DevOps Engineer

Detailed Description From Employer:

DevOps Engineer - Glasgow - Public Sector - Outside IR35

Day Rate - up to £635

Duration - 6 months with a view to extend

Harvey Nash's Client are hiring a contract DevOps Engineer, you will join a team focused on building a cloud based platform. You will be expected to be embedded into the Digital team as well as working with the other members of the business.

Responsibilities

• Implement high-level technical requirements in a reliable, scalable and performant way
• provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
• ensure due technical consideration is given to make processes repeatable, scalable and secure
• have deep technical knowledge and experience in DevOps environments, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
• Attend all associated Agile ceremonies and make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, Confluence, Jira)
• Be proactive on identifying improvements.
• Be transparent and collaborative when making decisions

Skills & Experience Required

• 5+ years in a hands-on platform engineer / devops role working at a senior level
• Expert level Kubernetes infrastructure build and operate experience
• Demonstrable experience building secure solutions on Kubernetes at scale, ideally using AWS EKS
• Ability to contribute to architecture roadmap for business area through leading and participating in Proof Of Concept (POC)/prototyping initiatives
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing, documenting and presenting secure solutions to stakeholders
• Experience implementing service mesh technologies (Istio)
• Experience building secure solutions using Hashicorp Terraform
• Worked in a GitOps-driven environment
• Able to provide ongoing and appropriate mentorship for DevOps Engineers
• Be eligible for SC level Security Clearance

Significant practical experience and able to evidence detailed technical knowledge of:

• AWS technologies (Compute, Networking, Security, Organisations, Toolsets), Linux, Containers and container orchestration, Helm, Terraform, Git.
• Managing infrastructure as code, catering for multiple environment differences
• Configuration Management
• Secrets Management
• TLS, mTLS
• Authentication technologies.

Some experience with:

• Coding in Python
• Interacting with APIs
• Production support of Java applications.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience working on AWS Cloud migration projects
• Experience with any or all of: Terragrunt & ArgoCD
• Experience supporting the build, deployment production support of Java applications
• Solid understanding of common security principles
• Vulnerability scanning & reporting experience
• Able to demonstrate they have worked in regulated environments (eg, finance, government)
• Demonstrable experience of identifying manual processes suitable for automation
• Existing SC clearance

Please note that a BPSS clearance is required to start this role.