DevOps Engineer-12

IT Global Consulting Ltd.; Slough; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consulting firm is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer in Slough, UK. This role involves developing, maintaining, and supporting cloud platforms, with a salary range of £38,000 to £42,000. The ideal candidate will be proficient in AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices, with experience in leading teams and driving adoption of innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS and cloud technologies.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Ability to develop and deploy CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Support agile teams with CI/CD practices.
• Build and manage cloud infrastructures on AWS.
• Develop and maintain automated testing suites.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Bash

Docker

CI/CD

Monitoring

Automation

Education

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

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 an enterprise platform. The candidate 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
• Support teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services
• Undertake skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers
• Spot instances where teams are not using best practice; advise around delivery risk
• Support engineers in service topology discovery; help define QA and deployment pipelines
• Drive adoption of new tools so teams can improve their integration approaches; develop 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
• Enhance 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 tasks
• Agile ways of working
• Architect, design, develop, deploy and operate a Kubernetes cluster and lead the team
• Kubernetes, Python, Bash, Docker, CI/CD, Monitoring, Automation
• Strong experience of Kubernetes
• Experience of DevOps concepts and 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 ideal candidate is an expert who can work without supervision while being a good team player
• Work with key stakeholders in the business such as Solution Architects/Business teams to understand needs and map them into processes and solutions within the platform
• Suggest innovative solutions to business problems/processes that leverage technology for differentiation, efficiency, and better user experiences
• Capable of working to tight timescales while maintaining quality product development
• Build a robust automated test suite to support a CI/CD environment
• Work with internal and vendor development/business teams
• Design and document solutions based on business requirements
• Write well-designed, testable, quality code following clean code principles

Skills, Knowledge, and qualification

AWS, Cloud, Java

Role: DevOps Engineer-12

Location: Slough - Berkshire, UK

Salary: £38,000 to 42,000

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:

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

Certifications (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