DevOps Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Gravitas Recruitment Group Ltd
£600 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The DevOps Engineer role involves enhancing the reliability and security of the Guardian's technical infrastructure by developing a new Developer Experience platform and adopting modern tooling. The position requires collaboration within a multi-functional team to implement best practices and improve application performance. Candidates should possess strong experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or SRE, with a focus on cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps tools. The role is hybrid, requiring two days in Central London, and is outside IR35.
Key Responsibilities:
- Be part of a software development team working to improve the reliability, observability, consistency, developer experience and security posture of the Guardian's technical estate.
- Build the Guardian's next generation Developer Experience platform or enable teams to adopt modern tooling provided by the new platform.
- Define and develop new infrastructure patterns using modern best practices that improve consistency between environments and simplify the process of setting up and running applications.
- Improve reliability and efficiency by reviewing existing observability features and implementing alternatives or additional improvements where necessary.
- Reduce the team's ongoing maintenance burden by adopting third-party replacements for bespoke tooling where appropriate.
- Define migration strategy and work with teams to support their adoption of new tooling.
- Work in a multi-functional team, empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features.
- Collaborate closely with developers across other product teams.
Key Skills:
- Experience in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE with comprehensive experience in software development.
- In-depth technical understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps tooling, ideally with experience in containers.
- Experience in improving reliability, observability and/or maintainability of services through tooling and modern best practices, including distributed tracing.
- Experience in running applications in AWS, ideally with ECS/ALB.
- Ability to make assessments and reasoned recommendations regarding technology usage.
- Confidence in translating product and business requirements into technical solutions.
- Excellent communication skills.
Salary (Rate): £600/day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Rate: £600/day Outside IR35
Contract Length: 12 Months
Work Model: Hybrid, 2 days in Central London
DevOps Engineer will:
* Be part of a software development team working to improve the reliability, observability, consistency, developer experience and security posture of the Guardian's technical estate through:
* building the Guardian's next generation Developer Experience platform
* OR enabling teams to adopt modern tooling provided by the new platform
* Define and develop new infrastructure patterns using modern best practices that improve consistency between environments and simplify the process of setting up and running applications.
* Improve reliability and efficiency by reviewing existing observability features and implementing alternatives or additional improvements where necessary.
* Reduce the team's ongoing maintenance burden by adopting third-party replacements for bespoke tooling where appropriate
* Define migration strategy and work with teams to support their adoption of new tooling.
* You will be working in a multi-functional team, which is empowered to rapidly iterate and release new features.
* You won't be coding in isolation. Our culture is strongly collaborative, whether pair programming within your team or working closely with developers across other product teams.
About You
You will have experience in the DevOps, platform engineering or SRE domains, with knowledge of developing software solutions which help teams improve their applications through the adoption of tooling and best practices.
* You have experience in DevOps, platform engineering or SRE and have comprehensive experience in software development.
* You have an in-depth technical understanding of cloud-native architectures and modern DevOps tooling. Ideally, you will have experience working with and deploying containers.
* You have experience in improving the reliability, observability and/or maintainability of services through the use of tooling and modern best practices. Ideally, you will have experience implementing and/or working with distributed tracing.
* You have experience in running applications in AWS, ideally working with ECS/ALB.
* You can make assessments and reasoned recommendations regarding what technologies to use and when to use them.
* You are confident in translating product and business requirements into technical solutions.
* You have excellent communication skills.