DevOps Engineer-12

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

Job summary

A leading IT consulting firm in Slough is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer. You will be responsible for the development and support of the DevOps platform, working with cloud services like AWS and leading Kubernetes operations. Ideal candidates should have strong skills in CI/CD tools, Docker, and have experience in agile environments. The salary for this position ranges from £38,000 to £42,000 yearly.

Qualifications

• Strong experience of Kubernetes.
• Excellent Shell Scripting and Python skills.
• Experience with monitoring/metrics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and support the DevOps platform.
• Work with AWS to assess applications and manage infrastructure.
• Architect and operate a Kubernetes cluster.

Skills

AWS

Kubernetes

Python

Docker

CI/CD

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus

Nginx

Job description

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 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 can improve their integration approaches; 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 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 to provide marketing differentiation, efficiency improvements and better user experiences
• Capability of working to tight timescales whilst maintaining quality product development
• Build a useful, robust automated test suite to support a CI/CD environment
• Work with both 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 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

Certifications (advantageous)

• 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