stack/configurations of existing services to improve site performance and reduce issues
• Build and manage VPC Environments that cover Sandbox, DEV, Test, Production, Training, Support
• Fulfill containerization (Docker etc) troubleshooting and support task
• Agile ways of working
• This role requires you to know how to architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and be a good leader for your team
  Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, Automation
• Strong experience of Kubernetes,
• Experience of DevOps concepts and experience of deploying CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third-party tools
• Excellent Shell Scripting and Python skills
• Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms (Datadog/Prometheus)
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud environments.
• Able to assess security of existing applications and define standards for new projects
• Experience with Nix desirable
• The desired profile is an expert and candidate must be able to work without supervision, while being a good team player.
• Work with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/ Business teams to understand the needs of the business and map that into processes and solutions within the platform.
• Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements and better user experiences.
• Capability of working to very tight timescales whilst maintaining quality product development
• Building up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a CICD environment.
• Work with both internal and vendor development/business teams
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements.
• Write a well-designed, testable, quality code following clean code principles.

Skills, Knowledge, and qualification

AWS, Cloud, Java

Role

DevOps Engineer

Location

Slough - Berkshire, UK.

Salary

£28,000 to 30,000

Nice to have technologies and experience:

• Nginx
• IPv4 Networking
• Software engineering (C/C++/Java/Python/Go/Rust/Node)
• Test automation
• Relational and non-relational data technologies

The personal traits we are looking for are:

• Passion for technology
• Showing initiative
• Self-learning
• Being a team player, i.e., take ownership of contributing to the overall team capability and knowledge

Any of the below certifications are advantage:

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional
• Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) for J2SE 6.0
• Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD)
• ITILv3 Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management