Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Knutsford, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The AWS DevOps Engineer role in Knutsford, UK, focuses on upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes, transitioning from outdated technology, and enhancing platform stability. The position involves working with cloud technologies to support application migration and build automation for CI/CD pipelines. The engineer will collaborate with multiple teams to improve DevOps tooling and manage complex infrastructure environments. This role requires a proactive approach and strong communication skills for effective stakeholder management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work across continuous integration, development, build, and deployment using automation and cloud technologies to enhance DevOps tooling.
- Migrate existing applications to the Cloud and support the build of new applications on the Cloud.
- Build automation jobs for CI/CD pipelines for development, build, and deployment of cloud applications.
- Build and support Cloud platforms (internal/external) and manage complex multi-tiered infrastructure environments.
- Work with cutting-edge CI/CD technologies to identify and implement improvements, collaborating with multiple teams.
- Handle deployments and release of applications and infrastructure in production by following run books.
- Support test environment build, issue resolution, and DevOps delivery of infrastructure changes from development to production.
Key Skills:
- Strong scripting and integration skills: Shell, Python, Chef, Perl
- Build engineering and automation of deployments
- DevOps tools: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, JIRA, Stash, Git, TeamCity, Nolio
- Cloud technologies: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- Deploying and configuring: JBoss, Spring Boot
- Extensive Jenkins experience for managing continuous integration
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Knutsford
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: AWS DevOps Engineer
Location: Knutsford, UK(Hybrid)
Job Description
This role is required to assist in upgrading the Elastic DP estate to Kubernetes, thereby:
- Moving away from obsolete technology (Cloudera)
- Uplifting to RHEL 8
- Contributing to improved platform stability and observability
- Supporting advanced analytics tooling and services for modelling analytics
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Key Responsibilities
- Work across continuous integration, development, build, and deployment using automation and cloud technologies to enhance DevOps tooling.
- Migrate existing applications to the Cloud and support the build of new applications on the Cloud.
- Build automation jobs for CI/CD pipelines for development, build, and deployment of cloud applications.
- Build and support Cloud platforms (internal/external) and manage complex multi-tiered infrastructure environments.
- Work with cutting-edge CI/CD technologies to identify and implement improvements, collaborating with multiple teams.
- Handle deployments and release of applications and infrastructure in production by following run books.
- Support test environment build, issue resolution, and DevOps delivery of infrastructure changes from development to production.
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Candidate Requirements
Must-Have Experience
- Support background: L2/L3 experience in production application support in AWS.
- Experience with incident and change management processes.
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipeline support, DevOps, and Java.
- Available for on-call support on a rotational basis.
- Proactive mindset with excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
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Essential Skills
- Strong scripting and integration skills: Shell, Python, Chef, Perl
- Build engineering and automation of deployments
- DevOps tools: Bitbucket, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, JIRA, Stash, Git, TeamCity, Nolio
- Cloud technologies: OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
- Deploying and configuring: JBoss, Spring Boot
- Extensive Jenkins experience for managing continuous integration
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Desirable Skills
- Understanding of Microservices Architecture and APIs
- Solid knowledge of:
- Infrastructure systems
- Application servers (e.g., JBoss)
- Databases
- Experience with Active Directory (AD) authentication and integration
- Familiarity with:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Monitoring tools: AppDynamics, ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk
- Code quality & security gates: SonarQube
- AWS Cloud